Hulu's supernatural series, Deadbeat, which stars Tyler Labine as a stoned slacker who can communicate with the dead, has been renewed for a third season. Also in this round-up: Stung's release date and the trailer for the Kevin Bacon-starring Cop Car.
Deadbeat: Press Release (via TV By the Numbers) -- "Santa Monica, CA – May 26, 2015 – Hulu announced today that the Hulu Original series Deadbeat has been renewed for a third season with a 13-episode order. Produced by Lionsgate Television, the series is co-created by Cody Heller and Brett Konner (Wilfred, The Inbetweeners) and executive produced by showrunner Dan Lagana. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Sarah Esberg from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment are producers on the show.
The half-hour comedyseries stars Tyler Labine (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Reaper) as Kevin Pacalioglu, a hapless but gifted mediumwho will go to any lengths to help New York’s ghosts settle their unfinished business.
Deadbeat: Press Release (via TV By the Numbers) -- "Santa Monica, CA – May 26, 2015 – Hulu announced today that the Hulu Original series Deadbeat has been renewed for a third season with a 13-episode order. Produced by Lionsgate Television, the series is co-created by Cody Heller and Brett Konner (Wilfred, The Inbetweeners) and executive produced by showrunner Dan Lagana. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Sarah Esberg from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment are producers on the show.
The half-hour comedyseries stars Tyler Labine (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Reaper) as Kevin Pacalioglu, a hapless but gifted mediumwho will go to any lengths to help New York’s ghosts settle their unfinished business.
- 5/27/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Guests at the garden party in the upcoming creature feature, Stung, will have to replace their EpiPens with swords and flamethrowers if they want to survive the giants wasps from below that are featured in the film's first trailer. Also included in our latest video round-up is a boy next door with a creepy caretaker in John McNaughton's The Harvest, as well as Helen McCrory's tour of her character's eerily decorated mansion from the upcoming second season of Showtime's Penny Dreadful.
Stung: "Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides...
Stung: "Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides...
- 4/6/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Getting stung by a wasp hurts, and it can be fatal for those who are allergic. But imagine if those tiny winged insects were seven feet tall—you would have to replace your EpiPen with a sword to stand a chance against a stinger that big. In Benni Diez’s Stung, two catering staffers and a group of garden partiers take on giant mutated wasps, and we have a look at the film’s new poster that’s eye-grabbing and eye-puncturing.
“Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year – except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey.
“Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year – except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey.
- 11/6/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This article may contain spoilers. In what may be said is the mellowest episode to date for .Defying Gravity,. this week.s adventure focused on what it meant to cross the Rubicon; the point of no return. For each of the Antares. crew, it held a different meaning: for Ted (Malik Yoba), it meant this was the last chance to return to Earth; for Donner (Ron Livingston), it meant it was time to let go of the past; and for Nadia, it meant realizing that things were never going to be the same again. Explaining the origins of the term .Rubicon,. Nadia (Florentine Lahme) told the story of how during the Roman Republic, crossing the Rubicon River was an act of war, and that Julius Cesar had ignored that rule, crossed the river, and as a result, civil war was declared . all of which ultimately...
- 9/3/2009
- GeekNation.com
ABC's new outer-space drama debuted on Sunday night. Will Defying Gravity be allowed to complete its mission or, like so many shows before it, be lost in space?
Defying Gravity follows the adventures of eight international astronauts as they fly a spaceship named Antares. On a top-secret mission, their lives are being recorded and telecast on Earth as part of a documentary. Despite the fact that the crewmembers wear libido-suppressing devices, there are plenty of romantic entanglements.
The show features the talents of Andrew Airlie, Christina Cox, Paula Garces, Laura Harris, Peter Howitt, Florentine Lahme, Karen LeBlanc, Ron Livingston, Ty Olsson, Zahf Paroo, Eyal Podell, Maxim Roy, Dylan Taylor, and Malik Yoba.
The sci-fi drama's storyline is strangely similar to the failed pilot for Virtuality that aired a month ago. Defying Gravity is a Canadian series that's co-produced by CTV, Omni Film Productions Limited, and Fox Television Studios. Filming has...
Defying Gravity follows the adventures of eight international astronauts as they fly a spaceship named Antares. On a top-secret mission, their lives are being recorded and telecast on Earth as part of a documentary. Despite the fact that the crewmembers wear libido-suppressing devices, there are plenty of romantic entanglements.
The show features the talents of Andrew Airlie, Christina Cox, Paula Garces, Laura Harris, Peter Howitt, Florentine Lahme, Karen LeBlanc, Ron Livingston, Ty Olsson, Zahf Paroo, Eyal Podell, Maxim Roy, Dylan Taylor, and Malik Yoba.
The sci-fi drama's storyline is strangely similar to the failed pilot for Virtuality that aired a month ago. Defying Gravity is a Canadian series that's co-produced by CTV, Omni Film Productions Limited, and Fox Television Studios. Filming has...
- 8/5/2009
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
If you're a fan of sci-fi and haven't yet heard of the new summer filler, Defying Gravity, premiering on ABC on August 2, catch up fast. The series is well put together and fantastic! More on that later. For now, I have a few episode summaries for the two-hour premiere, as well as the third episode that will air on 8/9. The series starts on ABC on Sunday, August 2, from 9pm to 11pm (Eastern standard time) and then will fall into a normal Sunday timeslot at 10pm/9 central.
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
- 7/22/2009
- by SpoilerGuy
- TVovermind.com
Fox TV Studios, Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions and the Canadian network CTV are teaming up to bring you the show that’s being dubbed “Grey’s Anatomy in space”. Yeah, that’s a weird tagline, right? Perhaps a longer explanation is in order.
Back in 2004 the BBC produced a series called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, which is the inspiration for Defying Gravity. Space Odyssey was broadcasted as a docudrama about a group of astronauts traveling to different planets. Defying Gravity has a similar premise: “[it's a] sexy, provocative relationship drama set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. With the eyes of the world upon them – everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized – they soon discover that...
Back in 2004 the BBC produced a series called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, which is the inspiration for Defying Gravity. Space Odyssey was broadcasted as a docudrama about a group of astronauts traveling to different planets. Defying Gravity has a similar premise: “[it's a] sexy, provocative relationship drama set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. With the eyes of the world upon them – everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized – they soon discover that...
- 7/11/2009
- by clarissa
- TVovermind.com
I've been a fan of women in space movies ever since I watched Kate Capshaw and Lea Thompson in Space Camp as a kid. Although I've never gotten into the Star Trek or Star Wars franchises too much, because they rarely give women leadership roles — except for Star Trek: Voyager, which I've seen all seven seasons of — and I've only watched some of the Battlestar Galactica episodes, I enjoyed Jodie Foster's Contact (at least the first half), and Lori and I both loved the 2002 Showtime series Odyssey Five.
So I was excited to hear about the new space drama coming to America (and Canada, Germany, and the U.K.).
Last week, ABC purchased 13 episodes of the new Canadian sci-fi drama Defying Gravity, which has this description, "In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometers.
So I was excited to hear about the new space drama coming to America (and Canada, Germany, and the U.K.).
Last week, ABC purchased 13 episodes of the new Canadian sci-fi drama Defying Gravity, which has this description, "In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometers.
- 7/10/2009
- by sarahwarn
- AfterEllen.com
Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. I was lucky enough to see an advance screening of upcoming film Julie & Julia last night and urge all you film-loving foodies to head out and watch it when it's released. Just make sure you eat beforehand! Comedy Central has ordered ten episodes of an untitled multi-camera comedy series starring Jon Heder (Blades of Glory, Napoleon Dynamite). Project, about an unemployed It specialist who returns to his smalltown to move in with his parents and younger brother, will be written by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy. Series hails from Debmar-Mercury and Gary Sanchez and will have an initial run on Comedy Central; if it scores with audiences, another 90 installments will be automatically picked up with Comedy Central having the first window while Debmar-Mercury will sell the series into first-run syndication at the same time. (Variety) ABC has announced that it will...
- 7/10/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Coming from the producer of "Grey's Anatomy" is the new ABC series "Defying Gravity". The first look into the drama series is shared through the promo which is airing on the network. It mainly tells about how love and lust can transcend into space.
"Defying Gravity" is a sexy, provocative space thriller set in the very near future against the background of our solar system. Eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles.
Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process. The adventure begins on Sunday, August 2 with a two-hour season premiere starting at 9/8c. It will take a regular slot on Sundays at 10/9c the next week.
The series' international ensemble cast is...
"Defying Gravity" is a sexy, provocative space thriller set in the very near future against the background of our solar system. Eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles.
Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process. The adventure begins on Sunday, August 2 with a two-hour season premiere starting at 9/8c. It will take a regular slot on Sundays at 10/9c the next week.
The series' international ensemble cast is...
- 7/10/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Don't even hide from this, because I know there are a legion of you meteors-destroy-the-earth fans out there. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that their 2-part destructo drama Impact, starring Benjamin Sadler, David James Elliot, Florentine Lahme, and James Cromwell, will street on September 1, 2009.
Synopsis:
During the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid collides with the moon, causing a huge explosion and sending moon fragments catapulting to Earth. Soon, unusual phenomena begin to unnerve the entire planet: cell phones are disrupted, the normal pattern of the tides shift and heavy objects like cars become temporarily weightless – all as the world’s leading scientists uncover unsettling evidence that the moon’s orbit may have been permanently altered.
Even more frightening, they discover that the new orbit has put the Earth directly in the moon’s path and there are only 39 days remaining until it crashes into the planet.
Synopsis:
During the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid collides with the moon, causing a huge explosion and sending moon fragments catapulting to Earth. Soon, unusual phenomena begin to unnerve the entire planet: cell phones are disrupted, the normal pattern of the tides shift and heavy objects like cars become temporarily weightless – all as the world’s leading scientists uncover unsettling evidence that the moon’s orbit may have been permanently altered.
Even more frightening, they discover that the new orbit has put the Earth directly in the moon’s path and there are only 39 days remaining until it crashes into the planet.
- 7/9/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Get ready sci-fi fans, ABC has a special little treat for us, and its coming before the end of the summer! ABC has just purchased 13 episodes of a new sci-fi drama called Defying Gravity that stars Ron Livingston (Office Space), Laura Harris (Dead Like Me), Christina Cox (The Chronicles of Riddick, Blood Ties), Malik Yoba (New York Undercover) and Florentine Lahme (ABC miniseries Impact). All 13 episodes have already been shot, and will also air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC. So what’s this new sci-fi drama about? According to The Hollywood Reporter:
Gravity, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
“Since...
Gravity, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
“Since...
- 7/2/2009
- by AstroJones
- TVovermind.com
ABC has committed to broadcasting a 13-episode run of Defying Gravity, described as Gray's Anatomy in space. The show chronicles the adventure of eight astronauts who have embarked on a mission of exploration across the solar system that will take them six years. It will air on the network this summer during the slow time in ABC's schedule.
The series is a co-production between several different countries including Canada, Germany and England, so airing it on their network is attractive to ABC. The show stars Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, Office Space), Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme and is being produced by one of the executive producers of Gray's Anatomy, James Parriott. The series is actually an American remake of a BBC two-hour special that blended science fact within the context of an imaginary space mission called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. If Defying Gravity...
The series is a co-production between several different countries including Canada, Germany and England, so airing it on their network is attractive to ABC. The show stars Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, Office Space), Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme and is being produced by one of the executive producers of Gray's Anatomy, James Parriott. The series is actually an American remake of a BBC two-hour special that blended science fact within the context of an imaginary space mission called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. If Defying Gravity...
- 7/1/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. Syfy is developing a new incarnation of Alien Nation, the 1988 feature film that spun off into a Fox drama, with writer/executive producer Tim Minear (Firefly, Drive). The project, from Fox21, will tell the story of the partnership between a veteran police officer and an alien detective in the Pacific Northwest as the two races attempt to live side-by-side on Earth following the aliens' arrival and efforts to assimilate into human society. The new version will include a mythology that will unfold over time and will use contemporary issues, such as immigration, racism, terrorism, and paranoia, in its storytelling. "It's very much in keeping with what we've been looking to do -- find themes that are more than just hard sci-fi, something that feels contemporary and relevant and invites a broad audience in," said Syfy original programming Evp Mark Stern. "It's genre mixed...
- 7/1/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
ABC has picked up Fox TV Studios' 13-episode adventure drama "Defying Gravity" starring Ron Livingston, according to The Hollywood Reporter . The show comes from creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an executive producer on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty," and executive producer Michael Edelstein, former executive producer of the network's "Desperate Housewives." "Gravity," whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. The series is slated to air on ABC this summer. If "Gravity" does well, Parriott and...
- 6/30/2009
- Comingsoon.net
ABC is "Defying Gravity."
The network has picked up Fox TV Studios' 13-episode adventure drama starring Ron Livingston.
The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC, hails from familiar ABC auspices: creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an exec producer on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty," and exec producer Michael Edelstein, former exec producer of the network's "Desperate Housewives."
"Gravity," whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
"Gravity" is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year,...
The network has picked up Fox TV Studios' 13-episode adventure drama starring Ron Livingston.
The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC, hails from familiar ABC auspices: creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an exec producer on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ugly Betty," and exec producer Michael Edelstein, former exec producer of the network's "Desperate Housewives."
"Gravity," whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
"Gravity" is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year,...
- 6/30/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Laura Harris, Eyal Podell, Christina Cox and Zahf Paroo have been cast in the BBC/Fox TV co-production Defying Gravity. The quartet join Ron Livingston and German actress Florentine Lahme in the show, which revolves around eight astronauts from five different countries embarking on a six-year space mission. Grey's Anatomy's James Parriott created the big-budget drama and will executive produce alongside Desperate Housewives' Michael Edelstein. Jane Tranter, Controller of BBC Fiction said: "The calibre of the talent involved in this drama series both in front and behind the (more)...
- 12/17/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Fox TV Studios recently made a pact with Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and BBC for a new 13-episode adventure drama series which will cast Standoff star Ron Livingston as the central character. Titled Defying Gravity, which comes from creator and executive producer James Parriott, who previously worked on Grey’s Anatomy and executive producer Michael Edelstein who also worked for Desperate Housewives.
The new series is set in the future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who embark on a six-year-long mission throughout the solar system.
Aside from the former Standoff star, Defying Gravity has also cast German actress Florentine Lahme to be part of the upcoming series, which is a co-venture between FtvS and Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods. Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik will also serve as executive producers for the show. David Straiton, on the other hand, has signed on to be the director...
The new series is set in the future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who embark on a six-year-long mission throughout the solar system.
Aside from the former Standoff star, Defying Gravity has also cast German actress Florentine Lahme to be part of the upcoming series, which is a co-venture between FtvS and Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods. Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik will also serve as executive producers for the show. David Straiton, on the other hand, has signed on to be the director...
- 11/5/2008
- by BuddyTV
- buddytv.com
Defying Gravity will be a new 13-episode series being coproduced by Fox TV Studios, Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC, which will star Ron Livingston (The Time Traveler's Wife). Created by James Parriott (Grey's Anatomy) and Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives), The Hollywood Reporter says the series is “set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who take on a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.”
The cast currently includes Livingston and German actress Florentine Lahme with the first episode, to be directed by David Straiton, scheduled to shoot in Vancouver beginning January 19.
Edelstein the idea for the series came to him when he watched the BBC docu-drama Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets on Discovery Channel in late 2006. "I was blown away by it," Edelstein told the trade. He acquired the rights to it from British producer Impossible Pictures (Primeval) and reteamed with Parriott,...
The cast currently includes Livingston and German actress Florentine Lahme with the first episode, to be directed by David Straiton, scheduled to shoot in Vancouver beginning January 19.
Edelstein the idea for the series came to him when he watched the BBC docu-drama Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets on Discovery Channel in late 2006. "I was blown away by it," Edelstein told the trade. He acquired the rights to it from British producer Impossible Pictures (Primeval) and reteamed with Parriott,...
- 11/5/2008
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Fox TV Studios has teamed with Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC for "Defying Gravity," a 13-episode adventure drama series starring Ron Livingston.
"Gravity," which hails from creator/exec producer James Parriott ("Grey's Anatomy") and exec producer Michael Edelstein ("Desperate Housewives"), is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who take on a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. German actress Florentine Lahme also has been cast in "Gravity," a co-venture between FtvS and Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods. whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
David Straiton has signed on to direct the first episode of the series, which is slated to begin production Jan. 19 in Vancouver.
"Gravity" marks the third independently produced FtvS series to go into production this year with international broadcasting partners. It follows "Mental," a collaboration with Fox International Channels that is filming in Bogota, Colombia,...
"Gravity," which hails from creator/exec producer James Parriott ("Grey's Anatomy") and exec producer Michael Edelstein ("Desperate Housewives"), is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who take on a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. German actress Florentine Lahme also has been cast in "Gravity," a co-venture between FtvS and Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods. whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
David Straiton has signed on to direct the first episode of the series, which is slated to begin production Jan. 19 in Vancouver.
"Gravity" marks the third independently produced FtvS series to go into production this year with international broadcasting partners. It follows "Mental," a collaboration with Fox International Channels that is filming in Bogota, Colombia,...
- 11/4/2008
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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