Future Shows (News/Casting)

Lifetime orders new scripted pilot: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/07/30/lifetime-orders-scripted-pilot-hr/143300/

The Brady Bunch being developed: http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/brady-bunch-tv-series-reboot-cbs-vince-vaughn/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Cillian Murphy has been cast in the new BBC Two drama Peaky Blinders.
The Dark Knight star will take the lead role in the new six-part gangster drama which was written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) and will be directed by Otto Bathurst (Black Mirror).
The series follows Tommy (Murphy), a ruthless mobster whose family control the "lawless post-war slum neighbourhoods" of Birmingham in 1919.
Tommy's family are known as the 'Peaky Blinders' due to their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, reports Deadline.
Tommy finds his leadership under threat when a Belfast police chief arrives and challenges the crime family's reign.
Peaky Blinders will begin shooting in September and will air on BBC Two in 2013.

BBC America will co-produce with BBC One The Musketeers, a drama series that’s a contemporary take on the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Adrian Hodges (My Week With Marilyn, Primeval) will pen the project.

From "The X-Files" writer and producer Frank Spotnitz, HUNTED begins its eight-episode first season this October. Melissa George (HBO's "In Treatment") stars as an operative for an elite private intelligence firm who survives an attempt on her life that may have been orchestrated by members of her own team; when she returns to work, she doesn't know who to trust. Other cast members include Adam Raymer ("Hawthorne"), Stephen Dillane (HBO's "Game of Thrones"), Morven Christie ("The Young Victoria") and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Lost"). Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC One and HBO/CINEMAX in association with Big Light Productions. Frank Spotnitz, Alison Jackson, Jane Featherstone, Stephen Garrett, Christopher Aird executive produce.

Launching its ten-episode first season in Jan. 2013, the action series BANSHEE stars Antony Starr ("Rush") as an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he's hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Ivana Milicevic (HBO's "Mind of the Married Man"), Ulrich Thomsen ("The Celebration"), Frankie Faison (HBO's "The Wire"), Rus Blackwell ("Burn Notice"), Ryann Shane ("Blue Bloods") and Ben Cross ("Star Trek") also star. Alan Ball (HBO's "True Blood"), Greg Yaitanes ("Lost"), Peter Macdissi (HBO's "Six Feet Under"), Jonathan Tropper (author of the New York Times bestseller "This Is Where I Leave You") and David Schickler (author of "Sweet and Vicious") executive produce.

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/01/cinemax-confirms-lineup-of-new-and-returning-original-series-including-strike-back-hunted-and-banshee/143663/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29

sounds like Firefly meets revolution: http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/syfy-developing-clandestine-space-drama/

Being Mary Jane [formerly Single Black Female] goes to series on BET: http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/mara-brock-akils-hourlong-bet-pilot-starring-gabrielle-union-goes-to-series/

This Kelsey Grammer project sounds very interesting: http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/nbc-buys-freakonomics-inspired-drama-procedural-produced-by-kelsey-grammer/

NBC has bought Pariah, a drama project from Lionsgate Television and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet Prods. Written by Kevin Fox (The Negotiator, Law & Order: SVU), the police procedural features characters inspired by the economic theory ‘Freakonomics’ made popular by authors/economists Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner. In Pariah, the Mayor of San Diego appoints a rogue academic with no law enforcement background to run a task force using Freakonomics-inspired alternative methods of policing. This causes an uproar within the police department as the morally conflicted, conspiracy-minded academic solves crimes by conducting his controversial experiments on citizens of the city.

FX orders The Americans to series for 13 episodes: http://www.spoilertv.com/2012/08/the-americans-fx-orders-13-episodes.html

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://www.tvline.com/2012/03/keri-russell-the-americans/

The fact it is on FX it stands a better chance and I hope they pick a good actor as the male co-lead

FX has given a series order to The Americans, a drama about Russian spies living in suburban America in the 1980s. Starring in the series will be Keri Russell (Felicity) and Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters) as KGB spies posing as a newlywed couple near Washington, D.C., and Noah Emmerich (The Walking Dead) as an FBI agent. The 13-episode debut season will premiere in early 2013.

NBC developing Cleopatra tv series....on network?....wtf?, this would NEED to be Rome/Spartacus premium cable content to work!

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/cleopatra-drama-from-producer-lorenzo-di-bonaventura-and-writer-michael-seitzman-lands-at-nbc-with-put-pilot-commitment/

NBC has put in development Hench, a high-concept drama from Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey’s Film 44 and Universal TV. Written by Alexandra Cunningham, Hench centers on a regular guy who, in order to support his family, gets jobs temping for super villains.

SyFy of all people :rolleyes: - i feel a poor mans Firefly coming on

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/22/syfy-to-develop-cult-adventure-classic-blakes-7-casino-royales-martin-campbell-to-direct-heroes-joe-polaski-to-write-pilot/145935/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29

ABC Family orders two new pilots:http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/08/23/abc-orders-two-drama-pilots-the-fosters-and-socio/146117/

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/tbs-wedding-band-gets-premiere-date/

This is not a good sign. TBS this morning announced the long-delayed premiere of Wedding Band, giving the hourlong comedy a burnoff Saturday night slot. Wedding Band, from FremantleMedia and Mike Tollin Prods., will launch on Saturday, Nov. 10, eighteen months after it was picked up to series, at 10 PM. Wedding Band was developed as part of TBS’ 2010 shift from half-hour to hourlong comedies, which produced two series, Franklin & Bash, which migrated to sibling TNT, and Wedding Band. Wedding Band was ordered to series in May 2011. Shortly thereafter, TBS abandoned the hourlong comedy strategy, returning to half-hour sitcoms with Men At Work and Sullivan & Son. Now, with off-network half-hour sitcom The Big Bang Theory firing on all cylinders, TBS’ development and programming is focused entirely on half-hour comedies, making Wedding Band the odd man out. Thus the Saturday time slot in mid-November when many series start to wrap their originals heading into the less watched holiday season. Wedding Band centers on the bromance of four likable but occasionally reckless young men (Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau, Peter Cambor and Derek Miller) who can’t figure out their own lives.

Basq

Rich,

Please keep these sorta things to the Future Shows thread.

A practically unheard show on a practically unheard of network being burned off

I'm sure it'll pop up on people's radars closer to the day and if it's worth a look (unlikely), people will post about it then!

Vera Farmiga joins cast: A&E's upcoming series Bates Motel has found a mother for young Norman Bates — and this time it's not a skeleton in a wig. Vera Farmiga, who carried on a salacious affair with George Clooney in 2009's Up in the Air, will play Norma Louise Bates.

"We are delighted to welcome Vera Farmiga to Bates Motel," says executive producer Carlton Cuse (of Lost fame). "She is a phenomenal talent who has demonstrated incredible range and intelligence in a number of landmark film roles, and we couldn't be more excited to have her join our project."

Source: tvguide.com

At least 6 months away... merged with upcoming shows thread.

Beverly Hills Cop series, with Eddie Murphy on board, and Shaun Ryan at the helm?

Things that make you go hmmmm..... Imagine BHC some of The Shield's flavour. It could be good (although very PG if they've pitched it to ABC/Fox)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57990

Basq

^

Don't know.. Eddie is past it big time!

He was horrible in Brett Ratner's Tower Heist last year.

I thought Tower Heist was somewhat of a return to form (more Axel Foley than Nutty Professor).

Mr E wrote: »

I thought Tower Heist was somewhat of a return to form (more Axel Foley than Nutty Professor).

His best role was voicing donkey in Shrek 1

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/29/s-h-i-e-l-d-pilot/

Joss Whedon might be coming back to TV. ABC has ordered a pilot from Marvel TV executive produced by Whedon titled S.H.I.E.L.D.
The project is set in the same universe as Whedon’s Avengers film and follows the law enforcement group headed by Nick Fury. The pilot will be written by Whedon and his brother Jed, along with Maurissa Tancharoen. Deadline reports that Whedon also might direct the pilot too.
In the Marvel universe, S.H.I.E.L.D stands for which stands for the Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate (or Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). Production on the pilot is expected to begin ASAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnBdctY5V1Y

Richard Dower wrote: »

Interesting news, True Blood dude Allan Ball behind it:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/08/alan-ball-true-love-sookie-hbo-cinemax-banshee.html

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Director Gregori Viens' indie comedy/future cult film "Punching the Clown" won the audience award for best narrative feature at Slamdance in 2009 before a small self-distributed theatrical release in 2010. The film, which Viens co-wrote with star Henry Phillips, is loosely based on Phillips' life as a writer and performer of comedic songs, and follows him as he navigates sudden showbiz success and a just as sudden fall from grace in Los Angeles.
Now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, "Punching the Clown" is being developed into a TV series at Showtime, with Viens, Phillips and Chuck Martin ("Arrested Development") serving as writers, and all three attached as executive producers alongside Sarah Silverman and David Permut ("Youth in Revolt").
Viens and Phillips have been working on variations of this story for years -- before "Punching the Close" was a narrative feature, they reportedly made a documentary on the subject together in 1997. The TV incarnation of this project will have Phillips living with his brother, a struggling actor, and dealing with different romantic entanglements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAh-5K2F7dI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBbBRSK-Mto

http://tvline.com/2012/09/04/beverly-hills-cop-tv-series-eddie-murphy-shawn-ryan/

Mr E wrote: »

Beverly Hills Cop series, with Eddie Murphy on board, and Shaun Ryan at the helm?

Things that make you go hmmmm..... Imagine BHC some of The Shield's flavour. It could be good (although very PG if they've pitched it to ABC/Fox)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57990

................developing a follow-up TV series that will revolve around Axel
Foley’s son, who is also a Detroit police officer about to undergo culture
shock. The BHC series has landed at CBS, which gave it a pilot order. The
premise, per Vulture, finds Aaron “Son-of-Axel” Foley fighting crime in Beverly
Hills while trying to escape his father’s shadow. As first reported by Vulture,
Murphy is set to reprise his big screen role intermittently, with Axel now
serving as the Detroit police chief. Foley’s son, desperate to escape his dad’s
shadow, relocates to Beverly Hills, where he presumably samples espresso with a
little lemon tweeest and drives a crappy blue Chevy Nova, while bananas end up
in tailpipes and such...........

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UK series Injustice is to be remade for US television.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is overseeing the project, Deadline reports.
The original Injustice - which aired on ITV1 last year - starred James Purefoy as troubled criminal barrister William Travers.
David Hudgins (Friday Night Lights) will write the US adaptation and also executive produce alongside Wolf. Anthony Horowitz - creator of the ITV show - will produce alongside Jill Green, who also worked on the original.

Deadline reports that FOX has picked up the Bad Robot project with a pilot production commitment. The show is described as "an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids." Fringe's executive producer and showrunner, J.H. Wyman, is penning the script, with Abrams, Wyman, Bryan Burk and Kathy Lingg executive producing.

TNT orders 3 new pilots:

The following are descriptions of TNT’s three new pilots:

KING AND MAXWELL
King and Maxwell follows Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, who aren’t the typical pair of private investigators. Both are former secret service agents, and their unique skill set (not to mention their razor-sharp chemistry) often gives them a leg up on suspects and conventional law enforcement.

King and Maxwell is adapted from characters created by bestselling author David Baldacci. The pilot is being produced for TNT by CBS Television Studios and Shane Brennan Productions, with Shane Brennan (NCIS, NCIS: LA) as executive producer and Karen Spiegel (Absolute Power) and Grant Anderson (Third Watch) as producers. Baldacci serves as a consultant on the project.

LEGENDS
Legends centers on a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum, who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t who he thinks he is.

Legends is based on a book by master spy novelist Robert Littell. It comes to TNT from Fox 21, with Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24), Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor, The Day After Tomorrow), Alexander Cary (Homeland, Lie to Me) and Jonathan Levin (Charmed) serving as executive producers.

TROOPER
Trooper is a compelling procedural drama about a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing.

Trooper comes to TNT from Jerry Bruckheimer Television in association with Warner Horizon Television, with Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI series, Without a Trace, Cold Case) and Jonathan Littman (CSI series, Without a Trace, Cold Case) serving as executive producers. KristieAnne Reed (Dark Blue) is co-executive producer. The script is by Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes, The River).

All sound like they're worth a look (especially the first two).