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[kevin1025]

I know he's a hit maker, but I think FX should cool it with all these Ryan Murphy shows. Oversaturating your programming lineup with a single creative voice isn't good for originality or diversity. (it could be worse though - he could be writing for American Crime Story :s)

Once it becomes a year-round thing I'll be super overwhelmed by it, so so far they're broken up enough! But with two seasons of Crime Story (will they both air next year?), Feud, Horror Story, and now this all ready for 2018... that's going to be insane.

 

[Cornballer]

I know he's a hit maker, but I think FX should cool it with all these Ryan Murphy shows. Oversaturating your programming lineup with a single creative voice isn't good for originality or diversity. (it could be worse though - he could be writing for American Crime Story :s)

Agreed. It seems like a bit much at this point. Though if people are tuning in for his shows, I don't mind them using that money to bankroll The Americans, Atlanta, Fargo, etc...

 

[Cornballer]

- Deadline: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Richard Dormer To Star In ‘Rellik’ For BBC & Cinemax

Richard Dormer (Game of Thrones, Fortitude) has been cast as the lead in Rellik, a BBC and Cinemax thriller limited series. Also cast is Jodi Balfour (The Crown, Quarry).

Written by Harry and Jack Williams (The Missing, Liar) Rellik (killer spelled backwards) tells the story of a serial killer in reverse. The perpetrator is caught before the drama moves backwards in time to the very beginning – the crime itself. The search for the killer provides the backbone of the story but the damaged and disfigured Met detective Gabriel Markham (Dormer) is at its center. Enigmatic, unrelenting and charismatic, Gabriel is propelled in an obsessive hunt for the killer who left a mark on him both physically and mentally. Gabriel’s partner is Elaine (Balfour). She is a bright and intense detective, eager to please. Cast also includes Rosalind Eleazar (Christine), Paterson Joseph (Isaac), Paul Rhys (Patrick), Michael Shaeffer (Steven) and Lærke Winther (Lisa).

Cinemax picked up Rellik last November. The project was commissioned by BBC One in 2015.

Helmer Sam Miller, an Emmy nominee for his work on Luther, will direct.

Does this portend anything for Quarry?

 

[Cornballer]

- Deadline: ‘Trust’: FX’s Getty Family Anthology Series Sets January 2018 Premiere

It’s been a year since FX picked up 10-episode Getty family limited series Trust, executive produced by the Slumdog Millionaire trio Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson, and now the project is picking up the pace. The network says casting is underway, with production is set to begin in June in London and Rome for premiere in January 2018.

Written by Beaufoy and directed by Boyle, the first installment tells the story of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune. It takes place in 1973, when the young Getty is kidnapped in Rome and his mafia captors are banking on a multimillion-dollar ransom from his wealthy family. Trust charts the young man’s nightmare ordeal at the hands of kidnappers who cannot understand why nobody seems to want their captive back. The Italian police think it’s a prank and decline to investigate. Paul’s father is lost in a heroin daze in London and refuses to answer the phone. Paul’s grandfather — possibly the richest man in the world — is marooned in a Tudor mansion in the English countryside surrounded by five mistresses and a pet lion. He’s busy. Only Paul’s mother is left to negotiate with theincreasingly desperate kidnappers. Problem is, she’s broke.

Trust was developed under the first-look deal between FX Productions and Boyle/Colson, who reunite with Beaufoy following previous collaborations on the movies Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours.

 

[Decado]

- Deadline: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Richard Dormer To Star In ‘Rellik’ For BBC & CinemaxDoes this portend anything for Quarry?

Shit. I'd much rather have Quarry S2. Original content at Cinemax has fallen off the rails and Quarry is the only bright light, imo.

 

[Dan]

- Deadline: ‘Trust’: FX’s Getty Family Anthology Series Sets January 2018 Premiere

I wonder if Sony rushes that Ridley Scott film shooting this summer about the kidnapping out before year's end to beat this.

 

[torre_avenue]

I wonder if Sony rushes that Ridley Scott film shooting this summer about the kidnapping out before year's end to beat this.

Considering that movie has no talent attached and seems to be an Oscar contender, I'd be surprised if that movie gets ready for this holiday season. This year, the contender are Spielberg's journalism film, Bigelow's Detroit film, "Downsizing" by Alexander Payne, and a couple more.

It's not impossible, it's just the cast would need to assemble rather quickly and start filming around May-June for it to be out by the time this series releasing.

 

[Dan]

Considering that movie has no talent attached and seems to be an Oscar contender, I'd be surprised if that movie gets ready for this holiday season. This year, the contender are Spielberg's journalism film, Bigelow's Detroit film, "Downsizing" by Alexander Payne, and a couple more.

It's not impossible, it's just the cast would need to assemble rather quickly and start filming around May-June for it to be out by the time this series releasing.

They've already set production for May in Italy, and they're allegedly in the process of locking in Natalie Portman.

 

[kevin1025]

- Deadline: ‘Game Of Thrones' Richard Dormer To Star In ‘Rellik' For BBC & CinemaxDoes this portend anything for Quarry?

I don't like what this says about Fortitude. Dormer is insanely good in that show. Then again, if it's limited series, maybe things are okay, haha.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Deadline: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Richard Dormer To Star In ‘Rellik’ For BBC & CinemaxDoes this portend anything for Quarry?

Given their new found focus on "cost effective" shows that are mostly international co-productions, I think it might be safe to just assume that Quarry and The Knick are both dead (on Cinemax at least. I could see them maybe trying to shift The Knick over to HBO).

- Deadline: ‘Trust’: FX’s Getty Family Anthology Series Sets January 2018 Premiere

I forgot/didn't know that this was even a thing.

 

[Cornballer]

- Carey Mulligan Reteams With David Hare For BBC’s ‘Collateral’

Carey Mulligan has been set to star in Collateral, the four part BBC miniseries that puts her back in business with David Hare. Hare wrote Collateral, with SJ Clarkson is directing and The Forge producing, with production starting in April. The mini is described as a modern day state of the nation project which takes place over four days. Mulligan previously worked with Hare when she starred in his play Skylight. She originated the role on the West End and got a Tony nomination when it moved to Broadway.

 

[berzeli]

- Carey Mulligan Reteams With David Hare For BBC’s ‘Collateral’

I'm so in. I adore Hare's work on the Worricker trilogy, and as an added bonus queen Carey Mulligan? That is just great.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

History Developing Anthology Scripted Series About U.S. Presidents

The cable network, which will be presenting today as part of A+E Networks’ upfront, is developing The Commanders, an anthology scripted series envisioned as an annual television event ranging from four to 10 hours in length. It will dramatize pivotal moments in U.S. history that defined the legacy of the men who served as Presidents of the United States — from the first one, George Washington, to No. 42, Bill Clinton.

The first installments of The Commanders, currently in active development, will focus on Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. They hail from such auspices as Emmy winner R.J. Cutler (The War Room), Oscar nominee Stephen J. Rivele (Nixon), Matthew Sand (Deepwater Horizon), Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Path To 9/11), Michael Hirst (History’s Vikings) and Leslie Greif (History’s Hatfields & McCoys).

As part of the development process, History has optioned several bestselling biographies as source material for The Commanders including The Breach: Inside The Impeachment And Trial Of William Jefferson Clinton, by Peter Baker; Theodore Rex, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris; Thomas Jefferson And The Tripoli Pirates by Brian Kilmeade; as well as The Invisible Bridge: The Fall Of Nixon And The Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein.

 

[Barrage]

History Developing Anthology Scripted Series About U.S. Presidents

Take my money, take my eyeballs.

 

[Dan]

Barry Jenkins' Limited Series 'The Underground Railroad' Lands at Amazon

Hot off Moonlight's Best Picture win at the Oscars, Barry Jenkins has set his next act.

The filmmaker is headed to television to write and direct a limited series based on Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel The Underground Railroad for Amazon. The hourlong drama will be executive produced by Jenkins' Pastel and Brad Pitt's Plan B, both of which backed Moonlight. An episode count has yet to be announced.

In addition to selling over 825,000 copies in the U.S., The Underground Railroad was an Oprah’s Book Club 2016 selection, No. 1 New York Times bestseller and the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for fiction. Published by Doubleday, the novel chronicles a young woman's journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, she discovers a railroad full of engineers and conductors, along with a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

"Going back to The Intuitionist, Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different," said Jenkins. "It’s a groundbreaking work that pays respect to our nation’s history while using the form to explore it in a thoughtful and original way. Preserving the sweep and grandeur of a story like this requires bold, innovative thinking and in Amazon we’ve found a partner whose reverence for storytelling and freeness of form is wholly in line with our vision."

 

[RatskyWatsky]

HBO Teams With RAI For ‘My Brilliant Friend' Italian-Language Drama Series

HBO has partnered with RAI, Italy's public broadcasting company, for My Brilliant Friend, an eight-episode original drama series from Saverio Costanzo (Hungry Hearts), based on the bestselling book by Elena Ferrante. In a rare move, the series will be filmed in Italian and will air with English subtitles on HBO in the U.S. Production is scheduled to begin this summer, with Costanzo directing all eight episodes.

My Brilliant Friend is a story about the strength of female friendship. When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship. She met Raffaella Cerullo, whom she has always called Lila, in the first year of primary school in 1950. Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story thus begins and goes on to cover over 60 years of their lives, trying to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant friend and – in a way – her best friend and her worst enemy.

 

[Cornballer]

- Pelé Scripted Series Kicks Off With Bunim/Murray; Soccer Legend Among EPs

Quick, Americans, name a retired soccer legend. To the large number of you who said “Pelé” — olé. He and his manager Paul “PK” Kemsley are teaming with Bunim/Murray Productions for a scripted limited series based on the Brazilian fútbol diety’s life. The untitled program will focus on his life in New York while playing for the NASL’s Cosmos alongside other international footballers in the mid-1970s.

Considered arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Pelé (née Edson Arantes do Nascimento) and Kemsley will executive produce the series with Bunim/Murray CEO Gil Goldschein and Jeff Jenkins, BMP’s Co-President of Entertainment & Development. No time frame was announced.

“Growing up playing soccer competitively and now coaching my kids’ teams, I have always admired Pelé and aspired to share his story and approached PK about doing this series,” Goldschein said. “As soccer continues to gain legions of fans around the world, now is the right time to delve into and dramatize his story. Pelé’s talent, humility and charisma make him an outstanding role model, and we anticipate that this series will have mass global appeal.”

After joining Brazil’s national team at 16, Pelé led them to FIFA World Cup titles in 1958, 1962 and 1970. He was named World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics and Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee, Since retiring in 1977, Pelé has been a global ambassador for soccer and was named the Honorary President of the New York Cosmos in 2010.

“Bunim/Murray has an amazing track record for creating revolutionary TV shows, and it was clear to me that we share a passion for Pelé and soccer,” Kemsley said. “I have no doubt they will capture the magic that was New York City in the late ’70s and also honor the legacy of one of the greatest athletes this planet has ever known.”

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Opioid Epidemic Drama In Works At HBO

HBO has put in development Jackson State, a drama that focuses on the nationwide opioid epidemic, from Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein’s Storyscape Entertainment and Elliott Lester (Nightingale).

Written by Scott Lasser (True Detective), Jackson State will explore how the current wave of opiod abuse has ravaged many small towns across America that were once the backbone of the country. Lasser, who also executive produces, will draw on material from his personal experiences growing up in the Detroit area.

 

[berzeli]

Blumhouse Launches Indie TV Studio With ITV; ‘The Purge’ Becomes Series, Roger Ailes Fox News Series Lands At Showtime

Blumhouse has launched an independent television studio with ITV Studios acquiring a 45 per cent stake. This gives Blumhouse Television the ability to be a true independent studio with the ability to finance and producing original scripted and unscripted ‘dark’ genre programming aimed at global audiences.

The first two series in the deal will be a series version of The Purge, the highly successful genre series that will continue as a feature.

Also, Showtime has secured the previously announced Secure and Hold: The Last Days of Roger Ailes, a limited series spearheaded by Oscar winning Spotlight director and co-writer Tom McCarthy and journalist Gabe Sherman, who broke all the sordid allegations of sexual harassment in New York Magazine that prompted Ailes’ ouster at Fox News. Ailes has repeatedly denied the allegations.

A lot to unpack here.

 

[berzeli]

This is too bizarre not to share:
‘Before We Die’s’ Producers B-Reel Set for Swedish Agatha Christie Reboot

Stockholm-based film and TV shingle B-Reel Films, the company behind Alicia Vikander starrer “Euphoria” and SVT’s crime series hit “Before We Die,” is ramping up its drama slate with two new high-concept shows: a Swedish reboot of Agatha Christie and “Click Me,” a feelgood dramedy series.

B-Reel has signed a pact with Agatha Christie Limited to produce a Swedish-language adaptation of the cult series. TV4 has commissioned the untitled series, which is currently in development and will take place in Scandinavia.

“Our show will be a contemporary, edgy and cinematic take on Agatha Christie. It will mix Nordic Noir and Agatha Christie’s famous ‘whodunit’ plot construction,” said Patrik Andersson, B-Reel’s head of development and producer, who is attending MipTV with Fredrik Heinig, B-Reel’s co-founder. “Agatha Christie is a huge brand name and Nordic Noir is a proven genre, so combining both elements gives us a very attractive package to work with,” added Andersson.

Heinig said B-Reel had assembled a team of British and Swedish screenwriters to pen the Agatha Christie series. Andersson and Hoeing said they are interesting in meeting sales companies and potential foreign partners.

 

[Dan]

A TV series based on The Purge? I wonder if that'll be a true anthology series then, which each episode following a different situation. I could be intrigued if the creative talent is strong. I only saw the first Purge which was mostly bad, but there is a good concept with potential for social commentary.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Suzanne Blech, the former president of Screen Media Films, has launched movie and TV company Go Nellie Productions. For her first project, the company has acquired rights to a pair of books on suffrage movement icon Victoria Woodhull with plans to turn her story into a 10-episode drama series.

Woodhull was the first woman to run for U.S. President when she was the candidate of the Equal Rights Party in 1872; Frederick Douglas was her running mate. The series will be based on two volumes of Neal H. Katz books Outrageous: The Victoria Woodhull Saga, which chronicles the life of Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Claflin, who was the first woman to be invited to address Congress on the issue of women’s right to vote and the first woman to own a publishing house and newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly. They also were the first women to own and operate a New York brokerage house.

Source

 

[Dan]

Source

All of a sudden Victoria Woodhull projects are the rage in Hollywood.

 

[berzeli]

John Ridley and Regina King Developing ‘No Place Safe’ for FX

John Ridley and his “American Crime” star Regina King are teaming up again.

The duo are developing “No Place Safe” about the Atlanta child murders in the late 1970s and 1980s from ABC Signature Studios for FX. King is also set to star in the project based on Kim Reid’s memoir, which the Oscar-winning producer optioned back in 2015.

Wendy Calhoun (“Empire,” “Nashville”) is adapting the book by Kim Reid. Along with Ridley and King, Michael McDonald and Reina King are also producing.

Part mystery thriller, part coming-of-age story and part civil-rights history, “No Place Safe” is a memoir set in 1979 at the time of the Atlanta child murders and told through the eyes of a young African-American teenager

Fx is killing it.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

John Ridley and Regina King Developing ‘No Place Safe’ for FX

Fx is killing it.

oh cool another TV show centered around horrific murders

 

[Cornballer]

- ‘Trust’: Donald Sutherland To Play J. Paul Getty In FX Anthology Series

Donald Sutherland is in the money. FX said today that the Emmy winner is set to play billionaire oil man J. Paul Getty in the first installment of its anthology series Trust, executive produced by the Slumdog Millionaire trio Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy and Christian Colson.

Written by Beaufoy and directed by Boyle, Season 1 takes place in 1973, when the young heir John Paul Getty III is kidnapped in Rome and his mafia captors are banking on a multimillion-dollar ransom from his wealthy family. Sutherland plays the architect of the family fortune — one of the 20th century’s most iconic and enigmatic figures and at the time perhaps the richest man in the world. He’s a visionary who dreamed of a dynasty but was baffled by family.

Sutherland’s long acting career ranges from features The Dirty Dozen, MASH and Kelly’s Heroes to Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Ordinary People to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Hunger Games. An Emmy winner for the 1995 telefilm Citizen X, his more recent TV credits include regular roles in Commander in Chief Dirty Sexy Money and along with miniseries The Pillars of the Earth. He currently appears on the Audience drama Ice.

Production on the 10-episode Trust begins in June in London for a January 2018 premiere. The first installment will be produced by FX Productions, Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films and Snicket Films Limited.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

TNT Not Proceeding With ‘Let The Right One In’ Pilot

TNT has opted not to proceed with its pilot order to Let the Right One In, a drama based on the best-selling novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. The project, written by Criminal Minds and Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis, was picked up to pilot in August but it didn’t go into production.

I hear Tomorrow Studios, which developed the project and was to produce the pilot with Turner’s Studio T, is shopping it to other networks in its current iteration or as a potential redo of the concept.

berzeli weeping rn

 

[berzeli]

TNT Not Proceeding With ‘Let The Right One In’ Pilot
berzeli weeping rn

Tears of joy breh. Tears of fucking glorious joy. :'D

 

[Cornballer]

- TNT Orders ‘Deadlier Than the Male’ Thriller Drama Pilot Produced By Bruna Papandrea

TNT has given a pilot order to Deadlier Than the Male (working title), a drama pilot produced by Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Turner’s Studio T.

Written by Harriet Warner (Call the Midwife, Mistresses), Deadlier Than the Male centers on a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past, including a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter. As each of them is pushed to the edge, the truth about their pasts and their motives grows ever murkier, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator.

It joins TNT’s current slate of two pilots, which includes Snowpiercer, a futuristic thriller based on the award-winning film by Bong Joon Ho and co-produced by Tomorrow Studios and Studio T and The Deep Mad Dark, an atmospheric mystery-thriller about the complexities of female friendship, produced by John Wells Productions and Fabrik Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television and Studio T.

 

[berzeli]

Crackle has ordered/started developing a bunch of stuff. I was originally not going to post about this but then I stumbled across something magical.

the ad-supported streaming service greenlit its new scripted original drama The Oath, (working title), executive produced by Curtis ”50 Cent" Jackson (Power) and his G-Unit Film & Television.
...
Written and created by former Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Joe Halpin (Hawaii Five-0), the 10-episode The Oath centers on a gang that started out with the right intentions but its members are forced to turn on each other after being picked off by the FBI. ”This is the kind of unexpected storytelling that our viewers have come to expect and we look forward to breaking new ground with this new original drama," said Eric Berger, Crackle's GM and EVP Digital at Sony Pictures Television Networks.

The service also announced three projects in development.
...
ACCIDENT PARK
When an unambitious but lovable hometown zero, Vern, uses the settlement from a personal injury lawsuit to buy the notoriously dangerous local theme park where he was injured, he realizes that he needs help to keep his new business afloat. The comedy begins when the park's new owner, Vern, enlists the extremely reluctant help of Grant, his best friend from high school who has moved back in with his mom after a spectacular professional flame out on Wall Street. The series is written by Pete Marquis and Jamie T. McCellan and produced by Zach Levi's Middle Man Productions and Erik Olsen's Apocalyptic Media.

TRIBES
This one-hour original drama series takes us 20 years into the future when a nano-virus has ravaged the West Coast of the United States. Shut off from the rest world, the inhabitants inside this quarantined zone have reverted back to tribal culture. Until one tribe comes across an ‘elder' – the first human they have seen over the age of 30 since the outbreak – this man may hold the clues to the cure of this deadly virus – a cure that can set them all free – but some tribes don't want their world to change. The series is adapted from the popular 2010 graphic novel by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta for IDW Publishing and SoulCraft Comics. The series is written by Alex Tse (Watchmen), who will also serve as an executive producer along with Joel Silver's Silver Pictures (The Matrix, Die Hard, Veronica Mars).

THE ROW:
This one-hour scripted drama, centers around a select group of death row inmates who are about to be given a choice about what they want to do with the rest of their lives – continue their miserable existences on death row or be sent on an experimental mission with a 1% chance of survival. The 1% survival rate has never sounded so good to the inmates who are only too eager to take their chances in space because all of them think that they can find their way out.
The series is created and written by Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer) who will also direct and executive produce alongside Kate Bosworth under their production banner, Make Pictures.

Death row in mates IN SPAAAAACE!!!

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Entertainment One & Palomar Team For ‘Gaddafi’ Series From ‘Gomorrah’ Writer Roberto Saviano

Entertainment One and Italy’s Palomar are teaming for a new series based on the life and times of Muammar Gaddafi and the effects he had on the world today. Gaddafi is being developed by Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano and is created and written by Saviano and Nadav Schirman (The Green Prince).

“This is a TV series about a warrior, a dreamer, who becomes a savage and merciless tyrant,” said Saviano. “It’s the story of an adventurer from the desert, a rock ‘n’ roll tyrant who self-ascribed terrorist attacks he didn’t organize and associations with terrorist groups that he did not know in order to have the monopoly on one of his most important assets: fear.”

 

[Cornballer]

- Sky & HBO Strike $250M Co-Production Deal For High-End Drama

European pay-TV giant Sky has teamed with HBO for a $250M (£195M) co-production deal, which will see the two companies develop a slate of high-end drama geared towards U.S. and international markets.

The deal, which will aim to feature “engaging stories with international points of view and casting,” will see the two companies co-commission programs that will air on their channels in their home markets and be sold internationally elsewhere.

The first projects from the partnership are already in development and will be announced in the next few weeks, with the first project expected to air in 2018. A panel of execs from both companies will be responsible for greenlighting projects and they anticipate greenlighting at least two drama projects per year.

 

[Cornballer]

- 'Locke and Key' Pilot From Carlton Cuse Set at Hulu

Hulu is giving IDW comic book favorite Locke and Key a stab.

The streaming service has handed out a pilot order to the popular Joe Hill property with Carlton Cuse set to serve as showrunner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Locke and Key is a horror/ fantasy series that revolves around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Maine only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.

Hill will pen the script for the hourlong pilot. Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel, The Strain, Jack Ryan) will exec produce alongside Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) and Lindsey Springer. Cuse will serve as showrunner, while Derrickson will direct the IDW Comics drama.

The Hulu pilot order comes six years after Fox teamed with prolific producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as well as Steven Spielberg and Amblin to adapt the beloved property. IDW CEO Ted Adams, IDW Entertainment president David Ozer and Hill will serve as exec producers.

IDW packaged the project with the goal of securing a straight-to-series order for the property. The package was taken out to bidders — including Netflix, HBO and FX — last month.

Fox previously attempted to bring the comic to life during the 2010-11 broadcast season, with Josh Friedman penning the script. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the drama went to pilot with Mark Pellegrino, Miranda Otto, Jesse McCartney, Sarah Bolger and Nick Stahl attached.

 

[Cornballer]

- EW: Fall TV pilots 2017: The full list

 

[Geist-]

- EW: Fall TV pilots 2017: The full list

Thanks, time to start putting shows on my watch list. The first show on the list (The Crossing) looks very intriguing.

 

[berzeli]

- EW: Fall TV pilots 2017: The full list

I read through the entirety of that article and I couldn't remember a single show when I finished. Network TV is dire.

 

[Cornballer]

- Fox Lands ‘Luther’ Creator Neil Cross’s Supernatural Thriller Pitch ‘Inside’

Fox has beaten out several bidders to acquire Inside, a for a large scale supernatural thriller film to be written by Neil Cross, best known as the creator of the celebrated BBC series Luther. The film will be produced by The Picture Company’s Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Fox expands its relationship with Cross, Rona and Heineman, who are in the middle of the Escape From New York remake that recently got Robert Rodriguez aboard to direct. Mike Ireland is the Fox exec on that project, and will serve that role on the new project.

They are keeping the plot under wraps, but sources said it’s a contemporary piece that involves a CDC-like secure facility that houses dangerous artifacts that include mythological creatures. The protagonist is a wronged man who finds himself behind bars along with the menagerie of creatures. It provides the opportunity for VFX spectacle, grounded by Cross’s sharp character writing that grounded Luther, the world weary detective played by Idris Elba. UTA brokered the Inside auction, and Cross is also repped by Independent Talent Group and attorney Fred Toczek.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

I read through the entirety of that article and I couldn't remember a single show when I finished. Network TV is dire.

What about the one where the elite post-9/11 think tank comes up with fake man made disasters and then years later someone steals their book of disasters and starts carrying out those same disasters so the team has to reunite to solve the disasters they created? how could you not remember that

 

[kevin1025]

- 'Locke and Key' Pilot From Carlton Cuse Set at Hulu

Oh hey, it's back! I was always sad I never got to see the original attempt, and that it never even leaked out. But with Cuse as showrunner, that makes me super interested all over again! Hulu is slowly building up a great stable of content.

What about the one where the elite post-9/11 think tank comes up with fake man made disasters and then years later someone steals their book of disasters and starts carrying out those same disasters so the team has to reunite to solve the disasters they created? how could you not remember that

I thought you made that up, but nope, there it is, right there in that list. Man oh man.

Out of that list, Wisdom of the Crowd sounds neat, but only because my mind is making it into Person of Interest and Minority Report crossed together. It won't be that, haha.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- EW: Fall TV pilots 2017: The full list

Let's see what even vaguely interests me:

ABC
Inhumans (alien dog)
Untitled Marc Cherry Project (REBA QUEEN REGENT OF AMERICA YAS)
Raised by Wolves (Diablo Cody)

CBS
nothing

The CW
Insatiable (vengeful beauty pageant queen)

Fox
nothing

NBC
Will & Grace (obv)

As usual, there are a ton of medical/police/law procedurals, but oddly there are also a bunch of "heart pounding military squad" shows in the works: For God and Country on NBC and Behind Enemy Lines on Fox (which are basically the same show), but also Valor on The CW and Untitled Navy Seal Project on CBS. ABC is the only one that doesn't have one (yet).

There are also quite a few "siblings move in together and become best friends" shows.

 

[Fuzzy]

What about the one where the elite post-9/11 think tank comes up with fake man made disasters and then years later someone steals their book of disasters and starts carrying out those same disasters so the team has to reunite to solve the disasters they created? how could you not remember that

Because I just saw that on

Spoiler

Designated Survivor

?

 

[kevin1025]

Let's see what even vaguely interests me:

ABC
Inhumans (alien dog)
Untitled Marc Cherry Project (REBA QUEEN REGENT OF AMERICA YAS)
Raised by Wolves (Diablo Cody)

CBS
nothing

The CW
Insatiable (vengeful beauty pageant queen)

Fox
nothing

NBC
Will & Grace (obv)

As usual, there are a ton of medical/police/law procedurals, but oddly there are also a bunch of "heart pounding military squad" shows in the works: For God and Country on NBC and Behind Enemy Lines on Fox (which are basically the same show), but also Valor on The CW and Untitled Navy Seal Project on CBS. ABC is the only one that doesn't have one (yet).

There are also quite a few "siblings move in together and become best friends" shows.

Military squads are the new time travel!

 

[torre_avenue]

- Fox Lands ‘Luther’ Creator Neil Cross’s Supernatural Thriller Pitch ‘Inside’

Film or TV movie?

Seems to be a film.

 

[Cornballer]

Film or TV movie?

Seems to be a film.

oh, you're right. It's a film.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

- EW: Fall TV pilots 2017: The full list

Oh dear. What to watch, what to watch. Somebody should count how many times the sentences "A brilliant but..." or "An elite team of..." are used in that article lol

The Good Doctor - David Shore (House M.D.) and Freddy "Norman Bates" Highmore. That's enough to get a watch outta me.
Inhumans - I love a good train wreck
Libby & Malcolm - Vance gets an auto look from me.
Me, Myself, and I - Sounds high concept enough to get a pilot watch from me
Black Lightning - I'm a unrepentant CW trash bag and will watch this with no shame
Searchers - Need to see a trailer
What About Barb? - I love the movie What About Bob? so they got me.

A grounded and dramatic thriller about a former detective specializing in human behavior who is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.

Grounded, you say? Color me skeptical lol

 

[kevin1025]

Grounded, you say? Color me skeptical lol

I expect CSI: Cyber levels of virtual reality. It's as grounded as it gets!

Also, since I noticed I commented on it back in January... I guess The Passage over at Fox never came through? Or are they taking their time and it's a 2018-2019 pilot potentially?

Edit: Just checked, the pilot is filming in the summer. So maybe a late midseason, summer 2018 show if it's picked up.

 

[Joni]

I will check out whatever the CW brings because it is usually excitable trash at least. The below would be the only stuff I might pick up. All the rest will be dvd buys if they end up good and forgotten otherwise.

The Crossing could be interesting but ABC will make it way too serious while it should be Jericho.

Doomsday has Claire Holt but that won't be enough for me to watch it. Also half the people on that think-tank wouldn't have graduated yet when the twin towers got hit.

Salamander is a remake of a Belgian show so I might watch it for that. It would likely be better if I just watched the Belgian version because the ABC one won't get the same talent.

Perfect Citizen will remain on the radar for Noah Wyle. Too bad it sounds boring in the summary. I'll probably forget about this one even if it gets picked up.

Young Sheldon because why the hell not. It will just be as mind-numbing as the big brain theory and that could work.

Orville sounds like the first episode of red dwarf. It won't be as good. But I will check out the trailers to see if it can surprise.

 

[KonradLaw]

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

 

[Cornballer]

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

Michael Mann and Michael De Luca have acquired rights to Hue 1968, and they will shape as an event 8-to 10 hour miniseries Mark Bowden’s kaleidoscopic account of the Tet Offensive that became the turning point of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Bowden’s books have been catnip for Hollywood and his Black Hawk Down was turned into the memorable Ridley Scott-directed 2001 thriller. Bowden worked five years on Hue 1968, which will be published June 6 by Grove Atlantic. Mann plans to direct numerous episodes of the mini and will produce with De Luca.

Hue, the cultural and historical capital city, was the centerpiece of Hanoi’s 1968 Tet Offensive, a surprise attack by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong that sought to win the war in one stroke. Part military action and popular uprising, NVA infantry crossed mountains, undetected, with smuggled weapons waiting for them. This set the stage for a surprise attack that overran the city except for two small military outposts. Bowden’s book creates a tapestry that builds toward one of the bloodiest conflicts of that war, with characters that include a seemingly innocent schoolgirl on a bike, whose heart had hardened her into a revolutionary after her sister was executed and led her to help smuggle weapons; there is a radio operator named Jim Coolican, a Marine captain from Pennsylvania, who dreamed of returning to the family farm in the last days of service, but who also immersed himself in the local culture and language, and tried in vain to convince his superiors that Hue had been over run by conventional infantry, something not thought possible (Coolican would distinguish himself in the battle); to President Lyndon Johnson in his pajamas in the White House with General Westmoreland, a sleepover guest whose rosy view of progress in the Vietnam War shortly after became the subject of controversy with the leak of the Pentagon Papers. The miniseries will follow Bowden’s narrative structure that humanizes the characters and makes understandable why bloody events unfolded the way they did and made clear that Vietnam was an unwinnable war for the U.S.

 

[berzeli]

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

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.