The CW, which launched its first period drama this fall with Reign, is exploring a more recent past with Players, a one-hour drama set against the Golden Age of Hollywood. Produced by Warner Bros. TV and Ellen DeGeneres’ studio-based A Very Good Production, Players centers on a young Midwestern woman who moves to Los Angeles to avenge her sister’s death at the hands of a predatory Studio head and finds herself swept up in the Hollywood star-making machine, unwittingly becoming the ingénue in a closeted movie star’s “lavender marriage” and a pawn in a Studio fixer’s scheme against the mob. Nina Fiore and John Herrera (Alphas) will write the script, with Danny Cannon set to direct. Cannon and AVGP’s DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman executive produce, with Fiore and Herrera serving as supervising producers.
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Not sure what to make of this, theCW's giving awfully lot of pilot commitements out this year. And so far neither of these shows grabbed my interest.
ReplyDeleteKinda afraid that they're going to axe half of their line up.
What's with the CW and period dramas lately
ReplyDeleteThis one not a pilot commitment, the CW just put it in development
ReplyDeleteoh, sry misread. Still it's being taken into serious consideration. They're obviously gearing up
ReplyDeletei rather see that than more superheroes, vampires, aliens, zombies, supernatural on that network. variety is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is like CBS doing something that's not a procedural and the show flopping (outside of "Under the Dome").
ReplyDeleteMaybe the CW should stick the genre only?
*Being sarcastic in a way..
I wouldn't even call it "serious consideration". Putting in development means that the network is interested in the premise, and would like to see a script for the pilot. If the script is good enough, then the show gets a pilot order. Most shows don't even make it out of the "Development Zone".
ReplyDeletewell if they gor the costumes, music and feel of the era right along with the casting this could be interesting, it would work better as a mini series though.
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