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When people call the network upfronts one long song and dance, they're not kidding.
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Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones? More like pile of crap.
In last night's conclusion to A&E's overlong, underwhelming, four-hour adaptation of Stephen King's equally blah novel, the ghosts got off way easier than viewers, who had to live through laughable dialogue, clichés galore and even a few criminal rip-offs of King's own work.
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Oded Fehr
"You ask for a simple white Christmas ..." and everything goes to cartoon hell on Eureka, already the most animated of Syfy's quirky series, and a natural to be brought back for a one-night-only Christmas special, a gift for fantasy fans, packaged with similarly themed episodes of Warehouse 13 and Haven. The Eureka special (8/7c) is especially inventive, as the isolated mountain town's overtaxed Super Photon Generator interacts with a child's hologram-generating storybook, and abracadabra, everyone becomes a cartoon character (including Sheriff Carter's much-abused Jeep, cleverly and petulantly voiced by The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons).
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Haven
Syfy is staying in Haven, ordering a third season of the supernatural drama, Variety reports.
The 13 new episodes will air sometime next year.
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Loosely based on Stephen King's novella, The Colorado Kid, Haven takes place in a quaint Maine town filled with...
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The Walking Dead, True Blood, Supernatural
Historically, horror hasn't scared up a great track record on TV. Supernatural series? Yes. Terrifying ones? No. The good news for FX, which on Wednesday launches American Horror Story, is that audiences seem to be growing braver. Millions have dared to peek out from behind their fingers, making hits out of The Walking Dead and True Blood. Even when Nip/Tuck dipped its scalpels into overt horror -- terrorizing us with sadistic serial killer The Carver -- it drew record numbers to FX.
But do viewers have the stomach for a haunted house dreamed up by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, who gave us both Glee and Nip/Tuck?
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Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan has signed on to play protagonist Mike Noonan in A&E's adaptation of Stephen King's beloved 1998 supernatural, midlife crisis novel Bag of Bones. The four-hour "mini-series" is set to air in two parts sometime during the last quarter of this year...
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Stephen King, Dark Tower
Universal Pictures has scuttled its plan to adapt Stephen King's seven-novel series The Dark Tower, Deadline reports.
In September, Universal and NBC Universal Television announced they were going to produce a film trilogy and TV series based on King's books. Ron Howard was to direct the first film.
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Stephen King
Stephen King is in talks to write an episode of The Walking Dead, IGN reports.
Castmember Laurie Holden, who plays Andrea on the AMC series, revealed...
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Michael Easton
It's erotic, profane, ghastly violent and deeply disturbing — and that's just the first 20 pages! One Life to Live vet Michael Easton (John) has teamed with bestselling horror maestro Peter Straub to write the extraordinary graphic novel The Green Woman (DC Comics/Vertigo), which is out this month. Illustrated by comics god John Bolton, the book resurrects the notorious — and dead — serial killer Fee Bandolier last seen in Straub's popular Blue Rose Trilogy and pits him against a New York detective named Bob Steele...
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Stephen King
Jeers to Sons of Anarchy for stalling out with its stunt casting of Stephen King.
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The horror novelist — an avowed fan of FX's biker-gang drama — popped up in a cameo as "Bachman" (an elbow-in-the-ribs reference to his nom de plume Richard Bachman). A cleaner brought in to erase evidence of a crime, he was hired after Gemma...
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