CBS Sci Fi & Fantasy Pilots

[wideawakewesley]

CBS has given series orders to three pilots with supernatural themes for the 2008 fall television season, Variety reported. The most talked-about drama property is 20th Century Fox TV's The Ex List, based on an Israeli series about a woman who is warned by a tarot card reader that she needs to get married soon to a man who she's already known in her life. Diane Ruggiero (Veronica Mars) penned the pilot, which stars Elizabeth Reaser (Grey's Anatomy).

The network's schedule will include another British TV adaptation, the thriller Eleventh Hour, about a government investigator probing cases involving scientific anomalies. Rufus Sewell stars in Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series for Warner Brothers TV. British writer Mick Davis handled the U.S. adaptation.

Also from Warner Brothers TV is The Mentalist, from writer Bruno Heller. It stars Simon Baker (Land of the Dead) as man who uses his innate powers of deduction to aid police.

I'd recommend anyone searches out the original version of the Eleventh Hour starring Patrick Stewart, it's a cracking little mini-series.

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Wes

[kickarse]

CBS has given series orders to three pilots with supernatural themes for the 2008 fall television season, Variety reported. The most talked-about drama property is 20th Century Fox TV's The Ex List, based on an Israeli series about a woman who is warned by a tarot card reader that she needs to get married soon to a man who she's already known in her life. Diane Ruggiero (Veronica Mars) penned the pilot, which stars Elizabeth Reaser (Grey's Anatomy).

The network's schedule will include another British TV adaptation, the thriller Eleventh Hour, about a government investigator probing cases involving scientific anomalies. Rufus Sewell stars in Jerry Bruckheimer-produced series for Warner Brothers TV. British writer Mick Davis handled the U.S. adaptation.

Also from Warner Brothers TV is The Mentalist, from writer Bruno Heller. It stars Simon Baker (Land of the Dead) as man who uses his innate powers of deduction to aid police.

Why do I feel like it's all been done before? Oh because it has!

[drghoo]

Fella's, I can comment on at least 2 of them. Eleventh Hour is horrible despite Rufus Sewell. The material they've given him is atrocious and the whole dynamic(or lack thereof) between he and his handler/bodyguard is forced typical TV material. The woman they've chosen for this part is over the top bad and I can't decide if it's the direction, material or her bad acting. Or a fine combo of both. This one should get panned even if it has a Bruckheimer stamp on it!
Now to pull a 180, I can't gush enough over Simon Bakers character "Patrick Jane". This show is well written and well acted by Simon Baker & a few of the supporting cast. Robin Tunney does ok as a foil for him but it's definitely Bakers charisma at work here. I'm hoping it does well for my sake and tv's sake on CBS.