Skip to main content

ABC Resurrects "October Road"

I guess October really is a month of ghosts returning to life.

Following a series of surprising development moves lately (like the CW's revival of failed 2004 Rod Lurie pilot Captial City), comes another resurrection, this time at ABC. The network has ordered six episodes of October Road, which was originally developed for this season but never ordered to series. The drama revolves around a young, successful novelist (Prime's Bryan Greenberg) who finds himself confronting the past he left behind when he returns to his hometown to teach at the local college and deal with his estranged family. (Hopefully Greenberg's character doesn't encounter killer clowns, a shocking homicide rate, or Poppy Montgomery... as the protagonist in Kevin Williamson's similarly themed Glory Days did.)

The pilot for October Road also co-starred Tom Berenger (who coincidentally also co-starred in Lurie's Capital City) and 7th Heaven's Geoff Stults. ABC is said to have kept the pilot under consideration by extending the actor's options beginning in July. It's not clear, however, if the series is intended for midseason or if it will be instead scheduled for next summer.

Disney/Touchstone is producing the series with GroupM Entertainment, comprised of advertising firm WPP's media agencies MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia, and MindShare, so expect a whole lot of integrated product placement to be popping up all over the place on October Road.

Let's just hope the gratuitous product placement isn't as creepy as those Audrey Hepburn Gap ads that seem to be airing on constant rotation and seem far too eerie, even for Halloween.

Comments

Sugarman said…
The show has been good do far. There is a new fan forum at October Road Online
william Harvey said…
It's a smart show with snappy writing and good character development which has improved from the first episode. It's nice to see a show that doesn't attempt to speak to the lowest common denominator.

Popular posts from this blog

Katie Lee Packs Her Knives: Breaking News from Bravo's "Top Chef"

The android has left the building. Or the test kitchen, anyway. Top Chef 's robotic host Katie Lee Joel, the veritable "Uptown Girl" herself (pictured at left), will NOT be sticking around for a second course of Bravo's hit culinary competition. According to a well-placed insider, Joel will "not be returning" to the show. No reason for her departure was cited. Unfortunately, the perfect replacement for Joel, Top Chef judge and professional chef Tom Colicchio, will not be taking over as the reality series' host (damn!). Instead, the show's producers are currently scouring to find a replacement for Joel. Top Chef 's second season was announced by Bravo last month, but no return date has been set for the series' ten-episode sophomore season. Stay tuned as this story develops. UPDATE (6/27): Bravo has now confirmed the above story .

BuzzFeed: Meet The TV Successor To "Serial"

HBO's stranger-than-fiction true crime documentary The Jinx   — about real estate heir Robert Durst — brings the chills and thrills missing since Serial   wrapped up its first season. Serial   obsessives: HBO's latest documentary series is exactly what you've been waiting for.   The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst , like Sarah Koenig's beloved podcast, sifts through old documents, finds new leads from fresh interviews, and seeks to determine just what happened on a fateful day in which the most foul murder was committed. And, also like  Serial  before it,  The Jinx may also hold no ultimate answer to innocence or guilt. But that seems almost beside the point; such investigations often remain murky and unclear, and guilt is not so easy a thing to be judged. Instead, this upcoming six-part tantalizing murder mystery, from director Andrew Jarecki ( Capturing the Friedmans ), is a gripping true crime story that unfolds with all of the speed of a page-turner; it

BuzzFeed: "The Good Wife Is The Best Show On Television Right Now"

The CBS legal drama, now in its sixth season, continually shakes up its narrative foundations and proves itself fearless in the process. Spoilers ahead, if you’re not up to date on the show. At BuzzFeed, you can read my latest feature, " The Good Wife Is The Best Show On Television Right Now," in which I praise CBS' The Good Wife and, well, hail it as the best show currently on television. (Yes, you read that right.) There is no need to be delicate here: If you’re not watching The Good Wife, you are missing out on the best show on television. I won’t qualify that statement in the least — I’m not talking about the best show currently airing on broadcast television or outside of cable or on premium or however you want to sandbox this remarkable show. No, the legal drama is the best thing currently airing on any channel on television. That The Good Wife is this perfect in its sixth season is reason to truly celebrate. Few shows embrace complexity and risk-taking in t