10 Promising & Big-Name Directors Who Turned To The Small Screen

Too few remember the 1999 comedy Dick, a spoof of the Watergate scandal that posits "Deep Throat", the anonymous source that reporters Woodward and Bernstein used to topple Richard Nixon's White House, was actually a composite of two ditzy teenage girls who keep accidentally exposing good ol' Dick, who has hired them to be his official dogwalkers.

It was hailed as a clever blend of Clueless and All The President's Men, with each cast member receiving universal praise. Michelle Williams and Kirsten Dunst were pitch-perfect as the accidental whistleblowers, Will Farrell and Bruce McCulloch make a great pair of reporters who openly depise each other and Dan Hedaya's Nixon was on par with Anthony Hopkins', but funny.

And the man behind the circus was Andrew Fleming, who readers probably know better from his cult hit The Craft. That film gets plenty of rightful attention, including talks about a reboot, but Dick goes unsung. Given that the country was tied up in the Lewinsky scandal at the time, perhaps Watergate wasn't fresh on the mind of the public.

And while Fleming still manages a feature here and there, most recently 2018's Ideal Home, he's had a harder and harder time finding distribution. Home, for instance, sat on the shelf for two years.

Fleming has managed to use his talent to pay the pills, however, directing episodes of Arrested Development, Red Oaks, Lady Dynamite, Younger and Insatiable. He also consulted on short-lived shows such as Grosse Pointe and Paranormal Girl.

As for The Craft - Blumhouse is shooting the reboot now, though Fleming is only on board as executive producer.