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HBO just can’t stop greenlighting new shows lately, can they? There are at least 9 new programmes lined up for HBO in 2010 and “Enlightened” is just the latest pilot, to be handled by writer-director Mike White. The series is about a woman who goes through some sort of spiritual awakening and “becomes determined to live [...] The fantastic Laura Linney has been lined up to executive produce and star in a half-hour comedy for Showtime. The show; “…delves into the emotional ups and downs of a suburban wife and mother forced to face reality yet also find the light side in a dark situation. A metaphor for the way we all should [...] News of the WTF variety, folks. Word is out that that classic 1989 movie Heathers, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, is being developed into a TV series. Join me in collectively weeping. If a TV series of Heathers was done well, it would be hilarious. I love a good dark comedy, and Heathers certainly fits [...] The adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, currently being worked on by writer-director Andrew Stanton, is receiving an influx of good old British thespianism in the form of Dominic West, Polly Walker and Samantha Morton. West, best known for playing troubled cop McNulty on the phenomenal series The Wire, is lined up to Sab Than, [...] Coster-Waldau, who recently starred in the sadly-failed TV pilot Virtuality has been cast in HBO’s Game of Thrones, a series based on the George RR Martin series of fantasy novels. I have to confess to not being familiar with the novels at all, so if any of you readers have enjoyed them, let me know! [...] Midnight Mass, a DC Comics series about a husband and wife team or supernatural crime fighters, has been snapped up by NBC for adaptation into a live-action series. I’m by no means an expert on comic books, so I couldn’t tell you whether the comics themselves are particularly interesting, but the part of the story [...] Variety is reporting that Frank Spotnitz, formerly a writer and producer on The X-Files, is working with HBO to develop a series based on the 1971 Robert Silverberg novel “The World Inside”. Spotnitz said “I’m not usually attracted to dystopian stories, but the more I read this novel the more I saw its relevance to [...] |
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