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Brian Michael Bendis
The HBO offshoot is in development with a television series built around the Marvel character Scarlet from Brian Michael Bendis. Bendis discussed the project at the ATX Television Festival on Friday.
FX goes green for superheros, IFC wants more David Cross & Will Arnett, HBO passes on Nikki Finke & TBS does the same on college in the 80’s, while ABC adds a pair in a 2/7 deal with a Bad Mom twist.
ABC adapts another Canadian drama and a new comic book, NBC eyes the Young Turks, Nickelodeon adds another series to their surfer teen lineup, while SyFy surprises everyone with a Stargate cancellation, HBO taps a writer for Gandolfini’s next, and Showtime finds a new showrunner for Dexter.
Logline: A college student is recruited by the CIA for a project that tests whether training ordinary citizens to be agents can be successful.
Logline: After ridding Chicago of Al Capone, Eliot Ness travels to Cleveland to pursue the sadistic “Torso” serial killer, so-called because of the mutilated state of his victims.