May 2, 2019 Update

Today's update:

iZombie final season begins today and will run through about the end of July.

Legion season start dated.

Today's portion of the development hell list. These were announced about 3.5 years ago:

Bathory (CBS) - Written & Produced by David Eick (Battlestar Galactica, Falling Skies, Beyond). 16th century vampire drama.

Fantasy Island (ABC) - Remake of the 70s/80s show with a female host. Darker, edgier.

Hellfire (FOX) - Marvel, set in the 1960s. "Follows a young Special Agent who learns that a power-hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires – known as 'The Hellfire Club' – to take over the world."

Centralia (NBC) - Written by Merredith Averill (Star-Crossed, Haunting of Hill House, Locke & Key). "A dark character-driven genre soap based on a real town in central Pennsylvania where an underground mine fire has been burning for over 50 years. The remaining few residents of this ghost town are determined to preserve their homes but remain unaware of the evil that is slowly making its way to the surface."

The Chronicles of Ara - Miniseries based on the first two novels by Joel Eisenberg and Steve Hillard. "About a muse who inspires all of art and invention, Ara, who is corrupted upon a tragic loss." Characters would include J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe.

Temptest (CW) - Produced by Rob Thomas (iZombie, Veronica Mars). "Centers on a young woman living in a Utopian spaceship. When she finds out that the ship is secretly powered by slaves, she becomes enmeshed romantically and politically in the dangerous rebellion brewing below the decks."

244 Degrees of Freedom (FOX) - Produced by Steve Maeda (Lost, Helix). "Takes place in a world where robots have evolved in intelligence, influence, and social status, humans have been relegating to a permanent underclass — until one man is driven to lead a rebellion against the machines, risking everything to uncover a conspiracy that could spell the end of the human race."

Dead Mann Walking (CBS) - Based on the book by Stefan Petrucha. "Takes place in the near future, when a police detective who had been executed for murdering his wife takes a miracle drug and is brought back to life as a 'second-class citizen' (undead) working as a private investigator while looking for his wife’s real killer."

Smoke Sex Magic (NBC) - Produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald (Men in Black movies). "Centers on two sisters who inherit their mother’s popular restaurant only to discover that the secret to their mother’s cooking was black magic."

Cry (CW) - Written and executive produced by Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar (The Glades, Reign). "About a doctor who makes the astonishing medical breakthrough to bring cryogenically preserved people back to life, starting with the unfreezing of his own father — but he never expects that restoring life will have both glorious and devastating consequences."