Van Helsing
SYFY’s “Van Helsing” is heading back to Vancouver to resume production on its fifth and final season, becoming the first U.S. network series to do so. In fact, a Fall premiere for the thirteen-episode final season is still planned.
The first three episodes were shot on-location in Slovakia in January and February before the shutdown in production. The series is now in its fourth week of production with the remaining episodes set to be shot in Kamloops, British Columbia. [Source: THR]
The Dog
Colin Callender’s Playground (“Wolf Hall”) has acquired the TV rights to award-winning 2013 documentary “The Dog” to develop as a drama series. The project deals with the extraordinary back-story of the late John Wojtowicz, the Brooklyn bank robber whose antics inspired “Dog Day Afternoon”.
The doco offers a more complicated portrait of Wojtowicz, a Catholic mama’s boy and once closeted bisexual who loved his wife Carmen and their two kids. He was also an unlikely gay activist, a decorated Vietnam vet, a Goldwater Republican, a philanderer, and a convict. [Source: Deadline]
Elena of Avalor
After four years, Disney Junior will bring the Emmy-winning “Elena of Avalor” series to a close with primetime finale special “Elena of Avalor: Coronation Day” to air on Sunday, August 23rd. New episodes leading up to the finale will debut every Sunday, beginning July 26th.
In the special, as plans for Elena’s coronation are underway, Esteban’s team of villains unleash legendary spirit misfits, the Four Shades of Awesome (Jenny Slate, Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen and Andy Garcia). In order to save her kingdom, her family and her friends, Elena must journey to the Spirit World and back, and face the ultimate test of her courage and character, before becoming queen. [Source: Disney]
Don’t Look Deeper
Quibi has released the first official trailer for the sci-fi thriller series “Don’t Look Deeper” which hails from “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke and “Lost” co-creator Jeffrey Lieber. That is set to premiere on July 27th.
Set in Merced, California, the story ​centers on a high school senior who can’t seem to shake the feeling that something about her just isn’t right. And that something is… she’s not human… not one of us. This revelation sets in motion a series of events that suddenly puts her entire life in jeopardy.
