Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to pilot pickup and casting season. We will be sifting through all the unimportant related announcements to bring you only the best news, that of Our Kind of Shows. First up for you today we have [...]
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Good News and Bad as The CW Considers Vampire Diaries Spinoff THE ORIGINALS
The CW is one of our more favorite networks, as they currently are showing four of what could be considered Our Kind of Shows. Over the weekend at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, The CW announced that they [...]
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Clips and Featurette From Tonight’s One Time Only Look at MOCKINGBIRD LANE
Earlier this month we gave you the good news - that we'll be seeing Bryan Fuller's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane - and the bad news - that instead of a series, we're getting only the pilot, probably ever. We are [...]
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MOCKINGBIRD LANE Will Air as One Hour Special
It's a good news/bad news report. Unfortunately, the bad news is that NBC has now confirmed that Mockingbird Lane, the Bryan Fuller-written-and-produced re-imagining of The Munsters, will not be produced as a series. The somewhat good news is that we [...]
Read moreABC and Joss Whedon’s SHIELD Casting Details Revealed
We've been telling you about Joss Whedon's upcoming live action pilot for ABC based on Marvel's S.H.I.E.L.D - yes, the black jumpsuited group we saw in this summer's The Avengers. We also told you, per Mr. Whedon, that the group [...]
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NBC Takes on J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón Pilot
Now here's an intriguing combination. Alfonso Cuarón, who directed the very different, stylistic-looking Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and wrote and directed Children of Men and 2013's Gravity, is set to hop over to the small screen to [...]
Read moreCarlton Cuse Plus Guillermo del Toro Plus Vampires Plus FX Equals TV Nirvana
Here we are, living in that magical time after an amazing show is announced. We can imagine all sorts of wonder emanating from the exceptional people involved, and hope and pray that it will see the light of day and [...]
Read moreABC Puts Steampunk Pilot GASLIGHT into Development
A STEAMPUNK SERIES! Sure we've seen flashes of steampunk aesthetic used in shows from Warehouse 13 to the 1980s Beauty and the Beast all the way back to the 1960s The Wild Wild West, but this proposed show embraces the [...]
Read moreJoss Whedon on the Characters of Upcoming Series S.H.I.E.L.D.
We are as excited as anyone about Joss Whedon agreeing to write the pilot for a S.H.I.E.L.D. series for ABC. We love Joss and pretty much everything he does. Avengers? Arguably the best movie of the summer. So we were [...]
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A&E Orders OCCULT Crimes Task Force Pilot
Just look at A&E and its pilot orders! It's giving a good impression of a network that would like to lure People Like Us into its viewership with Our Kind of TV. We've been telling you about their Psycho prequel [...]
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ABC Says YES to a SHIELD Pilot Written by Joss Whedon
ABC is threatening to become our instant Favorite Network Ever with news that it has ordered a live-action S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot to be written by Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) and his brother and sister-in-law, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. Deadline announced the [...]
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Latest Syfy Series in Development is a CLANDESTINE Space Adventure
Excellent, we absolutely do not have enough space in our lives right now, and in particular, not enough space-based series. We are loving all of the fantasy and horror shows that have been happily added to our viewing schedules, but [...]
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