Top horror feature producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge and Sinister franchises) has teamed with TV executive-turned-producer Christina Wayne (Copper) for The Inn, a supernatural drama project set up at NBC. Written by Patrick Macmanus (Marco Polo) and produced by Universal TV Studios, The Inn is described as a classic ghost story that follows a group of strangers drawn to an isolated hotel by fate. Compelled to find the truth behind the horrors that haunt them and answer the question of why they were brought together, the ensemble soon discovers that The Inn is aware of their pasts and presents and is using them to force the guests to confront themselves and each other. Blum and Wayne will executive produce through their production companies, Blumhouse Prods. and Assembly Entertainment, along with their consultants on TV development, Gerard Bocaccio (Blumhouse) and Miura Kite (Assembly). Macmanus is co-executive producing.
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Sweet! I'm excited. I don't know why, but I'm a big supporter of attempts at horror (and any "different" concepts) on broadcast TV. With this being on NBC, it seems unlikely it could actually be scary (but neither is AHS or Walking Dead) but I do hope they manage to make it creepy and un-formulaic, and I'll be there to check it out. :D
ReplyDeleteSounds a little like Harper's Island (except that didn't have ghosts) and The Shining, but I'm in! It sounds pretty interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how it can be sustained for more than one season (unless the go the AHS route).
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping it will be a limited series, like a season of 13 episodes and that's it.
ReplyDeleteSounding a bit like AHS season 1 but I'm always up for a good horror tv show. Let's see
ReplyDeleteLike the primes. If the :)y get an interesting cast you can count me in! :)
ReplyDeleteMe too, I just can't see the premise lasting more than a season and still being good.
ReplyDeleteThat would be a mini-series, not a limited series.
ReplyDeleteLimited series works equally as well if you're talking up to 13 episodes.
ReplyDeleteThe way I understood your first comment was that you want the show to have one season only with 13 episodes which would make it a mini-series. A limited series has more than one season with ~13 episodes per season.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but I don't mean mini-series like you're thinking. To me, a mini-series is generally an "event", they will show two hours at once, usually, and in this case the terms are totally interchangeable as I just Googled and read three different articles talking about the "rise of limited series". I will NOT call a show will a full season of 13 episodes a mini series...because it's running over 13 weeks. That's not a mini-series to me. And that would make every single cable series a "limited series" which is just not accurate.
ReplyDeleteFOX has "24: LAD", "Wayward Pines" and "Cosmos" all of which will be 10-13 episodes, spread over as many weeks, all of them are meant to be contained stories, and FOX calls them "limited series" as opposed to "mini-series" so they must share my logic. :)
My apologies. The next time I correctsomeone, I should make sure I'm right. xD
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I had the wrong definition for mini-series. I stand corrected.
"And that would make every single cable series a "limited series" which is just not accurate."
I probably should have mentioned that the term "limited series" is mostly used for broastcast networks since shorter seasons are the norm for cable.
I'm sorry too, I actually left out some clarifying statements I recall intending to type. But I usually surf here at work between taking calls and we were busy haha. But I do acknowledge that some people in the industry have been known (or at least I've noticed) that sometimes they go by more your definition. And I definitely see where you're coming from about the broadcast TV thing. And CBS referred to Hostages as a "limited" series and if I recall correctly their intention was if it was popular they'd bring it back in some form.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe we're both right, it just depends on the situation. (And in the case of FOX, they've been saying they want to switch more and more shows to cable length seasons so with them limited would most likely always mean a close-ended story with a predetermined amount of episodes.)