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SF/F TV development news - 2017

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I'll try to keep track of any science fiction or fantasy based pilots this year and post the news here.

ABC Picks Up Sci-Fi Refugee Drama Pilot

The Crossing has a timely-sounding premise, with war refugees seeking shelter in an American town. Only there’s a sci-fi twist: The refugees are from America… and traveling back in time from 250 years in the future. The main characters include a local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother looking for her refugee daughter… and of course, there’s a conspiracy at the center of everything.

The Crossing is from writers Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie (Scorpion, Revenge),
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Are networks now so desperate for ideas they turn South Park episodes into shows? :lol: Honestly the idea does sound interesting, although I'm not sure I'll go out of my way to see it.
 
FOX's "X-Men" project nears pilot order
Fox is yet to order its first pilot this January. Among the scripts
that are heating up is the action-adventure X-Men series written by
Burn Notice creator Matt Nix. Early versions of the script had been
received enthusiastically at Fox as well as producing studios 20th
Century Fox TV and Marvel TV. Fox chairman Gary Newman noted to
Deadline that he expects the final draft to come in shortly and a
pilot pickup within the next week or two. Exploratory casting is
already underway, with the process expected to ramp up once the
official greenlight comes.

The untitled series, which had a put pilot commitment, focuses on two
ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers.
Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up
with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. The
show appears particularly timely, dealing with the plight of
minorities in society.
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I am not sure how this would sit with audiences. Do people want a super hero show, or a 'fugitive' show?

I also wonder if super heros are reaching their satuation point yet.
 
Charmed reboot at The CW

A reboot of the beloved Aaron Spelling series is currently in the works at The CW, ET can confirm. But there's one big difference with the original -- the drama will be set in 1976 instead of in present day.

Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman and the CW show's writers, Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin, are behind the proposed reboot. The project is described as a "reimagining" of the original Charmed.
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Witchblade reboot at NBC

The new version, which has scored a script commitment from the network, will launch with a pilot written by Vampire Diaries showrunner Caroline Dries; CSI producer Carol Mendelsohn is also on board as an executive producer.
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This is the first I've heard of a new Witchblade, I've never read any of the comics but the premise has always interested me. I wonder if they'll stick close to the comics, or just turn it into a cop show that happens to have a lead with a mystical gauntlet?
 
I was surprised when I saw Singer was directing the Matt Nix pilot. That does make it seem a lot more likely that it takes place in the movie universe.
 
"Somewhere Between" starring Paula Patton ordered to series at ABC

Written by Legend Of The Seeker and Taxi Brooklyn co-creator Stephen Tolkin based on a Korean format, Somewhere Between centers on superstar news producer and fiercely loving mom Laura Price (Patton). She isn’t crazy: She knows her daughter Serena is going to be murdered. She doesn’t know who the murderer is or why she’ll be killed, but she knows exactly when it will happen, where and how. Despite this, all of her attempts to keep her daughter safe fail, and Serena’s fixed, unmovable, terrifying fate keeps her directly in the path of her killer.
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kirk55555 said:
Are networks now so desperate for ideas they turn South Park episodes into shows? :lol: Honestly the idea does sound interesting, although I'm not sure I'll go out of my way to see it.
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South Park has directly copped Dagger of the Mind, Miri, and about five other Trek episodes, about time South Park started giving back. ;)

There are worse things to copy than South Park. A movie about Earth refugees living in poor desolate countries trying to escape to a plentiful planet as Earth's rich try to take it for themselves sounds pretty interesting.
 
The CW orders pilot Searchers from The 100 boss Jason Rothenberg, who will exec-produce with the prolific Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter

An action/adventure drama, it follows a pragmatic brother and free-spirited sister who are forced to team up when they learn that their late mother’s terrifying and bizarre stories “may be a road map to discovering the great legends, myths, and unexplainable mysteries of the world.”
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Berlanti either has multiple clones, or the man who has been advertised as Berlanti in the promo spots is in fact just a model working on behalf of a collective of producers working under the corporate name of "Greg Berlanti PLC"

Hugo - clearly in fact the world's first successful sleep transplant donor
 
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