The cable network is developing three projects, including a drama set in the world of diamond trading from executive producers Ridley and Tony Scott (The Good Wife).
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead scribe Kelly Masterson will write and executive produce the untitled diamond project with Scott Free Productions’ president of television David Zucker also on board as an EP.
In addition, the home of zombies (The Walking Dead), meth addicts (Breaking Bad) and ad executives (Mad Men) is developing crime dramas Low Winter Sun and Sacred Games.
Low Winter Sun is based on the 2006 two-part British drama that starred Mark Strong. Jeremy Gold will serve as a nonwriting executive producer for the modern gothic tale of murder, high-level corruption, deception and cold-blooded revenge in which the difference between cop and criminal is anything but straightforward. The project, from Endemol, continues AMC's relationship with Gold, who is among the executive producers on the cabler’s upcoming Union Pacific railroad drama Hell on Wheels.
Sacred Games, developed in-house, is based on the India-set novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra. It revolves around the spidery links between organized crime, local politics and Indian espionage that lie below the surfaces of its economic renaissance. Feature scribe Kerry Williamson (Alexander Payne’s upcoming Fork in the Road) is attached to write and executive produce the project.
Source: The Hoolywood Reporter
AMC Developing Three New Dramas
Oct 14, 2011
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That diamond trading drama sounds interesting, also the India-set project could be. Low Winter Sun sounds the least interesting to me, but I also think there are enough crime shows out there. I'm rather intrigued by the racing drama, the alien contact project and the "Man with the Golden Ears" adaption AMC are having in development.
ReplyDeleteAnything the Scott brothers produce is worth a shot in my book.
ReplyDeleteEh, I'm not interested in any of these.
ReplyDeleteLow Winter Sun sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe (still untitled) project about the diamonds trading sounds good, the other two, not so much.
ReplyDeleteI hope they recover after the not so much convincing (for me at least) duo of TWD and The Killing.
All three sound interesting to me, but I need to know a bit more before I get excited...
ReplyDeleteThat said, I will check out any drama on AMC since they have yet to let me down.
Best dramas on TV. PERIOD.
While there are enough crime dramas on TV are there enough"good" crime dramas?
ReplyDeleteHa, that is true. Nevertheless I found those 3 other projects I mentioned far more interesting because there are no shows like that around right now and it would be something new and fresh. An exceptionally good crime show like The Wire would be great, but shows like that just don't grow on trees.
ReplyDeleteAnd nothing against the Scott brothers, but they are involved in quite a few projects right now and I really doubt that you can keep the quality extremely high when you are doing so many things. The show runners of the best dramas on the air right now like Vince Gilligan, Matthew Weiner or Benioff & Weiss are just doing one show. Low Winter Sun could turn out to be good, but from that short description it just was the least appealing to me. So the most interesting one would be Sacred Games, also because it's set in a non-familiar surrounding which would add something new.
Sacred Games sounds very interesting indeed
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