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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
Fox has given a pilot order to Boomerang, a drama from John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros TV. Written by Davey Holmes (Awake), the project is about a family who serve as assassins for the federal government. Holmes and JWP’s John Wells and Andrew Stearn are executive producing. Holmes serves as co-executive producer on Wells/Warner Bros’ Showtime series Shameless. Boomerang joins Fox’s other drama pilots Delirium, The List, Rake and Sleepy Hollow.
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In the future, all entertainment will be about people who murder other people for money.
Yawn.
Glad to see Newtown really made an impact!
It did–there’s renewed push for restrictions on assault weapons that can do the most damage and focus on mental health issues. 99.99% of the population watches films and television that are violent yet we don’t go out and kill, so the emphasis on that is misplaced.
Sounds decent. I may give it a try if it becomes a series.
Hey, at least there’s an original idea here.
That’s a first for Fox.
Fox goes dark and darker. They will never learn. Family of killers. So….the teenagers have guns, too? All the networks are going supernatural, futuristic and dark. No counter programming. No Mentalist equivalent, no Bones equivalent. These guys run in packs, a group thinking herd. And now they are all hiring the special effects guys from features. What about making us care?
So you’re saying The Mentalist and Bones are good? They should be replicated? Ay yi yi.
Networks — please DON’T listen to this dude.
You know what other shows are dark?
Homeland
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
You know…hit shows…
The Mentalist was a much better show in the beginning with the darker Red John storyline. Now, it’s all tea, muffins, and Murder She Wrote.
Those shows have characters we haven’t seen before. This crap Fox is picking up is Network blood and guts. There will be no character development, the women will all be props with 34C’s and stand slightly behind the lead as people are murdered. To compare the Fox schlock with any of these shows is embarrassing and shows how little you know about good TV.
So, you’ve read the script then? No? Oh, well, it’s good that you have such a strong opinion already formed…
I’ve read the scripts. Cable cares about characters and development. Networks wants loud and noisy with no development.
Sarah: you’ve read the “scripts”. THIS script? I think not.
The debate is whether dark shows can can make us care about the characters, not a comparison between shows of which the new one hasn’t even been shot yet.
Read what’s written before responding.
I agree. When network will ever learn? What good shows have is memorable,unique,interesting characters. Because even the best written show is unrealistic or has plot holes. When was the last unique character on network tv? House? Mostly because of a great actor like Hugh Laurie It started airing in 2005. That should tell you something.
And don’t get me started on female characters, the most cardboard of all.
All cable hit shows. Network just likes to murder at random. Making a show edgy isn’t about more gore. This sounds awful.
Homeland, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead are all cable. If networks try to be premium cable, they will fail. They can’t come close to the levels of sex and violence. I don’t watch Bones or the Mentalist. The point is, millions do. Bones has been on for eons. The audience for those shows exists. The product has to be diversified.
hooroay, a family show…killers with kids…!?
Congrats to Davey!! I just want it on record that this home dude can write.
Obviously you have not read the script. It is hardly dark and violent. It was one of the most original and clever and funny scripts I have read this pilot season. Seems like a lacking pilot season in my opinion. The family has ADULT children and it isn’t even a tiny bit as violent as THE FOLLOWING I think it is one of the few shows this pilot season that actually deserves a chance.