ABC Pilot Update: Kevin Costner’s ‘National Parks Investigation’, ‘Dark Horse’, ‘Epic’, ‘Promised Land’ & ‘Triage’ Still Active, Will Be Considered For Midseason

Dark Horse Comics has created a games and digital division called Dark Horse Games (“DHG”). A website is already up.Dark Horse Comics is the source of many popular IPs such as Hellboy, Sin City, and Umbrella Academy.

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News broke this week that Powerpuff, the live action Powerpuff Girls television show that was being piloted at The CW, had been scrapped and will be reworked and repiloted later in the year.

Much-loved soap Coronation Street has been on our screens for just over 50 years and we have seen some iconic characters come and go, from Deirdre Barlow to Tina McIntyre who was played by the flawless Michelle Keegan. When you think of the show, you tend to go towards the dramatic, heartbreaking, and fiery storylines, not for the fashion on there.

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The trailer for Dear Evan Hansen finally dropped on Tuesday, and it’s the first chance many will have to experience the Broadway hit about the pain of coming of age in those awkward teenage years.

ABC last week canceled four series, ranging from veteran American Housewife, which had run for five seasons, to rookie Rebel, whose cancellation came after only five airings. In-between them were sophomores Mixed-ish and For Life.

ABC believes that its year-round development cycle will mean that it can give creators of pilots such as Kevin Costner’s National Parks and Epic from Once Upon a Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis a better shot of landing on the schedule.

ABC’s flagship drama series, Grey’s Anatomy, was just renewed for a record-extending 18th season. In announcing the pickup after original cast members  Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. closed new deals, ABC did not call Season 18 a final one.

The musical Dear Evan Hansen has been turned into a feature film and the first trailer just dropped!

America’s National Parks – from Yosemite to the Grand Canyony – will be the subject of a ten-part documentary series narrated by Garth Brooks for Nat Geo.

Glasgow this summer.

In Rebel, ABC/ Disney Television Studios’ freshman drama, we revisit a new version of a woman we’ve seen on screen before: Erin Brockovich. Starring Katey Sagal as Annie ‘Rebel’ Bello—a character loosely based on who Brockovich is today—the show follows the renegade underdog advocate as she negotiates the takedown of all things corrupt.

It’s seven years since then-Fox chief Kevin Reilly declared “RIP pilot season”.

ABC has passed on three more pilots. Drama Acts of Crime and comedies Black Don’t Crack and Bucktown will not be picked up to series. They join comedy pilot Adopted, whose team was notified of ABC’s decision not to proceed with it Thursday night.

ABC has started making calls on pilots that are not getting picked up to series. I hear the producers and cast of comedy Adopted have been notified that the network has passed on the project. There will be a lot more news on series pickups and pilot passes tomorrow.