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Showtime has just greenlit a post-apocalyptic series titled Last H.O.P.E. — which stands for the Last Hospital On Planet Earth. More »
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There's a lot of excellent buzz surrounding John Layman and Rob Guillory's comic Chew, the story of an FBI agent who snacks on the dead to absorb their memories. And now the comic is getting its own TV series. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5785645&view=rss&microfeed=true Showtime is deciding what synthetic creatures live — and which ones die — on their new drama Syns (formerly Doll's Hospital). Based on a British TV series, Syns is set in a world filled with "humanlike" synthetic organisms that are used for all sorts of purposes — from menial labor to sex. The show will be produced by Jericho's John McNamara and Supernatural's Sera Gamble. [The Hollywood Reporter] More »
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Starship Regulars, a cartoon that ran on Flash animation site Icebox from 1999-2000, was intended to parody self-righteous military space dramas like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Babylon 5. But the interstellar upstairs/downstairs comedy in many ways resembles the rebooted Battlestar Galactica with its focus on the orange jumpsuit-wearing non-officers, heavy use of a fictitious swear word, and frequently intoxicated crew. In the pilot episode "War," a Diedrich Bader-voiced crewman engages in a drinking contest with an alien technician while Michael Dorn occupies the captain’s chair and faces down a more classic extraterrestrial foe. More »
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Showtime is bringing in The Exterminators, courtesy of a just-announced adaptation of DC Comics' horror series from the Vertigo line. In a strange moment of the circuitous nature of media, Vertigo's The Exterminators actually started life as a pitch for a TV show by writer Simon Oliver before being turned into a 30-issue series about ex-con Henry James' experiences working for Bug-Bee-Gone, an exterminator company run by his stepfather. It sounds dull until you learn about the possibly-mystical mysterious box with some connection to insects, Nazis and the Gulf War More »
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