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FelineOverLord wrote: »

What I'm saying is that Doctor Who is a kids programme and that it doesn't actually need to bring sexuality into the stories. Just let the character be what he's always been, as simple as that. Kids should be allowed to keep their innocence for as long as possible. It's not about gay, straight or bi, it should just be a time travelling doctor, what his sexuality is shouldn't be a part of it, imo.

As for Hart to Hart, why make the characters gay? What is the need or the point? What does it actually add to the story? They were a husband and wife team, that was a fundamental of the series, changing the characters to husband and husband or wife and wife is a whole other programme. Nothing wrong whatsoever with LGBT characters, married or otherwise, but I don't see the point of changing the sexual orientation of the couples.

Loughc wrote:

The season is set to be based around his lunch being Taken from the office fridge.

FloatingVoter wrote: »

This is straying from the subject of TV. John Barrowman is gay (and AFAIK married). Captain Jack is open to offers from all consenting forms of life (and if in a corner, battery operated devices).

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

So what actor looks like a young Liam Neeson to play Bryan

House Of Thieves is set in 1886 New York. A respectable architect shouldn’t have ahouseofthievesny connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross’ son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent’s Gents, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won’t solve. Soon Cross becomes invaluable to the gang and with that his entire life becomes a balancing act, and it will only take one mistake for it all to come crashing down — and for his family to go down too. The novel from Belfoure, repped by APA in association with Susan Ginsburg at Writers House, hit shelves Tuesday.

The CW is developing Weaveworld, a drama series based on the horror/fantasy novel by Clive Barker (Hellraiser). The genre writer-filmmaker is set to executive produce the project, written/executive produced by Jack Kenny (Warehouse 13).

The show gives a contemporary makeover to the premise of the novel, which was published in 1987. In the TV adaptation, an app designer teams up with a young pastry chef who has just discovered that she is destined to be guardian of a mythological realm that can be accessed through a portal in an old Savannah mansion. Together, they fight an epic battle with evil forces who are vying for control of the magical world. Angela Mancuso also executive produces. CBS TV Studios is the studio.

For decades, Weaveworld had been considered too hard to adapt for TV because of its scope and settings that would require extensive use of special effects. That is something that the current technology can accomplish on a TV budget as proven by shows like ABC’s Once Upon A Time, the CW’s Arrow and Flash and Fox’s Gotham. There had been multiple attempts to adapt Weaveworld as a miniseries in the past two decades, including by Showtime.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star opposite James Franco in David Simon’s HBO drama pilot The Deuce. Gyllenhaal also will produce the project, a narrative set in the Times Square demimonde of the 1970s and ’80s.

The Deuce follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed in midtown Manhattan until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence. Gyllenhaal will play Eileen Merrell, street name “Candy,” a Times Square hooker and veteran with an entrepreneurial bent who is drawn into the fledgling industry.

The Deuce is written and executive produced by Simon and George Pelecanos, and directed by Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad), who also exec produces with Nina K. Noble and Richard Price. Marc Henry Johnson (A Huey P. Newton Story), who was instrumental in documenting the story, is a producer.

Parenthood’s Sam Jaeger and Lost alum Harold Perrineau are set to star in the USA Network pilot Poor Richard’s Almanack, from Legendary TV, Universal Cable Prods. and executive producer Jim Danger Gray (Orange Is The New Black)

Weaving between modern day and a possible future where characters have changed radically, Poor Richard’s Almanack is Image (2) Harold-Perrineau__130308020837.jpg for post 693738a character thriller about a cadre of heroes who emerge as the new “Founding Fathers” after America is pushed to the brink of collapse. Perrineau will play Matt Monroe, the FBI Agent in charge after a terrorist attack on Philadelphia, while Jaeger takes on the role of Darwin Fischer, a former CIA field agent-turned-analyst. Monroe’s search for the attack’s inside-man puts him on a crash course with Darwin and his schizophrenic sister (Jordan Hayes) embroiling them in a conspiracy that will shake the country to its core.

Neil Marshall will direct the pilot and will executive produce alongside Gray and Marc Helwig. Miguel Sapochnik serves as consulting producer.

For the past five seasons Jaeger played Joel Graham on Parenthood and was previously a regular on Eli Stone. On the big screen he was seen in American Sniper and next appears in Brave New Jersey. He is repped by Greene & Associates, Circle of Confusion and Ziffren Brittenham.

Perrineau’s most recent TV credits include Syfy’s Z Nation and NBC’s Constantine. He is repped by APA.