sf/f TV development news - 2013

[RJDiogenes]

Isn't there a musical fantasy coming up this season? Anything is possible.

I wonder how long before MTV rebrands so that they're no longer associated with music. They could call themselves "Um...TV?"

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I wonder how long before MTV rebrands so that they're no longer associated with music. They could call themselves "Um...TV?"

They already have, it's just "MTV" now, they've officially dropped "Music Television" from it. It's just us old farts that still think of that.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

TNT has renewed Falling Skies for a fifth (and final) season and The Last Ship for a second season. TNT has ordered 13 episodes for the second season of The Last Ship, up from the first season's 10-episode order.

 

[sojourner]

I wonder how long before MTV rebrands so that they're no longer associated with music. They could call themselves "Um...TV?"

They already have, it's just "MTV" now, they've officially dropped "Music Television" from it. It's just us old farts that still think of that.

On a similar note, BIO, (re:The Biography channel) has rebranded itself as FYI.

 

[RJDiogenes]

TNT has renewed Falling Skies for a fifth (and final) season

I like that show, but this is for the best. It won't drag on too long and we will hopefully get a nice conclusion.

I wonder how long before MTV rebrands so that they're no longer associated with music. They could call themselves "Um...TV?"

They already have, it's just "MTV" now, they've officially dropped "Music Television" from it. It's just us old farts that still think of that.

On a similar note, BIO, (re:The Biography channel) has rebranded itself as FYI.

Wow and wow.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Three cast in Killjoys

Aaron Ashmore (Warehouse 13), Luke Macfarlane (Brothers & Sisters) and British actress Hannah John-Kamen (The Hour) have landed key roles in Killjoys, an original space adventure drama being produced for Syfy and Space.

From the producers of Orphan Black and penned by Lost Girl creator Michelle Lovretta, Killjoys follows a fun-loving, hard-living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants throughout the Quad, a distant system on the brink of a bloody, multi-planetary class war.

 

[JD]

I like Ashmore, so I'm glad to see him getting a new gig.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Anthony Hopkins & Evan Rachel Wood To Star In HBO Pilot ‘Westworld’

 

[RJDiogenes]

A Space Opera and a Westworld series. Both sound promising.

 

[JD]

I like AI stuff, so Westworld sounds pretty interesting.
I've been wanting some new space opera, so I'm also looking forward to Killjoys.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Syfy developing alien invasion drama

Syfy has put in development Absolute Zero, a futuristic thriller from
former Burn Notice co-executive producer Michael Horowitz, Universal
Cable Prods and Doug Liman and David Bartis’ studio-based Hypnotic.

Set in 2124, Absolute Zero follows the denizens of a remote mining
colony who discover a dangerous new species on a moon of Jupiter,
setting off the first stage of an alien invasion ultimately heading
for Earth. Horowitz is writing the scriphorowitzt and will executive
produce with Hypnotic’s Liman, Bartis and Gene Klein.

 

[JD]

Could be cool, I love alien invasion stories.

 

[sojourner]

Please, no more alien hybrid superpowered children of destiny please.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

deadline.com

Oscar-nominated director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, Air Force One) and Scott Stuber (Safe House, Ted) are set to develop Ghost Brigades, based on John Scalzi’s Hugo Award-nominated Old Man’s War book series, Syfy said today. Jake Thornton and Ben Lustig (both currently developing Winter’s Knight for Columbia Pictures) have been signed to write the pilot.
Ghost Brigades, the sequel to Old Man’s War, follows John Perry, who enlists at 75 in the Colonial Defense Force to fight a centuries-long war for man’s expansion into the cosmos. Technology allows experiences and consciousness to be transplanted into younger bodies that are outfitted to endure the harsher rigors of war in space. However, soon after John arrives, he finds himself involved with a mysterious woman and at the center of an unraveling conspiracy involving an elite fighting force known as the Ghost Brigades.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Jeffrey Wright, Rodrigo Santoro & More Join HBO Drama Pilot ‘Westworld’

 

[JoeZhang]

Thomas Jane to Star in Syfy's 'The Expanse'

Unless they are radically changing the series, that character isn't the central focus.

 

[Christopher]

Thomas Jane to Star in Syfy's 'The Expanse'

Unless they are radically changing the series, that character isn't the central focus.

They might well be radically changing it. Recall the example of FlashForward. The main character from the book was made a supporting character in the show, as well as being made younger, more attractive, and English rather than Canadian; and most of the rest of the cast was entirely original to the show, with the focus shifted to law-enforcement protagonists. And they changed the interval of the flashforward from decades into the future to just long enough to fit in a single TV season.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

Thomas Jane to Star in Syfy's 'The Expanse'

Unless they are radically changing the series, that character isn't the central focus.

For the first book's story, he could qualify as co-lead. I think as many pages are devoted to him as are to Holden. But you're right, for Jane to stick around on the show, some MAJOR alterations will be in order.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

James Marsden, Eddie Rouse & More Join HBO Drama Pilot ‘Westworld’

 

[AvBaur]

Wow, that Westworld pilot sure is assembling a pretty impressive cast! Is this going to be HBO's first true sci-fi show? (If you don't count The Leftovers)