Not enough, to Roland Emmerich’s way of thinking. There is no such thing as too many times. The director’s new CGI-gasm 2012 opens next week, most likely to tepid reviews and a gazillion-dollar box office return, but Emmerich doesn’t plan to rest on his laurels. Rumor has it that he and producer Mark Gordon are already talking with ABC about a 2012 television series, which will pick up the story shortly after the earth’s crust rips open:

I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Actually, a disaster of that magnitude would pretty much foreclose all possibilities for anything more advanced than a cockroah, but Emmerich is nothing if not an upbeat guy. That said, this might not be quite as bad an idea as 2012½ (where Emmerich blows up the solar system or something) or Waterworld on Ice: The Musical!, but it’s definitely in the ballpark. Of course if ABC greenlights this project it will be a clear indication that we’re living in the end times, so Emmerich might have a point.