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Four Drama Pilots Land Directors

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 22, 2010 @ 7:39am PSTTags: Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Pilot, Eden Pilot, Fox Locke & Key Pilot, Jace Alexander, Mark Romanek, Syfy, TNT Allan Loeb Project, TV, TV Pilot Directors, TV Pilots, USA Eden
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Four high-profile pilots have found directors. Mark Romanek is in negotiations to helm Fox’s Locke & Key, Jace Alexander is set to direct USA’s Eden, Jonas Pate has come on board to direct Syfy’s  Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, while Jim Sadwith has closed a deal to direct TNT’s untitled Allan Loeb pilot.

Based on the comic, Locke & Key, from 20th TV and writer Josh Friedman, is set in a mysterious New England mansion. This marks the TV debut of Romanek, who started off as a music video director. His feature credits include One Hour Photo and this year’s Never Let Me Go.

Eden, from Universal Cable Prods. and writers Ken and Mary Hanes, centers on a resourceful young concierge at an elite NYC hotel. ICM-repped Jace Alexander has become the go-to pilot director for the NBCU cable networks. He directed the pilots for USA’s hits Burn Notice and Royal Pains and Syfy’s hit Warehouse 13. He recently directed the pilot Three Inches, which is in contention for a series pickup at Syfy.

The two-hour Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, a Battlestar Galactica spinoff about the young years of Ensign William Adama, hails from Battlestar Galactica  executive producer David Eick and Universal Cable Prods. WME-repped Pate most recently served as co-executive producer-director on Syfy’s Battlestar prequel Caprica.

Based on Marshall Karp’s novel The Rabbit Factory, the Lionsgate TV-produced Allan Loeb project centers on a recently widowed police detective (Steven Weber) and his newly married partner (D.L. Hughley). Paradigm-repped Sadwith, who won an Emmy for directing the 1992 telefilm Sinatra, replaces Gregory Hoblit who exited the pilot 36 hours after signing on to direct it over a clash with creator-exec producer Loeb.

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SyFy Pulls The Plug On Series ‘Caprica’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 27, 2010 @ 3:34pm PDTTags: Battlestar Galactica Prequel, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Cable TV, Caprica Scheduling, Caprica Season 1, Syfy, Syfy Caprica, TV
Nellie Andreeva

It’s over for Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. The cable network said today that it will be pulling the show off the schedule effective immediately. The final five episodes of the sci-fi saga will air in the first quarter of … Read More »

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SyFy Greenlights ‘Battlestar’ Spinoff Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Battlestar Galactica Prequel, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Pilot, Cable TV, Caprica, Caprica Season 1, David Eick, Syfy, Syfy Caprica, Syfy Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

SyFy is going back to the Battlestar Galactica well. After launching prequel Caprica, which is now airing the second part of its first season while awaiting word on a second-season pickup, the cable network has greenlighted a two-hour pilot for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome or BGBC how it will probably be known in the Battlestar fan universe. The pilot, about the young years of Ensign William Adama, hails from Battlestar Galactica  executive producer David Eick and Universal Cable Prods. and will involve CGI and virtual technology. Here is more from the network’s announcement: Read More »

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