[Dormant, move to !television@lemm.ee] Shows and TV

The Wire is my all time favorite. Currently watching The Shield and while it’s not bad, it’s more of an edgy Law and Order type cop show.

I don’t think anything truly measures up to The Wire but just wanted to hear about anyone else’s recommendations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(South_Korean_TV_series)

Set at the start of the 17th century, three years after the end of the Imjin War, Kingdom takes place in a fictional, medieval-inspired Joseon (modern-day Korea) and blends political thriller and elements from zombie horror.

Warner Bros. Discovery is once again experimenting with sampling some of its premium pay TV and streaming content on its owned cable networks, this time sampling HBO‘s “True Detective: Night Country” and Max’s “Hacks.”

Beginning on March 28, “True Detective: Night Country,” which consists of six episodes, will air on TNT.

From April 3-7, “Hacks” will air its first three seasons on TBS with two episodes going back to back per night. The event leads into the “Hacks” Season 4 premiere April 10 on Max.

As is customary for mature content, the episodes will be edited to meet the standards and practices guidelines for cable.

A few days after Netflix's gut-wrenching cancelation of The Recruit, its showrunner and creator, Alexi Hawley, is letting the disappointment roll off like water off a duck's back, and he's ready to dive straight into another project. The man who is also behind the fan-favorite police procedural, The Rookie, is in the process of developing another network cop series, according to a new Deadline report. The yet-untitled series is in development at NBC and has already found its star in Jon Huertas, whom many will recognize for his role as Jack's best friend, Miguel Rivas, in the Emmy Award-winning series This Is Us. Huertas, in addition to starring, will serve as executive producer alongside Hawley, with Rachel Abarbanell as co-executive producer.

Like The Rookie, the series will center on the LAPD but will tell a markedly different story as inspired by Candice Fox's bestselling novel, Fire with Fire. Wendy Mericle (So Help Me Todd, Willow) will develop a script while serving as co-showrunner. The project already has an intriguing premise in place and it reads:

"When a pair of grieving parents hijack an LAPD forensics lab and threaten to start destroying evidence until the police find their missing daughter, an unlikely partnership between grizzled undercover cop Enrique Arroyo (Huertas) and rookie flame-out Lynette Lamb is forged as they race to solve this cold case before the situation explodes."

The upcoming DC Studios series "Lanterns" has cast Jason Ritter in a recurring role.

Jason Isaacs is tired of being asked about his "White Lotus" full frontal nude scene and says the attention around it is a double standard.

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians" has been renewed for Season 3 at Disney+ nearly a year before the show's second season premiere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)

You can't take the sky from me

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25616618

I can't believe Lucasfilm reportedly has 60 scripts for a Star Wars television show that have largely gone unused. Although it's been a matter of record for several years, new details about George Lucas' Star Wars: Underworld have recently been revealed. To that end, many have been wondering if the fascinating series will ever become a reality.

One of the last projects George Lucas worked on before selling Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, Star Wars: Underworld was intended to be a major multi-season show the likes of which had never been seen before on network television. However, there are some key reasons why the show never got made. However, I firmly believe that the time has come for Lucasfilm to finally make Star Wars: Underworld a reality, especially seeing how 60 out of a hundred intended scripts were apparently written for the series before its cancellation.

According to reports, Star Wars: Underworld was George Lucas's big idea and mission in the late 2000s, shortly after getting the animated Clone Wars series off the ground in 2008. Gathering several accomplished television writers to Skywalker Ranch, around 60 third-draft scripts were written for this intended series set during the Dark Times of the Empire's rule, between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Story arcs would have focused on Palpatine, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Han Solo, and Lando Calrissian, with many actors like Ian McDiarmid and Jeremy Bulloch intending to return for the show.

Underworld would have been predominantly set in the lower levels of Coruscant, while also tying into the intended video game 1313 from LucasArts that was also cancelled shortly after the series. Confirmed to be darker and more geared toward adult audiences, it seems Lucas intended for a big chunk of the Star Wars franchise to start growing up with its audience. However, it ultimately wasn't meant to be.