The Wednesday TV News
McFarlane hopes Fox gets TWISTED TALES
Network order pilot episode
Comic book superstar artist and toy manufacturer Todd McFarlane has a new TV project in development inspired by his line of TWISTED TALES action figures. McFarlane would host a half-hour anthology show in the same vein as THE TWILIGHT ZONE, with its stories taking place in the realms of science fiction, fantasy or horror. McFarlane himself would host the series if it ever reaches the air. EDITOR'S NOTE: UMM...YEAH. CAUSE ANTHOLOGY SHOWS HAVE DONE SO WELL IN THE PAST? NOT.
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN producer Don Murphy is executive producing the project, via his Angry Films production banner, along with McFarlane, Terry Fitzgerald, Rick Benattar, Susan Montford and Trey Callaway. Callaway, the screenwriter of I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, is writing the series bible and a pilot script for Fox Television.
THE X-FILES Meets THE EXORCIST
Paul Scheuring, the creator of the FOX pilot PRISON BREAK, will be producing another pilot for FOX's 2005-06 season.The series is described as THE X-FILES meets THE EXORCIST and features a hard-living priest EDITOR'S NOTE: EXCUSE ME. 'HARD-LIVING PRIEST'? IS THAT.....UMM...KOSHER? who partners with a female doctor to investigate unexplained religious phenomena. The working title for the series is BRIAR & GRAVES. EDITOR'S NOTE: GUESS THEY WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT 'WILL-THEY-WON'T-THEY' SEXUAL TENSION THING. *ALTHOUGH, THIS IS ON FOX, SO MAYBE THEY WILL. EEK.
LOST on the Move
Hit TV series LOST may be shooting elsewhere than Hawaii since it seems that the state may close a loophole in its tax laws.
Film and television productions have been taking advantage of a 100 % tax credit Hawaii offers for high-tech businesses. It seems that citizens and the Hawaiian government feel that the biz is misusing the credit and cheating the state out of millions of dollars.It is unknown yet where the show would move if the law is changed, but Louisiana, New Mexico and the Carolinas are all rumored to be potential states where LOST could shoot.EDITOR'S NOTE: IF THEY SHOOT IN LOUISIANA IT BECOMES MORE LIKE A LOCAL DOCUMENTARY. *EXCEPT FOR THE ARTICULATE DIALOGUE. SNICKER.
Sackheim To Helm "Night Stalker
Variety reports that veteran "X-Files" director Dan Sackheim has been hired to direct Frank Spotnitz's ABC drama pilot "The Night Stalker."
"Spotnitz said he and Sackheimer are going for a 'very contemporary, sleek and scary look,' adding 'Night Stalker' will have "a style very much its own." He also promised a number of visual tricks, but declined to talk specifics."
"Night Stalker" is a reworking and updating of them mid '70's ABC cult favorite "Kolchak: The Night Stalker." Carl Kolchak uncovered mysteries involving vampires, serial killers and other freakish occurrences. EDITOR'S NOTE: I MISS "THE X-FILES". WE COULD USE SOME INTELLIGENT, CREEPING OUT, PARANOIA ON TV AGAIN.
MEDIUM Will Get A Second Season.
NBC confirmed that its new supernatural series, MEDIUM, would get a second season of 22 episodes and would see its first season have 16 episodes in total. MEDIUM stars Patricia Arquette as a reluctant psychic who helps solve crimes.
MEDIUM airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. EST on NBC.
The series stars Patricia Arquette and was created by producer Glenn Gordon. The program has averaged 15.7 million viewers overall. The drama also stars Jake Weber, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, Maria Lark and David Cubitt. EDITOR'S NOTE: AND HERE'S A TESTAMENT TO HOW APPEALING AND CROSS-OVER THIS SHOW IS: BOTH MY PARENTS...DAD, THE DWEEB, AND MOM, THE DWEEB-DISDAINER....REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW.
Anders will appear in episode "ShowGhouls," which is set to air on February 20 at 8 p.m. Actor Billy Zane also guest stars in this episode.David Anders is better known for his role of Sark on ABC's ALIAS.
EDITOR'S NOTE: AND HERE'S THE REALLY GOOD NEWS, FOR THOSE OF US WHO WOULD SOONER EAT NAILS THAN WATCH "CHARMED"... He'll reprise his ALIAS role in at least two episodes that are set to air at the end of February and early March.EDITOR'S NOTE: YIPPEE!!! I GATHER GINA TORRES AND ISABELLA ROSELLINI WILL BE BACK SOON, TOO.
CHARMED airs on Sundays at 8 p.m. EST on The WB EDITOR'S NOTE: NOT THAT ANYONE CARES? and ALIAS airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC. EST
'Santiagos' in Dis Channel's universe
Disney Channel has ordered the animated series pilot "The Santiagos of Sector 9."
Peter Murietta ("Hope and Faith"), Vincent Cheung and Ben Montanio ("The Steve Harvey Show") created and wrote "Sector," which revolves around a boy who discovers that he is the guardian of the galaxy, while his sister is a villain in the making bent on world domination. EDITOR'S NOTE: SOMETHING MY BROTHERS HAVE SUSPECTED FOR A VERY LONG TIME, I THINK. *AND ONCE AGAIN...THE BOY IS THE HERO, AND THE GIRL IS THE BADDIE. BLAH BLAH BLAH. WHEN I REALLY TAKE OVER, I'M GOING TO KICK SOME BOY-WRITER BUTT.
Walt Disney Television Animation will produce the pilot in consideration of a series order for next year. No voice talent is attached yet.
Network order pilot episode
Comic book superstar artist and toy manufacturer Todd McFarlane has a new TV project in development inspired by his line of TWISTED TALES action figures. McFarlane would host a half-hour anthology show in the same vein as THE TWILIGHT ZONE, with its stories taking place in the realms of science fiction, fantasy or horror. McFarlane himself would host the series if it ever reaches the air. EDITOR'S NOTE: UMM...YEAH. CAUSE ANTHOLOGY SHOWS HAVE DONE SO WELL IN THE PAST? NOT.
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN producer Don Murphy is executive producing the project, via his Angry Films production banner, along with McFarlane, Terry Fitzgerald, Rick Benattar, Susan Montford and Trey Callaway. Callaway, the screenwriter of I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, is writing the series bible and a pilot script for Fox Television.
THE X-FILES Meets THE EXORCIST
Paul Scheuring, the creator of the FOX pilot PRISON BREAK, will be producing another pilot for FOX's 2005-06 season.The series is described as THE X-FILES meets THE EXORCIST and features a hard-living priest EDITOR'S NOTE: EXCUSE ME. 'HARD-LIVING PRIEST'? IS THAT.....UMM...KOSHER? who partners with a female doctor to investigate unexplained religious phenomena. The working title for the series is BRIAR & GRAVES. EDITOR'S NOTE: GUESS THEY WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT 'WILL-THEY-WON'T-THEY' SEXUAL TENSION THING. *ALTHOUGH, THIS IS ON FOX, SO MAYBE THEY WILL. EEK.
LOST on the Move
Hit TV series LOST may be shooting elsewhere than Hawaii since it seems that the state may close a loophole in its tax laws.
Film and television productions have been taking advantage of a 100 % tax credit Hawaii offers for high-tech businesses. It seems that citizens and the Hawaiian government feel that the biz is misusing the credit and cheating the state out of millions of dollars.It is unknown yet where the show would move if the law is changed, but Louisiana, New Mexico and the Carolinas are all rumored to be potential states where LOST could shoot.EDITOR'S NOTE: IF THEY SHOOT IN LOUISIANA IT BECOMES MORE LIKE A LOCAL DOCUMENTARY. *EXCEPT FOR THE ARTICULATE DIALOGUE. SNICKER.
Sackheim To Helm "Night Stalker
Variety reports that veteran "X-Files" director Dan Sackheim has been hired to direct Frank Spotnitz's ABC drama pilot "The Night Stalker."
"Spotnitz said he and Sackheimer are going for a 'very contemporary, sleek and scary look,' adding 'Night Stalker' will have "a style very much its own." He also promised a number of visual tricks, but declined to talk specifics."
"Night Stalker" is a reworking and updating of them mid '70's ABC cult favorite "Kolchak: The Night Stalker." Carl Kolchak uncovered mysteries involving vampires, serial killers and other freakish occurrences. EDITOR'S NOTE: I MISS "THE X-FILES". WE COULD USE SOME INTELLIGENT, CREEPING OUT, PARANOIA ON TV AGAIN.
MEDIUM Will Get A Second Season.
NBC confirmed that its new supernatural series, MEDIUM, would get a second season of 22 episodes and would see its first season have 16 episodes in total. MEDIUM stars Patricia Arquette as a reluctant psychic who helps solve crimes.
MEDIUM airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. EST on NBC.
The series stars Patricia Arquette and was created by producer Glenn Gordon. The program has averaged 15.7 million viewers overall. The drama also stars Jake Weber, Miguel Sandoval, Sofia Vassilieva, Maria Lark and David Cubitt. EDITOR'S NOTE: AND HERE'S A TESTAMENT TO HOW APPEALING AND CROSS-OVER THIS SHOW IS: BOTH MY PARENTS...DAD, THE DWEEB, AND MOM, THE DWEEB-DISDAINER....REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW.
Bruckheimer Gives Hackford "E-Ring"
Taylor Hackford and Jerry Bruckheimer are teaming up for the Warner Bros. TV pilot "E-Ring."
The show was created by David McKenna and Ken Robinson. McKenna actually approached Hackford about the project.
The show will center on "the action arm of the Pentagon" and the "life inside the most impenetrable building in Washington and what really goes on during wartime."
Described as "The West Wing" set at the Pentagon, "E-Ring" focuses on the fight for America's safety revealed through the inner workings of the U.S. military headquarters.
Created by David McKenna and Ken Robinson, the pilot was written by McKenna, who is exec producing with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman. Robinson is producing.
Hackford is reaping accolades for "Ray," which took 13 years to make in the face of repeated rejection by studios. EDITOR'S NOTE: LET'S HOPE THEY DO A BIT MORE JUDICIOUS EDITING ON THE PILOT FOR THIS, THAN THEY DID WITH "RAY". AHEM.....
Sark Gets CHARMED
In a recent Q&A posted on his official website, ALIAS actor David Anders revealed that he would guest star in an upcoming episode of The WB's CHARMED.
"I just took an offer to play an evil over-the-top proprieter of a cabaret inhe reveals on his website.
the late 1800's in the WB show CHARMED. I'll be working with Alyssa Milano and
Billy Zane and I am looking forward to it,"
Anders will appear in episode "ShowGhouls," which is set to air on February 20 at 8 p.m. Actor Billy Zane also guest stars in this episode.David Anders is better known for his role of Sark on ABC's ALIAS.
EDITOR'S NOTE: AND HERE'S THE REALLY GOOD NEWS, FOR THOSE OF US WHO WOULD SOONER EAT NAILS THAN WATCH "CHARMED"... He'll reprise his ALIAS role in at least two episodes that are set to air at the end of February and early March.EDITOR'S NOTE: YIPPEE!!! I GATHER GINA TORRES AND ISABELLA ROSELLINI WILL BE BACK SOON, TOO.
CHARMED airs on Sundays at 8 p.m. EST on The WB EDITOR'S NOTE: NOT THAT ANYONE CARES? and ALIAS airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on ABC. EST
'Santiagos' in Dis Channel's universe
Disney Channel has ordered the animated series pilot "The Santiagos of Sector 9."
Peter Murietta ("Hope and Faith"), Vincent Cheung and Ben Montanio ("The Steve Harvey Show") created and wrote "Sector," which revolves around a boy who discovers that he is the guardian of the galaxy, while his sister is a villain in the making bent on world domination. EDITOR'S NOTE: SOMETHING MY BROTHERS HAVE SUSPECTED FOR A VERY LONG TIME, I THINK. *AND ONCE AGAIN...THE BOY IS THE HERO, AND THE GIRL IS THE BADDIE. BLAH BLAH BLAH. WHEN I REALLY TAKE OVER, I'M GOING TO KICK SOME BOY-WRITER BUTT.
Walt Disney Television Animation will produce the pilot in consideration of a series order for next year. No voice talent is attached yet.
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