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It’s been barely 48 hours since the CW passed on the Tales from the Darkside reboot, and I hear there are multiple outlets that have reached out to inquire about the project. I hear the list of the interested parties, none of which has seen the pilot yet, include cable networks Syfy, MTV, VH1 and possibly streaming…

The broadcast pilot season started late and is ending late, with series pickups coming behind the usual timetable. And while we are anxiously waiting for the first orders at Fox and more pickups from NBC — the first two networks to present next Monday — some pilots have started to receive the dreaded news that they…

Kris Lemche has been cast as the lead in the CW drama pilot Tales From The Darkside, a remake of the 1980s horror/fantasy/thriller anthology series that hails from writer Joe Hill and producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The anthology series will feature only one regular character, Newman (Lemche). A weathered…

The CW got on the board today with its first pilot orders for the season — a remake of the 1980s horror/fantasy/thriller anthology series Tales From the Darkside and disaster drama Cordon, from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals‘ showrunner Julie Plec and director David Nutter. Also heating up for a pilot order at…