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sf/f TV development news - 2016

RJDemonicus said:
I don't know, but I can tell you it was pretty horrible. :rommie:

The original was a mixed bag. The movies and first season were great. The second season was terrible. The rest of the series had some serious ups and downs until the final season, which was terrible. But along the way, there was some pretty cool stuff. It was a fantastic concept that the people behind the scenes did not know how to handle. But Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize were fantastic, and the perfect team for that show.
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The remake with Malcolm McDowell did an episode where he had an adopted daughter who came back to the island. It was one of the most memorable hours of television I've seen.
 
^ No, the assistant played by Mädchen Amick. There was an episode where he had a daughter who lived in the real world who found her way back to the island.
 
They can film it on location at Alcatraz. That would create a different type of ambiance. :rommie:
 
Not a rumor? You don't say? that Star Trek forum I hang out on had nothing about it. At all. Not one thread.
 
People don't look down on sci-fi and fantasy quite as much as they used to these days.
 
The BBC have commissioned an adaptation of the Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy.

BBC One has green-lit a new TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from the former producers of Doctor Who...

Now, this is exciting. BBC One has teamed up with New Line and former Doctor Who producers, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter, to make an initial eight-part series adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
Variety reports that the new series will be produced in Wales, and marks the first commission from Gardner and Tranter's production company, Bad Wolf, as well as New Line's first foray into UK television.
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Fox Mulder FBI said:
The BBC have commissioned an adaptation of the Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy.

BBC One has green-lit a new TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from the former producers of Doctor Who...

Now, this is exciting. BBC One has teamed up with New Line and former Doctor Who producers, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter, to make an initial eight-part series adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
Variety reports that the new series will be produced in Wales, and marks the first commission from Gardner and Tranter's production company, Bad Wolf, as well as New Line's first foray into UK television.
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That's very interesting....
 
Enterprise is Great said:
Futuristic robot drama 244 Degrees of Freedom in development at Fox -
http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/11/244-degrees-of-freedom-futuristic-robot.html?m=1

Continuum creator developing zombie thriller Dead Mann Walking for CBS -
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-adapting-zombie-thriller-dead-836803


Rob Thomas developing utopian spaceship drama for The CW -
http://www.spoilertv.com/2015/11/tempest-utopian-spaceship-drama-from.html
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All three of those sound like they have a lot of potential.
 
I'm very curious how they are going to handle that. I loved the movie, and there is a lot of potential in that world for long form storytelling, but I have to wonder how they'll handle such a limited setting. The train is big, but I don't know if it's really big enough to be the only setting for a multi-season TV series. I had the same kind of reservations about Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Josh Friedman and his team knocked that one out of the park, hopefully they can do it again here.
 
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