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[Wiktor]

Greg Yaitanes is twitting photos from the set. Filming will take 82 days. They started on March 30th. So they'll finish at the end of June. More than enough time to air it this year.
Yesssssss.

Another twitter account to follow

Funny. When I look at list of people I follow on twitter they are bassicaly exclusively tv shows people plus few rare novels/comics writers

 

[RatskyWatsky]

The man who created Supernatural has turned his attention to a superhero.

Eric Kripke’s Amped, a drama that follows a neurotic man who takes a pill and becomes incredibly strong and powerful, is one of several projects on USA Network‘s 2015-2016 development slate.

Kripke will pen both the Vertigo comic book on which Amped is based and the series itself, which he’ll also executive-produce.

Other potential series the cable channel announced Tuesday include:

* The Tap, a 1969-set spy thriller set at Yale University.

* Mythos, a “serialized adventure” that follows a man whose wife goes missing, leading him to find out that everything we consider a myth is actually true — and that that knowledge is guarded by two opposing groups.

* AWOL, about an ex-military operative who becomes a criminal in Los Angeles.

* Swamplandia!, based on Karen Russell’s novel about a family that owns an alligator-wrestling theme park in Florida. (HBO was developing a version of this but it never made it to series)

* Cooley & the Tank, a behind-the-scenes drama about a fictional 1981 detective show.

* Paradise Pictures, a drama set in 1940s Hollywood at the end of the studio system. (in my veins!)

* Starchitects, a serialized workplace drama set at an elite architecture firm in Los Angeles.

* Mile High, about two best friends who cash in on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado.

* The Recessionistas, a limited series about rich Manhattan women and their finance-firm husbands after the 2008 stock market collapse.

* The Rock Untitled Project, an unscripted series executive-produced by charismatic WWE/action movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

The projects are in addition to the network’s previously announced Shooter, Falling Water and Queen of the South.

Source

 

[berzeli]

Source

The Tap is just unfairly aimed at me. Spy fiction set in in the 60s? There is no way I won't be watching this even if it sucks (and seeing as it is written by the Royal Pains guy it probably will).

Paradise Pictures just sounds amazing and can't come soon enough.

 

[Dan]

- Deadline: Afghanistan Drama Pilot ‘White City’ Not Going Forward At AMC

AMC has passed on White City, its geopolitical drama pilot directed and executive produced by Stephen Gaghan. Focused on Western diplomats and journalists living in Afghanistan, the show came from co-writers/co-executive producers Nick McDonell, a novelist and journalist who has covered Iraq and Afghanistan for Time, and John Dempsey, former long-time resident of Kabul and senior advisor on Afghanistan to the late US diplomat, Richard C. Holbrooke. Executive producers were Chris Mundy (Low Winter Sun) and former Viacom CEO Tom Freston, a former resident of Afghanistan, currently an advisor to VICE and MOBY Group, an Afghan media corporation.

Also, it's very mysterious, but apparently Ed Brubaker (writer of comics like Criminal, Incognito, Sleeper, Velvet, The Fade Out, various DC/Marvel titles) said at WonderCon that he's been working with HBO on something, but couldn't say more. Not even a hint.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Deadline: Drama Scripts Vie For Series Orders At AMC’s Annual Pilot Script Showcase

Here are descriptions of the projects I hear are competing for pilot orders this year:

Raiders
Writer and Executive Producer: Evan Wright
Executive Producers: David Zucker, Ridley Scott
WWII drama about a rogue U.S. Navy commander who leads an unconventional warfare unit into the heart of Africa on a mission that will bend the arc of history

Ashland
Writers and Executive Producers: Allison Anders (Gas, Food, Lodging, Mi Vida Loca) and Terry Graham;
Co-Executive Producer: Shana Eddy
Set in 1950 in Ashland, a tiny mining town in Kentucky, the Evans family has just relocated from California and the matriarch, Del, must hide her family’s secrets and find a way to support her three children at the height of the Red Scare.

White City
Executive Producer: Tom Freston
Writers and Co-Executive Producers: Nick McDonell, John Dempsey
The drama series follows western diplomats and journalists living in Afghanistan.

Untitled Dahvi Waller Project
Writer and Executive Producer: Dahvi Waller
Set against the New York automobile industry of the 1920s, two brothers struggle to keep their family-run company afloat with a class-hopping Ziegfeld girl and the daughter of an English competitor blurring the line between love and business.

The Sparrow
Writer and Executive Producer: Michael Perry
Based on Mary Doria Russell’s acclaimed science-fiction epic, “The Sparrow” tells the story of a Jesuit-led mission to make first contact with an alien race.

Looks like none of these will be moving forward.

- Deadline: Afghanistan Drama Pilot ‘White City’ Not Going Forward At AMC

This was one of their least interesting sounding projects, so I can't say I'm upset.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

AMC Narrows Field Of New Pilot Contenders

Dramas:

Johnny Eck Project aka Balihoo
writer: Brett Leonard
producers: Joey Rappa, Caroline Thompson
The show is inspired by the story of freak show/artist performer Johnny Eck who was missing the lower half of his torso.

Deliver Us from Evil
writer: Christian Torpe
About a group of townspeople who grow tired of their small town lives and decide to take down the local bully, who has been holding them hostage.

Goliath
Plan B
writer/producer – Dave Kajganich
Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) is attached to direct
producers: DeDe Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
Originally set up at HBO, the project is based on the book The Autobiography of Execution by David R. Dow.

Jerry’s World
Sony TV/ Shore Z
writers/producers: Jan Oxenberg & David Shore
Follows Dinah, a commitment-phobic artist, who cobbles together an unusual and very modern family when she moves in with her boyfriend, his daughter, and her estranged father Jerry, who has early onset Alzheimers.

Lodge 49
writer: Jim Gavin
producers: Paul Giamatti & Dan Carey
A young knucklehead from Long Beach joins a dusty old fraternal lodge.

The Son
Sonar Entertainment/Shinebox
writers/producers: Philipp Meyer, Lee Shipman & Brian McGreevy
producer: Michael Connolly
Based on the novel of the same name by Meyer, the project is a multi-generational epic telling of the story of America’s birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire.

Comedies:

Low Rent
writers-producers: Alex Fernie, Alex Berg, Todd Fasen
producers: John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky (co-creators of HBO's Silicon Valley)
Three small time thieves decide they’re ready to move into the big leagues. They’re wrong.

Sober Buddies
writers-producers: Danny Comden & Barry Schwartz
producers: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, James Weaver
Series about Jonesy, a loveably washed up pro surfer turned sober coach who works to help Jason, the privileged, ne’er-do-well son of a wealthy industrialist.

 

[Dan]

None of these really jump out at me, although I can conceive of Deliver Us from Evil being a good show idea. Vague shades of Jason Aaron's Southern Bastards comic.

Maybe Goliath as well.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

None of these really jump out at me, although I can conceive of Deliver Us from Evil being a good show idea. Vague shades of Jason Aaron's Southern Bastards comic.

Heh, those were my thoughts exactly. The premise reminds me a lot of Southern Bastards.

I also think The Son could be interesting. Sounds kind of like "Giant: The TV Show". Maybe they could get Jonathan Tucker (Boone from Justified) for the James Dean role.

 

[beat]

Low Rent is by a team of three of the funniest people around, so I have high hopes for that one.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Sony’s Crackle To Introduce Scheduled Programs In Addition To VOD Offerings

The lineup includes Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser, with David Spade and Christopher Walken, out on July 16. Crackle describes this as the “first-ever made-for-digital sequel to a major motion picture.”

New series include a 13-episode stop-motion comedy series, Supermansion. Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston is among the actors lending his voice to the production, due in the fall.

Later this year Crackle will have its first original hourlong scripted drama, The Art Of More, with Dennis Quaid, Christian Cooke and Kate Bosworth.

And in spring 2016 it will have a feature-length sequel to Dead Rising:Watchtower.

 

[TheOddOne]

- Deadline: Cary Fukunaga Behind Event TV Series ‘The Alienist’ Reteaming With Anonymous Content & Paramount.

Cary Fukunaga is reteaming with True Detective producer Anonymous Content to direct and executive produce The Alienist, an event TV series inspired by Caleb Carr’s bestselling novel. The Alienist represents the first fruit to bear out of the three year, first-look production deal announced last year between Anonymous and Paramount TV. That splashy deal gives Paramount a first look to produce and distribute Anonymous’ TV programming across multiple platforms.

Paramount and Anonymous also said today that Oscar winner Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) had come aboard as executive producer. Hossein Amini (The Two Faces Of January), who wrote the pilot, will write and exec produce the series.

Set in the tenements and mansions of Gilded Age New York City, Carr’s 1994 novel tells the story of Dr. Laszlo Kreizler who, with the help of newspaper reporter John Moore and police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, uses the emerging discipline of psychology to track down one of New York City’s first serial killers.

More at link.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

DirecTV Sets Comedy Series ‘Almost There’ Starring Steven Pasquale

DirecTV has set its next original comedy series, Almost There, starring and executive produced by Rescue Me and The Good Wife alum Steven Pasquale. The 10-episode single-camera series, which will premiere in fall 2015 on DirecTV’s Audience Network, is created/executive produced by Jace Alexander, Kim Cella and Debbie Baldwin.

Almost There tells the story of Jackson Cooper (Pasquale), a handsome, eternally single psychiatrist living in New York City. Serial dating and workaholic behavior have successfully helped him avoid long-term commitments, until he meets the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately he fails to get her name, number or any other information. The series follows Jackson on his quest to find her and to finally go about the task of finding himself along the way.

 

[beat]

Sony’s Crackle To Introduce Scheduled Programs In Addition To VOD Offerings

Joe Dirt 2!

Really? Really?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Our Planet’ Set At Netflix; 8-Part Follow-up To ‘Planet Earth’ Series

The ambitious four-year project will take viewers into never-before-filmed wilderness areas from the ice caps and deep ocean to deserts and remote forests. Using 4K camera technology, the series will bring viewers into intimate contact with some of the world’s rarest animals and most precious natural habitats. Our Planet is set to premiere in 2019 across Netflix territories.

The series is being produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who created Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and Blue Planet for the BBC, as well as the Disneynature films Earth, Bears, African Cats and Chimpanzee.

HBO, Playtone Fly With Wright Brothers Mini

HBO has acquired the rights to The Wright Brothers. The new David McCullough book tells the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who sold and repaired bicycles out of an Ohio shop to pay for their passion: the invention of flying machines that ushered in the aeronautical age right after the turn of the 20th Century. In 1903 on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the brothers changed history by successfully flying the first heavier-than-air-powered machine that carried a pilot.

National Geographic Greenlights ‘Saints & Strangers’ Scripted Miniseries

Set to air in fall 2015, Saints & Strangers — Nat Geo’s first scripted miniseries — tells the untold story behind the founding of America, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the 101 men, women and children who boarded the Mayflower for a one-way trip to the New World.

Half of these “pilgrims” were religious separatists who had abandoned their prior lives for religious freedom and an opportunity to create a new social order built on their values. The other half, “adventurers,” were mostly single males seeking financial opportunity and a rapid acquisition of wealth in a new land, or trying to escape their old identities or criminal pasts.

The message of the mini is that these two groups — the spiritual and the mercenary — continue to define the American character to this day as the personal struggles endured while working to establish their new way of life in America shaped the early DNA of our nation.

 

[Cornballer]

This is a bit odd:

- A female Van Helsing is coming to TV next year

This billboard for a previously unknown Van Helsing TV show is on display at MIPTV. We reached out to Dynamic TV who ultimately told us that they had no comment right now, but that more information will be forthcoming in the next couple of weeks.

We look forward to hearing more from Dynamic and will certainly follow up on this story when we do, but in the meantime, what does the billboard alone tell us?

For a start, the reference to 13 hour-long episodes suggests there’s no pilot forthcoming. Presumably, and in order for the ball to be rolling already, some broadcaster has already committed, but we have no idea who.

It’s not going to fit into a network as one of their year-round staples, where 20-plus episodes are made for each season. It won’t be a summer show or mid-season replacement either, as it’s marked for September screenings.

As far as an American home for this Van Helsing goes, we’d guess she’s headed to cable. Maybe “From the Producers of Fargo and Hell on Wheels” is a reference to AMC, maybe it’s a reference to Chad Oakes and Michael Frislev or maybe it’s all of the above.

 

[berzeli]

This is a bit odd:

- A female Van Helsing is coming to TV next year

Uhhhh, that tagline sure is, uh, something.

The twitter account which "leaked" that has a bunch of pictures from MipTV which includes a new (I think) poster from Westworld, first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hollow Crown II (yet again, I think so) and a bunch more.

 

[Cornballer]

The twitter account which "leaked" that has a bunch of pictures from MipTV which includes a new (I think) poster from Westworld, first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hollow Crown II (yet again, I think so) and a bunch more.

Oh, cool. Fun to see some new posters and the like, even if it's not necessarily the key art they'll use for US marketing.

 

[berzeli]

Oh, cool. Fun to see some new posters and the like, even if it's not necessarily the key art they'll use for US marketing.

Yeah, there usually is a lot of cool stuff at mip but since it isn't aimed at the press at all you don't really get to see a lot of it. I also found this short video that shows some more of it, but nothing too exciting though.

 

[TheOddOne]

Uhhhh, that tagline sure is, uh, something.

The twitter account which "leaked" that has a bunch of pictures from MipTV which includes a new (I think) poster from Westworld, first look at Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hollow Crown II (yet again, I think so) and a bunch more.

Awesome. Thanks for this!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Sarah Jessica Parker Comedy Pilot ‘Divorce’ Picked Up To Series By HBO

After a decade-long break, Sarah Jessica Parker is returning to the HBO lineup with a new comedy series. The premium cable network has given a series order to Divorce, its single-camera comedy toplined by the Sex & the City star.

Divorce, which will film in New York, tells the story of a very, very long divorce. It centers on Frances (Parker), a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought.

 

[TheOddOne]

- EW: Marvel teaming with John Ridley for mysterious superhero project.

Let the speculation begin: EW has learned that Oscar-winning writer-producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) is teaming up with Marvel to develop a mysterious new TV series.

We hear the deal involves reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property for ABC—but all sides are staying quiet on exactly which title Ridley is adapting.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Frankie Shaw’s Sundance Short ‘SMILF’ To Be Developed As Showtime Comedy

Showtime has put in development a half-hour comedy based on Shaw’s semi-autobiographical short with Shaw set to write, direct, star and executive produce. Developed by Shaw and Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky, SMILF examines the travails of a young woman (Shaw) who comes to LA as both a struggling actress and a struggling single mom.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Pot Web Comedy ‘High Maintenance’ Moves To HBO With Series Order

Happy Stoner’s Day! Vimeo’s web comedy series High Maintenance is crossing over to TV with a six-episode order by HBO. Additionally, the premium cable network will make the existing 19 episodes of the show available later this year on HBO, HBO NOW and HBO GO.

High Maintenance stars Sinclair as “The Guy,” a friendly pot dealer whose clients include an eccentric group of characters, revealing the dynamics of their lives. From the unexpected and offbeat to the predictable and mundane, the witty series provides a glimpse into the daily routines of the customers and how they light things up.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

HBO Orders Whitney Cummings Comedy Pilot

The premium cable network has ordered a pilot for a half-hour comedy inspired by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s debate-stirring 2005 book Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide.

Cummings created, wrote and is starring in the project, described as a comedic portrait of modern relationships that focuses on human nature and social construction using documentary elements and appearances from experts to help the characters understand the biological basis of their behavior.

 

[ninjabat]

No news on the tnt titans show? like when it starts shooting? Or when it will debut?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Katie Holmes Producing Victim Advocate Drama For Cinemax

Actress Katie Holmes has teamed with former Sons of Anarchy co-executive producer Mike Daniels for a character-driven action drama, which has been sold to Cinemax.

Based on characters conceived together by both Holmes and Daniels, the untitled show follows a victims’ rights advocate who is attacked by a stalker and then returns to the streets of her crime-ridden past to seek justice. Daniels will write the script and will serve as showrunner. He and Holmes executive produce. There are no current plans for Holmes to star.

Cinemax!

 

[Cornballer]

- NY Mag: Netflix Orders Comedy Series from Aziz Ansari, Parks and Rec Writer Alan Yang

Treat yo’ self to some potentially amazing news: Aziz Ansari is teaming with Parks and Recreation writer Alan Yang for a half-hour Netflix comedy series starring Ansari, Archer voice H. Jon Benjamin and Tim and Eric’s Eric Wareheim. Vulture hears the streaming giant has ordered 10 episodes of the series, which will film in New York and will be exec produced by Ansari, Yang and Parks co-creator Michael Schur (along Dave Becky and David Miner.) In addition to Ansari, Benjamin and Wareheim, the show’s cast also includes former SNL regular Noel Wells, Lena Waithe (The Comeback) and Kelvin Yu (Popular). The project has been in the works for months now, but Netflix is only now confirming its existence. Our sources say writers have been working on the project for some time now, though Netflix and Ansari aren’t talking about plot details. Honestly, though, what the show is about seems less important than the fact that this many talented folks are being assembled on one show… not to set expectations too high or anything.

 

[big ander]

- NY Mag: Netflix Orders Comedy Series from Aziz Ansari, Parks and Rec Writer Alan Yang

ahh nice! I think Aziz was teasing this at some point--and sadly I think it's the project Harris Wittels was working on when he passed. wonder if he'll be posthumously credited at all. Anyway, Aziz H. Jon and Rick Wareheimer? plus Noel Wells who has been goddamn hysterical in everything I've seen her do post-SNL? I'm way in

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Katie Holmes Producing Victim Advocate Drama For Cinemax



Cinemax!

Is this gonna be like that Jodie Foster vigilante flick?

 

[Cornballer]

- JK Simmons To Star In Starz Drama Series From ‘Imitation Game’ Director & MRC

Coming off an Oscar win for Whiplash, JK Simmons will topline Counterpart, a supernatural thriller drama series for Starz from MRC. It was created and written by Justin Marks, writer of the upcoming Disney Jungle Book movie, with Oscar-nominated Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum set to direct the first two episodes.

The size of the series order is TBD. We hear the intention is to pick up two seasons the way the premium cable network recently did with another MRC package, upcoming comedy Blunt Talk starring Patrick Stewart, created by Jonathan Ames and executive produced by Seth MacFarlane.

Described as an espionage thriller with a metaphysical twist, Counterpart tells the story of Howard Silk (Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret, when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension. Through Howard and his “Counterpart” on the other side, Prime, the show will navigate themes of identity, idealism, what ifs, and lost love.

 

[TheOddOne]

- JK Simmons To Star In Starz Drama Series From ‘Imitation Game’ Director & MRC

Whoa, sounds cool.

 

[berzeli]

Amazon Ordering Comedy Pilot From Bob Nelson (Nebraska) & Sacha Baron Cohen (Jack and Jeremy's Police 4, The Jolly Boys' Last Stand)

Bob Nelson continues his late-bloomer dream run. After earning an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, Nebraska, at age 57, the writer-performer has landed his first pilot order. We’ve learned that Amazon is moving ahead with Highston, a half-hour coming-of-age comedy, written by Nelson, executive produced by Borat and Bruno‘s Sacha Baron Cohen and to be directed by the Little Miss Sunshine duo of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.

The single-camera project, which is casting, centers on Highston Liggetts, a kind 19-year-old and perched on the edge of adulthood. When he encounters a world he doesn’t understand, like Elwood P. Dowd, he retreats into his vast imagination, where famous “friends” are his companions and mentors.

 

[WarrenMax007]

- USA Picks Up 1940s Hollywood Drama Pilot ‘Paradise Pictures’ From ‘Suits’ Duo

USA Network continues to experiment with drama settings, genres and time frames, giving a pilot order to old Hollywood period drama Paradise Pictures, written/executive produced by Suits scribe Rick Muirragui and executive produced by Suits creator/executive producer Aaron Korsh. Universal Cable Productions, where Korsh is under an overall deal, is the studio.

Paradise Pictures revolves around ambitious people striving to get to the top in 1940s Hollywood, when the dream factory was at its peak. Little do they know the challenges they’re about to face: the end of the studio monopolies, the blacklist and the disruptive new technology of television.

Yesssss.

 

[berzeli]

- USA Picks Up 1940s Hollywood Drama Pilot ‘Paradise Pictures’ From ‘Suits’ Duo

Yesssss.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Do we know if USA passed on "The Tap" yet?

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- USA Picks Up 1940s Hollywood Drama Pilot ‘Paradise Pictures’ From ‘Suits’ Duo

Yesssss.

Premise sounds right up my alley. USA tho...

 

[WarrenMax007]

Premise sounds right up my alley. USA tho...

Suits is amazing.
I'm not sure USA budget will be enough for this show though.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Since Strike Back isn't coming until July 31, and The Knick is coming almost as soon as it ends, I'm guessing this means we won't get Quarry this year after all. Next spring it is.

 

[beat]

Deadline:

Ghost Ghirls' creators, Jeremy Konner and stars Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci, are reteaming with Jack Black's Electric Dynamite, which produced the well-received Web supernatural spoof, for a new comedy series project. The half-hour, set in a women's basketball league, has landed at Comedy Central.

Created by and starring Lund, Blasucci and actress Angela Trimbur, the ensemble comedy revolves around a group of misfit women in LA who find new leases on life through their less-than-stellar all-girls basketball team. Konner is directing. The four are executive producing with Electric Dynamite's Black and Priyanka Mattoo.

Lund, Blasucci, and Trimbur are also pioneers of real-life LA's women's rec league basketball, BTW.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead to Headline PBS Civil War Drama

Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Returned) are set to star in PBS’ Mercy Street, a six-part Civil War series from executive producer Ridley Scott (The Good Wife).

The 19th century drama focuses on two volunteer nurses (Winstead and newcomer Hannah James) working on opposing sides of the war. Radnor will tackle the role of Jedediah Foster, a southern surgeon who comes from a slave-owning background.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Iain Glen To Star In ‘Cleverman’, Drama Series From Wayne Blair, Goalpost & Pukeko

The Australia-New Zealand co-production is described as a “sexy and dangerous” drama set in the near future where a group of nonhumans battle for survival in a world where humans feel increasingly inferior and want to silence, exploit and kill them. It’s based on an original concept by Ryan Griffen and focuses on two estranged indigenous brothers who are forced together to fight for their own survival. Otherworldly creatures also emerge into this “real world” dystopian landscape.

Showtime Developing U.S. Take On French Cop Drama ‘Spiral’

Engrenages/Spiral has been compared to The Wire and has been instrumental in raising the profile and the quality of French drama. At home, Engrenages is the longest-running and highest-rated original series on Canal Plus. It’s a look at the machinery of the French justice system through the eyes of a young deputy prosecutor, a police captain, a preliminary judge and a criminal lawyer.

Tom Fontana (Borgia) and James Yoshimura (Homicide: Life Of The Street) are attached to co-write and executive produce with Barry Levinson and former ABC president Steve McPherson also attached as exec producers.

 

[berzeli]

Showtime Developing U.S. Take On French Cop Drama ‘Spiral’

Because the wholly necessary remake of Les Revenants turned out sooooo well...

 

[RatskyWatsky]

James Purefoy To Co-Star Alongside Michael Kenneth Williams In Sundance Series ‘Hap And Leonard’

Nice!

 

[Dan]

James Purefoy To Co-Star Alongside Michael Kenneth Williams In Sundance Series ‘Hap And Leonard’

Nice!

I meant to share the news, but I saw that Jimmi Simpson signed up for this as well.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

‘Brothers In Atlanta’ Comedy Gets HBO Series Order

HBO has picked up to series comedy pilot Brothers In Atlanta, created by and starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, directed by Tim Story and produced by Lorne Michaels.

Written by former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Riddle and Salahuddin, Brothers In Atlanta is about struggling entertainers and best friends Langston (Riddle) and Moose (Salahuddin) trying to navigate relationships and life in the black Mecca of Atlanta. An Atlanta native, Langston is an aspiring DJ whose career has stalled due to his lack of focus and his get-rich schemes. New to Atlanta, Moose is a perennial backup singer with dreams of the spotlight, who keep his foot in his mouth.

 

[Jest Chillin]

‘Brothers In Atlanta’ Comedy Gets HBO Series Order

Seems similar to Donald Glover's FX show, which is about cousins working their way up the Atlanta rap scene.

 

[beat]

How many times do Lorne Michaels shows not end up on NBC?

 

[Cornballer]

FX PR:

FX NETWORKS TEAMS WITH JOHN SINGLETON ON DRAMA PILOT SNOWFALL

Singleton Co-Wrote and Co-Created the Pilot with Eric Amadio and Will Direct for FX Productions With Production Set to Begin This Summer

Dave Andron Will Serve as Executive Producer

LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2015 – FX Networks has ordered the drama pilot Snowfall from award-winning filmmaker John Singleton, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. Singleton will direct the pilot based on a script he co-wrote with Eric Amadio. Production will begin this summer. Dave Andron (Justified) will serve as an Executive Producer.

Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.

“Snowfall takes us on a wild ride through one of LA’s most fascinating cultural and social periods, and no one can tell this story better than John Singleton,” said Schrier. “The pilot script by John and Eric brilliantly depicts the era through the story of three captivating characters, and we can’t wait to see John’s execution of it."

“I have always been fascinated with that volatile moment in time before crack changed everything,” said Singleton. “It's a tense, insane and sexy era that touched every aspect of our culture. I couldn't have better partners for this journey.”

 

[RatskyWatsky]

FX PR:

Hopefully FX can rustle up some of their lost mojo with this.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Syfy Orders The Magicians to Series

Syfy has conjured a series order for The Magicians, an adaptation of Lev Grossman’s best-selling novels.

The Magicians stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year, NBC’s Aquarius) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real – and poses grave danger to humanity.

 

[Krauser Kat]

Syfy Orders The Magicians to Series

Fuck me and Fuck Yes. Those books are a lot of fun even with an annoying protagonist. Him being annoying is kind of the point. He is there to make mistakes and for the reader to view him and world through his failures and others triumphs. i dont have high hopes for syfy getting it right.