regular digest of news that rocks the television industry last week: Topic of Oz is not closed – Travel back in time on NBC – Another colonization of Mars – Reboot Pierce Brosnan – The spy drama from Len Wiseman – The Weistein Company and Tolstoy etc.
American TV channels continue to exploit the legacy of Frank Baum. Another variation on the theme «The Wizard of Oz» is brewing in the walls in the form of a Lifetime project called «road of red brick *» (Red Brick Road). Screenwriter “Dexter» Tom Shlatman wrote the script based on the concept of the artist Rob Pryor, so it turned out, as insiders claim, a kind of “Game of Thrones”, only in the setting of Baum’s fairy tales. The essence of the story is that in the film 1939 Dorothy went to the Emerald City on the yellow brick road, but apart from the very yellow bricks there met and red bricks, the origin of which can by no one explained. The project Shlatmana Dorothy will choose the red road that would lead her into the most ancient, dark and dangerous parts of Oz to find out what happened to her friends disappeared without a trace.
channel CBS announced the expansion of interactive opportunities for viewers series “Hawaii 5.0″. If the last time fans can decide for themselves what is the ending time of the last season they prefer, they now have in your hands is given control of the whole series. The public can vote online, choosing from six key points of the script: the place of the crime, the victim, murder weapon, a piece of evidence, the suspect and, in fact, an arrest. Voting will continue until the Halloween series on the site, and its follow-up project playwrights compose a full script of the episode, the shooting of which will begin in February.
FX joins forces with Danny Boyle, Simon Bofoem and Christian Colson, responsible for “Slumdog Millionaire” and “127 Hours”, to run the show desyatiseriynogo «Telemark *” (Telemark). Project is based on a true story, which is literally three days ago interested Badabum pro Michael Bay. Hitler’s nuclear program, the base of the power plant in the Norwegian county of Telemark, British-trained Norwegian commandos – is the same story, only set out a more capacious than the full-length movie format.
Meg Ryan thinking about return to television. The actress asked to lead a new comedy project channel NBC, which is responsible for the screenplay by Mark Lawrence has not yet come up with the name. In the series, it will be about a single mother, non-confrontational and gentle man, who suddenly decides to return to the New York publishing house, where she had worked as an editor. There she discovers that her boss is now thirty-brand, which she has taken a long time ago in the state as an intern. Now the heroine is necessary not only to establish a relationship with her, but also do everything to ensure that their lives were happy with her teenage children, ex-husband, who still can not forget the way, and a former in-law, and this case is very difficult.
Fans who believe that “Star Trek” should not only make a row on the big screen, but also to return to the small, quite a lot, and it does not matter, he will go in parallel with a full meter or continue movies Abrams and his successor. And it seems that this idea is really considered: at least, Roberto Orci has already met with representatives of the CBS is just about it. About this in his twitter wrote Sky News reporter Joe Mihalchik, assuring that these data are obtained directly from Bob Orci. “Star Trek” on CBS with the participation of writer-length films – the story quite promising, although at this stage, of course, all of this fork is written on water.
BBC Guidelines confirm information about the discovery of nine episodes of the series «Doctor Who» , were considered irretrievably lost many years ago. Moreover, these series have already been restored and posted on the official sale in iTunes. Anyone can read the five episodes in 1967 and four production, respectively, in 1968. In all nine stories featured a second doctor – Patro Trofton . For example, an excerpt from one of them:
yearned for a glorious times «Quantum Leap Forward» ,, NBC plans to launch a new drama series about time travel. And not just one, but two. The first came up with Josh Friedman (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”), it is called «Mayak *» (Lighthouse) and tells the story of a mysterious hotel for explorers “chronos”. The author is another Deborah Pratt , who worked at the time of the already mentioned “Quantum Leap”, and in its design «No time *» (Timeless) describes some of Alexander King, that is, wandering between the present and the future of the Earth, manages to fall in love with two men at once – of course, from different times.
«Colony *» (Colony) – new sci-fi drama with elements of a thriller that CW has acquired from CBS TV. Scenario authorship Ian Goldberg is about a group of researchers who set out to colonize Mars and renounced all just for the sake of their own skin to experience all the dangers inherent in the red planet. At the heart of this project is, oddly enough, the real story of the lost colony – not on Mars, of course, and the British settlement on Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Residents of villages have disappeared – every single one, thus giving rise to a lot of variety of theories about their own fate.
JJ Abrams, Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein to start the new ABC comedy project «Main Street *» (Main Street) – about a group of friends who, realizing that life in the big city they not only tired, but in general is a dead-end option for further development in every sense, decide to move closer to the Mississippi River, so that at least there to try to fulfill your dreams. I want to believe that this project will have not the same fate as last year’s idea Abrams, Kohn and Silverstein «Growing *» (Adulting), which did not live up to even a pilot.
Pierce Brosnan’s career started in the early eighties, when appeared on TV screens series «Remington Steele *» (Remington Steele) – the story of a detective agency, all of which investigation limited mainly to getting into the ridiculous situation and romantic stories, even though the action in them is definitely lacking. Leaders NBC has decided that it is time to expose the legacy of beautiful eighties reboot, and the studio has acquired the rights to Fox sequel to turn it into a show about Olivia Holt (daughter of the famous detective Remington Steele and Laura Holt), which is the parent agency and decided to revive it. Development of the script assigned to Jay and David Sherik Ronnu, but the director of the project named Ruben Fleischer.
CBS and producer of the TV series “Criminal Minds» Janine Sherman Barrois have conceived a new crime drama called «Puzzle *» (Jigsaw) . Barrois scenario contains several plot lines that intersect each other, and tells employees homicide police, lawyers, prosecutors, journalists and employees of the city administration, each of which has to somehow deal with the investigation of the most notorious crimes in San Francisco in recent years.
Matt Nix , creator «Black label *» (Burn Notice), proposed a new channel USA project. «Complications *» (Complications) talk about the doctor “emergency”, whose life changed abruptly after he intervenes in a gunfight, killing one of the shooters, and thus saves the life of a stranger to him young. However, the boy did not want to leave in this world, and he decides to save him at any cost. USA but now find themselves in a situation where we need to choose between Nicks and two other potential serials. The first is the working title until «Newbie *» (Novice) and talks about the difficulties they have to face each graduate college while searching for their first job in their field. One of these graduates to find his vocation – not what is written in the diploma and crime. The second project – working title «Rush *» (Rush) – Another medical history, this time about a doctor on call, not working in a particular hospital. His only interested in financial opportunities patient: there is money, I’ll heal, no money – I will not. But at one point of the mercantile Hippocrates begins to torment the conscience.
Len Wiseman and put sprodyusiruet with Chris Morgan and Jennifer Johnson Series «Devotion *» (Allegiance) scenario Sue Chung . The main heroine of the project will be a young female FBI agent, who after a series of devastating terrorist attacks with the use of the highest of high-tech start searching, perhaps the most dangerous criminal in the history of America. The trouble is that this same offender is a mother protagonistki.
Amy Poehler and her brother Greg continue to conquer the vast NBC. The channel has just acquired their rights to the comedy serials history as «Welcome to Sweden *» (Welcome To Sweden) – accountant Bruce of New York (this is the acting debut of Greg Poehler), fall in love a Swede Emma, ??whose role is given to the Swedish actress Josephine Bornebush , and left behind her home every Carlson and Nils. Promised a cameo by Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, Aubrey Plaza, and Gene Simmons.
The Weistein Company together with the Look Out Point and BBC Worldwide will take the six-part epic teleadaptatsiey Leo Tolstoy «War and Peace» . The project is now called the most ambitious of all that has ever made efforts BBC. Screenplay by Andrew Davies adaptation will not always refer to their work for the classics of English literature, and the mini-series is due out in 2015. On the acting nominations, of course, still out of the question.
And finally: ABC has ordered a full season of Joss Whedon “SHIELD *».
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