{"id":91530,"date":"2016-10-02T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=91530"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:07:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T21:07:51","slug":"what-we-do-in-the-shadows-tv-series-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-tv-series-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Do In The Shadows TV series on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our highlights of 2014, Taika Waititi&#8217;s <em><strong>What We Do In The Shadows<\/strong><\/em> has quickly built up a deserved cult following with its hilarious tale of vampire housemates\u00a0Viago (Waititi), Vladislav (Jemaine Clement), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Petyr (Ben Fransham) and their day-to-day life. In what&#8217;s a surprise &#8211; but very welcome &#8211; piece of news, it seems as if we might be returning to their world in the form of a TV series.<\/p>\n<p>The news was broken by Radio New Zealand News, who reveal that the series will comprise six episodes, and be called <em><strong>Paranormal Event Response Unit<\/strong><\/em>, and will focus on the daily life and work of police officers Karen and Mike, who &#8220;keep us safe from supernatural phenomena in their own police reality series.&#8221; <em><strong>Flight Of The Conchords<\/strong><\/em> alumni Clement and Waititi\u00a0are the originators of this series, with Waititi giving a little bit more away in the following tweet:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The cops from Shadows are getting their own TV show. Think Mulder &amp; Scully but in a country where nothing happens.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fxYQhheWPG\">https:\/\/t.co\/fxYQhheWPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaikaWaititi\/status\/781678139952943104\">September 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Presumably the two will encounter<em><strong> What We Do In The Shadows<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; leads at some point, as well as the various other supernatural beings that inhabit suburban New Zealand. Clearly there&#8217;s a lot of potential in the format, and considering the pleasingly positive reception that the film received, it&#8217;s clear that there&#8217;s a thirst for something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Having helmed the similarly great <em><strong>Hunt For The Wilderpeople<\/strong><\/em> recently, as well as having an intriguing first foray into blockbusters on the way in the form of <em><strong>Thor: Ragnarok<\/strong><\/em>, it&#8217;s definitely a good time to be Taika Waititi. Hopefully he&#8217;ll be able to recapture the magic formula that brought him his earlier films, but in the meantime we&#8217;ll just head off and watch <em><strong>What We Do In The Shadows<\/strong><\/em> again. It just makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What We Do In The Shadows<\/em> is available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray now. For all the latest TV news, pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, a What We Do In The Shadows series is great news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":91531,"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":[3741],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/What-We-Do-In-The-Shadows.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91530"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}