Future Shows (News/Casting)

Thargor

They're not great either, I dont like when books like that focus on the same few narrow characters instead of the effects on the wider world, you can understand why film does it for budgets etc but it always feels like a wasted opportunity when an author does it, I found myself reading them just to find out what happens but I didnt really enjoy them. Looking forward to this though, lots of hopefully good sci-fi tv on the way now.

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/melissa-leo-joins-matt-dillon-night-shyamalans-wayward-pines/

Oscar-winner Melissa Leo has signed onto M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming TV series Wayward Pines. The event series received the greenlight from Fox earlier this month, with an autumn 2014 debut scheduled.
Based on the novel Pines by Blake Crouch, the pilot has been adapted by The Playboy Club‘s Chad Hodge. Dillon stars as Secret Service agent Ethan Burke. When he arrives in the small Idaho town, he is tasked with finding out what happened to two missing federal agents. As expected, all is not as it seems as he winds up with a fistful of questions and no answers in sight.
Leo will play Pam, an “intense, unpredictable” nurse who tends to Burke after he ends up in Wayward Pines hospital. Starting off their relationship nice as (cherry) pie, Pam soon reveals her true colours and the two become enemies.
The show’s creators have acknowledged that Pines owes…well, its central premise to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal cult classic, Twin Peaks. That show focused on Kyle McLachlan’s Agent Cooper. Sent to the small Washington town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of Laura Palmer he too finds himself grappling with more questions than answers. Twisting, turning and offering up the finest slab of Lynchian you’re gonna get, the show captivated audiences in the 1990s.
Following on from Fox’s previous success with limited event series (a fixed number of episodes for a story arc) The Following, they’ve also added the 24: Live Another Day reboot to their TV slate. You’ve got to wonder why Shyamalan was approached for such a project. The director once synonymous with boundary bustin’ inventive thrillers has lost his clout in recent years. The Last Airbender suffered huge financial losses along with a severe critical beating. His latest feature, After Earth arrives soon in cinemas so we’ll see if he’s sharpened up.
Wayward Pines will premiere on Fox in 2014.

Carla Gugino joins as Kate Hewson, Ethan’s former partner and ex-girlfriend

JP Liz V1

Richard Dower wrote: »

Starz has ordered Outlander to series, 16 episodes: http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/outlander-greenlighted-to-series-by-starz/

http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a499884/us-time-travel-series-outlander-to-bring-jobs-to-scotland.html

US time travel series Outlander will reportedly bring 200 new jobs to Scotland.
A new television studio near Glasgow will also be constructed for the upcoming drama, according to BBC News.
Scottish actor Sam Heughan will play male lead Jamie Fraser, an 18th century Highlander who marries an English woman who has travelled back in time from 1946

JP Liz V1

http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/timur-bekmambetov-to-reimagine-wizard-of-oz-as-fantasy-action-miniseries-for-syfy/

Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov is venturing into television with Warriors Of Oz, a mini-series project which has landed at Syfy. Bekmambetov will create Warriors Of Oz based on his idea. It is a fantasy-action reimagining of the classic story in which a warrior from present day Earth is transported to a post-apocalyptic future Oz where he must team up with three other warriors, Heartless, Brainless, and Coward, in order to defeat the evil Wizard who has enslaved the land. Bekmambetov is set to executive produce and possibly direct. Search is under way for a writer to pen the mini, which will be produced by Universal Cable Prods. Syfy has been ramping up mini-series development, announcing two four-hour projects at its upfront presentation in April based on Larry Niven’s Ringworld and on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End with producer Michael De Luca.

don ramo

AMC has picked up 2 new series for full season orders, Halt and Catch Fire and Turn, both are period shows,

Halt and Catch Fire will be set in the early 80s and centering around the technology boom in silicon valley, i remember hearing that mike judge is developing a similar theme show for HBO but it supposed to be a comedy set in the same period, should be interesting have two shows based on the same thing,

also Turn set in summer of 1978 (seems rather shortsighted but whatever) about a group of farmers who band together to form the culper ring, a group of spies aiding the american revolution

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amc-orders-halt-catch-fire-594126

don ramo

Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast in a pilot for a showtime comedy, Trending Down

it about a man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is taken over

i love Hoffman and i will definitely be hoping this is picked up to series (id be very surprised if it wasnt) but i would have preferred if he picked some kind of drama role rather than a comedy

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/26/philip-seymour-hoffman-showtime/

JP Liz V1

don ramo wrote: »

Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast in a pilot for a showtime comedy, Trending Down

it about a man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is taken over

i love Hoffman and i will definitely be hoping this is picked up to series (id be very surprised if it wasnt) but i would have preferred if he picked some kind of drama role rather than a comedy

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/26/philip-seymour-hoffman-showtime/

Kathryn Hahn is to play his wife in the comedy

Richard Dower

Dominion ordered to pilot by SyFy....lol, another 2 seasons and done just like Defiance:

http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/07/domonion-drama-based-on-film-legion.html

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Ryan Murphy is developing a new adult drama for television.
Murphy is collaborating with Dexter exec Lauren Gussis on his latest TV project Open, described by Deadline as "a modern, provocative exploration of human sexuality and relationships".

http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a470854/glee-creator-ryan-murphy-developing-adult-sex-drama-for-cable-tv

Anna Torv is entering a new alternative universe: The former Fringe star is joining Ryan Murphy's sex-and-relationships pilot Open as the lesbian lover of Jennifer Jason Leigh, TVLine has learned

JP Liz V1

Source

Simply Dreadful news was dispersed by Showtime entertainment president David Nevins when he appeared Tuesday at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour in Beverly Hills.
Revealing the first castings for Penny Dreadful — a “totally fascinating” eight-episode “literary horror” series being penned by film vet John Logan and helmed in part by Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) — he said that Josh Hartnett (The Faculty) will play an American “fake cowboy” who enchants the ladies of Victorian era London, while Eva Green (Camelot) has been cast as Vanessa, a character Nevins described as “the fulcrum” of the super-secretive series before catching himself and withholding further details.
Penny Dreadful, which will also feature Dr. Frankenstein and his creature, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the Dracula novel, starts production in October to debut as soon as spring 2014. Nevins lauded the project as “smart and psychological, but we’re not going to be gentle with the horror. I think it’s going to scare the s–t out of people.”

don ramo

Billy Bob Thronton has been cast as the lead in FXs adaptation of the coen brothers film Fargo, wasnt a big fan of the film, but with thornton onboard will definitely give it look

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/08/02/billy-bob-thornton-fargo/

Richard Dower

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Anna Torv is entering a new alternative universe: The former Fringe star is joining Ryan Murphy's sex-and-relationships pilot Open as the lesbian lover of Jennifer Jason Leigh, TVLine has learned

Weird....wish Murphy would stop shoving his vagenda down our throats :rolleyes:

JP Liz V1

Community's Donald Glover has inked a deal to write, produce and star in a half-hour comedy pilot for FX

JP Liz V1

CBS has given a straight-to-series order for Extant, a new serialized drama from Steven Spielberg that’ll bow next summer.
The network describes the project as a futuristic thriller about a female astronaut trying to reconnect with her family when she returns after a year in outer space. Her experiences lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
CBS ordered 13 episodes.
“Extant is a very original concept with layers of humanity, mystery and surprise that reveal itself throughout the script,” said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler in a statement. “Our partnership with Amblin for Under the Dome showed that viewers respond to high-quality event programming in the summer. We look forward to building on that with Extant and offering CBS audiences another high-concept, unique event for summer television.” - Source EW

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/melissa-leo-joins-matt-dillon-night-shyamalans-wayward-pines/

Oscar-winner Melissa Leo has signed onto M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming TV series Wayward Pines. The event series received the greenlight from Fox earlier this month, with an autumn 2014 debut scheduled.
Based on the novel Pines by Blake Crouch, the pilot has been adapted by The Playboy Club‘s Chad Hodge. Dillon stars as Secret Service agent Ethan Burke. When he arrives in the small Idaho town, he is tasked with finding out what happened to two missing federal agents. As expected, all is not as it seems as he winds up with a fistful of questions and no answers in sight.
Leo will play Pam, an “intense, unpredictable” nurse who tends to Burke after he ends up in Wayward Pines hospital. Starting off their relationship nice as (cherry) pie, Pam soon reveals her true colours and the two become enemies.
The show’s creators have acknowledged that Pines owes…well, its central premise to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal cult classic, Twin Peaks. That show focused on Kyle McLachlan’s Agent Cooper. Sent to the small Washington town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of Laura Palmer he too finds himself grappling with more questions than answers. Twisting, turning and offering up the finest slab of Lynchian you’re gonna get, the show captivated audiences in the 1990s.
Following on from Fox’s previous success with limited event series (a fixed number of episodes for a story arc) The Following, they’ve also added the 24: Live Another Day reboot to their TV slate. You’ve got to wonder why Shyamalan was approached for such a project. The director once synonymous with boundary bustin’ inventive thrillers has lost his clout in recent years. The Last Airbender suffered huge financial losses along with a severe critical beating. His latest feature, After Earth arrives soon in cinemas so we’ll see if he’s sharpened up.
Wayward Pines will premiere on Fox in 2014.

Juliette Lewis, Terrence Howard and Toby Jones have also joined the cast

JP Liz V1

Syfy has cast the two leads in its upcoming Bryan Fuller drama pilot High Moon. Chris Diamantopoulos and Jake Sandvig have been tapped to star in the 90-minute pilot from the creator of Pushing Daisies and Hannibal. High Moon centers on a future where the countries of the Earth establish colonies to mine the Moon's resources, only to see chaos erupt when new forms of life are discovered. It's based on John Christopher's novel The Lotus Caves.

JP Liz V1

Eve Hewson is to star opposite Clive Owen in Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new, 10-part series for Cinemax, The Knick.
Deadline.com, which broke the news of Hewson's casting, says the series is set in New York's Knickerbocker Hospital in 1900 as staff strive to break new ground in medicine.
Hewson, the daughter of Bono and Ali Hewson, will play Lucy, described as "a young, naive nurse from the South" who comes to New York for adventure.
The cast also includes Michael Angarano, Andre Holland and Juliet Rylance, with Soderbergh directing all 10 episodes.
Production is due to begin in New York in late September.

Richard Dower

directing all 10....fair dues, but bono daughter :rolleyes:


WTF is up with her accent??????

http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/eve-hewson-on-this-must-be-the-place-and-growing-up-with-dad-bono

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Eve Hewson is to star opposite Clive Owen in Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new, 10-part series for Cinemax, The Knick.
Deadline.com, which broke the news of Hewson's casting, says the series is set in New York's Knickerbocker Hospital in 1900 as staff strive to break new ground in medicine.
Hewson, the daughter of Bono and Ali Hewson, will play Lucy, described as "a young, naive nurse from the South" who comes to New York for adventure.
The cast also includes Michael Angarano, Andre Holland and Juliet Rylance, with Soderbergh directing all 10 episodes.
Production is due to begin in New York in late September.

JP Liz V1

The Lying Game‘s Allie Gonino has joined Sundance Channel’s new drama The Red Road (fka The Descendants), The Hollywood Reporter reports. The series revolves around a sheriff (played by Off the Map‘s Martin Henderson) struggling to keep his family together while policing two clashing communities. Gonino will play the daughter of a local cop.

expectationlost

HBO Gives Pilot Order to 'The Money' Starring Brendan Gleeson
David Milch ("Luck," "Deadwood") is writing and executive producing

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/brendan-gleeson-lands-lead-hbos-money-pilot-110451

sounds like gleeson playing murdoch or conrad black type

his next cancelled after a year project

JP Liz V1

don ramo wrote: »

Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast in a pilot for a showtime comedy, Trending Down

it about a man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is taken over

i love Hoffman and i will definitely be hoping this is picked up to series (id be very surprised if it wasnt) but i would have preferred if he picked some kind of drama role rather than a comedy

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/26/philip-seymour-hoffman-showtime/

Rhys Ifans joins

Richard Dower

Darren Star [90210/Melrose Place] has setup a new show with TV Land....thus increasing the channels output once again: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/08/15/sex-and-the-city-creator-darren-star-writing-new-show-for-tv-land/197972/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29

This single camera comedy, which is based on the novel “Younger” by Pamela Redmond Satran, will follow the story of a suddenly-single New Jersey housewife and mother in her early 40s who, unable to restart her career, decides to lie about her age and successfully passes herself off as a twentysomething. Armed with a makeover and new resume, she wins a coveted position at the city’s hottest publishing company. Pretending to be "younger” doesn’t hurt in the bar scene, either, as guys line up like never before.

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/billy-crystal-pilot-comedians-gets-order-fx-93256

FX has ordered a pilot for the comedy "The Comedians," starring Billy Crystal as a superstar veteran who is paired with a younger, edgier comic on a late-night sketch show.
"The Comedians" comes from showrunners Larry Charles ("Seinfeld," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"), Matt Nix ("Burn Notice"), and Ben Wexler ("Community, "Arrested Development") who are writers and executive producers, along with Crystal. Charles will direct the pilot.
“It truly is an honor to be in business with Billy Crystal and Larry Charles, two of the all-time greats in comedy,” said FX Networks president John Landgraf. “We have also wanted for some time to be in business with Matt Nix, who has done such an amazing job creating and running 'Burn Notice.' They, along with Ben Wexler, are an unbeatable team and we’re incredibly excited about this project.”
The half-hour, single-camera comedy is produced by Fox Television Studios. Pilot production is scheduled for this summer.

Josh Gad has joined the cast of The Comedians

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Source

Fox has given a series commitment to a multi-camera sitcom, set at a women’s college, from the Tina Fey.
Fey will executive-produce the project with fellow 30 Rockers Robert Carlock (who served as showrunner on the NBC critical darling) and Matt Hubbard and David Miner (who exec-produced).Hubbard is writing the script, which will chronicle school life as the institution — for the first time in its history — admits men. Universal Television and Fey’s Little Stranger will produce.

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Source

Simply Dreadful news was dispersed by Showtime entertainment president David Nevins when he appeared Tuesday at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour in Beverly Hills.
Revealing the first castings for Penny Dreadful — a “totally fascinating” eight-episode “literary horror” series being penned by film vet John Logan and helmed in part by Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) — he said that Josh Hartnett (The Faculty) will play an American “fake cowboy” who enchants the ladies of Victorian era London, while Eva Green (Camelot) has been cast as Vanessa, a character Nevins described as “the fulcrum” of the super-secretive series before catching himself and withholding further details.
Penny Dreadful, which will also feature Dr. Frankenstein and his creature, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the Dracula novel, starts production in October to debut as soon as spring 2014. Nevins lauded the project as “smart and psychological, but we’re not going to be gentle with the horror. I think it’s going to scare the s–t out of people.”

Billie Piper has been cast in Showtime's new horror drama series Penny Dreadful.
The Doctor Who star takes a leading role in the show

Richard Dower

Yet another attempt to reboot Fame - this time at The CW: http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cw-developing-fame-like-drama-611190

Debbie Allen, as always, is involved. Personally i liked the movie reboot....was like a documentary.

JP Liz V1

NBC is developing an adaptation of the movie Reality Bites as a half-hour comedy series Variety reports. Ben Stiller is set to executive produce with screenwriter Helen Childress on board to write the pilot.
The new TV series will be based on the movie, revolving around recent college grad Lelaina as she struggles romantically and professionally in the recession-plagued, pre-Internet, early '90s in Houston, where she shares an apartment with slacker friends.

Richard Dower

Some new updates on this:

http://www.accesshollywood.com/steven-deknights-incursion-still-in-the-works-at-starz_article_82377

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/incursion-starz-news_n_3054897.html

Richard Dower wrote: »

If it's half as good as Starship Troopers......i'm in!!

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/07/11/starz-announces-new-projects-incursion-and-vlad-dracula-from-spartacus-producers/141237/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29

As part of STARZ overall deal with “Spartacus” creator Steven S. DeKnight, STARZ is developing “Incursion,” an epic science fiction action-thriller that follows a squad of soldiers caught in a war against a hostile alien race. Each season the battle will be fought on a new, exotic planet as humanity punches deeper into enemy territory. Grittily realistic combat, darkly complex characters and intrigue on a cosmic scale will permeate the tale of fighting men and women facing the pressures of war and an enemy unlike any ever seen. In addition to his international acclaim on “Spartacus,” Steven has worked on such well-regarded series as “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”, “Angel”, “Smallville,” and “Dollhouse.

JP Liz V1

David Morrissey has landed the lead role in an AMC pilot.
The new project, Line of Sight, centers on Lewis Bernt (Morrissey), a National Transportation Safety Board investigator who survives a mysterious plane crash and sets off on an emotionally disorienting quest to discover the accident’s cause.

JP Liz V1

FX has placed a pilot order for Hoke, an hour-long darkly comedic drama with Paul Giamatti playing a hardboiled insane homicide detective named Hoke Mosely in Miami in 1985