Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

Demimonde, JJ Abrams’ first new SF TV series since Fringe a decade ago, has got a series order from HBO.

Described as “an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama,” sources have told The Hollywood Reporter that the drama is about a family — a mother who works as a scientist, her husband and their young daughter — who are all in a terrible car crash. After the mother winds up in a coma, her daughter begins digging through her experiments in the basement and is transported to another world amid a battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. Her father then follows her into this new world.

No episode count has yet been confirmed or anyone else on the production team beyond Abrams himself.

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