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CBS has picked up two SF pilots: Babylon Fields, an hour-long zombie-themed comedy-drama, and Twilight, a drama about a vampire private eye who's dealing with the fallout from being immortal, Variety reported.
Gerald Cuesta and Michael Atkinson wrote the pilot for Babylon Fields and will serve as supervising producers. CBS described the pilot as a "sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy-drama where the dead are rising and, as a result, lives are regained, families restored and old wounds reopened." Michael Cuesta, who directed the pilot for Showtime's Dexter, will executive-produce and helm via 20th Century Fox Television.
In Twilight, the central character contends with foes in the vampire world and a budding love for a mortal. Joel Silver is executive-producing via Warner Brothers TV. Trevor Munson (Lone Star State of Mind) and Ron Koslow (Beauty and the Beast) wrote the script and will executive-produce.
Could be good, could be suck, but one thing is certain: There will be zombies.
I'd prefer comedy to be limited in zombie movies (and mostly of the black, gallows humor variety when it exists), sure Shaun of the Dead was great, but I thought they went a bit too far (particularly with the ending), and zombie apocalypses are serious business! But at least it's a comedy-drama, rather than straight comedy. And the description sounds like it could be okay. The problem is, if it isn't, it scuttles any chance for a really good zombie-apocalypse series.
As to Twilight? Sounds great, I really loved the concept... when it was called Angel. Or Forever Knight (except there he was a cop rather than a PI).
Sadly, the way TV goes Twilight will probably be a hit and Babylon Fields will send the prospect of a zombie tv series back to its grave.
CBS has picked up two SF pilots: Babylon Fields, an hour-long zombie-themed comedy-drama, and Twilight, a drama about a vampire private eye who's dealing with the fallout from being immortal, Variety reported.
Gerald Cuesta and Michael Atkinson wrote the pilot for Babylon Fields and will serve as supervising producers. CBS described the pilot as a "sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy-drama where the dead are rising and, as a result, lives are regained, families restored and old wounds reopened." Michael Cuesta, who directed the pilot for Showtime's Dexter, will executive-produce and helm via 20th Century Fox Television.
In Twilight, the central character contends with foes in the vampire world and a budding love for a mortal. Joel Silver is executive-producing via Warner Brothers TV. Trevor Munson (Lone Star State of Mind) and Ron Koslow (Beauty and the Beast) wrote the script and will executive-produce.
Could be good, could be suck, but one thing is certain: There will be zombies.
I'd prefer comedy to be limited in zombie movies (and mostly of the black, gallows humor variety when it exists), sure Shaun of the Dead was great, but I thought they went a bit too far (particularly with the ending), and zombie apocalypses are serious business! But at least it's a comedy-drama, rather than straight comedy. And the description sounds like it could be okay. The problem is, if it isn't, it scuttles any chance for a really good zombie-apocalypse series.
As to Twilight? Sounds great, I really loved the concept... when it was called Angel. Or Forever Knight (except there he was a cop rather than a PI).
Sadly, the way TV goes Twilight will probably be a hit and Babylon Fields will send the prospect of a zombie tv series back to its grave.
