CW remaking British sci-fi "The Tomorrow People"

[David]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greg-berlanti-julie-plec-tomorrow-people-cw-389673

Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec Adapting U.K. Series 'The Tomorrow People'
for CW
by Lesley Goldberg

The CW is staging a mini Dawson's Creek reunion.

Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec -- who met while working on the then-WB
Network series -- are teaming to adapt U.K. drama The Tomorrow People
for the CW, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Tomorrow Peoplewas created by Roger Price and tells the story of
young people around the world who represent the next stage in human
evolution who possess special powers, including the ability to
teleport and communicate with one another telepathically. Together,
they work to defeat the forces of evil.

The original series ran from 1973-79 on ITV with Price producing a
revival in for Tetra Films and Reeves Entertainment that ran on
Nickelodeon between 1992 and 1995. A third version ran between 2001
and 2007 as a series of audio plays for Big Finish Productions.

Berlanti, whose freshman drama Arrow received a full-season order at
the CW earlier this fall, will executive produce alongside The Vampire
Diaries co-showrunner Plec. Political Animals writer-producer Phil
Klemmer will pen the project, which has received a script commitment
at the network. Berlanti Productions' Melissa Kellner Berman will
co-executive produce the drama, which hails from FremantleMedia and
Warner Bros. Television, where Berlanti is under an overall deal.

Tomorrow People marks a reunion for Berlanti and Plec, who hadn't work
together since their time on the 1990s James Van Der Beek/Josh
Jackson/Katie Holmes drama. The U.K. series was a favorite program of
theirs when they were younger and the duo brought Klemmer on board to
pen the script.

The drama continues Berlanti's relationship with Klemmer, who most
recently wrote and served as a consulting producer on USA Network's
mini Political Animals. Klemmer also is attached to Berlanti's
midseason CBS drama Golden Boy.

Tomorrow People marks the latest sale this development season for
Berlanti, who has a modern take on Wuthering Heights and family drama
Family Affair set up at NBC and an untitled medical drama set up at
ABC. He's repped by WME and Felker Toczek.

In addition to Vampire Diaries, Plec also is making her first foray
into feature writing with young-adult book Tiger's Curse set up at
Paramount. She's repped by WME.

Klemmer, whose credits also include Chuck, Undercovers and Veronica
Mars, is with Sloane Offer.

The sale marks the latest high-profile pickup for The CW, which also
is teaming with producers Mila Kunis, Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams,
Rob Thomas and Bret Easton Ellis for dramas this development season.

Watch a clip from The Tomorrow People, below.

[RichA]

On Nov 13, 12:45 pm, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greg-berlanti-julie-plec-t...

>
> Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec Adapting U.K. Series 'The Tomorrow People'
> for CW
> by Lesley Goldberg
>
> The CW is staging a mini Dawson's Creek reunion.
>
> Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec -- who met while working on the then-WB
> Network series -- are teaming to adapt U.K. drama The Tomorrow People
> for the CW, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
>
> The Tomorrow Peoplewas created by Roger Price and tells the story of
> young people around the world who represent the next stage in human
> evolution who possess special powers, including the ability to
> teleport and communicate with one another telepathically. Together,
> they work to defeat the forces of evil.
>

Please, spare us! The only evolution we will see is diminished muscle
capacity, blindness and bigger heads.

[Your Name]

In article
<7703e6e1-adc6-458f...@l7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, RichA

<rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Please, spare us! The only evolution we will see is diminished muscle
> capacity, blindness and bigger heads.

Sounds like a description of the average Usenet user ... although the
bigger head only holds a smaller brain. :-(

[Kevrob]

On Nov 13, 2:59 pm, YourN...@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote:
> In article
> <7703e6e1-adc6-458f-8d2e-c848a3232...@l7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, RichA

>
> <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Please, spare us!  The only evolution we will see is diminished muscle
> > capacity, blindness and bigger heads.
>
> Sounds like a description of the average Usenet user ... although the
> bigger head only holds a smaller brain.  :-(

Promises, promises. Big Heads are the Flying Cars of evolution.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/07/top-five-large-head-covers/

Kevin

[Your Name]

In article
<faf57c89-917a-4879...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com> wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2:59=A0pm, YourN...@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote:
> > In article
> > <7703e6e1-adc6-458f-8d2e-c848a3232...@l7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, RichA
> >
> > <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >

> > > Please, spare us! =A0The only evolution we will see is diminished muscl=

> e
> > > capacity, blindness and bigger heads.
> >
> > Sounds like a description of the average Usenet user ... although the
> > bigger head only holds a smaller brain. :-(
>
> Promises, promises. Big Heads are the Flying Cars of evolution.
>

> http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/07/top-five-large-head-cov=
> ers/

According to an American study reported in today's newspaper, the human
race is past it's peak intelligence level and becoming dumber and dumber
with each generation. It says that an average ancient Greek placed into
today's society would seem like a genius in comparison to modern man ..
which is no surprise to me, and something Ive been saying for years thanks
to the evidence all over the Internet by the brainless majority. :-(

[Michael Black]

It's Cyril Kornbluth's "Marching Morons" where society has gotten dumber,
leaving a relative handful to do the real thinking.

In the old days, the internet was a subset of the general population, and
did represent a more intelligent set of people, because it required effort
to get here, but also because the masses weren't interested.

Access kept becoming easier and easier. Even in 1996 or 97, I wrote
somewhere about how the internet would change people, expecting to raise
people up, rather than dumb then down. I was wrong.

The internet was dumbed down, and then made to be just like everyone's
normal life. All we keep hearing about is the mass, something goes viral,
twitter trends, youtube hits. It's less about an idea that should be
shared, and instead something that gets high travel (which isn't the same
thing). 15 years ago I thought people would come to the internet to tell
their story, so it would give a soapboax to my friend Helen who happened
to be homeless. Instead, everyone gets to participate, but since they
don't have anything much to say, they participate by retweating something
they've heard elsewhere (just like people passed on The GoodTimes Virus
back in late 1994), or get to read a book (or more likely a movie) and
rush to do an entry in wikpedia, basically just copying from the book,
unable to give it depth because that's all they know about the subject.
The private becomes the personal, but that doesn't mean that anything
significant is going on when people tell their 'hundreds of facebook
friends" something. It might as well have stayed in small circles, people
gossipping at the water cooler, but instead the masses wanted the internet
to be something for them, which then dumbs everything down, rather than
raising everyone up.

Michael

[Rich]

Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote in
news:YourName-141...@203-118-187-130.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz:

What if you got rid of the lesser race's contributions?

About 50 countries have people with average IQ's below 90.

[Martin Phipps]

On Nov 14, 8:38 am, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Your Name wrote:
> > In article

> > <faf57c89-917a-4879-9974-45d433546...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,

> > Kevrob <kev...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Nov 13, 2:59=A0pm, YourN...@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote:
> >>> In article
> >>> <7703e6e1-adc6-458f-8d2e-c848a3232...@l7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, RichA
>
> >>> <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> Please, spare us! =A0The only evolution we will see is diminished muscl=
> >> e
> >>>> capacity, blindness and bigger heads.
>
> >>> Sounds like a description of the average Usenet user ... although the
> >>> bigger head only holds a smaller brain.  :-(
>
> >> Promises, promises.  Big Heads are the Flying Cars of evolution.
>

> >>http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/01/07/top-five-large-he...

It doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Like they say "Garbage
in. Garbage out." Blaming the internet for twitter is like blaming
print media for tabloids.

Martin

[William December Starr]

In article <YourName-141...@203-118-187-130.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,

Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) said:

> According to an American study reported in today's newspaper, the
> human race is past it's peak intelligence level and becoming
> dumber and dumber with each generation. It says that an average
> ancient Greek placed into today's society would seem like a genius
> in comparison to modern man .. which is no surprise to me, and
> something Ive been saying for years thanks to the evidence all
> over the Internet by the brainless majority. :-(

An American study reported in a newspaper? Gee, can you maybe be a
little less specific?

-- wds

[Your Name]

In article <3uOdncfNvsghbD_N...@giganews.com>, Rich

Being a dumbass isn't country or race specific ... as you've just proven
by being a racist dumbass.

[Your Name]

In article <k7v3ia$dub$1...@panix2.panix.com>, wds...@panix.com (William

Okay, I know there are a lot of big words in there, try this version:
According to a thing reported in a thing, the things are past their peak
thing level and becoming thingier and thingier with each thing.

[David Johnston]

Well since he's lying asking for details would be pointless.

[Michael Bowker]

Well I've read several articles that allege the same thing, calling
someone a liar before doing a simple search seems premature to me.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/13/dumb-and-dumber-study-says-humans-are-slowly-losing-their-smarts?s_cid=rss:dumb-and-dumber-study-says-humans-are-slowly-losing-their-smarts

...and no I don't know who the original poster is.

[Your Name]

In article <Wacps.4648$cB1....@newsfe24.iad>, Michael Bowker

<mi...@rawbw.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 9:53 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> > On 11/13/2012 8:35 PM, William December Starr wrote:
> >> In article
> >> <YourName-141...@203-118-187-130.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
> >> Your...@YourISP.com (Your Name) said:
> >>
> >>> According to an American study reported in today's newspaper, the
> >>> human race is past it's peak intelligence level and becoming
> >>> dumber and dumber with each generation. It says that an average
> >>> ancient Greek placed into today's society would seem like a genius
> >>> in comparison to modern man .. which is no surprise to me, and
> >>> something Ive been saying for years thanks to the evidence all
> >>> over the Internet by the brainless majority. :-(
> >>
> >> An American study reported in a newspaper? Gee, can you maybe be a
> >> little less specific?
> >
> > Well since he's lying asking for details would be pointless.
> >
>
> Well I've read several articles that allege the same thing, calling
> someone a liar before doing a simple search seems premature to me.
>
>
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/13/dumb-and-dumber-study-says-humans-are-slowly-losing-their-smarts
>

> ...and no I don't know who the original poster is.

You're wasting your time. The dumbasses will never believe anything, even
if you were to provide millions of links. :-\

[David]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:23:16 -0800, Michael Bowker <mi...@rawbw.com>
wrote:

You can also find articles claiming that every decade people are
getting smarter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/28/are-we-getting-smarter-review

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-we-know-humans-getting-smarter-flynn-excerpt

http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/iqnyt022398.html

[Michael Bowker]

Sure, I'm sure you can find most things on the internet. But this is a
article in a major legitimate news magazine talking about the premise
put forth by a Stanford researcher. Not saying it's right. Not saying
it's wrong. I am saying it's a real premise and not something someone
on usenet made up.

[Remysun]

Oh hell yes! Anybody remember the run on Nickelodeon?

[Tony Calguire]

Remysun <remys...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:68618ade-03a7-4fbf-9dbc-
f2f1e6...@y8g2000yqy.googlegroups.com:

> Oh hell yes! Anybody remember the run on Nickelodeon?
>

I rememebr seeing a few episodes of the 70s version on Nick... something
about Hitler, as I recall, and featuring a young Nicholas Lyndhurst, who
would grow up to do all kinds of stuff on British TV.

Later, I saw some of the 90s version. It was actually pretty good, but I
don't think it lasted very long. I remember it had a kid from You Can't Do
That On Television.

[Jerry Brown]

The most recent Bond girl Naomie Harris was one of the leads of the
90s version.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 11/16/2012 9:54 AM, Tony Calguire wrote:
> Remysun <remys...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:68618ade-03a7-4fbf-9dbc-
> f2f1e6...@y8g2000yqy.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Oh hell yes! Anybody remember the run on Nickelodeon?
>>

As I recall, I really liked the 90s version but based on my vague
recollection of it if I saw it today, I would probably find it campy.
All I really remember about it is a scientist driving around in a van
trying to capture them. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing it again.

>
> I rememebr seeing a few episodes of the 70s version on Nick... something
> about Hitler, as I recall, and featuring a young Nicholas Lyndhurst, who
> would grow up to do all kinds of stuff on British TV.
>
> Later, I saw some of the 90s version. It was actually pretty good, but I
> don't think it lasted very long. I remember it had a kid from You Can't Do
> That On Television.
>

When I watched the 90s version I didn't even know there was a 70s
version. When I finally saw the 70s version through Netflix rentals I
was surprised by how good it was.