{"id":9938,"date":"2020-05-12T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/cw-picks-swamp-thing-three-scripted-shows\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:59:50","slug":"the-cw-picks-up-swamp-thing-three-other-scripted-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/the-cw-picks-up-swamp-thing-three-other-scripted-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"The CW Picks Up Swamp Thing, Three Other Scripted Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CW is building out its schedule with the acquisition of four scripted series for broadcast and its free ad-supported streaming platforms, including <em>Swamp Thing<\/em>, based on the DC character.<\/p>\n<p><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> (one season) and <em>Tell Me a Story<\/em> (two seasons) will make their network television debuts on The CW and stream for the first time on The CW&#8217;s free, ad-supported digital platforms. Hailing from Canada and the U.K. respectively, <em>Coroner<\/em> (two seasons) and <em>Dead Pixels<\/em> (one season) will each be making their U.S. debuts on The CW and its digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p><em>Swamp Thing<\/em> is produced by Atomic Monster in association with Warner Bros. Television. It follows Dr. Abby Arcane (Crystal Reed; <em>Gotham<\/em>, <em>Teen Wolf<\/em>) as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but when a mysterious creature emerges from the murky marsh, she finds herself facing the nightmares of a supernatural world where no one is safe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tell Me a Story<\/em>, from Aaron Kaplan&#8217;s Kapital Entertainment, takes the world&#8217;s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern-day New York City, the first season of this serialized drama interweaves &#8220;The Three Little Pigs,&#8221; &#8220;Little Red Riding Hood&#8221; and &#8220;Hansel and Gretel&#8221; into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coroner<\/em> is a character-driven one-hour drama about Dr. Jenny Cooper (Serinda Swan; <em>Ballers<\/em>), a recently widowed, newly appointed coroner who investigates any suspicious, unnatural or sudden deaths in Toronto. Each death brings Jenny into a new arena in the city and sparks buzzworthy themes. The CBC original series is produced by Muse Entertainment, Back Alley Films and Cineflix Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Jon Brown (<em>Succession<\/em>, <em>Veep<\/em>), <em>Dead Pixels<\/em> follows Meg (Alexa Davies; <em>Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again<\/em>), Nicky (Will Merrick; <em>Poldark<\/em>) and Usman (Sargon Yelda; <em>Strike<\/em>) who are obsessed with the online fantasy game &#8220;Kingdom Scrolls.&#8221; The show is split equally between the characters&#8217; tragicomic real lives and their computer-animated misadventures in &#8220;Kingdom Scrolls.&#8221; <em>Dead Pixels<\/em> is a Various Artists Limited production for Channel 4 that airs on E4 in the U.K. and is distributed by BBC Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CW is building out its schedule with the acquisition of four scripted series for broadcast and its free ad-supported streaming platforms, including Swamp Thing, based on the DC character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2405,2406,2407,2408,414],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-coroner","tag-dead-pixels","tag-swamp-thing","tag-tell-me-a-story","tag-the-cw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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