Press Release: SYFY GREENLIGHTS INCORPORATED TO PILOT MATT DAMON AND BEN AFFLECK’S PEARL STREET FILMS TO PRODUCE WITH CBS TELEVISION STUDIOS AND UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS NEW YORK – April 6, 2015 – Syfy announced today it has greenlit to pilot Incorporated, a futuristic [...]
Read moreTNT Orders Pilot for Amblin Alt-World Story LUMEN
The combination of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, the director of Captain America: The First Avenger, and an alt-world storyline, has got me really hopeful that this pilot gets a series order from TNT. Check out the info on Lumen: TNT Orders [...]
Read moreTV Series in Development Include SUPERGIRL, TEEN TITANS, MINORITY REPORT and Stephen King Short Story
There's been quite a bit of buzz lately about proposed TV series in development, some receiving pilot orders, so it's about time to do a roundup of all those that look like Our Kind of Shows. Try not to get [...]
Read moreSyfy Announces Arthur C. Clarke’s CHILDHOOD’S END Miniseries for 2015
Press Release: SYFY GREENLIGHTS ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CHILDHOOD’S END AS SIX-HOUR MINISERIES FOR 2015 PREMIERE FROM UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS AKIVA GOLDSMAN (LONE SURVIVOR) AND MIKE DE LUCA (CAPTAIN PHILLIPS) WILL PRODUCE WITH MATTHEW GRAHAM (LIFE ON MARS) TO ADAPT NICK [...]
Read moreWESTWORLD Pilot Development Moving Forward with Casting Announcements
It's been almost a year since we told you that JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions were developing the 1973 movie Westworld into a series for HBO. It's been mostly crickets since then, but now casting announcements are rolling [...]
Read moreCarlton Cuse is at it Again, as Alien Series COLONY Pilot is Picked Up by USA
We told you back in May that the USA Network was developing a series with our beloved Carlton Cuse (Lost, The Strain) entitled Colony, and multiplying our glee is the fact that there is alien involvement in the proposed series. The [...]
Read moreFirst Trailer and Screenshots for Syfy’s 12 MONKEYS
We may or may not have gotten a tiny glimpse of footage, or at least audio, from Syfy's 12 Monkeys, the upcoming series adaptation of Terry Gilliam's 1995 film Twelve Monkeys, in the Syfy Originals trailer we posted last month. [...]
Read moreSyfy Greenlights THE MAGICIANS Pilot Based on Best-Selling Fantasy Books
We told you back in April that Syfy had picked up The Magicians book series for development, after things didn't work out for series development at Fox. Apparently things have gone much better at Syfy, who today announced that it [...]
Read moreNBC Orders CONSTANTINE, is Otherwise Eerily Silent [UPDATED]
UPDATE: And it isn't good news. It looks like the Revolution is over. This makes me very sad; the show has continually improved in every way, every week, and has reached a level of excellence that made it Must Watch TV [...]
Read moreSyfy Places Order for Time Travel Series 12 MONKEYS
We told you back in August that Syfy had given the green light to the pilot for a potential series based on the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys. Happily they have now extended that green light to an entire season of [...]
Read moreMust See: First Image from CONSTANTINE Pilot Released
Great news today, kids. In fact, two pieces of great news, both about the NBC pilot Constantine. As I continually warn, when I report about pilots it's always with the concern that hopes are being raised only to be dashed; [...]
Read moreAll the Latest on SUPERNATURAL Backdoor Pilot SUPERNATURAL: BLOODLINES
Now here's some pilot news that I'm completely comfortable reporting, because we KNOW we'll see at least the pilot, even if it isn't picked up to series. We've reported periodically about what the TV industry refers to as "backdoor pilots"; [...]
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