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sf/f TV development news - 2015

Some news on Syfy's The Magician's. Production starts in December. Stella Maev has been cast as Julia, Hale Appleman as Eliot, and Arjun Gupta as Penny.
 
It sounds like it could be interesting, and I like most of the stuff USA has done, so I'm pretty sure I'll be checking this one out.
 
BBC are doing a supernatural drama starring Michael Palin in his first drama role in decades.

Remember Me

For the first time in more than 20 years, actor, comedian, writer and explorer Michael Palin is heading the cast of a BBC drama.
Remember Me is a haunting three-part mystery by award-winning writer Gwyneth Hughes (The Girl, Five Days, Miss Austen Regrets), made by Mammoth Screen for BBC One.
Palin will play Tom Parfitt, a frail, old Yorkshireman seemingly alone in the world, whose admittance to a nursing home triggers a series of inexplicable events.
Michael says: "This is my first lead role in a TV drama series since G.B.H. It's also a return to Yorkshire, where I was born, brought up and learnt my acting in amateur dramatics.
"I was attracted to Remember Me not only by the northern setting, but also by a good, strong challenging role, something I could really get what remains of my teeth into... I've always loved ghost stories, so playing the lead in one is a very exciting prospect."
On the day elderly Tom Parfitt leaves his home to move into residential care, he becomes the sole witness to a violent death. Teenage care assistant Hannah (Jodie Comer - My Mad Fat Diary) and investigating police detective Rob Fairholme (Mark Addy - The Full Monty, Atlantis), try to unravel the riddle of his mysterious history, and are drawn into an eerie and dangerous world of lost love and betrayal.
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NBC Plots 'Frequency' Reboot

NBC has handed out a script-plus-penalty commitment to a reboot of
2000 sci-fi thriller Frequency, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the New Line Cinema feature written by Toby Emmerich,
Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver will pen the new version for
Warner Bros. Television, where he is under an overall deal.
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Global Frequency certainly has possibilities. I remember enjoying the book, although the details are fuzzy at this point.
 
The latest news on Childhood's End is not heartening:

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/11/21/mike-vogel-childhoods-end/
...the miniseries has cast Mike Vogel (Under the Dome, Bates Motel) as Ricky Stormgren, a midwestern farmer whose life is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the sole representative on Earth for an alien species apparently seeking to aide humanity. “Ricky struggles with his new-found fame as a blue collar prophet, facing the weight of the entire world looking to him for answers.”
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In the novel, Rikki Stormgren is an older Finnish man who is the UN Secretary-General in the first section of the novel. It sounds like the miniseries is going in a completely different direction.

It also refers to Stormgren as the lead, which confirms my fears. In the majority of the novel, the lead character is Jan Rodricks, a young biracial astrophysicist. The novel was impressive for featuring a black man as its hero in the 1950s (despite using language that's shockingly racist to modern ears but that Clarke considered innocent) -- but here we are 60 years later and Syfy is replacing a person-of-color lead with a white man. It's Earthsea all over again.
 
Only six episodes? A shame. But they had kind of reached a climax to the original plotline. Maybe it is best to do a brief coda to bring things to an ultimate resolution, like Fringe did in its abbreviated final season. Better to go out with a clear ending than just get cancelled, anyway.
 
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