Production Begins on New Fox 21 Pilot for Spike TV

LOS ANGELES, October 2: Production began today in Vancouver
on A.M.P.E.D., a pilot from Twentieth
Century Fox Television’s Fox 21 division and former X-Files show runners Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan for
Spike TV.

Joining executive producers Spotnitz and Gilligan on the project
are show runners/executive producers Steven Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle. Rob
Lieberman will direct the pilot, as well as serve as an executive producer. Set
in present day Minneapolis, A.M.P.E.D.
centers on a group of police detectives and officers as they deal with a small
but growing percentage of the population that is falling prey to strange
genetic mutations, causing them to do destructive things to the city and those
around them.