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Lost meets Desperate Housewives?
Warning: Spoilers!
A crossover between Lost and Desperate Housewives? Surely one of television’s craziest notions.
But both are ABC shows, so there is a possibility it could eventuate.
Creator Marc Cherry says he is planning a plane to crash into Wisteria Lane as a mid-series cliffhanger. The incident would affect everyone’s lives.
“I’d love to kill somebody ’cause that’s just what I do,” he joked. “But the truth is, right now I don’t have anyone major dying.”
Now it seems the plane could be an Oceanic liner, the same carrier that crashed into Lost.
An insider said …
J.J. Abrams turns to the light side
Highly-praised writer J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe, Alias, Felicity, What About Brian?) will produce a half-hour comedy for the FOX Network.
The project, written by Mike Markowitz (It’s All Relative, Becker), is described as “a comedic medical show.”
And that’s not Scrubs, ok!
The untitled project will have to compete with others in the genre: Grey’s Anatomy, House, Private Practice, Trauma, Miami Trauma, Mercy, Three Rivers and Hawthorne.
And then there’s Nurse Jackie, raising the bar…
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Opera House lands Star Trek World Premiere
Could it be a case of being a space opera?
Paramount Pictures has announced the World Premiere of J.J. Abrams new Star Trek film at the Sydney Opera House on April 7th.
It will be the first time a film has premiered in the Concert Hall.
The big screen version by Abrams (Lost, Alias, Fringe, What About Brian, Felicity, Mission Impossible III, Cloverfield) explores the backstories of James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto, Heroes), before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from the future …
Day One to strike disaster
American studios have given the greenlight to some interesting pilot ideas, on catastrophes, legal, cops and TV news.
Writer Jesse Alexander (Heroes, Alias, Lost) will write a post-apocalyptic drama pilot Day One, about a catastrophic global event that destroys the world’s infrastructure. The action centres on a small group of survivors. The Day After anyone….?
ABC Studios will pilot I, Claudia set in the world of a young prosecuting attorney who will one day be a contender for the presidency.
Meanwhile, Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes will revisit an idea on television news. Having …
Witches of Eastwick pilot announced
More drama pilots have been announced in the US by two big networks.
ABC: Eastwick, based on the 1987 feature The Witches of Eastwick follows three women in the town of Eastwick who embark upon lives with new powers after an enigmatic stranger comes to town. The story has already become a stage musical, and America just loves female ensembles these days so why not?
It is to be written by Maggie Friedman (Jack & Bobby).
NBC: Mercy is a drama with comedic elements that revolves around three nurses bound together in friendship by …
111 Hits to join Austar
Austar subscribers will be pleased to hear that 111 Hits is to join the channel line-up from March 1st.
Since the channel launched on November 1st regional viewers have been none too happy that they have missed out on the channel, which screens mostly “classic television” including Alf, Alias, Ally McBeal, Baywatch, Dharma & Greg, ER, Murphy Brown, Northern Exposure, Suddenly Susan, The Wonder Years, Veronica’s Closet and Without a Trace.
Viewers were particularly incensed over confusing promotions for the channel which led them to believe they would see the channel from …
What’s happened to HD?
Programming on HD channels has taken a holiday at some networks, with fleeting attention by networks to provide decent alternative viewing.
On some days next week on TEN HD there is only 3 hours of dedicated programming. On other days there is none.
Evening HD programming has dried up over summer on TEN, with no alternatives once provided by shows like Monk, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Torchwood, Eureka and The X Files. Those shows have now either concluded, without being replaced, or simply stopped.
When TEN HD was announced by TEN it promised “50 hours …
Eli Stone
Oh for a bit of fantasy on our screens. You can keep your realism and your factuals, television that surprises me is king right now. And that’s just what you get in the first episode of Eli Stone.
Long overdue to Australian screens, Seven is belatedly bringing this American drama to us over summer. Co-created by Greg Berlanti (Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood), this stars British actor Jonny Lee Miller as a lawyer in the title role. He seemingly has it all, a successful life, beautiful girlfriend and corporate career. …
Fringe
Mental note to self: never, ever take a flight with screenwriter J.J. Abrams. He’s the guy who crashed Oceanic Flight 815 onto a tiny Pacific island in Lost. Now he opens his newest television drama, Fringe, with another disastrous flight.
This time a virus breaks out aboard a jet descending into Boston. Nobody survives a rapid, flesh-eating outbreak. Enter FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), called in to investigate as part of an interagency task force.
When her partner, and bed mate, Special Agent John Scott (Mark Valley) falls victim to the virus, …
Airdate: Fringe
J. J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, What About Brian) newest drama Fringe will start on Nine later this month.
Nine will screen the show from 8:30pm Wednesday September 17, a week after its US debut.
Fringe is a part-action, part sci-fi, and the cast includes Australian actress Anna Torv (The Secret Life of Us), Kirk Acevedo (Oz), Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), and Mark Valley. Film actress Charlotte Rampling has also joined.
With its mix of terrorist / paranormal activites, the show has also been described as resembling The X Files and Altered States (they’ve even …