Spike Offers Scripted Drama and Nielsen-Bashing at Upfront Presentation
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Viacom’s Spike TV is going all-in on scripted series development, lining up a slate of five big-budget dramas and miniseries designed to lift the network’s profile while expanding its overall reach in 2016 and beyond.
As part of Spike’s New York upfront presentation, Exec VP-Original Series Sharon Levy on Tuesday afternoon gave media buyers their first look at some of the scripted projects that are currently in development. Among these are: “Emergency Broadcast,” an apocalyptic alien-invasion thriller from Legendary Pictures’ CEO Thomas Tull and “World War Z” author Max Brooks; “Red Mars,” a space-exploration serial based on the Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy of 1990s sci-fi novels; and “The War at the Shore,” an event series from Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti’s Trigger Street Productions (“House of Cards”) chronicling Donald Trump and Steve Wynn’s war for the soul of Atlantic City.
Also in the works is “Deep Web,” a drama about the Internet’s shadowy Silk Road bazaar, where anonymous users could secure everything from illegal narcotics to murder-for-hire, and the miniseries “The Crusaders.”
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