SF/F TV development news - 2018

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First we start off with another reboot.

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Roswell reboot for the CW

Written and executive produced by The Originals scribe Carina Adly MacKenzie, the new Roswell reflects the realities of its location in a state bordering Mexico. After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, NM, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: He’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.

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ABC untitled supernatural comedy

ABC has put in development an untitled single-camera comedy from The Real O’Neals co-creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor and ABC Studios.

Written and executive produced by Johnson and Windsor, the project is about a woman at her tipping point who has her mad as hell moment and discovers something extraordinary about herself.

CBS Developing ‘Recall’ NSA Drama From ‘Limitless’ Team Of Craig Sweeny, Marc Webb, Alex Kurtzman & Heather Kadin

Recall is being written by Craig Sweeny, who also penned the Limitless pilot, with that pilot’s director Marc Webb on board to direct. The two will again executive produce with Limitless exec producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin through the duo’s CBS TV Studios-based company Secret Hideout.

In Recall, the NSA assembles a group of investigators to make use of the agency’s newest tool: a machine that allows the user direct access to the memories of witnesses, victims, and suspects – but the detectives must resist the temptation to use the device on themselves.

Hold Fast - a time travel love story from Greg Berlanti

It is described as an epic love story told in two timelines, following an injured Union soldier in the Reconstruction-era South who awakens reincarnated in present-day Charleston. With rapidly diminishing knowledge of his past life, he must navigate present-day relationships, including a fiancée he doesn’t remember, while uncovering what happened to his past love and searching for her. Dana Stevens will write and executive produce. Berlanti will executive produce with his producing partner Sarah Schecter.

 

[JD]

I'm a big fan of the original Roswell, but I'm not quite sure what to make of the "reboot". It sounds like it has nothing whatsoever to do with the original.
Recall and Hold Fast sound like they have potential.

 

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Dead Inside - supernatural cop show at The CW

The CW is developing a police drama series from writer Katie Lovejoy and executive producer Bill Lawrence, Variety has learned.

Titled “Dead Inside,” the series would follow an underachieving beat cop who, after surviving an explosion that killed her hotshot detective big brother, starts seeing his ghost, flipping their sibling dynamic on its head and allowing her to truly live her life for the first time. They work together to help crime victims both living and dead, and figure out the unfinished business keeping his spirit on Earth.

 

[JD]

After Spin City, Scrubs and Cougar Town I'll check out anything with Bill Lawrence's name attached to it.

 

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‘School For Psychics' at the CW

The CW has put in development School For Psychics, a drama based on K.C. Archer’s upcoming book series, from CBS TV Studios.

In School For Psychics, when an aimless, jaded young woman learns she has powerful latent psychic abilities, she is recruited to join a secret government program for gifted individuals. She must quickly hone her newfound skills to help uncover an imminent threat to psychics that has an unexpected emotional connection to the mysterious murder of her parents two decades ago.

The first novel in the planned three-book series will be published in April by CBS-owned Simon & Shuster

 

[JD]

This is one I definitely want to see a trailer for. It sounds kind of generic, but if it's done well it could still be good.

 

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Project 13 at The CW

The CW is developing a drama series based on DC Comics characters Traci Thirteen and her father Dr. Terrance Thirteen with Elizabeth Banks attached as an executive producer, Variety has learned exclusively.

Titled “Project 13,” the one-hour drama would center on Traci, a twenty-something forensic scientist and believer in the paranormal who discovers her own hidden extra-sensory abilities when she joins her estranged, skeptic father to investigate mysterious cases of the paranormal and unexplained phenomena. Traci and Dr. Thirteen have appeared in multiple comics within the DC Universe, including “Flashpoint” and “Batman.”

 

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New J.J. Abrams Sci-Fi Drama Series Demimonde Sparks Heated Bidding War Between HBO and Apple

 

[JD]

I like Abrams, so I'm curious. I wonder if the mysterious force is alien or supernatural?

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I like Abrams, so I'm curious. I wonder if the mysterious force is alien or supernatural?

I wonder if Abrams knows that himself.

 

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NBC Orders 'Lost Meets Resurrection' Drama Pilot Manifest

From Mysteries of Laura creator Jeff Rake, the hour-long project’s logline is as follows: “A plane disappears from radar and returns years later after being untraceable and presumed lost at sea. No time has passed for those on the plane, but for their loved ones at home, many years have gone by. The [potential] series follows their personal lives as well as the larger mystery and purpose that is their destiny.”

 

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New J.J. Abrams Sci-Fi Drama Series Demimonde Sparks Heated Bidding War Between HBO and Apple

HBO orders Demimonde to series

 

[JD]

NBC Orders 'Lost Meets Resurrection' Drama Pilot Manifest

Meh. I've enjoyed a lot of these kind of mysterious event series, but this does nothing for me.

 

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‘Manifest’: Josh Dallas & Melissa Roxburgh Cast As the Leads Of NBC Pilot