Jokes about how NBC just cannot get its shit together are pretty old hat right now, but it's hard not to make them when they just keep doing things like this: the network has committed to a script-to-series deal on a Dracula-themed drama, inventively titled Dracula. Script-to-series, by the way, means that the network won't need to see a pilot if they like the script. Vampires: so hot for 2006. The show is being produced by Tony Krantz (who has actually done some well-received stuff, like Felicity, 24 and Mulholland Dr.) and Colin Callender (who once did something called Television Scrabble). But will the show follow sexy modern Dracula, or sexy Bram Stoker Dracula, or sexy Transylvanian prince Dracula? Looks like they're going full-on period piece: Set in the 1890s, it is described as “Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors” and as a big, sweeping international soap opera that [...]...
- 1/13/2012
- Nerve
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