Future Shows (News/Casting)

Syfy has handed a 13-episode series order to Incorporated, a futuristic thriller produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and starring Reign actor Sean Teale, TVLine has learned.

Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, the drama centers around Teale’s Ben Larson, a young executive who conceals his true identity to infiltrate a very dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves. But he’ll soon learn that he’s not the only one whose secrets may have deadly consequences.

The cast also includes Dennis Haysbert (24), Julia Ormond (Mad Men) and Eddie Ramos (Teen Wolf). Fringe grad Georgina Haig, who was set to play the female lead, has exited the project.

Ted Humphrey (The Good Wife) will serve as showrunner.

Incorporated is slated to debut on Syfy in Fall 2016.

The upcoming Star Trek TV series has found the perfect captain.

After 15 years, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies) is returning to command the franchise that launched his career by showrunning CBS’ new Trek series.

Fuller started his writing career on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and then moved to Star: Trek Voyager, and has advocated for the franchise to return to television for years.

“My very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls,” said Fuller, who will be co-creator and executive producer on the project. “Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire. It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”

Kurtzman, who is a writer and producer on 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, will serve as an executive producer. “Bringing Star Trek back to television means returning it to its roots, and for years those roots flourished under Bryan’s devoted care,” he said. “His encyclopedic knowledge of Trek canon is surpassed only by his love for Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic future, a vision that continues to guide us as we explore strange new worlds.”

The new series will launch in early 2017 with a preview airing on CBS, and then will shift exclusively to CBS All Access as part of the company’s effort to bolster interest in its streaming service.

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Cruel Intentions



http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/cruel-intentions-tv-show-reboot-nbc-1201617298/

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Hey, I seen an ad the other day, think it was on Sky. It was girl more or less talking to her self. Saying she has done this to herself, I guess she blanked her memory, any idea what it is or if good?

EXCLUSIVE: In a blockbuster TV package that will come to networks shortly looking for a series commitment, The Weinstein Company is behind an adaptation of Omerta with Sylvester Stallone to play the lead role of mob boss Raymonde Aprile, the last great American Don and his anointed successor. The Magnificent Seven‘s Antoine Fuqua is directing. This is based on the final novel by The Godfather author Mario Puzo, and I wanted to get out in front of it because it’s coming together quickly. A pilot script and a bible are already in place by Justin Herber and Adam Hoff, and a writers room is quickly being assembled. A showrunner and a female lead actress will be in place shortly. The networks will soon have their shot at it, with the expectation one will bite for a full series commitment

This is a disruptive move for Stallone after his Oscar-nominated turn reprising Rocky Balboa in the Ryan Coogler-directed Creed, but it also sounds like a strong next step for him by playing an outsize protagonist. It certainly worked out well for film actors, as when Alec Baldwin moved to television in 30 Rock and gave his career a whole new dimension.

Antoine FuquaFuqua and Stallone will be exec producers along with Harvey and Bob Weinstein and David Glasser. TWC’s Megan Spanjian has been putting it all together. Harvey Weinstein bought Puzo’s final novel a decade ago to turn it into a movie. It languished when script after script couldn’t compress the storyline down to a feature. Turns out it was better suited for an event TV series. More to come on this one.

FunLover18 wrote: »

I don't see this working at all anyway, a chirpy sitcom set in the dark and dreary DC universe ... In an insurance company. I'll give it a go but I don't have high hopes.

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Not a good start for Powerless it would appear...

http://renewcanceltv.com/powerless-season-2-cancelled-already-showrunner-exits-nbc/

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I had imagined it would be more of the slightly fluffier and enjoyable CW-verse (The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl etc.) rather than the disappointing film franchise...

Warner Bros. TV and Plan B have teamed with writer Jason Richman to develop a drama series for Amazon inspired by Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winner “The Departed.”

The project marks Warner Bros. TV’s first co-production pact with Amazon.


Richman is writing the pilot and exec producing with Roy Lee, Michael Connolly, Graham King, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Sarah Esberg, Tripp Vinson, Doug Davison and Gianni Nunneri. Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B Entertainment are also producing.


The new spin on “Departed” revolves around a young cop who infiltrates a Latino gang in Chicago and battles the gang’s own plant in the police department. Like “Departed,” the series adaptation is also inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller “Infernal Affairs.”

Richman’s credits include creating and exec producing the 2010 ABC police drama “Detroit 1-8-7” and another ABC drama, 2013’s “Lucky 7.”

“Departed” starred Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. The Warner Bros. pic won Oscars for best picture and director, adapted screenplay (for William Monahan) and editing (for Thelma Schoonmaker). It also grabbed a supporting actor nom for Wahlberg.