For those girls who were wondering,
and a few boys too, The CW has picked Supernatural
for an 8th season, The
Vampire Diaries for a fourth and –while not a genre so, it’s still popular-
90120 for a fifth season. Actually,
like America’s Top Model, these
three scripted shows are the most popular shows on the mini-network with girls,
and since the network is catering to them in big-time, their renewals were not
a huge surprise. Secret Circle, Ringer, Gossip Girl, Heart of Dixie
and Nakita remain “on the bubble.”
Their fate should be officially known when The CW announces its fall slate on
May 17.
Universal has signed a new
two-year deal with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and their K/O Paper
Products production company. The first two films out the gate will be reboots
of Universal properties The Mummy
and Van Helsing. Their writing credits
include two Transformers movies and
the Star Trek reboot as well as the
much maligned Cowboys & Aliens.
On the TV side, they created the underrated
Fringe and produce the Hawaii Five-0
reboot.
The set-bound 4th Doctor Who story of season 7 -a
probable bottle-episode due to so much expensive location shooting for episodes
1, 2, 3 and 5- is confirmed to be a story that brings back UNIT and involves
Henry VIII and his wife Catherine. Stephen Blything and Law & Order: UK’s
Jemma Redgrave has been cast in those roles. The episode has a working title of
Cubed.
The Starz Channel has ordered 8
episodes of Black Sails, a pirate
themed series from the worst director on the planet, Michael Bay. It’s actually
a prequel to Robert Louis Steven’s classic high seas adventure novel Treasure Island, set some 20 years
before the novel in what Starz describes as a story about “Flint, the most
brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking
young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with
extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island,
the most notorious criminal haven of its day — a debauched paradise teeming
with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both
its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.” It should bow in 2014.
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