According to Deadline Gotham "still has a pulse" at ABC and joins FOX's Guilty and CW's The Selection in the "not picked up but not dead" pile.
Synopsis:
Under our very noses exists a world most of us cannot see. A world where magic is behind every door, and danger lurks around every corner. New York City Homicide Detective Anne Travers (Megan Ketch) discovers this world when she's assigned a case that seems unsolvable. No clues, no suspects, no method. But Travers is a cop who refuses to become cynical - and often sees what others can't. Not willing to give up her investigation, she finds herself recruited into a secret magical division of the police force, by the mysterious Alderman and his rugged constable, Boyo (Barry Sloane). With both of them leading the way, Travers will discover a side of Manhattan that is both fascinating and frightening, one where Harry Potter and friends would feel right at home. Here, spells are real, charms can be bought, and unsolvable crimes have complicated solutions. If you can unlock the magic, you can solve the case. We quickly learn that the magical world needs Travers even more than the real one. And not just because her talent for law enforcement... but for reasons she doesn't even know yet. Executive produced by Michael Green (The River, Kings, Heroes), Francis Lawrence (I am Legend, Water for Elephants, Constantine) and Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, The Blindside) Gotham takes us inside a hidden world of magic... where nothing is what it seems... and where the fantastical happens everyday. You just have to be able to see it.


Forget about Gotham, give me Americana.
ReplyDeleteI care a heck more about Gotham than some chick-show like Americana. But that`s me. I would like to see how this new actress could handle the role, the plot sounded like 17th Precinct (a show that never got on the air) and it had Lennie James.
ReplyDeleteBut i do care more about Guilty than any of those. I want to see if Cuba Gooding Jr. still can act with this at least good enough material that made the pilot buzz enough to be one of the frontrunners with the pilot-season over at Fox.
I miss something good and maybe more traditional legal drama like Law & Order. The Good Wife is good, but i feel like the seasons are to big, and i work to slow on watching the show. Guilty can be something i would watch. And i do hope County may have a life over at NBC some time in the future, but that hope is probably gone now. NBC is done, and have a terrible lineup of comedys instead..
Grimm meets The Dresden Files
ReplyDeleteI'd give it a go...
ReplyDeletethis smells like inspired by dresden files books.
ReplyDeleteSounds promising. Hopefully gets picked up and lasts.
I loved that 17th Precinct trailer but I am all about sci-fi and fantasy and I would have even forgiven the procedural twist
ReplyDeleteI thought it was about Batman
ReplyDeletewhat is americana?
ReplyDeleteBTW 17th Precinct's entire pilot is online somewhere we posted it ages ago
ReplyDeleteWhat? It's not about Batman? They need to do something about the title! Everyone will think it's about Gotham City!!!
ReplyDeletePeople really need to start to read some books, I swear.Far longer than comic books existed, ever since 1807, "Gotham" is a sarcastic nickname for New York City penned by Washington Irving in his poems.
ReplyDeletePeople really need to start to read some books, I swear.
ReplyDeleteFar longer than comic books existed, ever since 1807, "Gotham" is a sarcastic nickname for New York City penned by Washington Irving in his poems.
Gotham is an actually city in New York
DeleteI know, I watched and for the life I don't understand how Sy Fy didn't pick it up. Maybe it was just to expensive or something.
ReplyDeleteIt's just like how a majority of people think that Arkham originated within the Batman comics not realizing his beginnings were more a pulp style and that the creator got the idea from H.P. Lovecraft.
ReplyDeletewell you need to start living in 2012 cuz NOW, people associate Gotham with Batman.
ReplyDeleteIgnorance over lovecraftian stuff astonishes me sometimes. Its a huge part of present day popculture, yet there are people who still think that Cthulhu was invented by South Park...
ReplyDeleteTBH, while I don't love HP Lovecraft, I respect him and his influence. If it weren't for me being a comic book geek and Lost junkie, I might not have ever discovered him. Even with Google just a click away people tend to let things go over their heads, they have no zest for learning just for the sake of learning something new and interesting. I'm glad a still have that spark.
ReplyDeleteI also thought it was about Batman till i starting reading about it,then my eyes started crossing and i knew it was time to stop.so tired of this kind of crap...
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