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sf/f TV development news - 2016

Fox is inching closer to a live-action X-Men series.

"[For] X-Men, we're in negotiations with Marvel. We're hopeful we'll be able to announce something soon. We're not closed on a deal yet but it's something we're definitely pursuing," Fox Television Group chairman and CEO Dana Walden told THR on Thursday at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour stop.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fox-deal-x-men-live-813542
 
Both of those could be cool. I've been wishing they would do a live action X-Men TV series for a while now. TV CGI has advanced enough that it won't be that hard to do all sorts of powers.
 
Gateway

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ning-novel-gateway-as-scripted-series/447313/

Syfy today announced that it will develop Frederik Pohl’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel Gateway about humanity’s encounter with a mysterious, ancient alien civilization as a one-hour scripted series with Entertainment One Television (eOne) and Universal Cable Productions (UCP). eOne will distribute the series worldwide.


David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and Josh Pate (Falling Skies) collaborated on the adaptation and will serve as executive producers on the series. Eick will revise a pilot script written by Pate and serve as showrunner. The series will also be executive produced by Martha De Laurentiis through the De Laurentiis Company, former eOne Television executive Michael Rosenberg, and Lorenzo De Maio. eOne Television’s Gerard Bocaccio, SVP US Scripted Development, will oversee the project for the studio.


In Gateway, humanity discovers an asteroid teeming with the long abandoned spaceships of an advanced alien race -- the Heechee – setting in motion a gold rush for alien artifacts and technology. The ships are preprogrammed, transporting their voyagers to distant worlds of riches -- or certain death. Undaunted by the peril or the odds, prospector Robinette Broadhead gambles everything on a journey to Gateway. After one nightmare mission, he returns to extraordinary wealth and luxury, but is haunted by the loss of his crewmates, including the love of his life.
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Better than zero. Not that I watch the show, but I know people who like it.

Pohl's Gateway could be fantastic. The producers don't excite me, however. But we'll see.
 
DC Comics Workplace Comedy Lands At NBC With Pilot Production Commitment

The project evokes NBC’s signature comedy series The Office, but with superheroes. Based on characters from DC Comics, Powerless is a workplace comedy set at one of the worst insurance companies in America — with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics. The show is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of superheroes and villains.
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I've liked stuff both of them have done, so this one certainly has my attention.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
BBC Two are adapting China Mieville's The City and The City.
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Amazing book.

Will be interesting if it can capture the fear and bizarreness of its conceit (two interlaced cities who must not acknowledge one another) as in the wrong hand its absurdest and satirical nature could be laughable. Or it could be over-dulled down into a standard whodunnit (with a little twist) and its Orwellian/paranoiac diluted to nothing.

Fascinated to see the results!

Hugo Rune - He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.
 
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