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2017-18 Season TV Cancellations/Pilots: E Corp does hostile takeover. Shuts down fsociety

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RatskyWatsky

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Cornballer said:
Regarding Scarlet, Stephen Hopkins mentioned about a month ago that he might be involved in some capacity, so perhaps that's still kicking around. He's done a fair amount of directing for television (24, House of Lies, etc.)
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Ah, so that's still alive. I'm suspicious about it still being alive at Cinemax though - it wouldn't surprise me if it moved to Amazon or something.

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'The Americans' Duo To Executive Produce Rodeo Drama Pilot At Freeform
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And right on cue, here come the Yellowstone imitators.
 
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For once it's not bad news for Snowpiercer!
Netflix Boards TNT's 'Snowpiercer' Series
Netflix has boarded "Snowpiercer," a TV series adaptation of South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's hit 2013 feature film. The series will premiere on TNT in the U.S. in 2019, while Netflix will carry the show outside America and China.
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Also we got a director update:
...James Hawes, director of the series...

Hawes joined the show earlier this month, less than two weeks after Derrickson, the pilot's original director, announced he would not return for reshoots. Derrickson claimed that the decision was due to the series' new showrunner, Graeme Manson's "radically different vision" from that of original showrunner and series creator Josh Friedman, who left the show in January.
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That's an upgrade! Then again literally any living being would be an upgrade over Scott "basic bitch filmbro" Derrickson.
 
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Stankey talking a bit more about HBO on an AT&T earnings conference call: WarnerMedia Chief John Stankey Repeats Vow To Hike HBO Spending, Dismisses Town Hall Talk But Gives No Numbers
Asked by Wall Street analysts to offer guidance on HBO content spending, he declined to name a number but said levels of investment would definitely rise.

"What we know about this space is it requires scale," he said. "We've got to get the formula right." While HBO would not match the $8 billion and up being spent by Netflix, he said it would come up from its current level, which is less than one-third of that mark.

"We will make decisions to reinvest some of the efficiencies" from the Time Warner acquisition, Stankey said, which are projected to add up to $1 billion by 2021 (another $1.5 billion in cost savings are also expected).

As to what kind of programming those funds would support, Stankey said HBO boss Richard Plepler and his team have identified "tremendous projects already in the funnel they have not been in a position to say yes to." He did not offer specifics as to genre or talent, but described them as material that has "already scoped out that we already have rights for." These "very high-profile projects," he said, will bring down rates of churn and keep subscribers from "jumping in and out" based on programming flow.
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We'll see what happens as they try to ramp up over the next few years.
 
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Amazon Orders 'Daisy Jones & The Six' Limited Series From Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine & 'Disaster Artist' Writers
Amazon Studios has made a preemptive bid for Daisy Jones & The Six, giving a 13-episode order to a limited series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's upcoming novel. The project hails from Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion and will be a co-production between Amazon Studios and Hello Sunshine.

Feature writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days of Summer, The Fault In Our Stars), coming off an Oscar nomination for The Disaster Artist, wrote the pilot script and will oversee the limited series, which will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories.

Daisy Jones & The Six centers on a fictional rock band in the 1970s, following their rise through the ranks of the LA music scene and beyond, eventually becoming one of the most legendary bands in the world.
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berzeli said:
For once it's not bad news for Snowpiercer!
Netflix Boards TNT's 'Snowpiercer' Series

Also we got a director update:

That's an upgrade! Then again literally any living being would be an upgrade over Scott "basic bitch filmbro" Derrickson.
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Is there a reason you continue to post this completely innocuous tweet by Derrickson as if its a #metoo level gotcha? "any living being" would be better than a person who randomly posts on twitter that he likes like Kubrick and Lynch?
 
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Cornballer said:
I made a thread: Deadwood movie officially greenlit. Shoots in October with a projected premiere next Spring.

EDIT: Confederate non-update, as we predicted:
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I'll believe it when I see it!

re: confederate:Oh no. What a shame. How sad. etc.
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Is there a reason you continue to post this completely innocuous tweet by Derrickson as if its a #metoo level gotcha? "any living being" would be better than a person who randomly posts on twitter that he likes like Kubrick and Lynch?
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It's not a gotcha? I just really don't think Derrickson is a good director and I am endlessly bemused by that tweet that reads like a parody tweet of a filmbro.
 
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I did not know they were making more Young Pope, I adored that series.
Still hate on Watchmen, of all the comics they could adapt they had to pick the that has zero optimism.
 
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A few vague comments from Bloys on ramping up production after the AT&T deal: HBO Programming Chief on AT&T: "No One Is Asking Us to Sacrifice Quality for Volume"
Bloys used the TCA platform to clarify. "There are no plans to dilute the HBO brand in favor of volume of programming — no one has come to us to ask us to not do what we do, which is curate excellence," he said, noting that the type of programming that HBO produces will not change. "What I heard in meeting with John is someone investing in programing which is music to our ears. One of our challenges in the past couple years working for Time Warner is that it was a corporate entity preparing itself for sale instead of one investing."

To drive the point home, Bloys added to laughs: "No one is asking us to take pitches for a Love Boat reboot."

Bloys' comments came less than 24 hours after Stankey had used another platform, AT&T's second-quarter earnings call, to address the swirl of critical press. Although Stankey gave the subject considerably less airtime, he, too, noted that the reports had not "effectively characterized what we are about." Although he failed to elaborate, he reiterated his plan to invest in HBO's output to grow its subscriber base and combat churn. "They've not been in a position to say yes to because of constraints on certain resources," he said. "And we're attempting to open up those constraints on high-quality top projects."
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I did not know they were making more Young Pope, I adored that series.
Still hate on Watchmen, of all the comics they could adapt they had to pick the that has zero optimism.
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It isn't a straight adaptation of the book. From set pics, this is supposed to take place AFTER the events of the novel.
There have been newspapers with headlines stating Adrian Veidt is dead, so in fact, even further along from the novel's end.
 
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HBO's Perry Mason Reboot Looking For New Actor For the Lead, Robert Downey Jr. Remains Executive Producer
The project, a take on Erle Stanley Gardner's classic character, was originally set up at HBO two years ago with Robert Downey Jr. attached to play the title character.

I hear it became clear about six months ago that Downey Jr.'s feature commitments would make it difficult for him to act on the series, which remains in active development at HBO.
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Goddammit world. Why can't I get my f-bomb dropping, coke snorting, Perry Mason starring RDJ ;__;

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It's official!
'Locke & Key' Drama From Carlton Cuse & Joe Hill Gets Series Order At Netflix, Aron Eli Coleite & Meredith Averill Join As EPs
As we previously reported, Netflix is not picking up the existing Hulu pilot, written by Joe Hill, to series but will be redeveloping the scripts and re-casting the new series.
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The Netflix series was created by Hill and developed by Cuse, Coleite and Averill; the new first episode will be written by Hill and Coleite; Cuse and Averill will serve as showrunners.
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It director Andy Muschietti, who helmed the Hulu pilot, is working on the film's sequel, so he will not be available to direct the new version for Netflix. But he will serve as an executive producer on the series
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It only took two pilots (neither of which will officially air) and seven years!
 
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"Unlike Big Little Lies where all of the stars wanted to come back, Sharp Objects, it's a very dark character, very dark material. Amy doesn't want to live in this character again and I can't blame her, it's a lot to take on for an actress," HBO president of programming Casey Bloys told Deadline during TCA.
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It's been almost six months since the eight-episode second season of Divorce ended its run on HBO but the premium cable network is yet to make a renewal decision on the comedy series starring Sarah Jessica Parer.

"We have a writers room doing, scripts are being written. If they are in good shape, we will move forward but Sarah Jessica and everybody wanted to feel good about where we are going," HBO president of programming Casey Bloys told Deadline at TCA. He expects a decision to be made by end of summer.
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I don't even watch Divorce but much like Altered Carbon*, it being in limbo for this long seems really unusual.

*couldn't resist taking advantage of one of the few reasons anyone would ever have to mention both shows in the same sentence
 
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It seems like HBO wants to do it (it's one of their higher rated half hours) but SJP wants to make sure the material is good enough. I can't imagine she's been happy with how her grand return to TV has been received thus far (with a resounding "meh").
 

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Thank Zeus they aren't going to continue Sharp Objects. Not everything needs multiple seasons--certainly not an adaptation of a single novel where there is no more source material.
 

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AMC found a way to make something Walking Dead related worse than the actual terrible shows?

That's so awful that it's almost unbelievable.
 
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'Daybreak': Netflix Orders Apocalypse Dramedy Series Based On Graphic Novel From Aron Eli Coleite & Brad Peyton
Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to Daybreak, a subversive dark zombie comedy based on Brian Ralph's graphic novel, from Aron Eli Coleite (Star Trek: Discovery, Heroes) and Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson's ASAP Entertainment (Rampage).

Co-created by Coleite and Rampage director-producer Peyton based on the graphic novel, Daybreak finds 17-year-old high school outcast Josh searching for his missing girlfriend Sam in post-apocalyptic Glendale, California. Joined by a ragtag group of misfits including a pyromaniac 12-year-old Angelica and Josh's former high school bully Wesley, now turned pacifist samurai, Josh tries to stay alive amongst the horde of Mad Max-style gangs (evil jocks, cheerleaders turned Amazon warriors), zombie-like creatures called Ghoulies, and everything else this brave new world throws at him.
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HBO Picks Up LeBron James Barbershop-Set Talk Show
LeBron James and Maverick Carter's barbershop-set talk show The Shop is coming to HBO. The premium network has ordered a handful of episodes of the program – which first bowed in 2016 on James' Uninterrupted digital site. The fist episode for HBO was shot last week in Los Angeles at West Hollywood's Barber Surgeons Guild; it will bow Aug. 28 at 11 p.m. on HBO.
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