{"id":8018,"date":"2017-07-18T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ucp-renews-dark-horse-first-look-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:34:04","slug":"ucp-renews-dark-horse-first-look-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ucp-renews-dark-horse-first-look-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UCP Renews Dark Horse First-Look Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and Dark Horse Entertainment have renewed their first-look pact for the development and production of comic-book inspired fare and original productions.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed alliance comes on the heels of Netflix picking up a live-action adaptation of <em>Umbrella Academy<\/em>, based on the Dark Horse comic book, for 2018. They are also collaborating on <em>Mind MGMT<\/em>, from Matt Kindt, to be developed for TV by Dan Cerone; <em>Flutter<\/em>,\u00a0based on Jennie Wood&#8217;s acclaimed LGBTQ comic, being adapted by Katherine Lindberg and Marc Rosen; <em>Tanis<\/em>, to be developed by Lee Shipman and Terry Miles, creator of the podcast, and produced by Sam Raimi and Debbie Liebling through their company POD 3; and <em>The Bright Sessions<\/em>, which is\u00a0being adapted for television by Gabrielle G. Stanton and the creator and star of the podcast, Lauren Shippen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDark Horse Entertainment is a comic mastermind with deep knowledge of the genre and an expertise in developing content,\u201d said Dawn Olmstead, the executive VP of development at Universal Cable Productions. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to continue to partner with Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg as we kick off our series<em> Umbrella Academy<\/em> on Netflix and shepherd the many adaptations we have set up around town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur companies have worked together closely with great success,&#8221; added\u00a0Mike Richardson, the president of Dark Horse Entertainment. &#8220;We have some exciting projects in the works and couldn\u2019t be happier about continuing the relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and Dark Horse Entertainment have renewed their first-look pact for the development and production of comic-book inspired fare and original productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1994,1995,163],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-dark-horse-entertainment","tag-umbrella-academy","tag-universal-cable-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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