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[06/12/19 - 11:44 PM]
Development Update: Wednesday, June 12
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
AMERICA SAYS (GSN) - Sony Pictures Television will offer the game show in syndication on stations covering 85% of the country this fall. (Deadline.com)
DON'T LOOK DEEPER (A.K.A. HOW THEY MADE HER) (Quibi) - Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer and Helena Howard are set to star in the sci-fi drama series on the short-form video platform, about "a high school senior who can't seem to shake the feeling that something about her just isn't right. And that something is... she's not human... not one of us." Director Catherine Hardwicke and writers Jeffrey Lieber and Charlie McDonnell are behind the project, with New Form's Kathleen Grace and Laura Schwartz and 30 Ninjas' Doug Liman, Jed Weintrob and Julina Tatlock also set to executive produce. No details about the actors' role were given. (Deadline.com)
CHASERS (Comedy Central, New!) - Rob Huebel and Cathy Shim are set to star in a new comedy at the cable channel "set in the world of the after dark, independent news video hunters of Los Angeles. While these "independent filmmakers" are considered just a notch below the paparazzi on the food chain, they have even less shame and nothing will stop them in their quest to hawk shocking footage to news outlets." Shim, Robert Ben Garant and Kevin Healey co-created the half-hour, which has a pilot order at the network. Propagate's Ben Silverman, Howard Owens and Kevin Healey also serve as executive producers. Huebel will play Steve "Crash" Byrd, "the owner and leader of the misfit crew of Chasers"; while Shim plays Sugar Ho, "an Americanized immigrant and exotic dancer who moonlights as a Chaser." (Deadline.com)
ON THE SPECTRUM (Amazon) - Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien, Albert Rutecki, Sosie Bacon and Chris Pang are set to star in the pilot, a coming-of-age comedic drama about three 20-something roommates on the autism spectrum. Glassman will play Jack, "wildly intelligent and a brilliant computer programmer, but his brutal honesty, and complete lack of filter, often make him his own worst enemy"; with Pien as Violet, "a fountain of emotion, always displaying and verbally processing any and every feeling she has"; Rutecki as Harrison, "eager and loving and quick to laugh, and if he had the wherewithal to be generous, he would be"; Bacon as Mandy, "she's funny, winning and has an instinctual kind of empathy for this trio that she has been hired to help guide toward independent living as their therapeutic aide"; and Pang as Van, "Violet's salt-of-the-earth older brother." (Deadline.com)
SNOWPIERCER (TBS) - Steven Ogg - who recurs as Pike, "a volatile Tailie gang leader, who as Layton's (Daveed Diggs) rival, may be more interested in chaos than a real revolution" - will be promoted to regular for the show's second season. (Deadline.com)
TITANS (DC Universe) - Natalie Gumede will recur as Mercy Graves, "the formidable bodyguard and ruthless right hand to the megalomaniacal Lex Luthor," on the upcoming season. (Deadline.com)
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