TVLine Items: Time Traveler's Wife HBO Series, Victoria Return Date And More
Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is once again time-hopping, this time with The Time Traveler's Wife at HBO.
The cable network has given a series order to Moffat's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel, which was previously made into a 2009 film starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The show is described as an intricate and magical love story about Clare and Henry, whose marriage has one major problem: time travel.
"I read Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife many years ago, and I fell in love with it," Moffat told Deadline. "In fact, I wrote a Doctor Who episode called 'The Girl In the Fireplace' as a direct response to it. When, in her next novel, Audrey had a character watching that very episode, I realized she was probably on to me. All these years later, the chance to adapt the novel itself is a dream come true. The brave new world of long form television is now ready for this kind of depth and complexity. It's a story of happy ever after — but not necessarily in that order."
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* The historical drama Victoria will return for Season 3 on Sunday, Jan. 13, on Masterpiece on PBS.
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— MASTERPIECE | PBS (@masterpiecepbs) July 30, 2018
* Hulu has given a pilot order to a Less Than Zero reboot starring Austin Abrams (The Walking Dead) as a college freshman — Andrew McCarthy played the role in the 1987 film — who returns home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend and his friend who struggles with addiction, per The Hollywood Reporter.
* Sam Huntington (Being Human) will recur on ABC's fall drama A Million Little Things, about a group of friends who get a wake-up call when one of them unexpectedly dies, Deadline reports. The actor will play a mystery man from Maggie's (Allison Miller) past.
* The Magicians has tapped Jolene Purdy (Orange Is the New Black) to recur during Season 4 as a highly emotional magical creature tasked with tending to notorious party god Bacchus, per Deadline.
* OWN has renewed the romantic drama Love Is___ for Season 2. The Season 1 finale airs Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 10/9c.
* Jake Abel (Supernatural) will recur on Bravo's upcoming true-crime anthology series Dirty John as the oldest child and only son of Connie Britton's character, Deadline reports.
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