If CliffsNotes Are Beyond Your Reading Level, There's a Video Version

Are you one of those people who struggles with the classics ? Don't know the difference between Lady MacBeth and Lady Gaga? Perhaps you're inclined to think Falstaff and Mercutio might be the latest NFL draft picks from an obscure college in the South.

Don't worry, help is on the way. According to the Wall Street Journal, a film company is producing a series of comic videos about the classics. The comic CliffsNotes will be produced in video by the people who brought you "Survivor" and "The Apprentice."

John Riley and Sons, the current owners of the popular Cliffsnotes paperbacks has sold video rights to Cliffsnotes' versions of the famous works of Homer, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and others.

The project is being headed by Joseph Castelo and Mark Burnett, who previously gave us cultural gems like "Survivor" and "The Apprentice."

Garrison Keillor should not worry about the literary prospects for college 'English majors' he so often praises on "Prairie Home Companion. The compression of "Hamlet" into five minute comic presentations will stay true to character and script, we are told.

The Cliffnotes' version of literary classics will be made for AOL which, like other high profile web presences, is angling for additional eyeballs. AOL has currently running video clips for its "You've Got" series, featuring actors like Matt Damon dishing about lame Christmas gifts or real life characters like Barack Obama being himself.

What's next? A CliffsNotes version of President Obama's Health Care Bill? Perhaps we should wait for the Twitter version?