Showing: TBA Somewhat typically for a Stephen King publication, 11/22/63 was already destined to be adapted even before it was released as a book, and while the original adapter - Jonathan Demme - ultimately moved on thanks to creative clashes with the author (not at all surprising), JJ Abrams' Bad Robot swept in to save it. The event series will stream on Hulu, and will focus on an unassuming teacher who stumbles on a time portal that leads back to 1958 and decides to try and thwart the assassination of JFK. As King himself said: If I ever wrote a book that cries out for long-form, event TV programming, 11/22/63 is it." The Selling Point: King knows a thing or two about spinning a yarn. And so does JJ Abrams. The Concerns: Successful King adaptations are very much the exceptions to the rule.
21. Togetherness
Showing: January 11th Awkwardness, comedy, dysfunction: all things you'd want to see the Duplass brothers handle, and if the first trailer for their cramped house family comedy is anything to go by, Togetherness is going to be great fun. The show will focus on a low-grade mid-marriage break-down, and though it's a formula that's been done before (to death by some), the intriguing elements all come together to make a rather wonderfully tasty soup with liberal lashings of LA weirdness to garnish. The Selling Point: The Duplass brothers, pure and simple. The Concerns: There may be enough post-Friends relationship dynamic comedies.
