Ukratko: C. Phillips, Kurtzman, Orci, S. Ryan

Ukratko, par vijesti o novim projektima poznatih showrunnera.

Clyde Phillips bio je showrunner Dextera protekle četiri godine, a na kraju prošle sezone napustio je seriju kako bi se posvetio familiji. Navodno. No u lipnju je potpisao dvogodišnji ugovor sa Lionsgateom, a prvi projekt koji će proizaći iz te suradnje biti će The Naked Truth. HBO je osigurao prava na projekt, koji je baziran na izraelskoj seriji. Radnja smještena u policijsku postaju velikog grada sa istočne obale SAD-a prati istragu nestanka djevojke iz ugledne obitelji. Posljedice ovog slučaja ne utječu samo na njenu obitelj, već policijske službenike i političku garnituru grada. Phillips naglašava likove kao ključnu komponentu priče. Barem netko kuži kvalitetnu televiziju. Je, tebe gledamo, The Event. Deadline ima nešto više, citiramo:

[spoiler]The original series, created, written and directed by Uri and Benny Barbash for Israel’s Channel 10, is set entirely in an interrogation room and the adjacent room, separated by a dividing wall. In his U.S. version, Phillips plans to stay close to the basic story in the Israeli series while adding several changes, including opening up the action to other areas of the precinct but keeping it indoors. With its interior settings and focus on character and dialogue, The Naked Truth draws parallels to another HBO series based on Israeli format, In Treatment. (Israeli creators often say they are confined to a set by the limitations of their budgets but make up for that with inventive storytelling.) However, Phillips said that The Naked Truth actually reminded him more of ER, which too had an interior setting inside a hospital and centered on “intense personal dramas.” Phillips had been working on several other series ideas when Lionsgate TV’s Kevin Beggs and Barbara Wall gave him a DVD of The Naked Truth. He loved it right away, and half-way through the first episode, he knew he wanted to do it. “I can’t wait to write those powerful and challenging scenes,” he said. “It’s all just character, character, character.”[/spoiler]

Novi projekt Alexa Kurtzmana i Roberta Orcija u zadnje je vrijeme vijest u rangu alkoholiziranog ispada Charlieja Sheena. Možda je zvučna vijest, ali ponavlja se toliko često da smo prestali brojati. Radi se o adaptaciji stripa The Locke & Key, a zasad stoje samo kao izvršni producenti. Pitanje je hoće li uz svu silu obaveza i projekata raditi i na scenariju, pogotovo jer Deadline nagađa da se radi o ljetnoj seriji. Vidi pod: Persons Unknown. Zanmljivo je da će Josh scenarij pisati Josh Friedman, kretor Terminatora: TSCC. Službeni opis stripa:

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them…. and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…!

I na kraju, nova serija Shawna Ryana planirana za polusezonu, Ride-Along, mijenja ime u The Chicago Code. Ryan promjenu objašnjava namjerom da se istakne važnost čikaške sredine i okruženja te činjenice da se ne radi o običnoj policijskoj seriji, već o politici, regiji i korupciji.