By NELLIE ANDREEVA, Source: Deadline.com Netflix, already in talks with 20th Century Fox TV about possibly picking up recently cancelled Fox series Terra Nova, may also be eying another freshman drama that is facing cancellation, ABC’s The River. I’ve learned that the streaming giant has had conversations with The River
By NELLIE ANDREEVA , Source: Deadline.com Netflix is already bringing back one cancelled 20th Century Fox TV series, the Emmy-winning Arrested Development. Now the video streaming giant is taking a look at another, drama Terra Nova. I hear that 20th TV and Netflix have been in talks about keeping the
By NELLIE ANDREEVA from Deadline.com EXCLUSIVE: The Western genre continues to be hot at the TV networks. In a competitive situation, ABC has bought drama pitch Hangtown, from Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ron Moore and Caprica writer Matt Roberts. Sony Pictures TV, where Moore is under an overall deal, is
By NELLIE ANDREEVA, Source: Deadline.com From zombies to aliens. The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and her Valhalla Entertainment have optioned Annie Jacobsen’s book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base for a potential TV series. The hourlong project, which will be taken out
By NELLIE ANDREEVA, Source: Deadline.com After recently signing on to reboot one classic TV show, Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, Seth MacFarlane is taking on another iconic TV series, Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Fox has greenlighted Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series from Family Guy creator MacFarlane and late
By MIKE FLEMING Deadline.com Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting The Umbrella Academy for Universal Pictures, based on the 2008 Eisner Award-winning Dark Horse comic written by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. Mark Bomback wrote the first draft. The comic revolves around an adopted dysfunctional family of superheroes with
