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Going to start a thread for new cable dramas that will premiere in 2011 and pickups which will most likely begin in 2012. I'll put as many as I know of in this list but if any of you know of others feel free to post them and I'll add them to the master list here in this post but some rules:
1) Only Cable channels, nothing on network
2) Dramas Only
Camelot - Starz - April 1st
"Camelot" is the timeless and powerful tale of legendary King Arthur, and he is the focus of this new romantic adventure series from Starz. "Camelot" will feature a stunning cast of talented young actors weaving authentically into a fresh approach to the most classic medieval tale of all time.
The Killing - AMC - March
AMC has begun production on the network’s next original series, The Killing. From writer, executive producer and series showrunner Veena Sud (Cold Case), The Killing is based on the wildly successful Danish television series Forbrydelsen and tells the story of the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation. Season one will consist of thirteen one-hour episodes and is slated to premiere in March 2011.
The Borgias - Showtime - TBD 2011
Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons will star in the epic drama series as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of The Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy. Additionally, Academy Award® winning director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) will create and executive produce the series as well as direct the first two episodes. THE BORGIAS will be a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history's most intriguing and infamous dynastic families. The series begins as the family's patriarch Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons), becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
Game of Thrones - HBO - April
Game of Thrones is an upcoming American medieval fantasy television series created by David Benioff and Dan Weiss for HBO. The series, based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among noble families for control of the Iron Throne of Westeros. The series will debut in April 2011.
Falling Skies - TNT - June
The series opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.
Magic City - Starz - 2012
Atlantic City has HBO's Prohibition-era "Boardwalk Empire." 1960s Manhattan has "Mad Men" on AMC. Now Miami Beach will have its own starring role in a period drama. "Magic City," a series set in a fictional Miami Beach hotel in the late 1950s -- when the Rat Pack played and Fidel Castro took power in Cuba -- got the green light this week for 10 episodes from Starz Entertainment. Casting is set to start soon, and production will begin in 2011, though it's still unclear how much, if any, of the series will be filmed in Miami. The show is set to air on the Starz cable channel in 2012.
Hell on Wheels - AMC - TBD; 2012 likely
For its next original series AMC is going back to the ’60s — the 1860s, that is. On Wednesday AMC, the cable-television home of the period drama “Mad Men” (as well as “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead”), said it had committed to a full season of “Hell on Wheels,” a series set in post-Civil War America. In a news release AMC said “Hell on Wheels,” which is created and written by the sibling screenwriters Joe and Tony Gayton (“Faster”), would star Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannan, a former soldier in the Confederate Army who, in searching for the Union soldiers who killed his wife, finds his way to a lawless town called Hell on Wheels, and to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. The release said the series would explore “the railroad’s institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction.” Additional cast members include the rapper Common (whose acting credits include “Just Wright” and “Date Night”) and Colm Meaney (of the “Star Trek” spinoffs “The Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine”); no premiere date has been announced.
1) Only Cable channels, nothing on network
2) Dramas Only
Camelot - Starz - April 1st
"Camelot" is the timeless and powerful tale of legendary King Arthur, and he is the focus of this new romantic adventure series from Starz. "Camelot" will feature a stunning cast of talented young actors weaving authentically into a fresh approach to the most classic medieval tale of all time.
The Killing - AMC - March
AMC has begun production on the network’s next original series, The Killing. From writer, executive producer and series showrunner Veena Sud (Cold Case), The Killing is based on the wildly successful Danish television series Forbrydelsen and tells the story of the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation. Season one will consist of thirteen one-hour episodes and is slated to premiere in March 2011.
The Borgias - Showtime - TBD 2011
Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons will star in the epic drama series as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of The Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy. Additionally, Academy Award® winning director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) will create and executive produce the series as well as direct the first two episodes. THE BORGIAS will be a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history's most intriguing and infamous dynastic families. The series begins as the family's patriarch Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons), becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
Game of Thrones - HBO - April
Game of Thrones is an upcoming American medieval fantasy television series created by David Benioff and Dan Weiss for HBO. The series, based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among noble families for control of the Iron Throne of Westeros. The series will debut in April 2011.
Falling Skies - TNT - June
The series opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.
Magic City - Starz - 2012
Atlantic City has HBO's Prohibition-era "Boardwalk Empire." 1960s Manhattan has "Mad Men" on AMC. Now Miami Beach will have its own starring role in a period drama. "Magic City," a series set in a fictional Miami Beach hotel in the late 1950s -- when the Rat Pack played and Fidel Castro took power in Cuba -- got the green light this week for 10 episodes from Starz Entertainment. Casting is set to start soon, and production will begin in 2011, though it's still unclear how much, if any, of the series will be filmed in Miami. The show is set to air on the Starz cable channel in 2012.
Hell on Wheels - AMC - TBD; 2012 likely
For its next original series AMC is going back to the ’60s — the 1860s, that is. On Wednesday AMC, the cable-television home of the period drama “Mad Men” (as well as “Breaking Bad” and “The Walking Dead”), said it had committed to a full season of “Hell on Wheels,” a series set in post-Civil War America. In a news release AMC said “Hell on Wheels,” which is created and written by the sibling screenwriters Joe and Tony Gayton (“Faster”), would star Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannan, a former soldier in the Confederate Army who, in searching for the Union soldiers who killed his wife, finds his way to a lawless town called Hell on Wheels, and to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. The release said the series would explore “the railroad’s institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during Reconstruction.” Additional cast members include the rapper Common (whose acting credits include “Just Wright” and “Date Night”) and Colm Meaney (of the “Star Trek” spinoffs “The Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine”); no premiere date has been announced.
