American TV hits a new low
Nov. 12th, 2003 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sombrefanNBC Readies Apocalypse Series
NBC is partnering with writer David Seltzer (The Omen) and producer Gavin Polone to develop a six-to-eight-hour limited series based on the apocalypse as foretold in the Book of Revelation, Variety reported. NBC hopes to roll out the series right after its broadcast of the Athens Olympics in late August, airing an hour a week as an event designed to create momentum for the fall season, the trade paper reported.
Set just before the start of armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the apocalypse can be averted. It's possible the limited series could include an antichrist character, sources told the trade paper. The series is as yet untitled.
I blame those crappy Left Behind books which rival anything written by L. Ron Hubbard in terms of awfulness. Yes I may be an atheist but I would read a well written well plotted Christian apocalypse series. Mind it would have to be a short series so it wouldn't stink of "how long can the writer stretch this out?". Bit like what Ennis did with Preacher. He kept it short and sweet.
Didn't NBC do that atomic train min-series? That stunk too. No wonder all the good stuff is on cable these days (apart from Angel obviously).
NBC is partnering with writer David Seltzer (The Omen) and producer Gavin Polone to develop a six-to-eight-hour limited series based on the apocalypse as foretold in the Book of Revelation, Variety reported. NBC hopes to roll out the series right after its broadcast of the Athens Olympics in late August, airing an hour a week as an event designed to create momentum for the fall season, the trade paper reported.
Set just before the start of armageddon, the series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the apocalypse can be averted. It's possible the limited series could include an antichrist character, sources told the trade paper. The series is as yet untitled.
I blame those crappy Left Behind books which rival anything written by L. Ron Hubbard in terms of awfulness. Yes I may be an atheist but I would read a well written well plotted Christian apocalypse series. Mind it would have to be a short series so it wouldn't stink of "how long can the writer stretch this out?". Bit like what Ennis did with Preacher. He kept it short and sweet.
Didn't NBC do that atomic train min-series? That stunk too. No wonder all the good stuff is on cable these days (apart from Angel obviously).
