Jason Voorhees lives! A “Friday The 13th” TV series is in the works at the CW. This news comes just after the network announced it was also developing a TV show based on the Nicholas Sparks novel turned famed Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams movie, “The Notebook.”
‘Friday The 13th’ TV Series In Development at the CW
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new “Friday The 13th” series is in early development, and will be the CW’s second shot at a horror series, as the network previously shot a pilot based on the horror series “Tales From The Darkside,” which was not picked up.
The horror TV genre is in full force right now with shows such as “American Horror Story” making waves on FX, “Scream” on MTV, and “Bates Motel” on A&E. In addition, a TV series based on “The Omen” is also coming to TV soon, and so is the Fox series “Scream Queens” featuring tons of familiar faces such as Lea Michele, Ariana Grande, Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, and many more.
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The CW has also picked up the in-the-works series “Frequency,” which was formerly slatted for NBC. The show is an adaptation of the film by the same named which starred Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid, in which the father and son duo fight crime through the decades by talking to one another in different time periods through a transistor radio.
It seems the CW is going to be debuting a lot of new projects soon, and we’re totally excited for all the new shows.
