{"id":5743,"date":"2016-03-15T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/greg-yaitanes-to-direct-spike-tvs-red-mars\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:03:44","slug":"greg-yaitanes-to-direct-spike-tvs-red-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/greg-yaitanes-to-direct-spike-tvs-red-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Yaitanes to Direct Spike TV’s Red Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK: Greg Yaitanes has been tapped by Spike TV and Skydance Television to serve as director and executive producer for the scripted series Red Mars<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yaitanes’s credits include Lost<\/em>, Damages<\/em>, Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, Ray Donovan<\/em>, Heroes<\/em>, House<\/em> and Banshee<\/em>. Spike’s new one-hour series is based on Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s award-winning Mars Trilogy<\/em>. The books chronicle mankind\u2019s colonization and transformation of the red planet. The first installment, Red Mar<\/em>s, goes into production this summer and will consist of ten one-hour episodes, to debut in 2017.<\/p>\n Red Mars<\/em> is the latest scripted original for Spike TV, which debuted its first scripted event series in eight years, Tut<\/em>, last July to strong ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK: Greg Yaitanes has been tapped by Spike TV and Skydance Television to serve as director and executive producer for the scripted series Red Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[554,555,556,478],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-greg-yaitanes","tag-red-mars","tag-skydance-television","tag-spike-tv","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n