So, it turns out that that Showtime project Salman Rushdie was working on is a sci-fi drama series called The Next People. It will be based in empirical science, but also feature supernatural or extraterrestrial elements. And, according to Rushdie, it will have "an almost feature-film budget." The show is vaguely described as covering the hectic pace of change in modern life, encompassing politics, religion, science, technology, and sexuality. Rushdie said, "It's a sort of paranoid science-fiction series, people disappearing and being replaced by other people. It's not exactly sci-fi, in that there is not an awful lot of science behind it, but there are certainly elements which are not naturalistic." It still sounds weird saying Rushdie is writing for a pay-cable channel; if you didn't know better, slumming and gambling debts might come to mind. But that's not the case. [...]...
- 6/12/2011
- Nerve
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People. The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight's Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life -- from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.The famous ...
- 3/12/2011
- Hindustan Times - TV
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