NBC Announces Midseason Schedule, Sets Premiere Date For ‘Community’, ‘Revolution’ Returns In March

NBC has unveiled its midseason schedule and revealed premiere dates for Community, Smash, Deception (formerly known as Infamous) and 1600 Penn. Kicking things off is the new season of The Biggest Loser which is set to premiere on Sunday January 6th; freshman series Deception will premiere on January 7th at 10/9c, assuming Revolution’s time-slot, which will go on a four month hiatus; Community is poised to return to the schedule in its traditional Thursday night 8pm time-slot from February 7th; Parks and Recreation will move to the 8:30pm time-slot on Thursday nights as of January 10th; the sophomore season of Smash will premiere on Tuesday February 5 at 10/9c; while freshman comedy series 1600 Penn launched on Thursday January 10 at 9:30/8:30c.

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E4 Re-Developing Chris Boyle’s Zombie Movie ‘I Spit On Your Rave’ As Weekly Series

EXCLUSIVE: Zombies continue to be a hot TV subject. I’ve learned that E4 has put a 6 episode Zombie series into development. This project is an hour-long series and is being re-developed from a feature film produced in 2009 titled I Spit On Your Rave. That feature, which was a co-production between Film4 and Warp Films, was filmed at The Big Chill Festival 2009 and was supposed to be released in 2010. I hear that the feature never saw the light of day and instead the decision was made to re-develop the film as a weekly series for E4 earlier this year. Details are being kept firmly under wraps, but I hear that E4 has commissioned six scripts which are being written by Chris Boyle. Word is that the weekly series will incorporate as much of the footage shot in 2009 as possible. As the production company behind the original feature, I’m told that Warp Films will produce the series, should it receive a pick up, with Peter Carlton serving as producer.

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