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Stephen King to script series 2 opener for Under the Dome

In addition to announcing that her network has given a second season order to Under the Dome, CBS boss Nina Tassler revealed that Stephen King himself will be penning the script for the opening episode of the new season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Under the Dome will return for a further 13 episodes next summer. The first season premiere […]

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Lost writer for King’s Under the Dome

The Showtime adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth novel Under the Dome has finally got a writer, with comicbook scribe and Lost alumnus Brian K. Vaughan set to turn the thousand page novel into a workable miniseries screenplay. According to Deadline’s report, the Dreamworks series will be Showtime’s first foray into the genre field since the end of the supernatural series […]

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HBO for Dark Tower?

Following Brian Grazer’s suggestion that a revised budget might make a Dark Tower movie feasible, he’s now been speaking to MTV, and strongly hinted that he and production partners Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman found a home for the television sections of the story. “We’re going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO,” Grazer told MTV. “We’ll do the TV with […]

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Budget cuts mean Dark Tower may be scaled after all?

According to producer Brian Grazer, Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s seven book series The Dark Tower may now get a greenlight, after some serious pruning was made to the budget. Promoting his new movie Tower Heist, Grazer told The Playlist: “We found a way to cut out $45 million out of the budget without changing the scope and […]

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Haven renewed for third year

Syfy has ordered a further 13 episodes of its Stephen King-based series Haven, starring Emily Rose, to air next year – probably in the same summer slot. The second series, which has just begun airing on Syfy UK, reached a slightly bigger audience than the opening season, around 2.55 million viewers. Loosely based on King’s novella The Colorado Kid, the […]

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Jason Priestley joins King's Bag of Bones

Fresh from his stint on the Stephen King-based Haven, former Beverly Hills 90210 star Jason Priestley has signed up to play a literary agent on the new adaptation of the King novel Bag of Bones. True Blood‘s Mayor Norris, William Schallert, has also joined the cast to play Max Devore, an elderly man who is trying to gain custody of […]

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Haven tweets special 7-episode arc

The producers of Syfy’s Stephen King-based show Haven have created a seven-episode arc that will see newspaper owners Vince and Dave’s Twitter messages interact with events in the TV show. Syfy explains that “Vince (Richard Donat) and Dave (John Dunsworth), who run the newspaper in Haven, join Twitter as newcomers to the medium. Viewers who follow their characters (@VinceHaven, @DaveHaven) will […]

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Jason Priestley charms Haven

Beverly Hills 90210‘s Jason Priestley is one of many stars entering the sleepy town of Haven in the second season of the Stephen King-based Syfy show. Priestley will play Chris Weekly, who the network describes as “a handsome but anti-social marine biologist who is forced to deal with an affliction most would consider a blessing: everyone suddenly loves him and […]