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Ryan Phillippe for lead role http://tvline.com/2015/08/06/ryan-phillippe-shooter-usa-network-drama-mark-wahlberg/

http://tvline.com/2015/09/17/omar-epps-shooter-cast-usa-network/


Omar Epps in

JP Liz V1

Jason Statham is set to star in and co-executive produce Viva La Madness, an hourlong TV drama series based on the book by J.J. Connolly, from Gaumont International TV. A network is not yet attached. Viva La Madness is the next installment to Connolly’s novel Layer Cake, which was turned into a movie starring Daniel Craig in 2004. Statham and Steven Chasman, who own the rights to the project, will executive produce, along with Connolly who is also set to write the series. In Viva la Madness, the anonymous hero, is stranded in the Caribbean itching for the criminal life he left behind–but he’s still a wanted man back home. Soon he joins forces with two robust London gangsters: the menacing Sonny King and his paranoid partner Roy “Twitchy” Burns. This marks Statham’s first starring TV role. “The way J.J. writes is so on the ball and authentic its hard to let any of it go. Trying to lose characters or shave down scenes every other page didn’t work, we wanted it all. The best place was a 10 hour plus show that lets you fully disappear into Connolly’s world,” said Statham.

http://deadline.com/2015/09/jason-statham-viva-la-madness-jj-connolly-gaumont-international-tv-1201532046/

kearneybobs

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Jason Statham is set to star in and co-executive produce Viva La Madness, an hourlong TV drama series based on the book by J.J. Connolly, from Gaumont International TV. A network is not yet attached.
Viva La Madness is the next installment to Connolly’s novel Layer Cake, which was turned into a movie starring Daniel Craig in 2004. Statham and Steven Chasman, who own the rights to the project, will executive produce, along with Connolly who is also set to write the series. In Viva la Madness, the anonymous hero, is stranded in the Caribbean itching for the criminal life he left behind–but he’s still a wanted man back home. Soon he joins forces with two robust London gangsters: the menacing Sonny King and his paranoid partner Roy “Twitchy” Burns.
This marks Statham’s first starring TV role. “The way J.J. writes is so on the ball and authentic its hard to let any of it go. Trying to lose characters or shave down scenes every other page didn’t work, we wanted it all. The best place was a 10 hour plus show that lets you fully disappear into Connolly’s world,” said Statham.


http://deadline.com/2015/09/jason-statham-viva-la-madness-jj-connolly-gaumont-international-tv-1201532046/

Not sure if it's you changing the font colour, but when it's changed to black anyone who is using th3e dark theme cant read a word of the post.

JP Liz V1

kearneybobs wrote: »

Not sure if it's you changing the font colour, but when it's changed to black anyone who is using th3e dark theme cant read a word of the post.

Sorry about that

Agent Coulson

Island of Dr. Moreau

CBS Eyes Island of Dr. Moreau Adaptation

CBS is developing a drama series based on the 1896 H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, to be penned by Sleepy Hollow co-creator Phillip Iscove.

Whereas the novel revolved around a shipwreck survivor who finds himself making camp on the titular scientist’s island home/laboratory, from which are “born” assorted frightening human/animal hybrids, our sister site Deadline says that CBS’ take will follow the “fiercely intelligent and fearless” Dr. Katherine Moreau as she dabbles in revolutionary scientific experimentation at her privately funded island hospital.

http://tvline.com/2015/09/18/cbs-island-of-dr-moreau-adaptation/

JP Liz V1

Starz has put in development Trapped, a half-hour horror comedy series from Mila Kunis’ Orchard Farm Productions. Kunis is executive producing alongside cult genre filmmaker Rob Zombie (Halloween), who also will direct. Created and written by Joey Slamon (Arrested Development), Trapped takes places over a single night in the home of a wealthy family under attack by a murderous cult. Orchard Farm’s Susan Curtis, Cami Curtis and Lisa Sterbakov also executive produce.

http://deadline.com/2015/09/mila-kunis-rob-zombie-trapped-horror-comedy-starz-1201543768/

Agent Coulson

A-Team

EXCLUSIVE: The A-Team is being reassembled. I’ve learned that 20th Century Fox TV has put together a new contemporary take on Stephen J. Cannell’s classic 1980s action series. Fast & Furious writer-producer Chris Morgan executive produces with Cannell’s daughter, TV director Tawnia McKiernan. Sleepy Hollow executive producer Albert Kim is writing the adaptation.

Like the original NBC show, the new A-Team revolves around a diverse team of American Special Forces operatives. Unlike the original all-male squad, the new team will include both male and female members. The group has been framed for a crime they didn’t commit and set out to clear their names by uncovering the black-ops conspiracy that set them up. Along the way, they are driven to help those in need by using their singular military skills, high-tech expertise and often conflicting individual approaches. It’s described as a fun episodic mission-of-the-week show that mixes big action-adventure sequences with compelling characters, inventive cons and lots of humor.

The original A-Team series was created by Cannell and Frank Lupo from a pitch by NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff. The show revolved around the four former commandos-turned-mercenaries — John “Hannibal” Smith (George Peppard), Templeton “Faceman” Peck (Dirk Benedict), the team’s pilot H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock (Dwight Schultz) and strongman, B.A. (Bad Attitude) Baracus (Mr. T). Here is the show’s opening sequence, which sets up the premise and introduces the cast:

http://deadline.com/2015/09/a-team-series-remake-chris-morgan-stephen-j-cannell-1201544600/

FunLover18

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A-Team

I'd much rather a sequel to the 2010 film

Agent Coulson

Watchmen

According to Collider, Zack Snyder and HBO are discussing the possibility of bringing Watchmen to the place it always seemed destined: pay television.

“Our sources tell us that the meetings about adapting the DC Comics property have taken place,” they write. “But unfortunately we don’t have any details as to whether this would be a prequel series, a re-imagining of the events of the Watchmen story itself, or a sequel series.”

The site warns that as these possible discussions are in their infancy, no release date or any other pertinent details are available. There’s also the possibility that nothing may ever come of it. HBO abandons ideas all the time.

But, as much as the cable outlet has always seemed like the most natural home for adapting the material, I genuinely think that time has passed. Oh, I’d still love to see HBO find a superhero property to develop and do for it what Game of Thrones did for fantasy — here’s a good spot for jokes about sex and violence — but Watchmen had its moment. I’d love to be wrong, but I’d also love for the late 1990s Starman to be chosen title.

It remains to be seen if talk of the Watchmen series will be more than that, but if nothing else, it means superheroes could be entering a realm of prestige drama; a place I think we all hoped they’d eventuall end up.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/01/is-a-watchmen-tv-series-in-the-works-at-hbo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Agent Coulson

Lethal Weapon

‘Lethal Weapon’ TV Series In Works At Fox

Fox has given a put pilot order to a Warner Bros. TV drama from writer Matt Miller (“Forever”) based on the 1987 action pic that starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. The project is shepherded by prolific WB-based producers Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz, who exec produce with Miller through Lin Pictures.

The TV incarnation revolves around the unlikely partnership between a former Navy SEAL and Texas cop who moves to Los Angeles after the death of his wife and baby and winds up teamed with an LAPD detective who must avoid stress at any cost because of a heart condition.

The original pic, directed by Richard Donner, spawned three sequels, released in 1989, 1992 and 1998. A fifth installment in the franchise has been in development at Warner Bros. for some time.

The broadcast networks have been scrambling to grab movie titles for TV adaptations at a time when the talent pool for series development is stretched thin by the multitude of shows in production across cable and digital outlets. Movie titles also come with built-in name recognition that is seen as a leg-up in marketing.

This season alone, CBS has launched a drama based on the 2011 feature “Limitless” and will serve up a “Rush Hour” redo for midseason. ABC has a comedy on tap based on the 1989 John Candy comedy “Uncle Buck.”

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/lethal-weapon-tv-series-fox-matt-miller-1201608733/

The Black Oil

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Lethal Weapon

‘Lethal Weapon’ TV Series In Works At Fox

Remake-itis to continue...with MacGyver.

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JP Liz V1

The Black Oil wrote: »

Remake-itis to continue...with MacGyver.

Source

Michael Westen of Burn Notice was new MacGyver

Agent Coulson

Fantasy Island

‘Fantasy Island’ Remake In Works At ABC With Writer Sheldon Turner

Following the Hart To Hart remake with a gay couple, which was set up at NBC, Sony TV is rebooting another classic 1970s drama series from the Spelling-Goldberg catalogue, Fantasy Island, with a major twist (or two). The project has landed at ABC with penalty.

Written by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air), the new take goes further in shaking up the original concept — about a tropical sheldonturnerisland where people pay to go and live out their fantasies — than the 1998 revival, also on ABC. Gone is the island where both series were set, with Fantasy Island as the name of a company that designs and executes fantasies for clients. In another major change, the enigmatic Fantasy Island owner Mr. Roarke, played by Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell in the two previous versions, will be a woman. The new Fantasy Island centers on a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his or her most intimate, dark or outlandish fantasy. Like the original series, each episode is expected to chronicle two fantasies, with an overarching serialized arc involving Roarke and her personal life.

Turner and Jennifer Klein are executive producing through their Sony TV-based Vendetta Prods., reuniting with ABC where the two had pilot The Advocate last season. Also executive producing is Josh Berman.

The original Fantasy Island, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, ran on ABC from 1977-84.

http://deadline.com/2015/10/fantasy-island-remake-abc-sheldon-turner-1201533292/

Agent Coulson

Skin Trade

George R.R. Martin's 'Skin Trade' in the Works at Cinemax

The 'Game of Thrones' author made the announcement on his blog.

HBO sibling Cinemax is getting into business with Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin

The premium cable network has ordered a script of Martin's werewolf noir novel The Skin Trade, the author announced Saturday.

Published in the 1980s, The Skin Trade was originally written for Night Vision 5, the fifth volume in the annual horror anthology published by Dark Harvest. Hailed as one of the best pieces of werewolf fiction, it went on to win the World Fantasy Award.

The rights were optioned by Mike the Pike Productions' Mark B. Newbauer, who will executive produce the Cinemax version.

Here's the official logline from Cinemax: "A collections agent who happens to be a werewolf and his friend, a private investigator, discover a dark secret behind a series of grisly murders in their decaying industrial city."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/george-rr-martins-skin-trade-831243

Agent Coulson

Y: The Last Man

'Y: The Last Man' TV Series in the Works at FX

FX is teaming with Vaughan and Color Force's Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson to develop the dystopian sci-fi comic as an ongoing series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. A search is under way to find a writer to develop the series with Vaughan. A director for the potential series has not yet been determined. Y: The Last Man, which is purely in development at this time, will be produced by FX and FX Productions.

Y: The Last Man ranks as one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed comic book series of all time. The Vertigo title was first launched in 2002 and revolves around Yorick Brown — the last surviving human with a Y chromosome — and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. The series follows escape artist Yorick after the mysterious plague as he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world's male chromosomes.

The series, written and created by Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, ran for 60 issues and has been collected in multiple graphic novels.

The news of a Y: The Last Man TV series comes after a long waiting period as rights to the series reverted back from New Line to Vaughan after the company's plans to convert the comics to a feature film were scrapped.

New Line — a corporate sibling to publisher Vertigo — acquired the film rights to the series in 2007 and set David Goyer, Carl Ellsworth and director D.J. Caruso to adapt. The latter wound up walking away from the project after New Line didn't want to produce the saga as a three-film franchise but rather a two-hour stand-alone feature.

In March 2012, Jericho's Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were in final negotiations to take on the property with J.C. Spink, Chris Bender and David Goyer producing and Mason Novick and Jake Weiner set as executive producers. The latter fell apart in September 2014 when Vaughan announced that the rights were in the process of reverting back to him and the movie was dead.

"We wanted to tell a complete story … but not the whole story," Vaughan said at the time, noting that he had hoped that "in success, we could get tell the rest of our serialized adventure."

Y: The Last Man counts fans in Joss Whedon, French film director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans and Now You See Me) as well as Chuck alum Zachary Levi, who expressed interest in taking on the role of Yorick — going so far as to have his character on the former NBC comedy read the graphic novel in an episode. Quizzed by THR in September 2014 ahead of the fall comic book invasion on broadcast, Y: The Last Man was singled out as a property that should be the next to come to the small screen.

A Y: The Last Man series at FX would mark Vaughan's return to television following CBS' Under the Dome (which he developed for Showtime and ultimately departed following its freshman season on CBS) and Lost. He's currently writing Image Comics' critical hit Saga.

For Jacobson and Simpson, meanwhile, Y: The Last Man extends the duo's relationship with FX, where the company is under an overall deal with its in-house production arm FXP. The duo, whose credits include The Hunger Games franchise, are currently teaming with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk on FX anthology American Crime Story.

Should Y: The Last Man go to series, it would give FX perhaps the crown jewel of comic books and put the cable network on the map with fanboys. AMC has ratings juggernaut The Walking Dead and its companion, Fear the Walking Dead, as well as controversial take Preacher due next year; ABC has Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter; The CW has Arrow, Flash and Legends of Tomorrow; CBS has Supergirl; Fox has Gotham, the upcoming Lucifer and is developing X-Men; while Sony's PlayStation has Powers, which was developed multiple times at FX. Syfy, meanwhile, is developing Superman prequel Krypton from Goyer and TNT has Titans, among others in the works.

Vaughan is repped by Verve and Ziffren Brittenham.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/y-last-man-tv-series-831981

don ramo

Fox and Marvel have come to an agreement apparently, where Marvel get the fantastic 4 rights back and are gonna help Fox develop 2 TV shows from the X-Men universe,

Legion will tell of the story of David Haller, who first appeared in the X-Men comic books in 1985. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a teenager, Haller frequently finds himself in and out of mental hospitals, but an encounter with another patient makes him consider whether the voices and visions in his head are, in fact, real.

its gonna be written/executive produced by Fargo creator Noah Hawley

Hellfire, the show is set in the 1960s and tells the story of a special agent who stumbles upon a secret society of millionaires bent on global domination called "The Hellfire Club." In the comics — also created by Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne — the group included members like Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw, both of whom appeared as villains in the 2011 film, X-Men First Class

its been created by Evan Katz (24: Live Another Day), Manny Coto (24), Patrick McKay (Star Trek 3) and JD Payne (Star Trek 3).

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/marvel-preps-two-x-men-series-for-fox-networks-20151015

im not 100% on what channel Hellfire is on, but Legion is already in development on FX, so at least its a cable channel, these types of shows are hard to make work on normal network tv, so at least on a cable channel they stand a chance, and will be 13 odd episodes long, which is also better, saves a lot of filler episodes,

gonna be interesting to see if FOX actually make a show with X-Men in the title, id assume the agreement allows them to make as many tv shows as they wish,

don ramo

don ramo wrote: »

Fox and Marvel have come to an agreement apparently, where Marvel get the fantastic 4 rights back and are gonna help Fox develop 2 TV shows from the X-Men universe,

Legion will tell of the story of David Haller, who first appeared in the X-Men comic books in 1985. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a teenager, Haller frequently finds himself in and out of mental hospitals, but an encounter with another patient makes him consider whether the voices and visions in his head are, in fact, real.

its gonna be written/executive produced by Fargo creator Noah Hawley

Hellfire, the show is set in the 1960s and tells the story of a special agent who stumbles upon a secret society of millionaires bent on global domination called "The Hellfire Club." In the comics — also created by Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne — the group included members like Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw, both of whom appeared as villains in the 2011 film, X-Men First Class

its been created by Evan Katz (24: Live Another Day), Manny Coto (24), Patrick McKay (Star Trek 3) and JD Payne (Star Trek 3).

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/marvel-preps-two-x-men-series-for-fox-networks-20151015

im not 100% on what channel Hellfire is on, but Legion is already in development on FX, so at least its a cable channel, these types of shows are hard to make work on normal network tv, so at least on a cable channel they stand a chance, and will be 13 odd episodes long, which is also better, saves a lot of filler episodes,

gonna be interesting to see if FOX actually make a show with X-Men in the title, id assume the agreement allows them to make as many tv shows as they wish,

Fox have came out and stated that it's false and that the Fantastic Four rights will be staying with them.

don ramo

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Fox have came out and stated that it's false and that the Fantastic Four rights will be staying with them.

well as far as i know the series are going ahead regardless, but the speculation is that the cost of X-Men tv shows for FOX is the rights to FF, theyd be best off doing it anyway, FOX just cant get the FF right, so best to just let it go, sure sony have allowed Spider-Man be in Marvel films, and the Spider-Man films were much more successful,

Nervous Wreck

There's a difference between "Marvel" and "Marvel Studios". The latter isn't mentioned at all in that article. I don't hold much hope for either of those shows. Neither Fox nor FX fill me with confidence... And the Hellfire Club may just be that little bit too campy in their hands. I've said it before and I'll say it again; they should be adapting X-Factor to TV.

Agent Coulson

Cruel Intentions

“Cruel Intentions” could be coming to television. NBC has bought a script with a significant commitment from the film’s original director and writer Roger Kumble, Variety has learned.

NBC’s version would take a modern spin on the late ’90s cultural phenomenon that brought Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Selma Blair to worldwide fame.

The present-day “Cruel Intentions” reboot will center around the 16-year-old son of the late Sebastian Valmont (played by Phillippe in the film) and Annette Hargrove (played by Witherspoon), named Bash Casey. Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed. In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined.

In the 1999 film, Annette was not said to be pregnant, though she did drive away at the end of the movie with Sebastian’s journal by her side after his funeral, as she recalled fond memories of him.

Kumble is attached to direct the pilot, and co-write with scribes Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross who will serve as exec producers on the potential series from Sony Television, along with Neal Moritz and Original Film’s Pavun Shetty who will exec produce through their Sony TV deal. AMBI will also produce.

The series had been pitched around to many networks this month and quickly garnered competitive interest, before ultimately landing at NBC with a script commitment plus penalty

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/cruel-intentions-tv-show-reboot-nbc-1201617298/

JP Liz V1

http://tvline.com/2015/11/24/tremors-tv-series-kevin-bacon/


Tremors tv revival with Kevin Bacon

CastorTroy

Just saw that. The first guy to leave the series is coming back 4 sequels and a tv series later.
Didn't even realise there was a 5th movie until I saw the article. Looks like I have to watch that this weekend.

AMKC

The Black Oil wrote: »

Remake-itis to continue...with MacGyver.

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Will never be as good as the original which is still brilliant today even if it has aged a lot. You can really see he put everything into it. Richard Dean Anderson was quoted as saying

"The only reason it went off the air was that everybody was ready to move on. I was physically exhausted and had no life."[15]

Its true because nearly every episode centered around MacGyver.

You would never get someone as dedicated as that theses days that they will practically live on the show.

Agent Coulson

Now You See Her

CBS Developing Legal Drama ‘Now You See Her’ Based On James Patterson Book

CBS is developing Now You See Her, a legal drama based on the book by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Blue Bloods executive producer Siobhan Byrne O’Connor is penning the adaptation and executive producing with Patterson, Bill Haber, Bill Robinson and Leopoldo Gout. CBS TV Studios, where James Patterson Entertainment has a first-look deal, is the studio.

Now You See Her centers on a successful attorney at a boutique New York City law firm who is hiding her true identity and past as a murderer when one case threatens to expose her and upend her new life and career.

Patterson executive produces CBS’ summer drama series Zoo based on his novel, which has been renewed for a second season to air in 2016. His popular Women’s Murder Club book series is in early development at USA Network as a TV series, 1st To Die (working title), written/executive produced by Tony Krantz and executive produced by Patterson.

Last year, another CBS/CBS Studios drama project based on a Patterson novel, For Justice, went to pilot at the network.

http://deadline.com/2015/12/cbs-developing-legal-drama-now-you-see-her-james-patterson-book-1201659253/

Agent Coulson

NOS4A2

AMC Developing ‘NOS4A2’ Supernatural Horror Series Based On Joe Hill’s Novel

AMC has put in development NOS4A2, a supernatural horror series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill (Horns, Locke & Key). A search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation, which is being produced by Michael Eisner’s Tornante TV (BoJack Horseman) and AMC Studios.

NOS4A2 centers on Victoria “Vic” McQueen, a young woman with an uncanny talent for finding lost things… a gift that is gradually destroying her mind. Her search for help leads her to someone with powers not unlike her own: the psychopath Charlie Manx, who has survived for a century by abducting children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith (license plate: NOS4A2), and draining his passengers of their souls to keep himself forever young. When Manx kidnaps Vic’s own son, she’ll plunge into the impossible, nightmare world that lies just beneath the surface of everyday America in a desperate attempt to get him back.

The book, published by William Morrow in 2013, debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is the latest work by Hill to be optioned for the screen. His fantasy thriller Horns was made into a 2014 feature directed by Alex Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe. Heart Shaped Box, bought originally by Warner Bros for producer Akiva Goldsman and writer/director Neil Jordan, is currently being redeveloped at Warner Bros. by Langley Park Productions. Hill’s supernatural comic series Locke & Key was first developed for TV, landing a pilot order at Fox, and then as a feature at Universal. It is currently being eyed again as a TV series. Last season, Hill wrote and executive produced Tales From The Darkside, a remake of the 1980s fantasy/horror anthology series, which was piloted by the CW. Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman, will be published in May 2016. In addition to NOS4A2, Tornante TV also is developing Fated, an university-set drama for NBC.

http://deadline.com/2015/12/nos4a2-joe-hill-tv-series-amc-1201659223/

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Marje wrote: »

Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon could be coming to TV. The actresses have signed on to star in a limited series based on the New York Times best-selling book Big Little Lies, with David E. Kelley (The Crazy Ones) attached to write and executive-produce, EW has confirmed.
From author Liane Moriarty, the subversive comedy tells the story of three mothers of kindergartners whose perfect lives begin to unravel to the point of murder.
Kidman and her production banner Blossom Films, as well as Witherspoon and her banner Pacific Standard, optioned the rights to the book in August for a potential feature film, but the project will now be shopped as a limited series to various cable networks and streaming services. Kelley, Witherspoon, Kidman and Moriarty will all executive-produce.


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Alexander Skarsgard joins Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, James Tupper, Adam Scott, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz - Source TV Line

Agent Coulson

Gypsy

Netflix Orders Psychological Thriller ‘Gypsy’

Netflix has ordered 10 hourlong episodes of psychological thriller Gypsy for premiere in 2017.

From Universal Television, Working Title and writer Lisa Rubin, Gypsy follows the journey of Jean Holloway – a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives. Rubin, Liza Chasin, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will executive produce, with Rubin also serving as writer.

Rubin’s additional upcoming projects include adapting best-selling novel I Was Here by Gayle Forman for New Line and adapting the novel Food Whore for DreamWorks.

http://deadline.com/2016/01/netflix-orders-psychological-thriller-gypsy-lisa-rubin-1201676558/

Agent Coulson

Blood Ivory

Nat Geo Developing First Scripted Series ‘Blood Ivory’; Joshua Brand Scripting Pilot

National Geographic Channel has inked a development deal with Ex-Machina producer DNA Films & TV and FX Productions on what would be the network’s first scripted series. The thriller project,
with a working title of Blood Ivory, traces the massive global web of contraband animals and ivory, and its connection to the trafficking of narcotics, people and weapons. The series exposes a shocking underworld that rewards greed and bloodshed while helping to fund the madness of terrorist regimes.

Emmy winner Joshua Brand, the creator of Northern Exposure and now a writer on FX’s The Americans, has been tapped to a write the pilot.

The move comes after NatGeo signaled an expansion into original scripted programming with the hire last month of longtime Shine executive Carolyn Bernstein as EVP, Head of Global Scripted Development and Production. She is the first dedicated scripted executive for the cable network, and she started Monday but already is making moves.

Bryan Christy, a veteran reporter of wildlife trafficking wars and chief correspondent for National Geographic Magazine’s new Special Investigations Unit — will consult on Blood Ivory after his latest undercover ivory investigation was featured on the cover of the September issue and in the “Warlords Of Ivory” episode of NatGeo’s series Explorer. (See the trailer for the episode below.)

NatGeo ventured into scripted programming with its popular Killing movie franchise. Its latest scripted effort, the mini Saints & Strangers, just received three Critics’ Choice nominations. Other scripted projects in development include Last Men Out from Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson and In Harm’s Way with Mark Gordon and ABC Signature Studios.

http://deadline.com/2016/01/blood-ivory-series-nat-geo-joshua-brand-1201677270/

JP Liz V1

Jeffrey Donovan has been cast in Shut Eye, Hulu’s next original series, a dark comedy about the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them.
Donovan will star as Charlie Haverford, a failed magician who now works as a psychic and con man overseeing a number of the city’s fortune-telling parlors. When he suffers a blow to the head, Charlie begins to question everything he has ever believed and is urged by his wife to break out on his own.

Source TV Line

Agent Coulson

Untitled Animated Series

‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening In Talks with Netflix For Animated Series

Matt Groening is looking to jump back into the animation business. The creator of “The Simpsons” is in talks with Netflix to develop an animated series.

Details of the project are being kept under wraps. Netflix is understood to be considering a two-season order of 10 episode apiece. That could be prompted by the long lead time needed for animation production. A larger episode order upfront would allow Netflix to better amortize the production costs. It’s unclear if an outside production entity is involved with the project.

Netflix declined comment. A rep for Groening could not immediately be reached for comment.

Groening has not been too active in TV since “Futurama” wrapped its 15-year run, spread across Fox and Comedy Central, in 2013.

“The Simpsons” has become a cultural institution since the characters premiered in 1987 as interstitials on Fox’s “The Tracey Ullman Show.” The series bowed in 1989 and was recently renewed through its 28th season in 2017, making it one of TV’s longest-running entertainment programs.

In 2012, Groening donated $500,000 to UCLA to establish the Groening Chair in Animation at university’s School of Theater, Film and Television. He also committed to a yearly $50,000 donation to help students produce socially conscious short films.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/matt-groening-simpsons-netflix-animated-series-1201681129/