{"id":1996,"date":"2009-05-18T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:32:46","slug":"abc-orders-eastwick-v-to-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/abc-orders-eastwick-v-to-series\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC orders Eastwick, V to series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1997\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"v_l\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/v_l-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"v_l\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>ABC has given the green light to Eastwick, based on the Jack Nicholson-starring 1987 film The Witches Of Eastwick, and the remake of the cult classic V, to go to series this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>V stars Morena Baccarin (Stargate SG-1, Firefly), and is expected to be a 13-episode event, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/television\/news\/e3i9ffdbbfa915bd89c3fa7ebcea92fb59e\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. The series retains the original premise but has been updated to a modern setting. Eastwick&#8217;s pilot was directed by perennial pilot helmer David Nutter, who now has a perfect score for show&#8217;s he&#8217;s taken the reigns of the first episode for going to series. Nutter previously directed the debut entries for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Supernatural among others.<\/p>\n<p>ABC previously ordered a series for Flash Forward, based on the novel by Robert J Sawyer in which the whole world witnesses a brief flash of their future. The show has been heavily promoted through Lost&#8217;s final episodes of the season, and is hoped to be a replacement for the Peabody-award winning show when it finishes its run next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has given the green light to Eastwick, based on the Jack Nicholson-starring 1987 film The Witches Of Eastwick, and the remake of the cult classic V, to go to series this autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[745,718,744,693],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}