No joke – Fox orders new Cosmos series produced by Seth MacFarlane
At least we don’t think it’s a joke…Deadline is reporting that Fox has ordered a new version of the late Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and the new series will be produced by – wait for it –...
View ArticleLev Grossman’s The Magicians to become Fox series
Want another contemporary fantasy drama? We’ve yet to see ABC’s Once Upon A Time or NBC’s Grimm, but now Fox wants in. The network has reportedly purchased a script commitment with penalty (they have...
View ArticleTerra Nova officially canceled by Fox, but being shopped to other networks
Word came late last night that Fox has officially canceled Terra Nova. The move is definitely not surprising, as Fox has been hesitant to pull the trigger for so long, which would have made getting a...
View ArticleFox sets science fiction-heavy 2013-2014 movie slate
Twentieth Century Fox is looking to it’s science fiction past for it’s future, with a re-release and sequels. Today the studio announced that after the success of the re-release of Titanic in 3D (which...
View ArticleFox picks up J.J. Abrams buddy robot cop pilot
Not a lot of details yet, but reports are out this evening that Fox has picked up an unnamed pilot from J.J. Abrams, described as a “near-future action-packed buddy cop show”, in which the LAPD police...
View ArticleLeague of Extraordinary Gentlemen gets put pilot order from Fox
The characters from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s series League of Extraordinary Gentleman seem likely to take an adventure on to your TV screens. The comic series, which features Captain Nemo, Allan...
View ArticleFox to remake ITV’s Broadchurch, but keep David Tennant
The show may not be SF, but it does star – and will star – a favored actor. ITV’s recent police drama Broadchurch (shown in the U.S. on BBC America), which starred Doctor Who‘s David Tennant and was...
View ArticleFox pushes Almost Human premiere back two weeks
If you were looking forward to the premiere of the new Fox human-android-cop-partners drama Almost Human starring Karl Urban (Star Trek), you’re going to have to wait a couple more weeks. Fox has...
View ArticleBeing Human showrunner Anna Fricke to take over Fox’s Hieroglyph, overall...
Anna Fricke, who with her husband Jeremy Carver adapted the British Being Human for North American audiences and was showrunner for entire run which ends in a couple weeks, will now take over Fox’s...
View ArticleBelieve it it not…Fox wants remake of The Greatest American Hero
Remakes are still the buzzword in Hollywood…Deadline reports that Fox wants a series remake of the 1981 ABC series The Greatest American Hero, giving a put pilot commitment to the team of Phil Lord and...
View ArticleWarner Bros and Bruckheimer to take another scan of DC Comics’ Global Frequency
Warner Bros TV are teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer to adapt the DC Comics limited series Global Frequency, which has received a pilot commitment from Fox. Rockne S. O’Bannon (Farscape, Defiance) will...
View ArticleMinority Report TV adaptation gets pilot order from Fox
Fox, which has been working on a TV Adaptation of the 2002 Tom Cruise sci-fi movie Minority Report, loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story, since September, and now they’ve agreed to a pilot...
View ArticleFox considers the return of The X-Files
X-Philes rejoice! Fox is reported to be considering bringing back the supernatural drama created by Chris Carter and starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson that ran on the network for 9 seasons...
View ArticleFox confirms negotiations for X-Men TV series
Finally answering a long-gestating rumor, Fox is confirming that they are in negotiations to being one of the Marvel franchises it has had success with on the big screen to the small screen. Fox TV...
View ArticleFox plans to reboot League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Could this be the final sign that studios are out of original ideas? It’s one thing to want to reboot something that has shown success (Sony is about to embark on it’s third reboot of Spider-Man), but...
View ArticleMarvel and Fox join to develop a pair of X-Men based series
Marvel and Fox (who holds the movie and TV rights to Marvel’s X-Men franchise) are working together on a pair of TV projects based on X-Men characters for two of Fox’s networks.Legion, based on the...
View ArticleFox commits to Greatest American Hero remake pilot
Believe it or not…but Fox has given a pilot production commitment for the Greatest American Hero remake – again. Last summer Fox gave a put pilot commitment, but it appears it didn’t take off, much...
View ArticleDownton Abbey‘s Dan Stevens to become Legion in Fox’s X-Men universe series
Fox wants to take the X-Men franchise to the small screen, and they’ve found the man to lead them there. Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crowley on Downton Abbey, will take on the title role in the...
View ArticleDeadpool breaks rules – and records
Deadpool shouldn’t be the successful film it is.Sure, it’s a superhero movie and that’s all the rage. And it’s a Marvel movie at that. And it exists within the X-Men universe (which one isn’t clear,...
View ArticleTricia Helfer joins Lucifer as…his mom
OK, now I’ve got to get caught up on Lucifer, seeing as how my bowling adversary Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica, Ascension) is joining the show as a recurring character for Season 2. Based on the...
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