The fourth day of the cable press tour features Viacom Networks, Pivot, STARZ, the Sundance Channel, and AMC Networks. As usual, we will be blogging it.
MTV – MTV started with some announcements: Catfish has been renewed for Season 4, and they are moving forward with Shannara, based on the novel by Terry Brooks and coming from Smallville exec producers Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, who worked with MTV’s Susanne Daniels over a decade ago when she was at The WB.
Season 2 of Are You The One premieres Monday, September 29; new seasons of Awkward. and Faking It are coming Tuesday, September 23.
Here is some detail on individual panels:
Virgin Territory – MTV finds the only 15 virgins to ever appear on MTV for a documentary about people who keep their virginity, either by choice or by circumstance. Premieres July 16.
VH1: Leann & Eddie – Because the tabloids are not enough for LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, now they get a reality show, as the duo goes to Tennessee to visit Rimes’ family, among other things.
Candidly Nicole – Nicole Ritchie gets a reality show on VH1. Just because. The clip shown features her dad Lionel Ritchie giving parallel parking lessons, and shows that Ritchie has Lionel Ritchie stand-ups on hand.
Pivot – The hispter channel presented a new season of Please Like Me with a funny clip featuring Josh Thomas and graffiti. Also on their panel was Human Resources, a show about recycling trash items into good and better thins.
Pivot also announced a new drama series called Fortitude which stars Stanley Tucci and premieres in January 2015.
STARZ – STARZ president Chris Albrecht fielded questions and a lot of excitement for Outlander, and some announcements related to the show were made. No announcement yet on a Season 3 for Black Sails but things sound encouraging. Among the surprises in the panel: Albrecht once pitched 50 Shades of Gray as a TV series.
The Chair – This competition documentary series sees two young directors making a movie out of the same script. The two filmmakers directing include Anna Martemucci (short film director) and Shane Dawson (whose Degrassi YouTube video is amazing.)
WeTV: The Divide – Co-created by Richard LaGravenese and Tony Goldwyn, this drama “explores the personal cost of morality, ambition, ethics, politics and race in today’s justice system through the eyes of Christine Rosa, an impassioned coworker with the Innocence Initiative, and Adam Page, an equally passionate district attorney and political rising star.” This is the first scripted show on WeTV. The show premieres July 16.
The Honorable Woman – on SundanceTV, this series features international intrigue and stars Maggie Gyllenhall as someone whose father was an Israeli/English arms supplier. Gyllenhall sports an English accent which is pretty spotless.
AMC: 4th and Loud – The band KISS decided L.A. doesn’t have a football team, so they created one, and that’s what this show is about.
Better Call Saul – The last presentation focused on the Breaking Bad prequel spin-off Better Call Saul, which starts in 2002 story-wise. Some new information was also released which can be found here.
