ReelzChannel Acquires Second Original Drama Series

COMMENTS (6)

• Stuart Townsend said on his Facebook that Reelz Channel acquired this a few months ago.

  Comment by Wolf — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 8:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• XIII copies Bourne and so many other similar stories, but Reelz will now make this into a television series. It better be good, because it certainly does not sound highly original.

  Been there…done that.

  Comment by FTCS — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 8:53am PDT  Reply to this post

  • “…Reelz will now make this into a television series.”

    Reelz isn’t going to MAKE anything. The series is a Canadian/French co-production and started airing in Canada and France a year ago. All Reelz is doing is importing a foreign TV show. Not that all Americans are guilty of it, but to a certain American way of thinking, something doesn’t really EXIST until it is in the United States, which is exactly how Reelz can get away with calling a show they had nothing to do with commissioning or producing an “ORIGINAL Reelz series.” Ion did the same thing when they imported the Canadian drama Durham County, calling it an “Original” Ion drama.

    Comment by MoreTears — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Do People actually watch this channel?

  Comment by Herb Finn — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 10:23am PDT  Reply to this post

• XIII is based on a European series of graphic novels that have already had at least one movie adaptation and video games based on the basic story. I’d have to look at when XIII and Bourne were both first published, but while the success of Bourne might have gotten this green-lighted, the actual source material is NOT a johnny-come-lately ripoff

  Comment by Jim Kosmicki — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 2:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• ABC or NBC or someone aired a 2=part, four hour miniseries of this same exact format (same title, same plot, same everything) a few years ago. It sucked then.

  Comment by David — Monday April 9, 2012 @ 5:06pm PDT  Reply to this post