Two Promising Pilots
So with the normal primetime season winding down in May, Summer will be the time for reality shows as well as other new summer fillers that could be break-out hits. Two proposed series have caught my eye.
Eric Johnson, who played Lana’s boyfriend Whitney Fordman in the first season of “Smallville,” will be playing Flash Gordon in the upcoming Sci-Fi series. The show is set to debut in August, but no other information about the cast has been revealed. All that has been said is that it will be a 22 hour series. I’m guessing they need something to cash in on while “Battlestar” is off the air till 2008!
This show could either be really good or really bad. I have a soft spot in my heart not only for the 80s movie “Flash Gordon” but also the very cheesy 80s “Buck Rogers.” I’ll be looking forward to this one.
The other show that has caught my eye is only a pilot right now. “True Blood” is in development for HBO by Alan Ball, probably best known to many for the dark drama “Six Feet Under.” This show is based on the “Southern Vampire” books and stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a woman in a small town that can read minds. It seems Vampires also live in this small town and subsist off of blood manufactured in Japan !?! Sookie ends up falling in love with a Vampire, of course. Brook Kerr (Whitney on Passions) is set to appear as Sookie’s friend in the show. I loved “Six Feet” and love anything horror-themed, so this show could be really good. Plus Anna Paquin is just awesome.
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