ABC to Develop Pilot of ‘Paranormal Activity’ Series
The tremendous success of indie flick “Paranormal Activity” is stretched much wider with a TV deal. The small screen viewers may soon have trouble sleeping for a TV show is being worked on based on the movie about unknown being which disturbs a young couple’s sleep at nights.
Creator of the movie, Oren Peli, is teaming up with Dreamworks TV and ABC Studios to develop the series which is going to be called “The River”. Executive producers Steven Schneider and Jason Blum who worked on the first installment and “Paranormal Activity 2” screenwriter Michael R. Perry are also involved in creating the horror series.
Jane Espenson tells us about Torchwood’s ‘intense’ next season
Jane Espenson is one of the most beloved science fiction TV writers out there, and also a very busy one. She’s worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, Caprica and a whole bunch of other shows, and now she’s working on the new season of Torchwood.
She’ll be writing about a third of the season-four episodes, so we asked her to tell us what she’s got planned for Torchwood fans and how she ended up working on the show:
Can you give us any juicy details? Or maybe just some slightly moist
ones? Or anything at all?
We’ve already changed the name of at least one character that was announced in the press. And there’s nothing to stop us from changing more—so if you hear anything, even if it was true at some point, it probably isn’t anymore. So the more you learn about Torchwood, the less you know.
Futurama’s Comic Cosmonauts Recall Best Bits From First 100 Episodes
Futurama’s milestone 100th episode arrives Thursday night, but the warm, weird remembrances of the show’s creative team have come in early.
Click through the gallery of images from “The Mutants Are Revolting” and other episodes above for the favorite moments of executive producer David X. Cohen and voice actors Billy West, Lauren Tom, Maurice LaMarche and David Herman from Futurama’s first 100 episodes.
Read More & see the images here.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Reboot Creator Ron Moore Brings NBC A Magic-Driven Series
After “The Wire,” Ron Moore and David Eick’s “Battlestar Galactica” series for SyFy (called Sci-Fi Channel at the time) is one of the best examples of compelling dramatic television in years. The way they took this far out sci-fi setting of the last surviving humans in the known universe on the run from their robot destroyers and turned it into a heavily character-driven drama with strangely relevant themes was simply masterful.
Now, Moore will bring his A-game to NBC. The network purchased a pitch — for a reported $2 million — for a series which is described as “an adult ‘Harry Potter’ set in a world ruled not by science but by magic,”
I am intrigued by an adult Harry Potter series based on magic. Sounds good to me!
