MEAN and MASSIVE

I’d love to see David Cronenberg’s TV pilot, Knifeman, becomes a series in one of the TV networks. The filmmaker has such a unique vision, which you can notice in movies such as Crash and A History Of Violence or Dead Ringers, and after actor Tim Roth has joined the pilot it looks even more [...]

Breaking Bad still has 16 episodes to go, but the show’s co-star Aaron Paul is already thinking about his next role on TV. Paul is in talks to star a pilot for HBO, about a spy in the Cold War. The spy drama is titled The Missionary, and behind it stand writer Charles Randolph, producer [...]

  AMC will run a marathon of all 19 episodes of The Walking Dead, including a remake in black-and-white for the pilot episode. During this marathon AMC will also release the official trailer for the third season of Walking Dead. The special preview marathon will take place during the weekend of  July 7-8. Besides the [...]

Charlie Kaufman returns to TV. After years of writing feature films (Being John Malkovitch, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), and even directing one (Synecdoche NY) Charlie Kaufman is developing an half-hour comedy for HBO. Next to him in this project stands Catherine Keener, who starred in a few of his movies. The project is [...]

The cable channel Adult Swim has its Upfront party only tomorrow, but we already have a list of new series they ordered for 2013. Untitled Animated Harold & Kumar Project (In Development) – An animated version of the eponymous blockbuster stoner comedy series. Rick & Morty – A genius inventor grandfather and his less than [...]

SEB: upfront 2012 Here is the full list of new shows NBC has picked for the 2012-2013 season. The list below shows both Fall schedule, and other shows that will probably find their slots in the midseason, or already during summer 2012. When are we going to watch the new shows? NBC new fall 2012 [...]

The networks continue to announce renewals and series orders, before the upfront sessions on this coming Monday. Here are the latest updates: More new comedies for 2012-2013 ABC renewscomedies Modern Family, The Middle and dramas Once Upon A Time, Suburgatory, Revenge, Grey’s Anatomy and Castle. Reality shows Dancing With The Stars and Shark Tank were [...]

SEB: 2012-2013 new tv series Dick Wolf, the man behind Law & Order: SVU, has more than one reason to smile this morning: not only did the peacock network renewed Law & Order for a 14th season – it also picked up his drama pilot, Chicago Fire, for a series. All 2012-2013 TV pilots As [...]

UPDATE: and indeed it is true. All three shows will have their final 13-episodes long season. Goodbye, Leslie Knope. Next week the networks will unveil their fall schedule and the new shows for 2012-2013, as a part of the ‘upfront’ preview sessions for advertisers. NBC had already ordered a seventh and final season of 30 [...]

Ricky Gervais is one of those names that are enough to sell a series. Channel 4 still wanted to test the pilot for Gervais’ new comedy drama Derek. After it drew 3.2 million viewers, the British channel has decided to give a full series order. Derek is written and directed by Gervais, who also stars [...]

Remake of series many times changes them, and you can read my recaps of the American version for The Killing (AMC) or Being Human (Syfy) to see what I mean. I hope this time AMC will keep the original noir feel in their remaking of Low Winter Sun, a british mini-series from 2006. Low Winter [...]

Want to know more about NBC’s TV Pilots for 2012-2013? Read the full pilot list here. 1600 Penn, The New Normal, Save Me and Animal Practice – are the four comedy pilots that were picked up by NBC yesterday. They join Go On, which got a series order earlier in this pilot season. Animal Practice [...]

For the first time AMC has ordered two drama pilots at the same time. Low Winter Sun and the Untitled LaGravenese & Goldwyn Project have both been picked up for a pilot order by the network. Low Winter Sun is based on a British mini-series from 2006. Chris Mundy (Criminal Minds) wrote the US adaptation. [...]

Pirates Are Hot I don’t know if Johnny Depp has anything to do it that, but this year there are a lot of pirates projects in development. FX are working on Port Royal, Pyrates is a produced for Fox, and Republic Of Pirates is being developed for NBC. Republic Of Pirates is based on the [...]

Despite being an international hit with millions of viewers around the world, the upcoming eighth season of Desperate Housewives will be it’s last. News of the show’s cancellation was reported last week but Marc Cherry, the creator of the series made an official announcement yesterday at the Television Critics Association (TCA) conference in Malibu, California. [...]

I’m not in San Diego at the moment, where the Comic Con begins today andwhere almost every American TV critic is right now. The schedule of this year’s convention is looking good, and thefact that I’m not there just gives me more time (and focus) to collect all the important information for you, and bring [...]

American Horror Story, the pilot from creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, got a full series order (13 episodes) from FX. It’s going to premiere on October 5, with a special Halloween launch. Murphy and Falchuk have previously executive produced Nip/Tuck for FX, and are currently running Glee on the mothership Fox. American Horror Story [...]

The pilot episode of .comEDY, the first production of futon media, will premiere on August 5, at The 6th Annual ITVFest. It is part from the festival’s opening night lineup. The pilot was directed by Mike Mariano (Raising Hope) and written by Brian Ford Sullivan (Futon Media CEO). .comEDY is the first attempt of Futon [...]

Some TV news from the last couple of days have piled on my desk, so I’ve decided to post them all at once, before the weekend begins. A new series in development, some returning series, some spoilers, a trailer…who said TV summer season was a quiet one? New series in development: USA Network has ordered [...]

The Walking Dead: season 2 cast Lauren Cohan (Chuck) is the new zombie bite on the next season of AMC’s The Walking Dead. She will play Maggie Greene, one of the survivors from the zombie attack on her father’s farm (Farmer Hershel). “She wears jeans, kick-ass boots and rides a horse. She’s very steely and [...]