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Future Shows (News/Casting)

This thread has been set up to alleviate the excessive amount of news stories - or more specifically, on new shows still in development or in early casting stages.

These threads, while they are appreciated, don't tend to invoke a whole lot of discussion in the forum.

We'd ask that any news on shows still in development (whether it's casting stages, pre-production or filming) be posted here.

Ideally, we would ask that a show should have at least have an air-date and / or footage before it's warranted to be be posted for discussion / it's own thread.

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Netflix is planning a new €123 million drama series inspired by the life of Queen Elizabeth II.The Crown is set to be 20 episodes in length and will follow Queen Elizabeth's reign from the moment she succeeded her father George VI, at the age of 26, to the present day.
According to reports, Netflix has committed a budget of at least €6m per episode.
The series will be written by Peter Morgan, who wrote 2006 film The Queen and recent stage play The Audience, which both starred Helen Mirren as the monarch. However, Mirren is not currently attached to star in The Crown.

what a waste of money,

How is it a waste of money? In fairness, Liz is shoving up on being the longest reigning monarch in the UK's history. She's still got to pip Victoria but that'll happen soon. An awful lot of stuff has happened since she came to the throne including major events in world history so if they tie in that aspect then I can't see it being all that bad.

squonk wrote: »

How is it a waste of money? In fairness, Liz is shoving up on being the longest reigning monarch in the UK's history. She's still got to pip Victoria but that'll happen soon. An awful lot of stuff has happened since she came to the throne including major events in world history so if they tie in that aspect then I can't see it being all that bad.

her life has been well documented and translated into many films, and my main issue isnt that they are making it, its that they are spending 123 million on it,

also shes the going to be one of the longest serving monarch because she doesn't control anything, its more or less a symbolic position these days, it not like someone is gonna overthrow her,

Well they obviously reckon there's an audience revenue out there greater than the 123 Million they'll spend making it and I'd be inclined to thnk they're right.

It's been a long time since any british monarch controlled things such that it was worth bumping them off to take the throne.

Aronofsky to direct Maddaddam show for HBO
http://collider.com/darren-aronofsky-maddaddam-hbo/

Skerries wrote: »

Aronofsky to direct Maddaddam show for HBO
http://collider.com/darren-aronofsky-maddaddam-hbo/

The story in the MaddAddam books, part of Atwood’s self-described genre of “speculative fiction,” is set in the mid-21st century in a world where corporations have taken over for governments and the genetic modification of organisms is perversely ubiquitous. It centers on the events before and after a Waterless Flood that wipes out almost all of the world’s population and follows an extensive cast of characters, including those responsible for the apocalypse and those struggling to survive it.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/darren-aronofsky-maddaddam-book-trilogy-as-hbo-series/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Pedro Pascal has been set to star opposite Wagner Moura on Netflix‘s drama series Narcos. Written by Chris Brancato and directed by Jose Padilha, Narcos is the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels across the globe and attendant efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. It centers on notorious Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar (Moura) and Javier Pena (Pascal), a Mexican DEA agent sent to Colombia on a U.S. mission to capture and ultimately kill him. Produced by Gaumont and executive produced by Padilha and Eric Newman, Narcos will premiere on Netflix in 2015

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/pedro-pascal-stars-narcos-netflix/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Showtime has picked up Roadies, a comedy pilot penned by Cameron Crowe and chronicling the day-to-day life of a successful rock tour as seen through the eyes of the unsung background players – the crew members who help get the show on the road. Crowe will write and will direct the one-hour pilot (which in success will spawn a half-hour series), while Winnie Holzman (My So-Called Life) will serve as showrunner. Also on board as executive producers are Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk

http://tvline.com/2014/06/18/showtime-roadies-pilot-cameron-crowe-jj-abrams/

Skerries wrote: »

Aronofsky to direct Maddaddam show for HBO
http://collider.com/darren-aronofsky-maddaddam-hbo/

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

The story in the MaddAddam books, part of Atwood’s self-described genre of “speculative fiction,” is set in the mid-21st century in a world where corporations have taken over for governments and the genetic modification of organisms is perversely ubiquitous. It centers on the events before and after a Waterless Flood that wipes out almost all of the world’s population and follows an extensive cast of characters, including those responsible for the apocalypse and those struggling to survive it.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/darren-aronofsky-maddaddam-book-trilogy-as-hbo-series/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Interesting, thanks. Not a huge fan of those books but if they focus on the best bit which was the corporations then it could be good...

Agent Coulson wrote: »

From the makers of Friends a new Netflix Original staring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.

http://time.com/30347/netflix-jane-fonda-lily-tomlin/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/martin-sheen-star-netflixs-jane-712899

Martin Sheen will play Robert, Grace's husband
The single-camera comedy centers on nemeses Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin), whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands announce they are in love with each other and plan to get married. The women, much to their dismay, find that their lives are permanently intertwined and, much to their surprise, find they have each other.

Charles Mesure and C. Thomas Howell have joined the series in major recurring roles.Mesure will play Ralf, ex-husband to Phoebe, who's played by “Criminal Minds” star Beau Garrett. Howell will play a love interest to main character Abby, who's played by “House” star Lisa Edelstein.
Mesure and Howell join J. August Richards, Patrick Heusinger, Julianna Guill, Michael Weaver and Necar Zadegan in major recurring roles. In addition to Edelstein and Garrett, the show's serious regulars include Janeane Garofalo and Paul Adelstein.

The series, which is based on Vicki Iovine's “Girlfriends’ Guide” book series, follows Abby (Edelstein), the author of a self-help book series who's hiding her separation from her husband from the public. Starting her life over again as a single woman in her 40s, she finds that advice from divorced friends leads to startling new adventures.
From Universal Cable Productions, Noxon — who wrote the pilot — is also executive producing along with Iovine, Meryl Poster and Adam Brooks, who directed the pilot. The series is set for a 2015 debut.

http://www.thewrap.com/bravo-girlfriends-guide-to-divorce-charles-mesure-c-thomas-howell-castings/

The Closer spin off show Major Crimes getting a spin off too with John Tenney's Fritz as lead and Laurie Holden to co star

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Fox has given a 13-episode series order to the ancient Egypt-set action-adventure drama Hieroglyph. The project — penned by Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans) — blends fantasy and reality when a notorious thief is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah. In his new role, he must navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and divine sorcerers.
“We wanted to do a show about deceit, sex, intrigue in the court and fantastical goings-on – no better place to set that than ancient Egypt,” Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly said in a statement. “Travis Beacham has an inventive mind, and he has wrapped this all together in this intoxicating new drama.”
Beacham will executive-produce alongside Peter Chernin (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Katherine Pope (New Girl) and Miguel Sapochnik (Fringe), who will also direct the pilot Source

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/fox-axes-drama-hieroglyph-before-premiere-1201255815/

Fox axed it

CBS announced Tuesday that it has given a 13-episode, straight-to-series order for the one-hour drama, based on James Patterson’s 2012 bestseller Zoo

any word on True Detective Season 2?

RFOLEY1990 wrote: »

any word on True Detective Season 2?

Michelle Monaghan and Jessica Chastain were both rumoured for the female lead

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Michelle Monaghan and Jessica Chastain were both rumoured for the female lead

I presume she'll be playing a different character

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Jay Baruchel will star in the FX comedy pilot Man Seeking Woman.Based on Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich’s book, The Last Girlfriend on Earth, the potential series is described as “a sweet and absurd look at the life-and-death stakes of dating.”
Baruchel will play Josh Greenberg, a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror.
The 29-year-old Rich — the second youngest writer ever hired by SNL — penned the script and will serve as an EP alongside his SNL boss Lorne Michaels Source

FXX announced a 10 episode order http://tvline.com/2014/07/02/man-seeking-woman-fxx-jay-baruchel-comedy-series-order/

Syfy has given a pilot order to The Magicians, an adaptation of author Lev Grossman’s popular fantasy book trilogy penned by John McNamara (Prime Suspect, In Plain Sight) and Sera Gamble (Supernatural). The novels center around a group of New York twentysomethings who, while studying magic, discover the fantasy world they read about as children is all too real and poses a grave danger to humanity. - Source TV Line

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2014/07/bbc-two-orders-viking-drama-last-kingdom-bbc-america-co-produce/

BBC Two has ordered The Last Kingdom, an eight episode Viking drama from Stephen Butchard and Carnival Films which is being co-produced by BBC America.
The Last Kingdom is set in the year 872 when many of the separate kingdoms of England have fallen to the invading Vikings, with only the great kingdom of Wessex left standing and defiant under the command of King Alfred the Great. The drama follows Uhtred, the son of a Saxon nobleman who is orphaned by the Vikings and then kidnapped and raised as one of their own. He finds his loyalties tested and must choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing.
The series is based on Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling franchise The Saxon Stories and is being adapted for television by Good Cop scribe Stephen Butchard. Downton Abbey producers Carnival Films are producing The Last Kingdom, which the BBC said would combine real historical figures and events with fictional characters. Chrissy Skinns is set to produce, while Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant and Stephen Butchard are the executive producers. Prey helmer Nick Murphy is attached to direct.
“Cornwell’s Saxon novels combine historical figures and events with fiction in an utterly compelling way,” said Carnival Films’ Gareth Neame. “In the hands of Stephen Butchard we believe it will make original and engrossing television drama. In part the epic quest of our hero Uhtred, it is also a fascinating re-telling of the tale of King Alfred the Great and how he united the many separate kingdoms on this island into what would become England.”
Ben Stephenson, Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning, commented: “I hope The Last Kingdom will expand BBC Two’s distinctive portfolio of drama. It’s an epic narrative with an extraordinary creative team. It will feel like nothing else on television, with all of the scale and intrigue of the best fantasy stories but the reality of fact.”
While BBC Two Controller Kim Shillinglaw added: “BBC Two has a great reputation for distinctive, surprising drama – I’m delighted we are doing The Last Kingdom, an epic piece from a highly regarded creative team.”

The Shannara books are to be made into a tv series

http://terrybrooks.net/2014/07/mtv-officially-orders-first-season-of-the-shannara-series/

I'm big fan of these and have been reading them since I was a teenager but I don't know how I feel about MTV doing it
are they going to bastardise it like they did with the Sword of Truth books and make something like The Seeker or will it be more epic like Game of Thrones?

Haven't seen it mentioned here but Netflix are doing a final season for the Killing (US) that will comprise of 6 episodes. I'm delighted to hear this as I was disgusted with the way it finished. It will be available from August 1st.

Jofspring wrote: »

Haven't seen it mentioned here but Netflix are doing a final season for the Killing (US) that will comprise of 6 episodes. I'm delighted to hear this as I was disgusted with the way it finished. It will be available from August 1st.

There is a thread on it here - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=89719727

FunLover18 wrote: »

I presume she'll be playing a different character

Yes of course

Colin Farrell also now linked to series 2

Thomas Jane will star in Syfy’s 10-episode space opera The Expanse as world-weary Detective Miller, a native of “the Asteroid Belt” between Mars and Jupiter.
The series, set 200 years in the future, follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective (Jane) and a rogue ship’s captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
The Expanse is slated to premiere in 2015

http://tvline.com/2014/07/14/thomas-jane-the-expanse-cast-syfy/

Joseph Fiennes to play Nostradamus Source

Anthony Hopkins and Evan Rachel Wood to star in Westworld adaptation for HBO.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10985173/Anthony-Hopkins-and-Evan-Rachel-Wood-to-star-in-Westworld-adaptation.html

Mircea Monroe (Episodes, Hart of Dixie) and Aimee Garcia (Dexter) have joined the cast of the TV Land comedy pilot Impastor.
The single-camera project from Christopher Vane (Suddenly Susan, Bill Engvall) follows Buddy, a deep-in-debt scalawag (played by Smallville‘s Michael Rosenbaum) who lies low in a small town by passing himself off as the gay pastor the local church recently hired.
Per our sister site Deadline, Garcia has been cast as Buddy’s put-upon girlfriend back home in San Francisco, who is left to believe he died of a suicide, while Monroe will play the head trustee at the church where Buddy — to whom she is attracted — winds up working.
Previously, Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) was cast as Buddy’s anal retentive assistant.

http://tvline.com/2014/07/23/mircea-monroe-aimee-garcia-tvland-impastor/

NBC has enlisted two acclaimed actors to star in its provocative upcoming miniseries The Slap. Mary-Louise Parker and Peter Sarsgaard will headline the complex family drama about what happens after a man slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. “The seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, begins to expose long-held secrets and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core American values of all who are pulled into it,” according to the show’s official description.
Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) will play Anouk, a close friend of Hector’s who’s the head writer on a TV show and is now dating the younger leading man. Sarsgaard (The Killing) will play Hector, a husband and father who “loves his wife and family but shows signs of weakness when he finds himself succumbing to the advances of his wife’s teenaged receptionist during his own party.”
NBC has ordered eight episodes of the event series from writer Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers and Sisters) and director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right).

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/07/25/mary-louise-parker-the-slap/

Sam Raimi writing Evil Dead TV series.

The writer and director made the announcement at San Diego Comic-Con, and added that he will be working on the project with his brother Ivan.

It was also revealed that Bruce Campbell, who starred in the original film trilogy as Ash Williams, will be involved in the series - but it is unclear whether he will appear in an on-screen role.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a586643/sam-raimi-writing-evil-dead-tv-series.html#~oL9mTNxwULXp0g