1ST 'HOUDINI & DOYLE' TV SERIES PHOTOS WITH STEPHEN MANGAN, MICHAEL WESTON! 'RED MARS' CLASSIC SF SAGA ORDERED INTO SF TV SERIES! ABIGAIL BRESLIN IS BABY IN 'DIRTY DANCING' TV REMAKE

 ABIGAL BRESLIN IS BABY

IN TV'S 'DIRTY DANCING'  REMAKE

In TV news, ABC has found their Baby for the brand new small screen remake of famous dance movie DIRTY DANCING which they will produce in the form of a three hour mini series. Abigail Breslin will take on Jennifer Grey's original role! As 'Deadline' reports, like the original, the new DIRTY DANCING centres on Baby, an innocent young woman in the early 1960’s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort’s working-class dance instructor.

 'RED MARS' SF SAGA

ORDERED INTO TV SERIES  
Meanwhile, 'Deadline' also reports that Spike TV has officially ordered the ten episode sf series based on cult sf novels RED MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson that will air in January 2017 describing the colonization and terra forming of Mars into a place where humans can live sustainably! With rigorous attention to scientific detail, based on at-the-time current science and speculative science, the three novels had the large cast of widely different and richly detailed characters followed over the course of decades and centuries, as well as the somewhat utopian social and political ideals the novels explore.

 'HOUDINI & DOYLE'

FIRST PHOTOS FROM ITV'S PERIOD SET TV SERIES

Over at the British Isles, ITV has revealed the first look from their new historical series HOUDINI & DOYLE, revealing Stephen Mangan as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Michael Weston as Harry Houdini. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the ten part TV drama will explore the duo's friendship and how they, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and one of world's most famous illusionists,  worked with New Scotland Yard on unsolved crimes. The series will air sometime next year inspired by their real life friendship!

AARON PAUL JOINS JAMIE DORNAN IN 'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'! KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S 'RED MARS' TO BECOME SF TV SERIES! BOTH ABC & NBC WANT EVA LONGORIA FOR THEIR SITCOMS!

EVA LONGORIA

ABC & NBC BOTH WANT HER TO TOPLINE THEIR SITCOMS

Two big networks are currently trying to lure Eva Longoria over to their side: both NBC and ABC want her to topline their new sitcoms. If she opts to star in NBC's TELENOVELA comedy, which she developed herself, she will play an ambitious telenovela star who struggles to stay on top in a world where the drama on-camera is nothing compared to the drama off-camera. If she chooses the untitled sitcom at ABC she will play a successful home renovator who can’t stop problem solving when she leaves the job site – especially when it comes to her boyfriend, her family, a random delivery guy, and basically everyone she comes into contact with. Eva Longoria's production company has already sold a number of different new TV series projects both to NBC and ABC for the upcoming developmental season. 

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON'S 'MARS'

TRILOGY FOR TV ADAPTATION!
Beside Ancient Egyptian series TUT with Ben Kingsley, Spike TV is preparing another epic series: 'Deadline' writes that they will turn Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction Mars saga into RED MARS TV show! To be written by GAME OF THRONE's producer Vince Gerardis, the story will chronicle the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries. More utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster.

'THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX'

AARON PAUL JOINS JAMIE DORNAN

 In today's casting updates from Tinseltown, 'Variety' reports that Aaron Paul will join Irish superhunk Jamie Dornan in THE 9TH LIFE OF LOUIS DRAX a big screen adaptation of Liz Jensen's bestselling novel! In the movie to be directed by Alexandre Aya, Dornan will play a psychologist who begins studying a young boy after a near-fatal fall. The doctor gets drawn into a complex mystery that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. Aaron Paul is going to play the father of the little boy. Don't forget that later this year, you will watch Paul in ancient Egyptian sandals in EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS next to Christian Bale!