Sleepy Hollow

It's a big day for horror on TV, apparently.  Fox has revealed the trailer for Sleepy Hollow, the new series debuting this fall inspired by Washington Irving's tale.

Sleepy Hollow is a modern-day retelling of Washington Irving’s classic, Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity’s last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie) to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.

Kevin Reilly, Chairman, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, today unveiled the FOX primetime slate for the 2013-2014 television season to the national advertising community during its annual Programming Presentation at the Beacon Theatre.

Sleepy Hollow, as we previously reported, made the cut and the show will make its debut this fall.  The show will occupy the Monday night 9pm-10pm slot which was filled by The Following.  That's not to say The Following won't return.  The show has been picked up for a second round and will be back in its usual spot mid-season.

Fox has revealed that it picked up the series Sleepy Hollow for the 2013-2014 season.

From co-creators/executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the Star Trek and Transformers franchises, Fringe), Sleepy Hollow is a modern-day retelling of Washington Irving's classic.

Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to find that the world is on the brink of destruction and that he is humanity's last hope, forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer (Nicole Beharie) to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

More details are coming out about that Sleepy Hollow television series in development at Fox.  

Directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld) and written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek), the pilot is set to star Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, Nicole Baharie and now Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane.  The actor previously starred in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and One Day.

Now, reports have pegged Sleepy Hollow as a modern-day tale, yet a lot of the previously-released character descriptions have mentioned Ichabod's involvement in the Revolutionary War.  So, what gives?

Casting has begun on Fox's supernatural series Sleepy Hollow.  

The pilot, currently in the works under the direction of Len Wiseman, has cast Orlando Jones and Katia Winter, reports Deadline.  

The series is created by Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci and finds Ichabod Crane teaming with a female sheriff in the town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate various mysteries.

Jones, last seen on the genre scene in Seconds Apart, will play a detective transferred to Sleepy Hollow.  Winter, meanwhile, will play Ichabod Crane's wife.  The actress recently enjoyed a stint on Dexter as Nadia the stripper.

The entertainment industry is pushing into pilot season, that time when networks load up on material, give the green light order to pilots for potential television shows and, overall, spend a lot of money on projects that might not even happen.  While it's tough to tell what will hit and what will miss (most pilots will never been seen beyond a network office), we'll do our best to keep you posted on what might be coming to the small screen near you.

We'll begin with The Sixth Gun.  NBC has apparently ordered up a pilot for this title from Carlton Cuse, whose credits include Lost and the upcoming Bates Motel, says EW.

Based on the Oni Press comic book, thes story is set "during the darkest days of the Civil War when wicked cutthroats came into possession of six pistols of otherworldly power. In time the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished. When the gun surfaces in the hands of an innocent girl, dark forces reawaken. Vile men thought long dead set their sights on retrieving the gun and killing the girl. Only Drake Sinclair, a gunfighter with a shadowy past, stands in their way."

Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries are about to find some company at The CW.  Deadline reports the network has set up a new television series called Sleepy Hollow from Patrick Macmanus and Grant Scharbo.  The show was shopped around last month as a "boundary-pushing" horror series.

This contemporary take on Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow will follow FBI agent Ichabod Crane as he teams up with the town's local law enforcement to investigate a series of beheadings.

This is separate from a competing Sleepy Hollow show over at Fox.  Underworld and Total Recall helmer Len Wiseman will direct the pilot  of that one.  Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Phillip Iscove are taking on writing duties.