via press release:
SYFY ORDERS PILOT FROM DEAD LIKE ME AND PUSHING DAISIES CREATOR BRYAN FULLER
BASED ON THE BOOK THE LOTUS CAVES
New York, New York – August 12, 2010 – Syfy today announced it has commissioned a scripted pilot from Bryan Fuller, creator of Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies.
The show will be based upon the popular book The Lotus Caves by John Christopher, about colonists who rebel against the rigidity of their lunar colony by exploring beyond its proscribed boundaries and discovering a series of caves ruled by a super-intelligent, alien species.
Jim Grey (In Plain Sight, Pushing Daisies) will co-write the script with Fuller.
Syfy recently announced a rich development slate of seven scripted projects featuring television icons Lee Majors and Kevin Sorbo; the Sanctuary creative team of Damian Kindler, Martin Wood and Amanda Tapping; a swashbuckling space opera and alien version of “The Office” from Universal Cable Productions, and a single camera ½ hour about fighting Zombies and a dramedy fighting supernatural villains.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
If it is like Haven, count me out. Haven is the crappiest show on SyFy right now….
Oh oh. I used to get excited by these kinds of announcements but now I just cross my fingers and think ‘please don’t screw it up’.
Well, it’s nice to see the network looking beyond something that’s either 1) a spinoff, or 2) a one-sentence pitch along the lines of “just like the X-Files except <>.” (“Just like the X-Files except set in a town in Maine” was a particularly weak effort.)
It’ll be interesting to see if it makes it past the pilot stage. Good luck Bryan Fuller!
Bryan Fuller makes good shows! Dead Like Me & Pushing Daisies were both great shows that ended too soon!