9 Networks… 15 Shows… 25 Actors… All TV.
Comedy Central decided to follow the Evil Genius, while HBO likes the Reds, and Lizzie Borden, and Fox decides you’re going to need to wait another 6 months for time traveling dinosaur tales from Steven Spielberg.
A Seinfeld alum returns to CBS, CMT adds more Working Class, Fox traps two more to walk amongst the Dinosaurs, MTV cast their Americanized version of the Inbetweeners, and USA goes to pilot with the addition of Warren Kole.
Another Lost alum joing Hawaii 5-O, CMT adds some working class, Fox adds a new recurring to House, a pair to Alcatraz, and a pair to Terra Nova, while FX snags a new lady for Justified, Parenthood adds a recurring, TBS lands the last lead for it’s Brain Trust, and TNT snags a trio to join Eliza Dushku’s Bird Dog.
NOW HIRING: time travel dinosaur action drama writers, with experience not making shows suck by midseason, and not reverting to a “wedding” or “baby on the way” save until at least the second season.
ABC Family stacks a few pilots, CBS bumps one to series regular, CW adds a pair, and Lifetime snags a new lead!
CBS adds 1 to the Mentalist, and Fox sends a handful more back to Spielberg’s dino times!
CBS adds 4, NBC adds 2, while Fox, Cartoon Network and SyFy add just one.
LOCKE & KEY has gone through almost every media platform before finding a home that has not only bought it (third sale) but has confirmed to shoot it.
As we reported a little over a week ago, the project, based on the Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son) graphic novel, was originally set up as a film. After busy schedules, and a sluggish move through development, the team decided on a new outlook, with producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman went for some heavies, bringing on Steven Spielberg to produce alongside them, and Josh Friedman to pen a TV pilot. And, lets be honest, any TV project with those 5 names on it, is already on a level echelons above any other spec pilot.
And that is precisely what Fox thought, snatching up the pilot today, with a commitment to shoot the pilot, and a hefty penalty if the series does not air.
So, ratchet the number of Steven Spileberg TV shows on Fox in 2011 to two, with LOCKE & KEY joining TERRA NOVA.