NBC Orders Ronald D. Moore’s Magic-Cops Drama To Pilot!!

I know he's dead, CGI him and his fucking rainbow suspenders in there.

remember that HBO movie with Fred Ward as a P.I. in a world of magic? I bet Ron Moore remembers it.

and raise you "The Dresden Files." though, of course, neither is about a magic cop. there's also Warren Ellis' "Gravel," about a combat magician. Also not quite the same thing.

Somewhere a SyFy exec just had a eureka moment... I guess I should give Ron Moore the benefit of the doubt but this is the sort of show that has maximum ridiculousness potential if they don't get the tone just right.

the Garrett series of novels by Glenn Cook Both are good stuff, and RDM is no doubt familar with them. I look forward to his interpretation, but dread the inevitable screwing up of any chance for success by NBC.

I'm in!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ittG71d5y4

Not a terrible idea, if given to a writer that can bring imaginative, cool ideas to the screen while maintaining the integrity of a the idea without studio meddling. Who knows? Cops used to specifically police those that are mages....could be decent if done right.

Although after looking for more info, it looks like that's a follow up to Cast a Deadly Spell.

Oh...wait a minute...that really happened! (But, sadly, he was exonerated!).

Product placement will be rather limited.

This may actually be a worse idea. No wait Cop Rock was the worst idea ever. This will be a close second.

Karrin Murphy isn't magic, but accepts it for what it is, and fights in that world anyways. Wish HBO would pick up Dresden and make a go of it. Will never forgive syfy...

Man, that show never had a fair chance. Yet Sanctuary, another "Syfy original" manages to last three goddamn seasons. Paul Blackthorne over Amanda Tapping any day of the week (I say it being fully assured in my heterosexuality and urge to repeatedly bludgeon Tapping with a claw hammer). I mean fuck, even taken outside of his character, you could've called it The Blackthorne Files and it still would've worked. The man is that cool.

Sounds like that anime/manga from the late eighties/early nineties.

I couldn't get passed the pilot, and I LOVE the books.That shit must be on some kind of screen. This sounds cool too, if the world is not "secretly"ruled by magic, but you can see the effects of deadly spells on the 6 o clock news and truly powerful wizards are celebrities.

Same thing, really bad SyFy flick: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343740/

its all so perfectly clear to me now.

We have a new Tron movie, so why not re-imagine the original Tron rip-off, Automan! Yes, of course I am joking....

Mario Acevedo's Felix Gomez books.

Sanctuary gets four seasons because people watch and enjoy it. It gets ratings to justify its budget. Bravo to Tapping. No-one saw Dresden. No-one cared about that show. The books may be fine but the show....sucked.

Where it was casually revealed that the Los Angeles DA's office had its own staff of shamans and seers.

Random CSI dude: Sir, it appears that the victim was killed by a single magical blast to the head. Horatio: Any ID on the victim? Random CSI dude: We found this blood signed pact with demons...it appears he practiced dark magic. Horatio: It appears out suspect used a magic missle... *puts on sunglasses* Horatio: ...on the darkness ~Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~

was supposed to *revive* the network?

... for the aimless, script-written-on-cocktail-napkin direction Battlestar Galactica took for almost every plot turn after they were airlifted out of New Caprica. I thought that the "Who Are the FInal Five" marketing campaign was aimed at somebody whose mental age is slightly lower than that of someone who responds to the question "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?"

Magic by The Cars; You Can Do Magic (one of the wussiest singles in the history of the universe) by America; Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band; Hocus Pocus (the instrumental with all the yodeling and Popeye sounds) by Focus... anything else?

...by the ghost of Fred Silverman. And on top of it, they're now owned by the most evil, bloodsucking, bottom-feeding corporation in existence. Good luck with that.

One of the only groups that's more socially clueless than the fan-boys that hang out here.

Wait...no...I reincarnated. Still, fuck NBC forever.

Did the world REALLY need a Wild Wild West remake? Which original pilot got shitcanned so a TV exec could indulge his midlife crisis by seeing a show he grew up with back on TV?

After much coaxing from far too many people about how "fricken' amazeballs" those Butcher novels supposedly were, I tried the first. I got to the part with the talking cartoon skull with a "tude" and threw the book across the room. Utter shit. I now trust no one who openly lauds these horrible book-like facsimiles.

Gruntybear obviously prefers such literature as the TWILIGHT series instead.

Also the basis of a not-bad RPG from Evil Hat Games, if you're into that. Sounds like Gruntybear got to around page 91 of the first book, so at least he gave it a shot. But he may not have been paying much attention by then, since Bob is hardly a "cartoon" (I'll grant the "tude", though.)

instead of that incompetent retard pussy ass fucking hack Jar Jar Piece Of Shit Abrams.