sf/f TV development news - 2013

[JD]

So does mean Kaiju are going to be a regular thing in the US now?

 

[sojourner]

We can only hope!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Sounds like the series will be about carving up the corpse and burying the pieces.

 

[JD]

Apparently in the new BBC series Atlantis, Jason is actually from out time, but he gets sent back to Atlantis.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2SPN206ngg[/yt]
This is actually does make me a little more curious about it.
There's also a new trailer.

 

[Christopher]

Oh, dear. That's not particularly encouraging. The clip was rather corny, too.

 

[FreezeC77]

When the cast was announced I thought it was cool to see Mark Addy cast as Hercules given what the character usually looks like and the fact that the creator was the creator of Misfits... but the problem may be that the other two "co-creators" are the creative team behind Merlin and much of the Merlin staff has moved onto this show.

I know there's Merlin fans on this board, but I just could never get into the style or quality of Merlin/Robin Hood/Sinbad/etc...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

"the creator of Misfits" was part of the Merlin staff also.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Merlin was pretty good, when I got to see it. Sinbad was an unfortunate misfire.

 

[JD]

Merlin started OK, but I really liked it a lot by the end. Hopefully this will be later Merlin quality, rather then earlier.
I enjoyed Sinbad. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but it was good. I really wish it had gone longer than just one season. If this is equal in quality to either that or Merlin, I'll be very happy.
Do we know yet if this has been picked up for the US?

 

[Christopher]

I enjoyed Sinbad. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but it was good. I really wish it had gone longer than just one season.

I thought the first seven episodes were quite good, but the rest were a mess.

Do we know yet if this has been picked up for the US?

I think I read that Atlantis is a BBC America co-production, so it'll show there.

 

[lennier1]

Merlin was pretty good, when I got to see it.

The show was pretty good for quite some time, but near the end it got so bad that I actually stopped watching it even though I was only a few episodes away from the finale. It simply became unbearable (and that's coming from someone who watched ENT in its entirety).

 

[Christopher]

^I wouldn't say the final season of Merlin got that bad, but I was disappointed in the direction it went. I mean, the dominant thread throughout the whole series was about striving for a future where magic-users would no longer be persecuted in Camelot, and yet they abandoned that thread and left it unresolved.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

CW Buys Mars Drama From ‘Mentalist’ Duo

The CW has put in development Red, a Western/sci-fi drama from The Mentalist creator/executive producer Bruno Heller and the series’ executive producer Tom Szentgyorgyi. Written by Szentgyorgyi, Red is described as a neo-Western drama about the first human settlement on Mars and life on this new frontier, centering on the relationships between the town’s female sheriff, a doctor and a criminal.

 

[Christopher]

I'm torn... another show set off the Earth is good, but I think Defiance has soured me on sci-fi Westerns.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"This Red Planet ain't big enough for the both of us..."

 

[AviTrek]

I enjoyed Sinbad. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but it was good. I really wish it had gone longer than just one season.

I thought the first seven episodes were quite good, but the rest were a mess.

Do we know yet if this has been picked up for the US?

I think I read that Atlantis is a BBC America co-production, so it'll show there.

BBCA has already been advertising the show.

 

[Mistral]

CW Buys Mars Drama From ‘Mentalist’ Duo

The CW has put in development Red, a Western/sci-fi drama from The Mentalist creator/executive producer Bruno Heller and the series’ executive producer Tom Szentgyorgyi. Written by Szentgyorgyi, Red is described as a neo-Western drama about the first human settlement on Mars and life on this new frontier, centering on the relationships between the town’s female sheriff, a doctor and a criminal.

Wait, you can't have gunsmoke on Mars-there's no atmosphere worth noting!

 

[Christopher]

Wait, you can't have gunsmoke on Mars-there's no atmosphere worth noting!

Well, you could, since bullets contain their own oxidizers and could fire without air. The smoke would just expand less turbulently.

 

[JD]

I enjoyed Sinbad. It wasn't the greatest thing ever, but it was good. I really wish it had gone longer than just one season.

I thought the first seven episodes were quite good, but the rest were a mess.

Do we know yet if this has been picked up for the US?

I think I read that Atlantis is a BBC America co-production, so it'll show there.

I guess I'll have to wait for it to pop up on Netflix streaming, or for the Blu-Ray/DVD release then. I don't get BBC America.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Adaptation Of DC Comics’ Constantine From Daniel Cerone & David Goyer Lands At NBC

Warner Bros. TV and DC Comics are on a roll this development season with a third high-profile project. Constantine, a drama based on the characters in DC Comics’ John Constantine stories, has sold to NBC with penalty. It is written/executive produced by The Mentalist executive producer Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer, the go-to writer for Warner Bros.’ feature DC adaptations. Constantine centers on John Constantine, an enigmatic and irreverent con man-turned-reluctant supernatural detective who is thrust into the role of defending us against dark forces from beyond.

CBS To Adapt Anne Rice’s ‘Seraphim’ Novels

CBS has put in development Angel Time, a drama series project based on the characters in Anne Rice’s The Songs of the Seraphim novels. Named after the first book in the series, Angel Times hails from CBS Studios and Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman’s studio-based Timberman-Beverly Prods. Joe Carnahan is set to direct the project, with Rice executive producing. Written by Memphis Beat creators Josh Harto and Liz Garcia, Angel Time is a New Orleans-set high-stakes, operatic drama about Toby O’Dare, a soulless assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. Harto and Garcia are executive producing the project with Rice, Carnahan, Timberman and Beverly.