AMC is developing a new drama series about man’s first contact with extraterrestrial life.
John Shiban (Breaking Bad, The Vampire Diaries) is working on a project called The Voyage that’s in contention for a pilot pickup. The show is billed as a realistic take on First Contact with an ambitious female scientist who works with a team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the lead character.
The project is one of several in contention at AMC, but has more buzz than some (two others are The Man With the Golden Ears, about a record executive, and The 4th Estate, about a D.C. investigative journalist — but let’s face it, you want the alien one, right?). Given AMC’s success with zombies on The Walking Dead, wouldn’t surprise me at all if network tackled extraterrestrials next.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
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i want the journalist one, i mean why go aliens? When we all know in these days that investigative journalism is a science fiction concept.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so good.
ReplyDeleteI hope this gets picked up, if not the investigative journalism one. The Man With the Golden Ears sounds tacky.
They had me at "AMC is developing", but the plot sounds interesting too!
ReplyDeleteOk while it's great AMC is making more tv, I didn't realize I lived in a reality where someone has written on both "Breaking Bad" and "The Vampire Diaries"... Must be why I find TVD so damned addictive...
ReplyDeleteI never knew that either and TVD is pretty addictive. Underrated too honestly.. guess the tee love triangle drama doesn't play well to some, no matter how much more a show has to offer....
ReplyDeleteOooh, lovely news.
ReplyDeleteShiban has a quite interesting profile. He produced episodes The Vampire Diaries, Breaking bad, Legend Of The Seeker, Supernatural, Star Trek Enterprise and The X-Files and also wrote for most of these shows as well as the new Torchwood spin-off.
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