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[Barrage]

Dear God. Not even one of those networks pilots interests me. Hopefully these are just the pitches and promos will be better

I personally think this year's pilots are a little more appealing than last year's.

I think Raised By Wolves is gonna be really good. I'd watch the pilot for Start-Up with Zach Braff, Household Name with Carol Burnett, the untitled University Scandal project, LA-) Vegas, and A.P. Bio for Patton Oswald.


...and c'mon dog. I gotta see Dynasty 2017.

 

[Cornballer]

- Eliza Dushku To Star In ‘The Black Company’ Series Adaptation In Works By IM Global & David Goyer

IM Global Television is developing The Black Company, based on Glen Cook’s (Garrett P.I. series) fantasy books as a TV series, along with Eliza Dushku’s Boston Diva Productions and David Goyer’s Phantom Four, with Dushku set to star.

Boston Diva Prods optioned the ten-book epic action fantasy series, as well as the forthcoming book, Port of Shadows, which falls between Book 1 and 2 in the series and will be published by Tor Books in 2018. Dushku (Bull, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) will star in the pivotal role of the dark sorceress, The Lady.

The series follows the exploits of the Black Company, an elite mercenary unit that carries out the often nefarious deeds of the highest bidder across a Tolkeinesque landscape. When these hard-bitten men discover the prophecy that the embodiment of good has been reborn, they must re-examine their loyalties. The Lady (Dushku), who rules over the Northern Empire, uses the Black Company to further her domination of a power structure rife with usurpers. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks.

 

[kevin1025]

- Eliza Dushku To Star In ‘The Black Company’ Series Adaptation In Works By IM Global & David Goyer

Holy moly. It's getting wild, all of these classic fantasy/sci-fi properties that I read when I was younger getting turned into stuff now. Curious who ends up picking this project up.

 

[Norwegian Rudo]

Holy moly. It's getting wild, all of these classic fantasy/sci-fi properties that I read when I was younger getting turned into stuff now. Curious who ends up picking this project up.

The dream would be Netflix or HBO I suppose, trying to pick up the mantle when GoT ends.

It's not going to be easy to do the series justice. For instance you would need a showrunner and network with giant balls to cut and run on the entire setting after book three. For that matter, The Lady is a fairly distant character until book four as well. And that's not even taking into account Cook's shifting perspectives and styles from book to book. Quite frankly, if I were going to adapt a Cook series I think I'd aim for Garrett P.I. It's a lesser series, but it's perfect for TV.

On the other hand, it's the first confirmation I've seen that the new book is actually coming, so I guess it's time to start a re-read of one of my favourite series.

 

[Dan]

- Michael Mann, Michael De Luca Set Miniseries On Mark Bowden Tet Offensive Book ‘Hue 1968’

I'm interested. This is infinitely more interesting than that Enzo Ferrari biopic Mann is working on.

This could be great, I just hope that they treat the Vietnamese people with respect which a lot of the classical Vietnam films haven't really succeeded at.

This will be important.

 

[Cornballer]

- Warming Glow: A Guide To The Most Promising (And Ridiculous) Pilots For The Fall 2017 Season

 

[Cornballer]

- Hilary Swank Joins FX’s Getty Kidnapping Saga ‘Trust’

Hilary Swank has joined the cast of FX’s Trust, signing on to play Gail Getty, mother of John Paul Getty III in the limited series about the latter’s kidnapping.

Also starring Donald Sutherland as J. Paul Getty, founder of the dynasty, Trust begins production this June in London and Rome, for a premiere on FX in January 2018. Swank’s character is described as the “determined and resourceful mother, who remains committed to helping her son as she navigates tricky familial waters.”

The 10-episode first installment of Trust focuses on the 1973 kidnapping of young heir John Paul Getty III. With his father strung out on heroin and his mega-rich grandfather (Sutherland) too busy (and cheap) to bother with the situation, the boy’s broke mother is left to negotiate with increasingly desperate kidnappers.

The limited series is being Executive Produced by Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson. Written by Beaufoy and directed by Boyle, the first installment will be produced by FX Productions, Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films and Snicket Films Limited.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

AMC Networks Teaming With Charter To Co-Produce Original Content

Charter Communications has announced a deal this morning to co-produce “distinct, high-quality original programming” for its customers in a partnership with AMC Networks’ AMC Studios.

“The partnership will give Spectrum customers access to content created specifically for them, further differentiating Charter’s platform and services,” the companies say.

They offer few details about the arrangement, but say that the first co-produced show will debut on Charter Spectrum in 2018. The cable company will have “an exclusive initial window in the U.S.” while AMC Studios keeps other rights — including international distribution.

 

[Cornballer]

- ‘Wag The Dog' Comedy Series In Works At HBO

HBO is teaming with Barry Levinson and Robert De Niro on a small screen version of Wag the Dog.

The premium cabler and Oscar winner Levinson are developing the 1997 political satire, which Levinson produced and directed and De Niro starred, as a half-hour comedy series. It hails from Warner Bros. TV, whose sibling New Line Cinema produced the original feature.

HBO describes the series as ”an ode to the classic film, but moving the weapons of mass distraction beyond politics and into business, entertainment, and yes, non-profits. In the 21st Century with the tools of social media at their hands, nothing is off limits to a small group of operators when it comes to manufacturing reality. Fake news is so yesterday."

Levinson is attached to direct the series and executive produce with Tom Fontana via their Levinson/Fontana Co. Jason Sosnoff also is an executive producer.

Rajiv Joseph (Draft Day, Army of One) will pen the adaptation and also exec produce with de Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh via De Niro's Tribeca Productions. David Brock will serve as consultant.

The film Wag the Dog follows a Washington, D.C. spin doctor (De Niro) who, just days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer (Hoffman) to construct a fake war with Albania. The film earned Oscar noms for Hoffman and screenwriter David Mamet. The movie grossed $64.3 million worldwide.

 

[Cornballer]

- THR: Damien Chazelle Plans TV Project 'The Eddy'

The Oscar-winning director is attached to helm The Eddy, a musical drama set in contemporary multicultural Paris that revolves around a club, its owner, the house band and the volatile city that surrounds them. The project will be written by Jack Thorne, who recently penned the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child alongside J.K. Rowling.

WME, which packaged the project, is shopping the script to cable and streaming outlets, according to sources. The heat surrounding Chazelle, following the critical and commercial success of La La Land, should all but ensure the high-profile project finds a home. Grammy-winning songwriter Glen Ballard, who's best known for co-writing Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" and Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," and Six Feet Under's Alan Poul are attached as executive producers.

 

[berzeli]

- THR: Damien Chazelle Plans TV Project 'The Eddy'

Jack Thorne! (how many projects is that wonderful man working on)

Sounds like it could be a terrific show.

 

[berzeli]

BET is doing a variety show with 50 Cent??? (also other things)

50 CENTRAL – Award-winning rapper, entrepreneur, actor and producer, the iconic Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, storms BET’s airwaves to take variety and sketch comedy to the next level with “50 CENTRAL.” BET’s first variety comedy showcase will be unlike anything seen from the genre before. Along with unprecedented sketches, there will be hidden camera pranks, musical performances, and A-list celebrity guests to create the ultimate late night party – all handpicked and hosted by 50 Cent. Few artists have had as much crossover success as Jackson and he showcases his talents as an MC, actor and producer for a fresh take on the variety series. “50 CENTRAL” is produced by G-Unit Film & Television in partnership with Back Roads Entertainment with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Stephen J. Savva, Colby Gaines and Riley Robbins serving as Executive Producers and Michael A. Blum serving as Co-Executive Producer. FORMAT: 30-minute Late Night Variety
NUMBER OF EPISODES: 24

The name for it is perfection though.

 

[kevin1025]

- ‘Wag The Dog’ Comedy Series In Works At HBO

Super curious to see how this turns out. With current politics and everything feeling like a distraction from a distraction that went too far, I want to see how a TV show could possibly differentiate itself, haha.

 

[berzeli]

‘The Vampire Chronicles’: Paramount TV & Anonymous Content Option Anne Rice Books For TV Series

Best-selling author Anne Rice made waves last November when, in a Facebook post, she announced that had regained theatrical rights to her seminal series of novels The Vampire Chronicles that single-handledly redefined the vampire genre in the 1970s and 80s, and is beginning work on a television series adaptation with her son, novelist and columnist Christopher Rice. In the post, she unveiled their plan to reach out to potential producers once they have completed the pilot script and series bible.
...
The big-ticket package, which includes 11 books from Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, has been optioned by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Christopher Rice will pen the series and serve as executive producer alongside Anne Rice, and Anonymous Content’s David Kanter and Steve Golin. The project is expected to be taken out to networks soon.

Will be interesting to see where this lands.

 

[Cornballer]

- Paramount Network Orders First Scripted Drama Series: Family Saga ‘Yellowstone’ From Taylor Sheridan

Paramount Network has greenlighted its first scripted series. Viacom’s new general entertainment network and leading scripted brand, which will replace Spike in early 2018, has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Yellowstone, a sweeping, cinematic family drama written and directed by Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water and Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan and executive produced by The Weinstein Company and John and Art Linson, former executive producers of FX’s Sons Of Anarchy, in which Sheridan co-starred.

Paramount Network, designated as one Viacom’s six core networks, will launch at the beginning of 2018 with an inaugural slate, which includes two new scripted series originally developed, piloted and ordered to series at sibling TV Land, comedies American Woman and Heathers, and Spike’s Waco miniseries, also from The Weinstein Co. Yellowstone, eyed to follow the trio with a summer 2018 premiere, is the first series bought for Paramount Network.

Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders — land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny — where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world’s largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned by fracking wells and unsolved murders are not news: they are a consequence of living in the new frontier. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Lionsgate UK Acquires ‘Jerusalem’; Will Develop Epic Biography As Drama Series

Written by historian and novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem is an epic biography of the city that ranges from King David’s establishment of it as his capital to the 1967 Six-Day War that led to its current formation.

The series is eyed as a character-driven, action-filled account of war, betrayal, faith, fanaticism, slaughter, persecution and co-existence in the universal city through the ages. Lionsgate will produce and sell global rights, including the U.S. and UK.

Steve November, Creative Director Lionsgate Television UK, calls the drama a “dynastic saga” that is planned over multiple seasons.

Hulu Orders ‘Marvel’s Runaways’ & Beau Willimon’s ‘The First’ To Series

Marvel’s Runaways, based on the comics created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, is the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand one another but who must unite against a common foe: their parents.

The First, executive produced by Beau Willimon and his producing partner Jordan Tappis, explores the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization in the near future.

“It’s a story about the human spirit,” said Willimon. “About our indomitable need to reach for unknown horizons. About people working toward the greatest pioneering achievement in human history. And about the cost of that vision, the danger and sacrifice – emotional, psychological, and physical – that’s required to achieve it. How ordinary, imperfect people band together and overcome a myriad of obstacles to grasp the extraordinary.”

- Paramount Network Orders First Scripted Drama Series: Family Saga ‘Yellowstone’ From Taylor Sheridan

HYPE

 

[Dan]

- Paramount Network Orders First Scripted Drama Series: Family Saga ‘Yellowstone’ From Taylor Sheridan

Paramount Network, designated as one Viacom’s six core networks, will launch at the beginning of 2018 with an inaugural slate, which includes two new scripted series originally developed, piloted and ordered to series at sibling TV Land, comedies American Woman and Heathers, and Spike’s Waco miniseries, also from The Weinstein Co. Yellowstone, eyed to follow the trio with a summer 2018 premiere, is the first series bought for Paramount Network.

Interesting lineup.

Hulu Orders ‘Marvel’s Runaways’ & Beau Willimon’s ‘The First’ To Series

I wonder if The First is more Red Mars or more The Martian, in terms of scale and focus.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Amazon Orders ‘The Dangerous Book for Boys’ Family Comedy Series From Bryan Cranston & Greg Mottola

Amazon is making a push in family entertainment with The Dangerous Book for Boys, an original half-hour single-camera series from Emmy-winning Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and Superbad director Greg Mottola, which has received a straight-to-series six-episode order.

Created by Cranston and Mottola, the project, originally set up at NBC during the 2014-15 season, is based on the book The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden.

Mottola and Cranston have written the pilot and second episode of the series, in which Wyatt and his brothers are coming to terms with the death of their dad, Patrick, a wonderful, whimsical inventor who touched the lives of everyone who knew him. Patrick leaves the boys with a copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys, and the how-to book inspires fantasies for Wyatt. While in his fantasy world, he reconnects with his father and learns life skills that help him navigate real life.

I remember when NBC passed on this years ago - I thought it sounded interesting. Really cool to see Cranston still fighting for the show after all this time.

 

[Cornballer]

- Benicio del Toro & Patricia Arquette To Topline Ben Stiller’s ‘Clinton Correctional’ Nearing Limited Series Order At Showtime

We hear Showtime is close to giving a limited series order to Ben Stiller’s Escape At Clinton Correctional, with Oscar winners Benicio del Toro (Traffic) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) attached to star. Stiller is set as an executive producer and is expected to direct all eight episodes.

Written and executive produced by Brett Johnson (Mad Men) and Michael Tolkin (The Player), Escape at Clinton Correctional is based on the prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat. The duo were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.

Del Toro will play convicted murderer Matt. Arquette will play Tilly Mitchell, who supervises the prison tailor shop. The casting of David Sweat will be announced shortly.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Benicio del Toro & Patricia Arquette To Topline Ben Stiller’s ‘Clinton Correctional’ Nearing Limited Series Order At Showtime

Huh. Sounds like it has potential!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Hulu Orders ‘Crash & Burn’ Pilot Based on Michael Hassan Bestseller

The series, which is created by writer/showrunner Aaron Zelman (“Damages”), tracks the lives of three troubled suburban boys through three different time periods starting in the ’90s. Equal parts mystery, thriller, and character study, “Crash & Burn” aims to honestly depict the humor, aggression and awkwardness of pubescent boys. The mystery of the first season is centered around an attempted school shooting, and the extent to which these boys may have played a part.

Hulu won the project in a bidding war with FX, and has fast tracked production for this summer, with delivery of the pilot set for September. The project hails from Sony TV.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Carnival Row’ Fantasy Drama Gets Amazon Series Order

Amazon has given an eight-episode straight-to-series order to fantasy drama Carnival Row, from Rene Echevarria (Star Trek), Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim) and Legendary Television. Joining them is director-producer Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein).

Carnival Row is a fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. We follow the investigation of a string of unsolved murders which are eating away at whatever uneasy peace still exists.

 

[Pachimari]

Don't know if this is where it's supposed to go in, but Life of Kylie premieres on E! on July 6. New show by Kylie Kardashian.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Don't know if this is where it's supposed to go in, but Life of Kylie premieres on E! on July 6. New show by Kylie Kardashian.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1366291

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Damnation’ Period Drama Picked Up To Series By USA Network

Written by writer/poet/critic Tony Tost, Damnation is described as an epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets. It centers on Seth Davenport (Killian Scott), a man masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green) to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past.

David MacKenzie (Hell or High Water) directed the pilot and also executive produces.

Yes.

 

[TVexperto]

Are there any upfront tv show trailers online already? The FB site of lost posted some short ones from ABC

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Are there any upfront tv show trailers online already? The FB site of lost posted some short ones from ABC

Not yet.

 

[mjc]

Loving all the fantasy shows that are at least getting pilots, especially since they seem to be short series that can spread their budget around decently.

 

[berzeli]

Blumhouse Launches Indie TV Studio With ITV; ‘The Purge’ Becomes Series

‘Purge’: Premise Of Companion TV Series Revealed

At the upfront presentations today, Blum shed light on the premiere of the series with more details.

“It will reveal to the fans what happens the other 364 days of the year and how that law affects people,” he said.

Uh. Sure.

 

[morningbus]

"Hey Siri, remind me to kill that guy in a year" the show.

 

[Joni]

‘Purge’: Premise Of Companion TV Series Revealed

Uh. Sure.

That is exactly what I wanted to know. How does Ethan Hawke sell security systems.

 

[Cornballer]

- ‘Get Out’s Jordan Peele Teams With WBTV, HBO & Bad Robot For ‘Lovecraft Country’ Drama Series; Misha Green Writing

Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on Lovecraft Country, a one-hour drama that has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Underground executive producer/writer Misha Green. Peele will be exec producer along with Green, Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Green will also be showrunner.

There is connective tissue to Peele’s breakout genre feature Get Out, which brought a Black Lives Matter theme to the horror genre. Lovecraft Country focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback. The goal is an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective.

Peele brought the book to Bad Robot and enlisted Green.

“When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television,” Green said. “Jordan, JJ, Bad Robot, Warner Bros and HBO are all in the business of pushing the limits when it comes to storytelling, and I am beyond thrilled to be working with them on this project.”

 

[Pachimari]

But will Jordan Peele himself have any influence on this tv show?

No matter what, I'm very interested in this project.

 

[berzeli]

Margaret Cho’s Comedic Drama ‘Highland’ Gets Pilot Order At TNT

TNT has given a pilot order to Highland, a scripted drama written and executive produced by Liz Sarnoff (Lost, Barry) and Margaret Cho (Margaret Cho: PsyCHO, Drop Dead Diva), who also will star.

Inspired by Cho’s personal history with substance abuse, Highland will chronicle what happens when two extended, dysfunctional Korean-American families who share the same patriarch must come together after tragedy strikes. As it turns out, the most reliable person in both families is the one who just got out of rehab.

Ridley Scott Developing Sci-Fi Block For TNT

Ahead of Friday’s domestic launch of his feature sequel Alien: Covenant, TNT has booked Ridley Scott to develop a night of original sci-fi programming. Early plans call for the block to serve as a showcase for hourlong series, shortform programs and other formats to be developed in collaboration with the filmmaker.

Snoop Dogg To Host ‘The Joker’s Wild’ Game Show Reboot On TBS

Snoop Dogg has been set to host The Joker’s Wild, a reboot of the iconic 1970s and ’80s game show that TBS will launch later this year. The half-hour series will be refreshed with new games and a comedic edge, the network announced as part of its Upfronts presentation today in New York.

The Snoop-ified version of the game show, from Sony Pictures TV in association with TBS parent Turner’s Studio T, will be set in the rapper’s “own casino,” with the big slot machine that anchored the Chuck Barry-hosted versions now accompanied by mini-games replacing trivia questions. New features include giant dice, playing cards, streetwise questions and problem solving.

Daniel Radcliffe & Owen Wilson To Star In TBS Anthology Comedy ‘Miracle Workers’ From EP Lorne Michaels

TBS has handed a straight-to-series order for Miracle Workers, an anthology comedy starring Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe and comedy movie veteran Owen Wilson and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. The series is created by Simon Rich, whose Man Seeking Woman was canceled by FX last month after three seasons.

Scheduled to launch in 2018 with seven episodes, the first season of Miracle Workers will be a heaven-set workplace comedy based on Rich’s book What in God’s Name. Radcliffe will play Craig, a low-level angel responsible for handling all of humanity’s prayers, and Wilson will play Craig’s boss, God, who has pretty much checked out to focus on his favorite hobbies. To prevent Earth’s destruction, Craig must achieve his most impossible miracle to date.

TNT Greenlights Michael Moore-Fronted Nonfiction Series & Docuseries From Sarah Jessica Parker And Morgan Spurlock

TNT has greenlit Michael Moore Live From The Apocalypse, the working title of a new nonfiction series to be directed and hosted by Michael Moore, who helped pioneer the genre with TV Nation and The Awful Truth. The network also ordered Who Run The World?, a new documentary series executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, Morgan Spurlock and Refinery29 that will focus on the issues women face in today’s world.

TBS Orders Toon Series From ‘Regular Show’ Creator & Comedy From The Dress Up Gang Trio

TBS has given greenlights to Close Enough, an animated series from Regular Show creator J.G. Quintel, and an untitled comedy from the trio known as the Dress Up Gang.
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The 13-episode Close Enough is the first collaboration between corporate siblings Cartoon Network Studios and Studio T. The series is described a surreal take on transitioning from twentysomething to thirtysomething. The show revolves around a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care.

The Dress Up Gang’s series is set in a surreal version of Los Angeles, where Donny Divanian and Cory Loykasek are roommates who look out for each other. Donny, a responsible adult with the temperament and outlook of a child, relies on guidance and life advice from Cory, the dad-like thirtysomething who has been crashing on his couch for quite some time. Fellow team member and creator Robb Boardman will make special appearance on the show and also write and direct.

Dave Kneebone, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim serve as executive producers on the series

TBS & Digital Sibling Super Deluxe Team On Late-Night Block

TBS and Turner’s digital outfit Super Deluxe are developing a 90-minute late-night block set to debut in the fall, with a lineup from the multiplatform studio focused on comedy ranging from scripted series and docu-series to unconventional creative voices from diverse backgrounds.

The plan is to divide the block into quarter-hours featuring interactive components to further engage Super Deluxe’s mobile-centric demo. The digital outlet averages 40 million unique viewers per month on social media and just passed 1 billion video views since Turner revived the brand last year; it operates as a stand-alone company based in L.A.

Go home Kevin Reilly, you're drunk.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

That is...a lot of stuff!

Some of it sounds interesting though, like Highland and Close Enough.

 

[Cornballer]

‘Purge’: Premise Of Companion TV Series Revealed

Uh. Sure.

Warming Glow: Four Imagined Scenes From The New Purge-Free ‘Purge’ TV Show

 

[berzeli]

Warming Glow: Four Imagined Scenes From The New Purge-Free ‘Purge’ TV Show

SARAH: Our flight leaves on March 17 and we come back on the 31st. I called the hotel and they said th-… what’s wrong? You’re making a face.

BRENT: It’s just… if we’re in Italy on the 21st…

SARAH: Oh God. Is this about the stupid Purge?

BRENT: I don’t wanna miss it! Me and the guys were gonna go to Best Buy and purge new big screen TVs.

SARAH: Ugh, why don’t you just buy a new TV? You make $250,000 a year at the law firm. You don’t have to steal one.

BRENT: [muttering] It’s not the same.

That's pretty good.

 

[KonradLaw]

THe best way to do Purge show would be to have a prelude for half season, showing characters, tensions etc and then second half being purge where majority of characters introduced earlier got murdererd brutally.
New season, new cast..rinse and repeat

 

[berzeli]

Weinstein TV Acquires ‘Guantanamo’ Series From Oliver Stone & Daniel Voll

Oliver Stone is making his first foray into directing for scripted television with Guantanamo, a multi-season dramatic series. Weinstein Television has acquired the series and plans to shop it in upcoming weeks.

Created by Daniel Voll (The Unit), who will also serve as showrunner, Guantanamo focuses on the detainees held in the world’s most controversial prison, and those who defend and condemn them. Alexandra Milchan (The Wolf of Wall Street) will produce with Weinstein Television. Stone plans to direct all of season one.

puke.gi- hey wait a minute, this isn't American cultural imperialism. Also Weinstein is either less broke or more broke than I thought.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Weinstein TV Acquires ‘Guantanamo’ Series From Oliver Stone & Daniel Voll

puke.gi- hey wait a minute, this isn't American cultural imperialism. Also Weinstein is either less broke or more broke than I thought.

Sounds like it could be good, as long as they don't pull the punches.

 

[berzeli]

Queen Elisabeth Moss To Produce & Star In ‘Fever’ TV Series Adaptation In Works With BBC America & Annapurna TV

Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale, Top of the Lake) is teaming with BBC America and Annapurna Television to develop a limited series adaptation of period drama Fever based on Mary Beth Keane’s novel, with Moss set to star. Moss, who additionally holds the rights to the novel, will also serve as an executive producer on the project.

Fever tells the story of the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever who became known as “Typhoid Mary” as she spread typhoid across the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.

Moss acquired the original rights to Keane’s book and first sent the material to Phil Morrison (Enlightened, Junebug), who signed on to the project as director and executive producer. Robin Veith (The Expanse, True Blood) is currently set to pen the adaptation and will also serve as an executive producer alongside Moss, Morrison, and Annapurna’s Sue Naegle and Megan Ellison.

All hail Elisabeth Moss!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Queen Elisabeth Moss To Produce & Star In ‘Fever’ TV Series Adaptation In Works With BBC America & Annapurna TV


All hail Elisabeth Moss!

Elizabeth Moss + Enlightened director + Mad Men writer?! Sign. Me. The. Fuck. Up.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- ‘The Night Manager’s’ David Farr Developing ‘Hanna’ TV Series With NBCUni International Studios

‘Hanna’ TV Adaptation Gets Straight-To-Series Order At Amazon

 

[Cornballer]

- ‘Cleopatra’ TV Series In the Works At Amazon From ‘Black Sails’ Team

Amazon Studios has put in development Cleopatra, a drama series about the famous Egyptian queen, I have learned. The project hails from the Black Sails trio of co-creators/executive producers Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine and executive producer Dan Shotz.

Written by Levine, Cleopatra is described as a revisionist take on one of history’s most misunderstood women, The Godfather in Ancient Egypt. After nearly losing her life in a bloody coup, Cleopatra must use her natural wit and political genius to take back her throne and restore honor to her family and kingdom.

In addition to writing, Levine is executive producing alongside Steinberg and Shotz of Quaker Moving Pictures and Mary Beth Basile (Life Unexpected) of Basile Ring Entertainment.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- ‘Cleopatra’ TV Series In the Works At Amazon From ‘Black Sails’ Team

OH MY GOD

 

[RatskyWatsky]

History Orders Real-Life X-Files Scripted Drama Blue Book

History on Thursday gave a straight-to-series order to Blue Book, a scripted drama about a real-life, secret U.S. government operation in the 1950s and ’60s that investigated UFO-related phenomena.

The 10-episode first season centers on Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a college professor recruited by the Air Force “to spearhead this clandestine operation that researched thousands of cases, many of which were never solved,” per the network’s official release. Each episode will use information from the project’s files — along with a heavy dose of UFO lore, of course.

 

[Cornballer]

- Frank Miller’s ‘Sin City’ TV Series Enlists Glen Mazzara, Len Wiseman & Stephen L’Heureux

TWC/Dimension is developing a TV reboot of Frank Miller’s iconic comic series Sin City. This one will hew closely to the graphic novels, with a fresh take by writer Glen Mazzara, the showrunner whose resume includes The Shield, The Walking Dead and The Omen.

Underworld helmer Len Wiseman, whose TV credits include Sleepy Hollow and Lucifer, will direct. Stephen L’Heureux (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), will oversee this and produce with Miller, Mazzara, Wiseman and Bob & Harvey Weinstein. I’m told networks are beginning to circle. The intention it is to be a far departure from the films, introducing original characters and timelines with in the Sin City universe. Stay tuned.

 

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- ‘Cleopatra’ TV Series In the Works At Amazon From ‘Black Sails’ Team

This is going to be great

 

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Per Deadline, Kyle Killen's 'Furniss' is not moving forward at AMC. It was under consideration for AMC's scripts-to-series model, where "AMC foregoes the traditional pilot process and instead opens writers’ rooms to develop scripts for several episodes and a detailed look at a potential first season before deciding whether to move to a straight-to-series order."

The series follows a teenage orphan’s new life with her birth father and his family, complicated by her connection to secret supernatural events in their rural town.

Personally, I never thought the series sounded all that interesting but I was still excited for it due to Killen's involvement.

Marti Noxon's 'Dietland' is still under consideration.

“Dietland,” based on the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker, is set against the backdrop of the beauty industry, exploding society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty. The series is envisoned as a mix of character drama and revenge fantasy with a feminist perspective.

 

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Speaking of AMC:

AMC Opens Writers Rooms For 3 Dramas Under Scripts-To-Series Model

“NOS4A2” by Jami O’Brien, based on the novel NOS4A2 by Joe Hill.

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. Charles Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides, transporting them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.” Vic, with her gift, is the only one able to track the superhuman Manx. But finding him is the easy part. Defeating Manx and rescuing his victims will take everything Vic’s got and nearly kill her in the process.

“Pandora” by Sam Vincent & Jonathan Brackley

Pandora is a global mystery-thriller that follows three converging storylines as ordinary individuals try to piece together dark secrets leaking out into the world after advanced malware dismantles encryption across the Internet.

“Silent History” by Claire Carré & Charles Spano, based on the app and novel The Silent History by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffatt

The Silent History tells the story of a generation of unusual children — born without the ability to create or comprehend language, but perhaps with other surprising skills of their own. As the condition spreads to epidemic levels, theories form and society is faced with how to deal with this new evolution of human. Silent History plays on the fears of technology and the threat of “the other,” shaking up our assumptions about who we are and how we should live.

Not one of these sounds good to me.