Tales From the Darkside reboot pilot coming to the CW

[endo]

"…there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit… a darkside.” Brought to life by living dead legend George A. Romero, anthology series Tales From the Darkside was The Twilight Zone of the 1980’s, delivering stories brimming with horror, science fiction, and dark humor into living rooms from ’84–’88, and continuing to bring the chills and thrills decades later as reruns. Since 2013, a reboot of Tales From the Darkside has been in the works, but now The CW has made it official by ordering the pilot episode.

Deadline reports that an hour-long Tales From the Darkside pilot has been ordered by The CW for their 2015–’16 schedule. The re-imagining of Tales From the Darkside was penned by Joe Hill (Horns, NOS4A2, Locke & Key), who will executive produce the project along with Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Heather Kadin, Mitch Galin, and Jerry Golod."




Really hope the pilot goes over well, love to see this show come back.

[livingdeadgirl]

I'm looking forward to this!

[kicktothehead]

I miss horror anthology shows! Super excited for this.

For anyone that is interested there was a Canadian anthology series that I use to watch on Super Channel called Darknet. First season was only 6 eps, and I don't know if they're going to do another season, but it's on Netflix for anyone who is a horror anthology junkie like myself lol

[endo]

Ooh, I am! I'll probably watch all of Darknet later today, thanks.

[endo]

Bad news for this one. The CW has passed on the show...

"The CW won't be returning to the place that's "not as brightly lit", as the network has apparently passed on the reboot of George A. Romero's 1980s anthology series, Tales From the Darkside.

According to CarterMatt.com, The CW will not be moving forward with their Tales From the Darkside reboot, with the show's anthology format and lack of a showrunner reportedly two of the reasons why the network passed on the series.

Joe Hill (Horns, NOS4A2, Locke & Key) wrote and executive produced the project and Kris Lemche (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Final Destination 3, Ginger Snaps, eXistenZ, Haven) was playing the lead role, a character named Newman who had knowledge of The Darkside and was going to appear in all (or most) episodes.

As fans will remember, the original Tales From the Darkside was a spinoff of Romero's Creepshow efforts. Like a 1980s cousin of The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Darkside delivered stories brimming with horror, science fiction, and dark humor into living rooms from ’84–’88. An interesting thing to note is that Hill (Stephen King’s son) appeared in the original Creepshow."
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I was really looking forward to this, especially since Joe Hill was in on it. Hopefully someone else will pick it up.

[NDX]

Damn, I wanted this to work. Someone talk to Netflix or TNT.