Future Shows (News/Casting)

Richard Dower

MTV has ordered a pilot for Scream, based on the movie series: http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/04/scream-ordered-to-pilot-by-mtv.html

don ramo

FX's The Strain, has added 2 cast memebers in the last week, corry stoll from house of cards, and kevin durand from lost,

from IMDB

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/fxs-the-strain-adds-lost-veteran-kevin-durand-to-cast.html

sounds like it could be a good show,

Richard Dower

Very latest pilot buzz per Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/primetime-pilot-panic-the-latest-buzz-2/

I'm interested mostly in CW shows so:

The CW already kicked off the new series pickup season on Friday with an order to The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals. Vying to join it are two futuristic/sci-fi dramas, The Tomorrow People and The 100, and royal teen soap Reign. Just-renewed Beauty And The Beast has a potential new companion in another drama about an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers, the human-alien romance Oxygen. For now, The Selection 2.0 seems to be following the trajectory of the original pilot unless it gets a last-minute boost.


^ wow!....two pilots and The Selection cant get it right?....delighted about Reign as it is made in Ireland.

Richard Dower

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Source



A show about sex on Showtime :eek::p

Premieres: Sunday, September 29th at 10pm (ET/PT)

Visit: http://www.sho.com/sho/masters-of-sex/home



MASTERS OF SEX stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, who will portray the real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. The series chronicles the unusual lives, romance and pop culture trajectory of Masters and Johnson. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a mid-western teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time magazine. The series is an adaptation of Thomas Maier's book Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, The Couple Who Taught America How To Love. The pilot episode was directed and executive produced by Academy Award® nominee John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), and also stars Caitlin Fitzgerald (It's Complicated), in the role of Masters' wife, Nicholas D'Agosto (Heroes) and Teddy Sears (American Horror Story). Emmy and Golden Globe® award-winning actor Beau Bridges and Margo Martindale also appear. MASTERS OF SEX was created and executive produced by Michelle Ashford (The Pacific). The series will also be executive produced by Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly and Judith Verno. Michael Sheen, Tammy Rosen and Thomas Maier will serve as producers. MASTERS OF SEX is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

JP Liz V1

Source TV Line

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is teaming with his Pain & Gain co-star Mark Wahlberg on a half-hour dramedy pilot for HBO.
The untitled project, to be exec-produced by the pair, centers on the lives of retired athletes in Miami, with Johnson attached to star.
Entourage‘s Stephen Levinson is set to pen the script, while Dany Garcia and Peter Berg also will serve as EPs.

Richard Dower

Very latest Deadline pilot buzz...the networks are screening pilots this week: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/primetime-pilot-panic-screening-edition/

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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.

Update via Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/writers-room-on-starz-drama-incursion-to-close-project-still-in-contention/

expectationlost

a Barbarella inspire tv show http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/skyfall-writers-neal-purvis-robert-416327 directed (the pilot) and produced by Nicolas Winding Refn and written by writers of skyfall !

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Source

TBS has given a series order to the Cougar Town co-creator’s new workplace comedy Ground Floor.
From Lawrence and Friends EP Greg Malins, Ground Floor is a multi-camera sitcom that centers on Brody, a 25-year-old alpha male (played by Pitch Perfect‘s Skylar Astin) who, upon meeting his company’s support staff, realizes he’s not nearly as happy as he thought he was.
Cougar alumna Briga Heelan and Scrubs vet John C. McGinley co-star as the building’s maintenance manager romancing Brody and his cranky boss, respectively.
Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), Rory Scovel (Zach Stone is Going to be Famous), James Earl (Glee) and Rene Gube (Upright Citizens Brigade) round out Ground Floor‘s cast.
Ground Floor‘s 10-episode run is slated to begin in 2014.

Ironside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_R4eZ9Yt4

The Blacklist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_qgX7pTlc

Dracula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1jVcmDH43Y

The Michael J. Fox Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXl-krlLoxg

Sean Saves the World (14 seconds of the trailer was all I could stomach)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Add1vy2Hv0g

Welcome to the Family. Trailer is poor but it has potential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbv21sVG3SA

expectationlost

ironside looks ok, the blacklist is hilariously ott

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1UzmW77F30

Rake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFAp8LZWNU

Sleepy Hollow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOEzR9zgUo

Enlisted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpZ79FXs-eI

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Richard Dower wrote: »

Jonathon groff cast in hbo pilot; http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/02/lorimer-casting-news-jonathan-groff.html

neighbours actress cast as lead in cw pilot reign; http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/02/reign-mary-queen-of-scots-cast.html

Source

HBO has given the green light to an untitled San Francisco-set dramedy starring Glee‘s Jonathan Groff.
Based on a feature script penned by Michael Lannan, the untitled eight-episode series centers on the three Bay Area friends enjoying what life has to offer a new generation of gay men. Murray Bartlett (Guiding Light) and Frankie J. Alvarez (Smash) co-star, with Andrew Haigh (Gladiator), David Marshall Grant (Brothers & Sisters) and Sarah Condon (Bored to Death) exec-producing.

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http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/tubetalk/a481985/ncis-red-delirium-the-us-tv-pilots-that-didnt-make-the-cut.html

^ Pilots not picked up, quite a few surprises in there especially a few shows I thought would be locks for pick ups

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don ramo wrote: »

FX's The Strain, has added 2 cast memebers in the last week, corry stoll from house of cards, and kevin durand from lost,

from IMDB

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/fxs-the-strain-adds-lost-veteran-kevin-durand-to-cast.html

sounds like it could be a good show,

Source

Mía Maestro has landed the female lead in The Strain, FX’s pilot about a vampire virus.
The high-concept thriller is directed by Guillermo del Toro (the Hellboy films, Pan’s Labyrinth) — who also co-wrote the script with Chuck Hogan (The Town) — and exec-produced by Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel).
The Strain stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of a Center for Disease Control team in New York City that is tasked with investigating a mysterious viral outbreak with the hallmarks of an ancient, evil strain of vampirism. Per our sister site Deadline, Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, a brilliant biochemist who must evolve into a brave warrior as the spreading epidemic threatens humanity.

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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.

don ramo

CBS has given a late pick-up for the TV adaptation of Bad Teacher, im actually kinda looking forward to this, i didnt really like the movie itself, but it was a good idea and i really like Ari Graynor,

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a483975/prometheus-star-logan-marshall-green-to-lead-cinemax-drama-quarry.html

Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green is to lead new Cinemax drama Quarry.
Marshall-Green will play a Marine sniper in the pilot, adapted from the Max Allan Collins novel series.
Shunned by his loved ones after returning from Vietnam in 1973, the vet starts a new life as a professional assassin.
Lawless director John Hillcoat will helm the pilot, written by Rectify's Graham Gordy and Michael D Fuller.

JP Liz V1

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.

Richard Dower

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

JP Liz V1

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/06/03/dominic-west-showtime-the-affair/

Dominic West has been cast as the male lead of Showtime’s
pilot The Affair.


West’s character, Noah, is a married high school
teacher with four children whose life is rocked when he meets a woman “he thinks
is his soul mate.”


Written and executive produced by Sarah Treem, a producer
and writer for House of Cards and In Treatment, the show will explore how an
affair rattles two marriages, telling the story separately from the male and
female perspective. In Treatment’s Hagai Levi will also executive
produce.

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/peter-berg-direct-produce-damon-437938

Peter Berg is heading to HBO. The producer has boarded Damon Lindelof's adaptation of The Leftovers for HBO, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Berg will direct and executive produce the dramatic adaptation of Tom Perrotta's best-seller

Source

Justin Theroux will star in The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, TVLine has confirmed.
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks that didn’t quite make the cut.
Per Deadline, Theroux will play police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy in a world that is starting to completely reject that notion.
Lindelof co-wrote the pilot with Perrotta and both will serve as exec producers. Friday Night Lights‘ Peter Berg is on board to direct.

Richard Dower

HBO developing sci-fi series http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/hbo-developing-sci-fi-drama-from-last-resort-creator-karl-gajdusek/

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Source

Sarah Jane Morris has boarded A&E’s Occult pilot in a role that would seem to not afford her much screen time.
In the drama project penned by celebrated X-Files scribe James Wong, Morris will play wife to Josh Lucas’ FBI Agent Dolan, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Thing is, as the series opens, Dolan is returning from leave after going off the deep end while investigating… his wife Rebekah’s disappearance. :-O
Now back on the job, Dolan is paired with Noa Blair (Lynn Collins, True Blood), an agent who, perhaps because of her own “complicated” past, specializes in the occult. Together, they will solve cases for a newly formed occult crimes task force.
Also on board for the pilot are Agnes Bruckner (Covert Affairs), playing a presumed dead lass who eerily rises from the autopsy table resolved to join a cult; Daniel Henney (Hawaii Five-0) as the Special Agent in Charge who assigns Dolan to what I am dubbing “the OCTF”; and Brennan Brown (Person of Interest) as the Assistant Director of the FBI’s New Orleans field office.

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Justin Theroux will star in The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, TVLine has confirmed.
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks that didn’t quite make the cut.Per Deadline, Theroux will play police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy in a world that is starting to completely reject that notion.
Lindelof co-wrote the pilot with Perrotta and both will serve as exec producers. Friday Night Lights‘ Peter Berg is on board to direct.

Liv Tyler and Michael Gaston have joined now

JP Liz V1

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) has been tapped to direct and produce AMC’s sci-fi pilot Line of Sight. From Brotherhood‘s Blake Masters, the genre-bending project centers on a National Transportation Safety Board investigator who survives a plane crash - Source TV Line

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http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a483975/prometheus-star-logan-marshall-green-to-lead-cinemax-drama-quarry.html

Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green is to lead new Cinemax drama Quarry.

Marshall-Green will play a Marine sniper in the pilot, adapted from the Max Allan Collins novel series.
Shunned by his loved ones after returning from Vietnam in 1973, the vet starts a new life as a professional assassin.
Lawless director John Hillcoat will helm the pilot, written by Rectify's Graham Gordy and Michael D Fuller.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead has joined new Cinemax drama pilot Quarry.

The Death Proof star has been cast as Joni, the wife of a marine sniper

Richard Dower

FX has aquired a new sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence....a *very* interesting combo there!

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/06/19/fx-acquires-new-untitled-sitcom-starring-kelsey-grammer-and-martin-lawrence/188171/

JP Liz V1

Cinemax is developing a Hunted spin-off miniseries that continues the story of the cancelled espionage thriller’s main character Sam Hunter played by Melissa George - Source TV Line

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Mía Maestro has landed the female lead in The Strain, FX’s pilot about a vampire virus.
The high-concept thriller is directed by Guillermo del Toro (the Hellboy films, Pan’s Labyrinth) — who also co-wrote the script with Chuck Hogan (The Town) — and exec-produced by Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel).
The Strain stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of a Center for Disease Control team in New York City that is tasked with investigating a mysterious viral outbreak with the hallmarks of an ancient, evil strain of vampirism. Per our sister site Deadline, Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, a brilliant biochemist who must evolve into a brave warrior as the spreading epidemic threatens humanity.

The books are not bad

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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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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:

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

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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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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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