{"id":78557,"date":"2015-08-12T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78557"},"modified":"2015-08-12T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:50:45","slug":"friday-the-13th-tv-series-is-coming-to-the-cw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/friday-the-13th-tv-series-is-coming-to-the-cw\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday The 13th TV series is coming to the CW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-78559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jason-Voorhees-616x397.png\" alt=\"Jason Voorhees\" width=\"616\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jason-Voorhees.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jason-Voorhees-600x387.png 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jason-Voorhees-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\">It&#x2019;s always been difficult to kill Jason Voorhees. In addition to the long-gestating but still definitely happening new film, that long-mooted <strong><em>Friday The 13th<\/em><\/strong> TV series is becoming a reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/08\/friday-the-13th-series-the-cw-feature-movie-the-pretender-1201497591\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that The CW is actively developing a TV show based on Camp Crystal Lake&#x2019;s most famous alumnus. It&#x2019;s created by&#xA0;Steve Mitchell & Craig Van Sickle, who previously created the NBC series <strong><em>The Pretender.<\/em><\/strong> Sean S Cunningham, the man behind Jason, will executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, the pitch for the show is &#x201C;grounded.&#x201D; The site reports that the CW series &#x201C;reimagines&#xA0;the masked Jason with a stronger feel of grounded reality. Described as a sophisticated, horror\/crime thriller, the potential<strong><em> Friday The 13<sup>th<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>&#xA0;series is about the ongoing quest of a detective&#x2019;s search for his missing brother that is somehow tied to Jason Vorhees, a long thought dead serial killer who has now returned to wreak havoc in the new Crystal Lake.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>This pitch sounds more plausible, if slightly less interesting, than the original idea which would have followed Jason over different time periods.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the series has landed on The CW will make some fans a bit wary. In terms of horror, the closest they&#x2019;ve got at the moment are <strong><em>Supernatural<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>iZombie<\/em><\/strong>. It&#x2019;s hard to imagine the die hard fans of the movie franchise being satisfied with the amount of blood and guts allowed on that network, but with a new movie also on the way, maybe old and new fans will be satisfied. Chi chi chi ha ha ha&#x2026;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Friday-13th-Original-Blu-ray-Region\/dp\/B002AHHOFA\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1439372802&sr=8-9&keywords=friday+the+13th&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy Friday The 13th on Blu-ray for &#xA3;8.46 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. Keep up with the latest horror news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CW is developing a Friday The 13th TV show for a weekly dose of Jason Voorhees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":78559,"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":[3,207],"tags":[364,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jason-Voorhees.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}