May 23, 2019 Update

Today's Update:

Game of Thrones series finished.

Charmed season finished, will return in Fall.

Supergirl season finished, will return in Fall.

Legends of Tomorrow season finished, will return in Winter.

Humans has been canceled.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is dated for August 30.

Jessica Jones final season will be coming in late June, exact date will probably be announced tomorrow.

Arthdal Chronicles dated for Jun.1.

Today's Development Hell list has shows with no news for more than a year and a half.

Hold Fast (CW) - "An epic love story told in two timelines, following an injured Union soldier in the Reconstruction-era South who awakens reincarnated in present-day Charleston. With rapidly diminishing knowledge of his past life, he must navigate present-day relationships, including a fiancée he doesn’t remember, while uncovering what happened to his past love and searching for her."

Ringworld (Amazon) - Based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novels. "The story of Louis Gridley Wu, a bored man celebrating his 200th birthday in a technologically-advanced, future Earth. Upon being offered one of the open positions on a voyage, Louis joins a young woman and two aliens to explore Ringworld, the remote artificial ring beyond 'Known Space.'"

Lazarus (Amazon) - Based on the comic book by Greg Rucka (Jessica Jones). "Set in an alternative near future, where the world has been divided among 16 rival families, who run their territories in a feudal system. Each family has allies and enemies among the other families. To crush uprisings and fight wars, most families have a Lazarus: a one-person kill squad."

Snow Crash (Amazon) - Based on Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk novel. "In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain."

Strange Conditions (Fox) - "Set five minutes in the future, the show takes place at the New York Institute of Experimental Medicine— on the bleeding edge of biotechnology and a little beyond. These whiz kids take on only the most singular cases— medical mysteries that will make your jaw drop!"

Recall (CBS) - "The NSA assembles a group of investigators to make use of the agency’s newest tool: a machine that allows the user direct access to the memories of witnesses, victims, and suspects – but the detectives must resist the temptation to use the device on themselves."

The Real Fairy Godmother (ABC) - Comedy that would star Kristin Chenoweth as "a self-absorbed 'real housewife' who learns that she’s descended from a secret order of Fairy Godmothers and has an inescapable destiny to use her magical abilities to help those in need. As she begrudgingly executes her assigned weekly FGM missions, she slowly begins to realize just how superficial and morally bankrupt her actual life is and — to the confusion of her dysfunctional family and friends — tries to get them all to be better people."

Untitled Supernatural Comedy by Casey Johnson & David Windsor (ABC) - "About a woman at her tipping point who has her mad as hell moment and discovers something extraordinary about herself."

School for Psychics (ABC) - Based on K.C. Archer’s book series. "When an aimless, jaded young woman learns she has powerful latent psychic abilities, she is recruited to join a secret government program for gifted individuals. She must quickly hone her newfound skills to help uncover an imminent threat to psychics that has an unexpected emotional connection to the mysterious murder of her parents two decades ago."

Project 13 (CW) - DC super heroes. "A twenty-something forensic scientist and believer in the paranormal who discovers her own hidden extra-sensory abilities when she joins her estranged, skeptic father to investigate mysterious cases of the paranormal and unexplained phenomena."

May 17, 2019 Update

Today's updates:

The Rain season 2 now bingeable.

See You Tomorrow removed from list. Didn't realize it was a movie, not a series, oops.

Wizard and Glass, the Dark Tower series, I am pushing to a 2020 estimate.

Today's development hell list are more shows from about 2 years ago.

Ascendant (Starz) - Based on Divergent movie series.

The Munsters (NBC) - Reboot of the of the 60s show.

Mosaic (NBC) - "Set in the near-future metropolis and follows the interconnected lives of a diverse set of characters struggling to navigate their relationships in the face of emerging technologies."

The Fifth Season (TNT) - Based on N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-winning sci-fi fantasy novel. "An epic drama set in a world where civilization-destroying earthquakes occur with deadly regularity. A small minority of inhabitants has the ability to quiet these earthquakes, but they can also cause them. The series follows three women, each of whom possesses these special, earth-controlling abilities."

The Jetsons (ABC) - Live-action reboot of the 60s cartoon.

Galaxy Quest (Amazon) - Based on the 90s movie.

The Valiant (CW) - "A Celtic princess on the run from an arranged marriage and a sheltered life who is captured and forced into slavery under Julius Caesar. She ends up training among the first wave of female Gladiators to compete in the Colosseum for fame, fortune and, ultimately, her freedom."

Untitled Female Marvel project (ABC) - "It's Jessica Jones-esque." I think this might have fallen apart after the complete failure of Inhumans on ABC.

Spirited (ABC) - "A fake psychic who realizes she can really communicate with the dead. She decides to put her con-woman past behind her and actually start helping people."

Who Fears Death (HBO) - From George R.R. Martin. "Coming of age tale of Onyesowu in post-apocalyptic North Africa where her story makes her an outcast. She must go on a journey from self-reproach to love, but to do so she’ll have to overcome untold obstacles—defeating her hated sorcerer father and becoming the instrument of prophetic deliverance for a land of oppressed people, all the while fighting to master the terrifying powers growing inside her."

May 16, 2019 Update

Been busy the last few days, so lots of updates for today.

Arrow season finished, will return in the Fall for the final season.

The Flash season finished, will return in the Fall.

The Tick canceled.

Siren renewed.

Snowpiercer renewed, moved to TBS, first season airing next Spring.

Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project anthology series picked up by AMC for 2020.

Black Mirror dated for June 5.

Evil dated for Fall.

Roswell, New Mexico dated for Winter.

Batwoman dated for Fall.

Manifest dated for January.

Today's development hell list is of shows with no updates in about 2 years.

The Machine (Syfy) - "Set in a world that is being transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence. The project explores the epic conflict between man and technology through the lives and motivations of six interwoven characters – each of whom holds the key to humanity’s victory or its destruction."

The Age of Miracles (AMC) - "Follows a Southern California teen as she and her family awake to discover that the rotation of the Earth has suddenly and exponentially begun to slow. As the days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, and people start falling sick to a mysterious new illness."

Echo Point (ABC) - Time loop mystery drama.

Misfits (Freeform) - American version of the British show.

Rage is Back (Syfy) - "Set in 1987 during New York’s 'War on Graffiti.' In this world, a young graffiti crew copes with the murder of one of their members, investigating a connection to shamans of the past and making them masters of the urban underground who use coded language and symbols in spiritual warfare."

The Raven Cycle (Syfy) - "Seventeen year old Blue Sargent who becomes involved with a group of four privileged private school boys on a quest to find a source of mythical and mysterious power hidden deep in rural Virginia. The closer they get to taking control of their destiny, the more threatening their journey becomes."

Sand (Syfy) - "Set in a world ravaged by ecological devastation, savage winds, and shifting dunes. At its center is a family who makes their way in this world as sand divers: the elite few who can travel deep beneath the desert floor to retrieve mysterious and valuable relics lost to the dust. Adrift in the wake of their father’s disappearance years ago, they rely on skill and each other to endure this ruthless environment where otherwise good people lie, sabotage, and kill in order to survive."

untitled Rainn Wilson project (AMC) - "A poly-addicted man living in the San Fernando Valley whose body is taken over by an 'alien entity.'”

Shock Theater (AMC) - A horror/sci-fi anthology series.

Black America (Amazon) - "An alternate history where newly freed African Americans have secured the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama post-Reconstruction as reparations for slavery, and with that land, the freedom to shape their own destiny. The sovereign nation they formed, New Colonia, has had a tumultuous and sometimes violent relationship with its looming “Big Neighbor,” both ally and foe, the United States. The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc. Today, after two decades of peace with the U.S. and unprecedented growth, an ascendant New Colonia joins the ranks of major industrialized nations on the world stage as America slides into rapid decline."

May 13, 2019 Update

Today's update:

The Orville renewed for a 3rd season, to return in Winter.

neXt will premiere in Winter.

Today's development hell shows I haven't had updates on in 2+ years.

The Man From Primrose Lane (Fox) - "An elderly man from Primrose Lane was murdered. Fast-forward four years to David Neff, the bestselling author of a true-crime book about an Ohio serial killer, who decides to investigate. The closer he gets to uncovering the man’s true identity, the more he begins to understand the reality-altering power of his own obsessions — and how they may be connected to the deaths of the old hermit and David’s beloved wife."

Glare (HBO) - Space drama involving the colonization of another planet.

Transcience (CW) - "When consciousness transfers become legal in the near future, an ambitious young musician finally gets the kind of body and life that he wants. But the procedure has side effects, sending him down a dark rabbit hole where identity, memory and the past start to violently collide."

Familiar (Fox) - "Set in 2029 — the year A.I. Robotics will go the path of the personal computer – or so is the hope of the Wiercinskis, the family behind Luminary, the first mainstream consumer-oriented robotics company. The project follows the powerful and dysfunctional Wiercinski family as they navigate their own personal and familial relationships in an ever-changing world that they had a significant (if sometimes unethical) hand in shaping."

Metropolis - Based on the classic 1927 Fritz Lang movie. "A future society where wealthy industrialists rule the vast city from high-rise tower complexes, while a lower class of underground-dwelling workers toil constantly to operate the machines that provide its power. Risking everything they know, two star crossed lovers from opposite sides of the divide must find a way to bring down the whole system."

Enhanced (Fox) - "After creating a new technology that can potentially change mankind, an idealistic and brilliant female scientist gets caught up in the battle between two biotech billionaire brothers. As the story unfolds concurrently in the present day and a decade in the future we see how an idea conceived with the best of intentions can have repercussions."

Untitled John Ridley Project () - Marvel super hero show, very hush hush. Still in the works, I think.

Furniss (AMC) - "A teenage orphan’s new life with her birth father and his family, complicated by her connection to secret supernatural events in their rural town."

Witchblade (NBC) - "Homicide detective Sara Pezzini, on the hunt for an elusive serial killer, who must navigate the grisly streets and police politics of San Francisco’s Mission District — until one day the bracelet she has worn her entire life gives her supernatural insight into a crime she’s trying to solve. Her bracelet is the Witchblade, an amulet that has been worn by remarkable women throughout history, and Sara is next in line."

Untitled Alternate Universe show (Amazon) - Along the lines of "The Man in the High Castle".

Just out of curiosity, is anyone actually reading these updates?

May 10, 2019 Update

Today's updates:

The Society now available for binging

Agents of SHIELD final season begins today and will finish around August

3% dated for June 7

The Rook added and dated for June 30

Batwoman ordered to series by CW

NeXt ordered to series by Fox

Evil ordered to series by CBS

The Passage has been canceled by Fox

Snowpiercer renewed for a 2nd season, before the 1st season airs, often a very good sign

Today's Development hell list includes more shows with no updates in about 2.5 years.

Elements (USA) - Based on French-language Canadian film/Web series Time Out (Temps Mort). "It follows the aftermath of an extreme environmental shift across the world…on a beautiful day in Miami, it starts to snow, and doesn’t stop…leaving the world frozen as one man searches for his fiancee before the world falls into complete stasis…"

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind () - Based on the movie.

War of the Worlds (MTV) - Based on H.G. Wells' book.

C.R.I.S.P.R. (NBC) - "A procedural thriller set five minutes into the future that explores the next generation of terror: DNA hacking."

The Terranauts (CW) - "Revolves around eight scientists enlisted to run a biosphere that will prove vital for humanity’s survival in an off-Earth colony. Their goal is to successfully create a sustainable environment to house generations to come, but things don’t quite go as planned."

Straight Outta Heaven (CW) - "Touched by an Angel-meets-Ghost with an urban twist and as a faith-based, hip-hop-infused guardian angel drama."

Criminal Magic (CW) - "Revolves around two warring street gangs who fight the cops and each other to corner the market on the most lucrative contraband of all: magic. A young woman hiding spectacular magical powers and an undercover cop must try to survive this glamorous world of speakeasies, crime, and danger."

Stranger in a Strange Land (Syfy) - Based on Robert Heinlein's book. "The story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars who comes to earth in early adulthood and eventually transforms its culture."

The Building (Fox) - "Involves a large skyscraper that moves between alternate realities and a group of young urban explorers who are in the building and suddenly find themselves on an Earth wherein Reagan was not elected and Russia dropped the bomb. They then figure out they have a limited amount of time to figure out where they are and rescue members of their team before the building shifts again to another reality. They soon realize that this Earth is also different from where they started and getting back may be impossible."

The Woods (Syfy) - Based on the comic by James Tynion IV. "Set in Wisconsin where an entire high-school campus — including the 300 students, teachers, parents and workers who happened to be there at the time – vanishes without a trace and reappears in the middle of the thick woods on the moon of a distant planet. Now their normal lives have suddenly and dramatically changed as they must survive the eerie and dangerous environment while desperately trying to find a way to get back home."