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[Cornballer]

- HBO Watch noting that American Gods is still supposedly in development, but it's no longer with HBO

There is an American Gods TV series in the works. It’s no longer with HBO. The moment that things are ready to be announced I am sure they will be, either legitimately or via a leak in a big Hollywood Agency mailroom.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- HBO Watch noting that American Gods is still supposedly in development, but it's no longer with HBO

Unfortunate, but expected, that HBO should drop it especially after being in development hell for the last few years. I'm surprised that it's still in the works though. This would be a great boon for Starz or Amazon or (insert another channel) that has yet to really break out into the prestige programming arena.

Spoiler

Maybe HBO just moved it to Cinemax? XD

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Starz is fast-tracking its ballet drama project, now titled Flesh And Bone

No formal green light yet, but the show, from executive producers Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown and creator/exec producer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad), has been actively casting, locking in four accomplished dancers for supporting roles.

Additionally, Ethan Stiefel, star of the movies Center Stage and Center Stage: Turn It Up, has joined the project as consultant and choreographer. He is the artistic director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 1997-2012.

Some serious ballet talent ya got thar Starz.

Nationwide search for the lead role, Claire Robbins, continues, with more than 1,000 dancers already auditioned. Described as a dark and gritty exploration of the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world, Flesh And Bone follows a young ballet dancer, Claire, who has a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York.

 

[TheOddOne]

Lawrence Bender doing TV? Have to see this.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Ballet? Dont make me cry about Bunheads again!!!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Laurence Fishburne To Produce & Star In HBO Drama Series Based On Walter Mosley’s Socrates Fortlow Novels

Fifteen years after Laurence Fishburne starred as Walter Mosley‘s Socrates Fortlow in the HBO movie Always Outnumbered written by Mosley and directed by Michael Apted, the actor-producer is revisiting the character for HBO, this time on the series side.

The pay cable network is developing The Right Mistake, a drama series from Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods and Fox Television Studios.

It is based on the series of novels by Mosley featuring Fortlow: an ex-convict who seeks redemption — while battling inner demons and external forces — after serving 27 years in prison. The books include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Walkin’ The Dog and The Right Mistake. Mosley and Patrick Charles are co-writing the series adaptation, with Fishburne attached to star.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Hemlock Grove’ Creators Developing Texas Oil Saga ‘The Son’ As Limited Series

Screenwriting team and Hemlock Grove creators Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman and their producing partner Michael Connolly are teaming with novelist Philipp Meyer to write and executive produce his novel The Son as a limited series under Shipman, McGreevy and Connolly’s newly minted production banner, ShineBox SMC.

The Son is a multi-generational epic telling the story of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Also, this is sort of older, but I don't think it was posted yet?

Cinemax Acquires Robert Kirkman Spec ‘Outcast’

Cinemax has come on board as the U.S. network partner to Fox International Channels’ Robert Kirkman exorcism drama, Outcast. Like The Walking Dead, Outcast too is based on a comic by Kirkman, who will serve as executive producer.

Outcast, which Cinemax has picked up for development, follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it. “Despite the success of The Walking Dead, Outcast is only my second foray into the horror genre,” Kirkman said. “I think Kyle Barnes is every bit as compelling as Rick Grimes and demonic possession is way scarier than zombies–so this is going to be fun.”

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Also, this is sort of older, but I don't think it was posted yet?

Cinemax Acquires Robert Kirkman Spec ‘Outcast’

Yeah the first issue of the comic hasn't even been released yet so thats why there is little interest...

 

[RatskyWatsky]

WGN & Weinstein Company Team For Ten Commandments Event Series

The new WGN America is barely 8 months old, but it already has ordered two original scripted series — Salem and Manhattan — and has made a major off-network acquisition with Person Of Interest.

I’ve learned that WGN has teamed with the Weinstein Company for a Ten Commandments 10-part event series, which is being executive produced by Oscar-winning producer Bruce Cohen (Silver Linings Playbook, American Beauty).

I hear the plan is for each episode to be helmed by a different A-list director, focusing on one commandment and its evolving significance. I hear the project is eying a March start.

 

[Dan]

each episode to be helmed by a different A-list director, focusing on one commandment and its evolving significance

LOL

Some of those episodes are going to suuuuuuuck.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Can each episode at least deal with a different Harvey girl?

 

[Cornballer]

- ‘Blanco’ Gets Cinemax Pilot Order With Shiloh Fernandez Starring, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Directing

Cinemax has given a pilot green light to Blanco, a drama project which has cast Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead) as the lead. Feature director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) will direct the pilot, from Fox TV Studios and Lakeshore Entertainment. Blanco, which had been heating up at Cinemax since the summer, with the producers exploring casting and directing options, was written by Mark Rosner (Blue Bloods). It centers on Ruben (Fernandez), an uptown gangster — nickname Blanco for being a light skinned Dominican — who uses his status as a confidential informant to turn the tables on law enforcement and build his criminal empire. Rosner and Lakeshore’s Gary Lucchesi and Tom Rosenberg are executive producing the pilot with Fresnadillo. Fernandez, repped by WME, Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman, got his break on cult CBS drama Jericho before segueing to features. He recently wrapped Return To Sender, serves as co-writer, producer, and star of the upcoming indie Queen Of Carthage and will next be seen in Gregg Araki’s White Bird In A Blizzard. At Cinemax, Blanco joins fellow drama pilot Quarry.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- ‘Blanco’ Gets Cinemax Pilot Order With Shiloh Fernandez Starring, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Directing

Sounds decent, though probably the least interesting sounding show Cinemax has in development.

 

[King Allant]

- ‘Blanco’ Gets Cinemax Pilot Order With Shiloh Fernandez Starring, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Directing

sound good
hope it has a lot of nude, violence, and action

 

[Cornballer]

- Press release via TVbtN

AMC Orders Drama Pilots 'Knifeman' & 'Galyntine'

Set in 18th century London, Knifeman will focus on the untold story of a charming, arrogant, decorum-breaking genius who challenges societal norms to transform his visions into cutting-edge discoveries. A surgeon or “barber” in a time when blood-letting and praying was the norm, John Tattersal is a hard drinking, hard living man not afraid to push the boundaries of modern medicine, even if it takes digging up a few graves to do it. While he makes his living running an unlicensed operating theatre out of his residence, he picks up extra cash harvesting organs for his brother Julian, favorite son and prized physician of the St. Stephen’s teaching hospital. Knifeman is a fast paced, entertaining romp filled with emotion, tackling dark themes with a biting wit. The pilot was written by Rolin Jones (United States Of Tara, Friday Night Lights, Weeds, Low Winter Sun) and developed by Jones and Ron Fitzgerald (Last Resort, Prime Suspect, United States Of Tara, Friday Night Lights, Weeds), both of whom will serve as executive producers. Media Rights Capital (House of Cards), Josh Donnen and Robert Zotnowski are also executive producers. Knifeman is inspired by the biography of John Hunter by Wendy Moore, “The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery”.

Galyntine is a wholly-original vision rooted in a both fantasy/action adventure and science-fiction. Our pilot takes place at a time after a cataclysmic technology-induced disaster has resulted in a new society that has eschewed any form of technology. This catastrophic event leaves small numbers of survivors scattered around the planet and forced to adapt to isolation and unique challenges. Galyntine will explore a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has evolved – with some strange detours. Galyntine is a man’s journey of discovery through a changed world and its mysterious people. The project is written by Jason Cahill (Halt and Catch Fire, Fringe, Surface, Profiler) and executive produced by Cahill and Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, This Is The End, Oz The Great And Powerful, Transformers). David Zucker and Ridley Scott will also executive produce through Scott Free’s (The Good Wife, Numb3rs) first-look deal with AMC.

Cutting-edge, eh?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Press release via TVbtN

AMC Orders Drama Pilots 'Knifeman' & 'Galyntine'

Set in 18th century London, Knifeman will focus on the untold story of a charming, arrogant, decorum-breaking genius who challenges societal norms to transform his visions into cutting-edge discoveries. A surgeon or “barber” in a time when blood-letting and praying was the norm, John Tattersal is a hard drinking, hard living man not afraid to push the boundaries of modern medicine, even if it takes digging up a few graves to do it. While he makes his living running an unlicensed operating theatre out of his residence, he picks up extra cash harvesting organs for his brother Julian, favorite son and prized physician of the St. Stephen’s teaching hospital. Knifeman is a fast paced, entertaining romp filled with emotion, tackling dark themes with a biting wit. The pilot was written by Rolin Jones (United States Of Tara, Friday Night Lights, Weeds, Low Winter Sun) and developed by Jones and Ron Fitzgerald (Last Resort, Prime Suspect, United States Of Tara, Friday Night Lights, Weeds), both of whom will serve as executive producers. Media Rights Capital (House of Cards), Josh Donnen and Robert Zotnowski are also executive producers. Knifeman is inspired by the biography of John Hunter by Wendy Moore, “The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern Surgery”.

Galyntine is a wholly-original vision rooted in a both fantasy/action adventure and science-fiction. Our pilot takes place at a time after a cataclysmic technology-induced disaster has resulted in a new society that has eschewed any form of technology. This catastrophic event leaves small numbers of survivors scattered around the planet and forced to adapt to isolation and unique challenges. Galyntine will explore a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has evolved – with some strange detours. Galyntine is a man’s journey of discovery through a changed world and its mysterious people. The project is written by Jason Cahill (Halt and Catch Fire, Fringe, Surface, Profiler) and executive produced by Cahill and Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, This Is The End, Oz The Great And Powerful, Transformers). David Zucker and Ridley Scott will also executive produce through Scott Free’s (The Good Wife, Numb3rs) first-look deal with AMC.

Cutting-edge, eh?

Knifeman sounds like BBC America's Copper and Galyntine sounds a a whole lot like NBC's Revolution...

 

[Cornballer]

Knifeman sounds reminiscent of Da Vinci's Demon's too: "a charming, arrogant, decorum-breaking genius who challenges societal norms to transform his visions into cutting-edge discoveries"

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Knifeman sounds reminiscent of Da Vinci's Demon's too: "a charming, arrogant, decorum-breaking genius who challenges societal norms to transform his visions into cutting-edge discoveries"

Yeah, it sounds like it's basically Da Vinci's Demons in the Copper universe. Well, if it gets picked up to series, let's hope it turns out better than Copper did...

 

[beat]

"Galyntine" reminds me most of all of Leslie Knope's "Galentine's Day".

 

[Dan]

Galyntine will explore a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has evolved – with some strange detours. Galyntine is a man’s journey of discovery through a changed world and its mysterious people.

Why does this sound like the lead character is going to wake up from a coma to learn the world has moved on without him?

I hope it's Planet of the Apes without space travel.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Press release via TVbtNCutting-edge, eh?

Those sound ok, nothing really mindblowing.

 

[Protag]

ugh, can a mod change the OT sub-name? its so annoying seeing that over and over again.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

FX Eyes Underground Railroad Event Series From James McBride And Kelsey Grammer

Slavery continues to be in the cultural zeitgeist. FX has joined the trend with The Code, a limited series exploring American slavery from Kelsey Grammer‘s Grammnet NH Prods. It is based on the book Song Yet Sung by The Color Of Water author James McBride, which draws from the life of famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

The Code centers on Liz, a black woman making a desperate dash to freedom, on the run from a torn white waterman and able slave catcher, who takes on one last job — only to find himself in a war against a notorious female slave stealer. As Liz makes her way through the dark and forbidding swamplands of Maryland’s Eastern Shore using the black codes of the underground, the complexities of slavery play out in full force, pitting slave against slave, white against white, and plantation owner against plantation owner. McBride will adapt his book and co-executive produce with Brian Taylor, with Grammer executive producing.

Sounds pretty good.

 

[Tim the Wiz]

FX Eyes Underground Railroad Event Series From James McBride And Kelsey Grammer





Sounds pretty good.

Yup. Nice to see more diversity in leading roles, especially when it comes to subject matter like this where it should be a no-brainer. Speaking of which, I'm surprised nobody's tried to adapt Kindred by Octavia Butler yet.

 

[beat]

Comedy Central ordered a pilot of The Chris Gethard Show, a live talk and variety show that's been live (at UCB NY) and on public access cable in New York / online streaming for four years now.

http://splitsider.com/2013/11/comed...thard-show-and-we-talked-to-gethard-about-it/

 

[Dan]

30 second commercial for AMC's 'Turn'.

 

[backflip10019]

Comedy Central ordered a pilot of The Chris Gethard Show, a live talk and variety show that's been live (at UCB NY) and on public access cable in New York / online streaming for four years now.

http://splitsider.com/2013/11/comed...thard-show-and-we-talked-to-gethard-about-it/

So excited about this. Chris is a really amazing, hilarious guy and deserves this so much.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Murray Miller Inks HBO Deal, Sets Project With Mike White

Girls co-executive producer Murray Miller has closed a two-year overall deal with HBO. Under the pact, he will be bumped up to executive producer on Lena Dunham’s comedy series.

Additionally, he has teamed with Enlightened creator Mike White for Mr. Romance, a half-hour project based on the article The Only Muscle I Can’t Control: In Search Of The Next Romance Novel Cover Man, written by Joshuah Bearman and first published in McSweeney’s in 2010. Murray will co-write the pilot with Casper Christensen, writer and star of the Danish film Klown.

Mike White!

 

[TheOddOne]

That sounds quirky!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

RIP Incursion ;_____;

Starz Adapting Italian Gang Series ‘Romanzo Criminale’ With Steven S. DeKnight

Starz is developing an U.S. adaptation of the Italian drama Romanzo Criminale. It will be written by Steven S. DeKnight, creator/showrunner of Starz’s most successful original series, Spartacus, who is serving as executive producer and showrunner as part of his overall deal with the pay cable network.

The 2008 Italian drama revolves around a gang that controls Rome’s heroin trade in the 1970s and 1980s. The U.S. adaptation will be set in Philadelphia during the turbulent era of the late sixties and early seventies. The story will chronicle the rise of a gang of working class criminals who attempt to seize the American Dream by any means necessary.

 

[Cornballer]

Boooooooo! I wanted Incursion. Oh well, hopefully they revive it someday when the tech is there.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Boooooooo! I wanted Incursion. Oh well, hopefully they revive it someday when the tech is there.

I hope Starz returns to Incursion after Romanzo Criminale is cancelled at the end of its second season.

 

[backflip10019]

Jenji Kohan Prepping Provocative Period Drama at HBO

After eight seasons on Showtime with Weeds, Jenji Kohan is headed for HBO.

The Weeds and Orange Is the New Black creator is developing a provocative period drama for the premium cable network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The untitled Salem period drama explores the circumstances around one of the most compelling chapters in American history where intolerance and repression set neighbor against neighbor and led a town to mass hysteria.

Kohan will pen the script with Bruce Miller (Alphas, Eureka) and Tracy Miller. Kohan and Bruce Miller will also executive produce, while Tracy Miller will receive a supervising producer credit. The drama hails from Lionsgate TV, where Kohan is under an overall deal.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Jenji Kohan Prepping Provocative Period Drama at HBO

Good god, another Salem witch themed show?

 

[backflip10019]

Good god, another Salem witch themed show?

But this one will be a dramedy with a strong female lead who doesn't quite grasp the danger and urgency of the situation into which she has been thrust!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Syfy Orders Legion-Inspired Dominion to Series

Syfy has given a series order to Dominion, an “epic supernatural drama” based on characters from the 2010 motion picture Legion.

Dominion is set 25 years in the future, after a war between an army of angels and mankind has transformed the world. The series follows the journey of a rebellious young soldier who discovers he’s the unlikely savior of humanity.

 

[TheOddOne]

That is... random as hell.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

That is... random as hell.

Seriously. I mean, Legion? Who gives a shit about that IP?

 

[ivysaur12]

Seriously. I mean, Legion? Who gives a shit about that IP?

No one. But Chris Egan on TV is good enough for me! (I really want High Moon. Pickup High Moon, Syfy)

 

[RatskyWatsky]

No one. But Chris Egan on TV is good enough for me! (I really want High Moon. Pickup High Moon, Syfy)

Is High Moon Bryan Fuller's new show? In that case I really want High Moon. Pickup High Moon, Syfy!

 

[Hours Left]

RIP Incursion ;_____;

Starz Adapting Italian Gang Series ‘Romanzo Criminale’ With Steven S. DeKnight

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Dan]

- John Singleton, Russell Simmons Team for Miami-Set Club Drama at HBO

John Singleton is heading to HBO.

The Oscar-nominated Boyz n the Hood writer-director-producer is developing drama Club Life: Miami with Russell Simmons at HBO, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Club Life: Miami is set against the South Beach club scene and follows a reformed criminal who moves to Miami and gains a new lease on life as he embraces the vibrant, youthful and transgressive world. Singleton will write and executive produce the project. Simmons is also on board to executive produce Club Life via his overall deal with the premium cable network.

- History Developing Colonial Miniseries 'Jamestown'

History is prepping to explore America's beginning.

The cable network is teaming with former Hell on Wheels executive producer John Shiban to develop Jamestown (working title), a miniseries exploring the new colony.

Inspired by Benjamin Woolley's 2007 book Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America, the miniseries will explore the true story of the beginnings of America and follow the dreamers and schemers who settled in the new colony of Jamestown. It evokes a stirring epic time in American history, with all its greed, gore and glory.

Shiban is on board the pen the project and executive produce alongside Head First Productions' Jim Head (Sleepwalk With Me).

- NBC Adapting ‘The Wolfman’ As Series With Daniel Knauf & Scott Stuber

NBC is developing a contender for it Friday supernatural block anchored by Grimm, which is currently paired with Dracula. It hails from Dracula executive producer/head writer Daniel Knauf and is based on Universal Pictures’ Scott Stuber-produced feature The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, which in turn was a remake of the 1941 movie.

The WolfMan, produced by Universal Pictures sibling Universal TV and Stuber’s studio-based Bluegrass Films & TV, is described as a supernatural thriller that explores what it means to be a man and to be human. It centers on Lawrence Talbot, who is afflicted by an ancient curse and jacks into the powerful, primordial soul of the alpha-predator (watch the trailer for the 2010 movie below). Knauf is writing and executive producing with Stuber and Quan Phung. Bluegrass also has a comedy at NBC with writer Will Calhoun.

Apparently all the rage is adapting mediocre 2010 genre movies.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- John Singleton, Russell Simmons Team for Miami-Set Club Drama at HBO

Sounds interesting, though I'm a bit wary of the whole "reformed criminal" aspect. Can we please move away from the whole 'criminals as protagonists' thing?

 

[TheOddOne]

Posted? Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network.

Latin James Bond? :lol

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Posted? Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network.

Latin James Bond? :lol

Uhh.

Okay.

 

[ivysaur12]

Uhh.

Okay.

I know someone working on that! The protagonist plays soccer. Or something.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I know someone working on that! The protagonist plays soccer. Or something.

Latin James Bond plays soccer? Of course he does.

 

[TheOddOne]

‘Death Comes To Pemberley’ trailer (Matthew Rhys!)

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Death Comes To Pemberley’ trailer (Matthew Rhys!)

Looks like a British period drama!