Future Shows (News/Casting)

MOH

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Tobias Menzies (Outlander) has been set as one of the leads in The Terror, AMC’s ten episode anthology drama based on the novel by Dan Simmons.

Picked up straight-to-series, The Terror is set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival.

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2016/09/tobias-menzies-set-lead-amcs-terror/

Wow! That's bizarre timing!
I only read this post about five minutes before reading they've just found the ship

JP Liz V1

Alan Cumming will star in and executive-produce Dr. Death, a drama pilot based on a forthcoming James Patterson novel.
The potential series centers on a retired CIA operative who is now a writer and professor. Of course, his old life comes calling when the New York Police Department can’t catch a serial killer and enlists his help. The source material is slated for release in June 2017.

http://tvline.com/2016/09/26/alan-cumming-dr-death-james-patterson-series-cbs/

Patty O Furniture

Which Networks have the most shows: as i see CBS mentioned a lot?

JP Liz V1

Grace Cox will portray Veronica and James Scully play the role of JD in Heathers reboot for TV Land

http://tvline.com/2016/10/11/heathers-reboot-cast-grace-cox-james-scully/

JP Liz V1

Anders Holm (The Mindy Project) will headline Fox’s private-eye comedy project Pigeon, which has a put-pilot commitment - Source TV Line

Agent Coulson

Last Hope

NBC has given a script commitment with significant penalty to Last Hope, a drama from Child, former CSI executive producer Andrew Dettmann, EuropaCorp Television and Universal TV.

In his first foray into television, best-selling author Child has co-created Last Hope with Dettmann. Written by Dettmann, the project centers on Hope Wesson, a highly trained but disenfranchised former military police investigator who leads a team of fallen heroes who get justice for people with nowhere else to turn.


Child and Dettmann executive produce alongside EuropaCorp TV’s Matt Gross, who oversees U.S. operations, and Thomas Anargyros.

Last Hope reunites Dettmann and Gross. Child was a co-executive producer on the ABC crime procedural Body of Proof, which Gross executive produced. In addition to his three-season stint on CSI. Dettmann worked on CBS’ crime drama Numbers for its entire run, rising to executive producer. He is repped by Rothman Brecher and attorney Jonathan Shikora.

http://deadline.com/2016/10/last-hope-nbc-drama-lee-child-andrew-dettmann-europacorp-1201839237/

MOH

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Last Hope



http://deadline.com/2016/10/last-hope-nbc-drama-lee-child-andrew-dettmann-europacorp-1201839237/

Isn't that basically the A-team?

Agent Coulson

Untitled Wrestling Comedy

Dwayne Johnson Developing Wrestling Comedy at Fox From Seven Bucks & Gary Sanchez Prods.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going back to his beginnings for his latest project.

Fox has nabbed a hot comedy from the wrestler-turned-superstar and producer Will Ferrell, inspired by the real life experiences of Johnson and former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz, Variety has learned.

The project, hailing from Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions, received a put pilot commitment at Fox. Andrew Gurland, who created FX’s “Married,” will write the pilot script.

The series offers a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional professional wrestling outfit and chronicles the one-of-a-kind odd couple relationship that develops between a charismatic young character, like the The Rock, and a painfully awkward comedy writer new to the world of wrestling. A fish-out-of-water among all of these alpha males, this beta former sitcom writer needs as much help as he can get navigating the extremely passionate, sometimes crazy and always unpredictable world of professional wrestling.

“This November will mark the 20th anniversary of my professional wrestling debut,” said Johnson. “I was 24 years old, putting in the hard work, making $40 bucks per match and had no clue of the long journey that lay ahead of me with characters and backstage stories so colorful you’d think there’s no way that can be true. The entertaining show that goes on in front of the crowd pales in comparison to the insanely entertaining show that goes on backstage. Brian and myself can’t wait to tell our stories.”

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/dwayne-johnson-wrestling-comedy-fox-the-rock-will-ferrell-1201895830/

JP Liz V1

Carol Burnett is set to topline a multi-camera comedy, which, in a very competitive situation with broadcast and streaming networks bidding, has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment. On the project, written/executive produced by Michael Saltzman, Burnett is paired with Amy Poehler, one of the brightest current female comedy stars whose careers were influenced by her. Poehler will executive produce through her Paper Kite banner.

http://deadline.com/2016/10/carol-burnett-tv-return-abc-comedy-amy-poehler-michael-saltzman-1201836865/

Agent Coulson

Sentinels

CBS Buys Spy Drama ‘Sentinels’ From Trio Of ‘Scorpion’ Producers

CBS has put in development Sentinels, a drama from the Scorpion trio of supervising producer Rob Pearlstein and executive producers Nick Santora, who created the show, and Nicholas Wootton. CBS Television Studios, which is behind the CBS series, is the studio.

Written and executive produced by Pearlstein, Sentinels share the sensibility of Scorpion as a light, action procedural. It centers on the world’s worst news team who’s actually a cover for a secret government program that has highly trained spies masquerading as hapless reporters. They use their unfettered access all over the globe to take on harrowing missions and preserve world peace. Wootton and Santora also executive produce.

http://deadline.com/2016/10/cbs-buys-spy-drama-sentinels-scorpion-producers-nick-santora-nicholas-wootton-1201840845/

Joeface

Knight Rider again
http://www.thewrap.com/knight-rider-justin-lin-machinima/

I can see it now , team behind him again , this time cast a minority, hacker chick partner ....I seem almost hateful, but this classic 80s was only passable the first time round and awful the second time round....third times the charm

JP Liz V1

http://tvline.com/2016/11/17/holly-hunter-alan-ball-hbo-drama-series-cast-family/

Alan Ball has hit the mother lode, tapping Oscar winner Holly Hunter to play the matriarch in his new tragicomic family drama for HBO.
The Six Feet Under and True Blood boss’ untitled series focuses on the contemporary multi-racial Black-Bishop family: a philosophy professor, his lawyer wife (Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia, and their sole biological child. This seemingly perfect, progressive family is in actuality harboring deep rifts. Then, one of the children begins to see things others cannot. Is it mental illness? Or something else?
Hunter’s matriarch character, socially conscious idealist Audrey Black, decided — along with husband Greg — to build a family by adopting children from Vietnam, Somali and Colombia before having their own child in their forties. Once a therapist in private practice, she now reluctantly utilizes her skills as a psychologist in the corporate world, balancing her more progressive personal philosophy with the need to make money. Audrey is a smart, caring woman who believes she knows what’s best for everyone and has no problem telling them. But with her husband now fighting depression and her children mostly grown, she finds herself somewhat adrift.

Agent Coulson

The Building

Fox Developing Fantasy Drama Series ‘The Building’ From Neil Gaiman & Angry Films

The Building is based on a digital film called Parallels which has had great success on Netflix. The original film was written and directed by Chris Leone (story by Leone and Laura Harkom). Parallels came out of Fox Digital Studios a division of 20th Century Fox where it was shepherded by head of department David Worthen who has been supervising a number of ultra low-budgeted productions for Fox since the department’s founding.

Written by Albert Kim and Leone, The Building involves a large skyscraper that moves between alternate realities and a group of young urban explorers who are in the building and suddenly find themselves on an Earth wherein Reagan was not elected and Russia dropped the bomb. They then figure out they have a limited amount of time to figure out where they are and rescue members of their team before the building shifts again to another reality. They soon realize that this Earth is also different from where they started and getting back may be impossible.

The series will explore the origin of the building, who built it and why, what happens on each floor and how, if at all possible, do they get back to their original Earth.

http://deadline.com/2016/11/neil-gaiman-angry-films-fox-network-the-building-series-development-1201854827/

ohnonotgmail

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The Building

Fox Developing Fantasy Drama Series ‘The Building’ From Neil Gaiman & Angry Films



http://deadline.com/2016/11/neil-gaiman-angry-films-fox-network-the-building-series-development-1201854827/

that sounds incredibly like a pilot i watched a while ago that wasnt picked up for a full series. the same idea of a building that moves between different realities.


ETA: should have read the post properly. Parallels is the pilot i was thinking of. Strange they are only picking it up now.

MOH

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

that sounds incredibly like a pilot i watched a while ago that wasnt picked up for a full series. the same idea of a building that moves between different realities.


ETA: should have read the post properly. Parallels is the pilot i was thinking of. Strange they are only picking it up now.

It also sounds incredibly like Sliders

ohnonotgmail

MOH wrote: »

It also sounds incredibly like Sliders

It was. Except there was an overarching mystery about who created the building.

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Grace Cox will portray Veronica and James Scully play the role of JD in Heathers reboot for TV Land

http://tvline.com/2016/10/11/heathers-reboot-cast-grace-cox-james-scully/

Shannen Doherty joins

http://tvline.com/2016/11/22/heathers-reboot-shannen-doherty-cast-first-photo-tv-land-series/

Agent Coulson

Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice Developing 'Vampire Chronicles' TV Series

The author says she has regained the theatrical rights and that "television is where the vampires belong."
Anne Rice is planning to bring her Vampire Chronicles book series to the little screen.

"The theatrical rights to the Vampire Chronicles are once again in my hands, free and clear!," the author announced in a lengthy post to her Facebook page on Saturday. "A television series of the highest quality is now my dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius and the entire tribe."

Universal and Imagine Entertainment had acquired the film rights to the book series, which centers on a 18th century French nobleman-turned-vampire, in 2014. But Rice says she realized that her stories are better suited for TV.

"Though we had the pleasure of working with many fine people in connection with this plan, it did not work out," she wrote of Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment's plans to option the series into several movies. "It is, more than ever, abundantly clear that television is where the vampires belong."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-rice-bring-vampire-chronicles-tv-950550

AMKC

Michelle Yeoh cast to Star in Star Trek Discovery.

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/788489-michelle-yeoh-star-trek-discovery

Agent Coulson

Glare

J.J. Abrams Developing Space Drama ‘Glare’ With HBO

HBO is developing a space series with power-producer J.J. Abrams, Variety has confirmed.

“Glare” is an hourlong drama series exploring the colonization of another planet. Other than that short description, no other details have been released.

Abrams will executive produce with Ben Stephenson and Javier Gullón, who is the writer on the project.

Currently in early development, “Glare” has secured a script deal. Warner Bros. Television, where Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions is based, is producing the potential series.

“Glare” is the latest collaboration between HBO and Abrams, who is an executive producer on the premium pay cabler’s hit, “Westworld,” which just wrapped its first season and has been renewed for a second round that will bow in 2018.

For Abrams, the project is his latest in the premium television space. The “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” director was an executive producer on Showtime’s short-lived Cameron Crowe series “Roadies,” and is also an EP on Hulu’s James Franco drama “11.22.63.” For Gullón, “Glare” marks his first-ever TV project.

With “Game Of Thrones” coming to an end in the distant future after its eighth season, HBO is looking for its next mega-hit. “Westworld” is on that route, but a sci-fi series like “Glare” could also fill the “GOT” void in the coming TV seasons.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jj-abrams-glare-hbo-space-show-1201938232/

Agent Coulson

Charmed Reboot.

‘Charmed’ Reboot Series In Works At the CW From ‘Jane the Virgin’ Team

http://deadline.com/2017/01/charmed-reboot-series-the-cw-jane-the-virgin-team-1201879231/

Mr E

I really liked Charmed (well, the middle seasons anyway). Hope they don't make a balls of it.

JP Liz V1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Charmed Reboot.

‘Charmed’ Reboot Series In Works At the CW From ‘Jane the Virgin’ Team

http://deadline.com/2017/01/charmed-reboot-series-the-cw-jane-the-virgin-team-1201879231/

Was Witches of East End this

JP Liz V1

Jim Sturgess (Feed the Beast) will star in the Hulu drama Hard Sun, per The Hollywood Reporter. Created by Neil Cross (Luther), the series follows two detectives (Sturgess and British actress Agyness Deyn) who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction.

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Alan Cumming will star in and executive-produce Dr. Death, a drama pilot based on a forthcoming James Patterson novel.
The potential series centers on a retired CIA operative who is now a writer and professor. Of course, his old life comes calling when the New York Police Department can’t catch a serial killer and enlists his help. The source material is slated for release in June 2017.

http://tvline.com/2016/09/26/alan-cumming-dr-death-james-patterson-series-cbs/

http://tvline.com/2017/01/23/killer-instinct-pilot-order-cbs-alan-cumming-james-patterson/

CBS orders pilot to Killer Instinct

Agent Coulson

Anything with Alan Cumming in will have me watching.

JP Liz V1

Nathalie Kelley (The Vampire Diaries) cast in Dynasty reboot pilot

Her character, Cristal, is a Hispanic woman set to marry WASPy billionaire Blake Carrington, immediately putting her at odds with Blake’s daughter Fallon

http://tvline.com/2017/01/30/dynasty-reboot-cast-nathalie-kelley-cw-pilot-cristal-carrington/

CastorTroy

Cast announced for The Runaways tv series, based on the Marvel comic, not the band.

http://collider.com/runaways-tv-series-cast-marvel-hulu

Some changes to the comic characters, most notably Molly, but I'm not hating it. Love the comics so will see how this goes

JP Liz V1

Jack Coleman has signed on to play Reba McEntire’s ex-husband in Marc Cherry’s new pilot for ABC - TV Line

Reba plays Ruby Adair, sheriff of the town of Oxblood, Ky., and how her worldview is altered when an FBI agent of Middle Eastern heritage arrives to help her investigate a terrible crime.

JP Liz V1

Busy Philipps has nabbed the co-lead in The Sackett Sisters, a half-hour, single-camera pilot exec produced by Tina Fey and her Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt/30 Rock collaborators Robert Carlock and David Miner

http://tvline.com/2017/02/17/busy-philipps-the-sackett-sisters-nbc-comedy-series-tina-fey/