DRAMA
HALT & CATCH FIRE
STUDIO: AMC Studios
TEAM: Chris Cantwell (w, ep), Chris Rogers (w, ep), Mark Johnson (ep), Melissa Bernstein (ep), Juan José Campanella (d)
LOGLINE: The early 1980s personal computing boom seen through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time. Their personal and professional partnership will be challenged by greed and ego while charting the changing culture in Texas’ Silicon Prairie.
CAST: Lee Pace, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishe, Toby Huss, David Wilson Barnes
LOW WINTER SUN
PICKED UP TO SERIES
STUDIO: Endemol Studios/AMC Studios
TEAM: Chris Mundy (w, ep), Ernest Dickerson (d)
LOGLINE: A story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption that starts with the murder of a cop by fellow Detroit detective Frank Agnew. Seemingly the perfect crime, in reality the murder activates forces that will forever alter that detective’s life and pull him into the heart of the city’s underworld. Based on 2006 UK miniseries.
CAST: Mark Strong, Lennie James, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Athena Karkanis, Sprague Grayden, David Costabile, James Ransone, Erika Alexander
TURN
STUDIO: AMC Studios
TEAM: Craig Silverstein (w, ep), Barry Josephson (ep), Rupert Wyatt (d)
LOGLINE: Set in the summer of 1778, New York farmer Abe Woodhull bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence. Based on Alexander Rose’s book Washington Spies.
CAST: Jamie Bell, Meegan Warner, Daniel Henshall, Seth Numrich, Burn Gorman, Heather Lind, Kevin McNally, Angus Macfadyen
UNTITLED LAGRAVENESE/GOLDWYN
STUDIO:
TEAM: Richard LaGravenese (w, ep), Tony Goldwyn (d, ep), Andrew Sugarman (co-ep)
LOGLINE: A District Attorney uncovers new evidence that prompts the reinvestigation of a sensational murder case.
CAST: Dame Gupton, Marin Ireland, Clarke Peters, Aunjanue Ellis
wait, i thought lagravanese wasn’t officially picked up to series yet? did that change?
My aunt and uncle started a semiconductor brokering company out of their kitchen in the early 1980′s in Houston. When I was ten, my uncle said to me,”Morgain, someday computers are going to be bigger than TV.” And I though he was sooo weird.
Was Turn pick up for series?