[Andrew999]

The news that Nicole Kidman is to star as Lucille Ball in the I Love Lucy movie is exciting for those of us who were closet fans when the rest of the gang were into Monty Python and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

I believe there were some I Love Lucy comic books in the fifties produced by Dell but we don't appear to have any here - I guess that's because the character is still under trademark or something.

[The Australian Panther]

I love Lucy predated the Pythons by quite a few years.
I don't like the US style of 'Embarrassment' comedy'  So the 'Lucy' shows never did it for me.
I was an 'F Troop' and 'My Favourite Martian' fan as far as US comedy goes. . Lucy tho, did much better comedy in the earlier movies she made.
Kidman is a bad choice for Lucy, physically totally wrong, and Nicole has no Comedy chops whatever, which she proved with her attempt at 'BeWitched'. Vanity project and will probably fail. 
There is an excellent movie, 'The Mambo Kings' about the early days of Cuban Musicians in America, in which Desi Arnaz, Jr. plays his Dad, Desi Arnaz, Sr.
But it was the company Desilu that was their greatest contribution to US culture. 

n late 1957, the company bought the RKO Pictures production facilities for $6 million from General Tire and Rubber, including RKO's main facilities on Gower Street in Hollywood and the RKO-Path? lot (now Culver Studios) in Culver City.[9][10] This purchase included Forty Acres, the backlot where exteriors for Mayberry were filmed.[11] These acquisitions gave the Ball-Arnaz TV empire a total of 33 sound stages ? four more than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eleven more than Twentieth Century-Fox had in 1957. 

During Ball's time as sole owner, Desilu developed popular series such as Mission: Impossible (1966), Mannix (1967), and Star Trek (1966) - and earlier the Untouchables

Cheers!
         

[Captain Audio]

This purchase included Forty Acres, the backlot where exteriors for Mayberry were filmed.
         

The Forty Acres lot was also used in several episodes of Star Trek.
The local Retro station runs commercials for Star Trek and Mayberry which use clips from "Miri" "the City on the Edge of Forever" and Mayberry edited to make it appear that a lynch mob of Mayberry citizens are chasing Kirk and Spock through the streets.

[Andrew999]

Bewitched was a very disappointing movie but I don't blame Nicole for that. The script was laboured beyond anything Hercules could have mastered and Will Ferrell has less charisma than a used haggis.

I actually thought Nicole came across quite well but with no one responding in real time to her cues it must have been heart-breaking.

By the way, I believe Dell produced some Bewitched comic books but I've never read any.