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Lifetime has set its fall movie lineup with seven young adult-focused films that tackle topics such as mental health, suicide and teen domestic dating violence, with Shannen Doherty, Mira Sorvino, Bella Thorne, Austin P. Mckenzie, Angela Kinsey Jason Patric and Caitlin Stasey among the cast. The Girl in the Bathtub; Terror in the Woods; Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill; No One Would Tell; Believe Me: The Lisa McVey Story and The Lover in the Attic, join previously announced The Bad Seed, directed by and starring Rob Lowe, which premieres September 9 at 8 Pm.

No One Would Tell is a remake of the 1996 cautionary teen dating movie. It stars Shannen Doherty stars as a mother who must fight for justice for her daughter against her seemingly perfect boyfriend. Mira Sorvino also stars. It premieres September 16.

Inspired by a true story, Conrad and Michelle: If Words Could Kill reveals the tragic tale...

Syfy is doing well with its original series, and coming off the back of the popularity, and general awesomeness, of Helix, the network has announced two more series are coming your way.

With zombies now taking over the top spot in the ever-changing monster popularity consciousness, it’s no surprise that we’re getting another series focusing on the undead. Syfy‘s spin is Z Nation, and rather than kicking off with the appearance of the zombies, this one starts years after our zombie plague has already gutted most of humanity. Apparently, when someone immune to the plague finally turns up, we embark upon a quest to reach the other side of the country to hopefully make use of his blood in creating a cure.

There aren’t a lot of details yet, and this is one that will live or die by its cast, but it could be an...

Syfy announced two upcoming projects this morning: "Z Nation," a 13-episode zombie series from The Asylum set to debut in the fall, and "Olympus," a new mythological drama that will take viewers into the action-packed world of humans, gods, and monsters.

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"Z Nation": Syfy announces "Z Nation," a 13-episode zombie series set to debut in the fall of 2014.

From production company The Asylum (Sharknado), the action-horror series depicts the epic struggle to save humanity after a zombie apocalypse. The series, which will air on Syfy, will be produced by The Asylum and sold internationally by Dynamic Television.

Karl Schaefer ("Eerie Indiana," "Eureka," "Stephen King's Dead Zone") will serve as executive producer and showrunner. "'Z Nation' will take viewers where no zombie has gone before,” says Schaefer. The show, he continues, adds “a sense of hope to the horror of the apocalypse – our everyday heroes take the fight to the zombies.

In recent years, Syfy has become better known for shlocky creature features like Sharktopus and Sharknado than high-quality sci-fi/fantasy programming, but the channel has been taking steps over the past few weeks to reclaim its title as the resident channel for sci-fi aficionados. Hot on the heels of ordering a TV adaptation of the Bruce Willis classic 12 Monkeys, green-lighting miniseries Ascension and drama Dominion, and renewing series Helix, Continuum, Lost Girl, Defiance and Haven, Syfy has ordered a miniseries rooted in Greek mythology, titled Olympus.

The 13-episode series will tell the story of a group of brave men and women who banished the gods to “the realm of the unconscious: a place they called the Underworld, or the Kingdom of Hades,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Olympus follows a man named Hero, who grows from a young boy into a brilliant leader capable of taking on the gods themselves.

Permut Presentations and Reunion Pictures are developing the feature "Tracy and Hepburn" which would deal with the love affair between Hollywood icons Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

David Rambo is penning the script which would cover their meeting at MGM before making "Woman of the Year" in 1942 to Tracy's death in 1967, seventeen days after shooting wrapped on "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

Tracy was married throughout the affair, which was kept private with both maintaining separate residences. Hepburn didn't speak about the affair until the early 1980s.

David Permut, John Dayton and Lisa Richardson will produce with a director and actors currently being sought.

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Exclusive: David Permut‘s Permut Presentations and Reunion Pictures have teamed to produce Tracy And Hepburn, a David Rambo-scripted feature about the long love affair between the screen legends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Rambo’s credits include CSI and Revolution. The film starts when Tracy and Hepburn meet for the first time at MGM studios before making Woman Of The Year, and tracks their complicated relationship to Tracy’s death that came days after shooting his last scene in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner. The producers are looking for a director and the right actors to portray the iconic duo. Permut, John Dayton and Lisa Richardson will produce the film with Permut Presentation’s Chris Mangano executive producing with Reunion Pictures’ Tom Rowe and Matthew O’Connor. Over 27 years, Tracy and Hepburn starred in nine films together, one of Hollywood’s most successful on-screen couples. They were madly in love off screen,...

Toronto – Thunderbird Films, which has partnered with Lionsgate to run a TV studio, has acquired Reunion Pictures to bolster its one hour drama production capacity. Vancouver-based Thunderbird purchased Reunion Pictures, which is led by principals Matthew O’Connor, Lisa Richardson and Tom Rowe, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is Thunderbird president and CEO Tim Gamble’s latest move to turn the distribution and rights management company into a major film and TV production player in Canada and abroad. Miptv: First Medaille d'Honneur Recipients Announced “We feel there’s terrific synergy between their enormous experience in high quality production from high-

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Syfy sure is on a roll as we have a third new project to fill you cats in on! The network has handed out a pilot order for "High Moon," an adaptation of John Christopher’s cult 1969 young-adult sci-fi novel The Lotus Caves.

Deadline reports that veteran longform producer Robert Halmi Sr. and "Pushing Daisies" creator creator Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal") executive produce the project, written/executive produced by Jim Danger Gray ("Pushing Daisies"). Canadian-based Reunion Pictures is producing the 90-minute pilot which is expected to begin production in Vancouver this fall. Reunion Pictures’ Matthew O’Connor, Lisa Richardson and Tom Rowe also exec produce.

"High Moon," which had been in development at Syfy for two years, creates a future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon’s resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.

Exclusive: Syfy has handed out a pilot order to High Moon, an adaptation of John Christopher’s cult 1969 young-adult sci-fi novel The Lotus Caves. Veteran longform producer Robert Halmi Sr. and Pushing Daisies creator creator Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) executive produce the project, written/executive produced by Jim Danger Gray (Pushing Daisies). Canadian-based Reunion Pictures is producing the 90-minute pilot which is expected to begin production in Vancouver this fall. Reunion Pictures’ Matthew O’Connor, Lisa Richardson and Tom Rowe also exec produce. High Moon, which had been in development at Syfy for two years, creates a future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon’s resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets. “This is a fresh and compelling vision of an exotic new world driven by character, intrigue and greed,” Syfy...

Syfy has announced that it will premiere Alice, its four-hour-long updated retelling of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' on Sunday, December 6th. The conclusion of the two-part miniseries will air the following day. The announcement was made by Mark Stern, Syfy's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, during the channel's Vancouver Press Tour.

Alice stars Caterina Scorsone as Alice Hamilton, a young, martial arts instructor, who finds her way to a parallel universe called Wonderland after her boyfriend is taken there by mysterious, well-dressed men called 'Suits'. This is not the Wonderland of Carroll's 'Alice' stories, though. Under the direction of Nick Willing, who also helmed Syfy's Emmy-winning miniseries Tin Man, the modernized Wonderland is presented as an oppressive and surreal place where people are kept in check by being fed positive human emotions drained from gamblers trapped in a casino.