NBC Orders Brothers Grimm Themes Series

[Starbreaker]

Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel auteur David Greenwalt’s next TV show is going to be Grimm (yes, with a capital G). NBC has just greenlit a pilot for the Greenwalt-produced Grimm, a fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. Fellow Angel scribe Jim Kouf will co-write the script and both will serve as exec producers. Also serving as EPs are Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, the duo behind TV Land’s red-hot Hot in Cleveland.
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I wonder if this will be in a campy or serious tone?

 

[Jetfire]

This might be interesting...being on NBC it is doomed to fail though.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I hope it will be non-campy but also not entirely devoid of humor. Like Heroes S1.

I guess we all have to resign ourselves to every sf/f show in existence having a cop/spy/military component.

This might be interesting...being on NBC it is doomed to fail though.

Being on NBC might save its ass when it gets bad ratings but better than the rest of the crap on that network. It's worked for Chuck for years.

 

[bigdaddy]

This might be interesting...being on NBC it is doomed to fail though.

Being on NBC might save its ass when it gets bad ratings but better than the rest of the crap on that network. It's worked for Chuck for years.

yeah it worked for crap like chuck for years.

Seriously being a new show and being on NBC is the best. They have such low standards they might as well just pick shows up for a full season right away because they can't cancel everything.

A fantasy show on CBS would fail, old people just want their cop shows.

Every hour long show on ABC is pretty much a failure recently.

Fox has no room.

The only other station I think this would work is HBO, but that's just because of Tru Blood.

 

[Witterquick]

I was interested until I read "cop".

 

[PsychoPere]

I hope it will be non-campy but also not entirely devoid of humor. Like Heroes S1.

Since this is from Greenwalt, I'd look to Angel season one for an example of possible tone. I'll certainly give it a shot; Greenwalt's done good work in the past.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Seriously being a new show and being on NBC is the best. They have such low standards they might as well just pick shows up for a full season right away because they can't cancel everything.

NBC has three genre shows ordered to pilot so far: Grimm, 17th Precinct and Wonder Woman. They're the lucky ones, on a network where their odds of both pickup and success are higher than elsewhere.

CBS has the usual slate of cop shows, doctor shows, reality shows and sitcoms, but so far not even a single genre series ordered to pilot. Of all the shows it even has in development, the only one that might be considered quasi-genre is The Wild Wild West remake.

 

[AviTrek]

Seriously being a new show and being on NBC is the best. They have such low standards they might as well just pick shows up for a full season right away because they can't cancel everything.

NBC has three genre shows ordered to pilot so far: Grimm, 17th Precinct and Wonder Woman. They're the lucky ones, on a network where their odds of both pickup and success are higher than elsewhere.

CBS has the usual slate of cop shows, doctor shows, reality shows and sitcoms, but so far not even a single genre series ordered to pilot. Of all the shows it even has in development, the only one that might be considered quasi-genre is The Wild Wild West remake.

I have to imagine Grimm and 17th Precinct are competing against each other. I can't see NBC launching two magical cops shows. Of course two pilots does increase the odds that one of them will be commissioned to series.

 

[C_Miller]

You know, I'd be really interested in seeing a television show based around Fables. It's been a while since I read it, but I really like the concept and from what I remember, the execution was great as well. It felt kind of like a TV show, to me.