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2017-18 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: E Corp does hostile takeover. Shuts down fsociety

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"Killing Eve" is good. I wish someone here would have told me this./s

But, for real, it's pretty entertaining and I'm interested to see how it progresses.
 
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Variety: 'The Wire's' David Simon Developing New Series Set During Spanish Civil War (EXCLUSIVE)
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David Simon Q&A with a Spanish reporter regarding the project.
1) Anything you can reveal from the plot? I guess there is not a script yet.

It will generally follow the narrative of the Americans in the International Brigade from their arrival in 1937 until their departure from Spain two years later. It will be consistent with the unit histories of the Lincoln and Washington battalions.

2) What's the exact involvement of Pelecanos and Lehane? Any of you guys coming to Spain for a while for research or something?

The plan is for us to write the six-part miniseries together. George and I have outlined the work and are awaiting full funding of the project by Mediapro and other producerial elements in the United States before we commence writing scripts with Dennis. I toured the major battlefields and key locations as a guest of Mediapro last year.

4) What's the role of Mediapro on this? They finance the whole thing? Is there a third party involved?

They are funding a portion of the budget and seeking European backers for additional money. Other U.S.-based producerial elements are working with Blown Deadline to secure U.S. participation.

5) What was the spark for trying to move this project forward?

Mediapro came to us with a commitment to fund a certain minority share of the budget and a commitment to obtain other funding from European entities. That was a good faith gesture and it got me and my coproducer Nina Noble on a plane to begin meeting people and visiting Jarama, Brunete, Belchite, and the Ebro. Some location scouting was accomplished and the perameters of a workable budget were agreed upon. Meanwhile, in the United States, producer Mark Johnson, who I worked with on NBC's Homicide years ago, and who has become enamored of the project, is attempting to find backers in my country.
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More via the link on Simon's blog.
 
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Wasn't there 2 eps of B99 last night? I guess they'll fix the chart later.
 
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Netflix Orders Vampire Drama Series 'V-Wars' Based On Book; Ian Somerhalder To Star
The Vampire Diaries alum Ian Somerhalder is returning to the vampire drama genre. Netflix has ordered 10 hourlong episodes of V-Wars, based on Jonathan Maberry's bestselling book, from IDW Entertainment and High Park Entertainment. Somerhalder is attached to star and also direct.
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In the series, Somerhalder will star as Dr. Luther Swann, who enters a world of untold horror when a mysterious disease transforms his best friend, Michael Fayne, into a murderous predator who feeds on other humans. As the disease spreads and more people are transformed, society fractures into opposing camps pitting normal people against the growing number of these "vampires." Swann races against time to understand what's happening, while Fayne rises to become the powerful underground leader of the vampires.

Brad Turner (Human Cargo, 24, Stargate and Stargate Atlantis) will direct the pilot episode and executive produce. William Laurin and Glenn Davis will serve as showrunners.
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Pop TV Orders 'Arranged' Comedy Pilot From 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Duo
Pop TV has picked up a pilot for Arranged, a half-hour comedy from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna and writer-producer Sono Patel and CBS Television Studios.

Co-created and written by Brosh McKenna and Patel, Arranged is about two best friends who end up in a marriage of convenience.
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Cornballer said:
David Simon Q&A with a Spanish reporter regarding the project.More via the link on Simon's blog.
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a commitment to fund a certain minority share of the budget and a commitment to obtain other funding from European entities. That was a good faith gesture
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This sentence fills me with dread. But hopefully they will find additional backers easily and quickly.
 
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Jeez the latest episode of Chicago Fire was absolutely horrendous.
I really hope this wasn't a backdoor pilot for "Chicago FBI".....

Who wants to watch an episode of a firefighter show where they all sit around doing nothing 90% of the episode as the FBI commandeers the firehouse to watch a building across the street.
And then put the 2MCs in a situation that is none of their business to be involved in.
 

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Boy has Somerhalder been typecast or what

Couldn't really be any less of a subtle attempt to grab for that TVD audience
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Agreed. I doubt whoever he plays on this will be as entertaining as Damon Salvatore. I'd have to give it more thought, but Damon might be my favorite character from any of the dozens of CW shows I've watched.
 
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Problem is that Somerhalders role sounds more like Alaric than the swagger incarnation Damon.
 
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Joni said:
Problem is that Somerhalders role sounds more like Alaric than the swagger incarnation Damon.
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Same thing I was thinking. All the TVD Damon fans will flock for an episode or two to see what it's like, but then find Ian's new character too much as a goody-goody and most will likely leave. It is Damon's bad boy attitude everyone loved from TVD, not because it was Ian. Ian just did a very good job in playing him.
 
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- 'The Wrong Mans' Comedy From James Corden & Bad Robot Set At Showtime; Ben Schwartz To Star In Remake of UK Series
Showtime has given a pilot production commitment to The Wrong Mans, a half-hour single-camera action comedy based on the 2013 British series created by and starring James Corden & Matthew Baynton. The U.S. version, from The Late Late Show host Corden, Baynton, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV, will star Ben Schwartz in his return to Showtime where he co-starred on House of Lies.

Written by Corden, Bayton and U.S. TV writer Ian Maxtone-Graham (Veep, Man Seeking Woman) and directed by the original series' director Jim Field Smith, The Wrong Mans follows two ordinary office workers (one played by Ben Schwartz) who have their menial existence turned upside-down by a chance phone call and a case of mistaken identity: "If you are not here by 5 o'clock, we will kill your wife." As the only people who can help, these two unlikely characters must find their inner hero in their quest to save not just themselves, but their loved ones and ultimately their whole town.
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Does B99 not have a thread? The intro for yesterday's episode was amazing lol

Also, we're on page 99

9-9!
 
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I've said it before, but I'm ready to cross off Brooklyn off my list. Might be a good time for it to go before it runs too long/gets stale, like many sitcoms do.
 
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I honestly don't see the quality issues people claim with B99. I feel it's been pretty steady throughout its run. This season already has at least two of the best episodes yet.
 
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Finished Black Sails, just fantastic all around. I must admit I'm totally ok with the
"happy ending" considering I was sure it had to end with everyone dying but they suffered so much and there was so much betrayal and backstabbing and shit that fuck it, give it a happy ending, shit was already depressing enough.

Also can we talk about the fact that the
main character in this manly badass "Arr rum and violence and whores matey" pirate show is gay
? Because that's pretty fucking cool.
 
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berzeli

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DanGo said:
Hopefully. These guys helped put together The Young Pope, right?
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They were. I just really don't like words like "a certain minority share", "commitment to obtain other funding from European entities", and of course most despicable of all "a good faith gesture" (nothing is ever done in good faith with co-pros). I will get very much less nervous about it the second anyone else signs on but for now I'm not daring to hope it will materialise.
 
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Rhaknar said:
Finished Black Sails, just fantastic all around. I must admit I'm totally ok with the
"happy ending" considering I was sure it had to end with everyone dying but they suffered so much and there was so much betrayal and backstabbing and shit that fuck it, give it a happy ending, shit was already depressing enough.

Also can we talk about the fact that the
main character in this manly badass "Arr rum and violence and whores matey" pirate show is gay
? Because that's pretty fucking cool.
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Popular fan theory is that:

Silver killed Flint.
 
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I'm still enjoying Brooklyn 99 as well. I enjoyed the earlier seasons more but still like what they are doing. I think TBS aired them a lot when they first got the rights but seems like they slowed down. Actually I don't see it on TBS at all so maybe I'm looking around the wrong time slots
 
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Didn't see it mentioned, so I thought I'd toss it up! The Goldbergs spinoff got a 13-episode order.

http://tvline.com/2018/04/16/the-goldbergs-spinoff-1990s-series-order-aj-michalka-lainey/

The untitled spinoff, formerly known as Schooled, will star AJ Michalka in a continuation of her Goldbergs role as Barry's ex-girlfriend Lainey Lewis. (Michalka exited The Goldbergs as a series regular before the start of the current Season 5, but has since appeared in a pair of episodes as a guest star.) The new series will take place in the '90s at the fictional William Penn Academy, where Lainey is a teacher along with Tim Meadows' Principal Glascott and Bryan Callen's Coach Mellor — both also holdovers from the original Goldbergs. The teachers, "despite their eccentricities and crazy personal lives, are heroes to their students," per the official description.
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I forgot Corner Gas Animated came out. I'm still not sure how I feel about it... it both looks and sounds weird, but it is Corner Gas as we know it.
Strangely, the cast is so much more diverse now. lol
 
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Popular fan theory is that:

Silver killed Flint.
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thats stupid since the whole notion of
Thomas being alive had been raised much earlier in the show, its not like they pulled it out of their ass in the last episode. It would negate that AND the intro where Silver's man is in London asking if the prisioner was alive.
 
Rhaknar

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oh shit, Long John Silver is on that Netflix show Glitch? Welp, now I have to watch it.

edit: its a zombie show? err not sure if want >_>
 
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I hope v wars sticks to the books and the type of vampire you become is based on your nationality and genetic make up. (Basically you turn into your nationalities local myth )
 
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Haven't seen this being posted yet.

'Westworld' Creators Set Futuristic Drama Series 'The Peripheral' at Amazon

Joy and Nolan, via their Warner Bros. Television-based Kilter Films banner, are set to adapt William Gibson's book The Peripheral as a drama for Amazon Studios. The project landed at Amazon in a competitive situation, with the retailer/streaming outlet handing out a script-to-series order. (Meaning that should the script for the drama come in well, it would be picked up straight to series rather than going through the traditional pilot process or pay a sizable financial penalty.)

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The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher, a woman in a near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. Flynne discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality — and the dark future of her own.

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Scott B. Smith (who earned an Oscar nomination for adapting 1998's A Simple Plan) will pen the script and executive produce alongside Nolan, Joy and their Kilter Films topper Athena Wickham. Steven Hoban (Splice) and his producing partner Vincenzo Natali (Westworld) also will exec produce, with the latter set to direct the drama. The potential series is a co-production between Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios.

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At Amazon, The Peripheral arrives as the company is looking to find its version of Game of Thrones under a mandate from CEO Jeff Bezos. To that end, Amazon Studios and new head of programming Jennifer Salke have developed a genre-focused slate that includes a Lord of the Rings TV series, Consider Phlebas and a reboot of Hanna, among others.
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