DC's SWAMP THING Series and More Are Coming to The CW
For those of you who never got a chance to watch producer James Wan’s Swamp Thing series on DC Universe, you’ll be happy to hear that it’s coming to The CW. This series actually got a great first season! It’s a shame that they canceled it before Season 1 even aired.
The show follows Dr. Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed) “as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana. However, when a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe.” The series also stars Virginia Madsen, Andy Bean, Henderson Wade, Derek Mears, Maria Sten and Jeryl Prescott.
It was also announced that the Kevin Williamson-created anthology thriller Tell Me a Story from CBS All Access, which was also cancelled, is coming to The CW as well after a single season.
Tell Me a Story “takes the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern-day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves ‘The Three Little Pigs, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Hansel and Gretel’ into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.” The cast of the first season includes James Wolk, Billy Magnussen, Dania Ramirez, Danielle Campbell, and Dorian Missick.
The other two shows that The CW has picked up are Coroner (two seasons) and Dead Pixels (one season), which hail from Canada and the U.K.
Coroner is described as “a character driven one-hour drama about Dr. Jenny Cooper (Serinda Swan), a recently widowed, newly appointed coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural or sudden deaths in Toronto. Each death brings Jenny into a new arena in the city and sparks buzzworthy themes.”
Dead Pixels follows “Meg (Alexa Davies), Nicky (Will Merrick), and Usman (Sargon Yelda), who are obsessed with the online fantasy game ‘Kingdom Scrolls.’ Meg would happily cut a date short to go home and defend Castle Blackfinger. Nicky thinks the miscasting of Vince Vaughn as Tanadaal in the ‘Kingdom Scrolls’ movie is an international outrage. And Usman has made a plywood lid for his child’s playpen, so he can play the game in peace.”
Premiere dates for all four shows will be announced at a later date.
Source: Variety