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Idw’s confirmed six of its comic books/graphic novels are now in the “active television series development” stage, including Korgi and Bacchus. Shows based on Dragon Puncher & Spoony, Lodger, Relic of the Dragon, and Satellite Falling are also in the development stage.

Idw’s announcement included details on writers and executive producers currently attached to the projects.

“It’s a dream to get to work on so many great properties with so many amazing talents,” stated Paul Davidson, Idw Executive Vice President. “This group of writers, directors, and showrunners represent some of the best and Idw is pleased to be working with them.”

Korgi – Aury Wallington (Spirit Untamed) joins as showrunner for the television series based on writer-artist Christian Slade’s beloved dog opus that follows the stories of a Korgi pup in epic fairy tales of adventure. A fantasy world filled with creatures both adorable and abominable, Korgi...

Comic and graphic novel publisher Idw has set six of its books to be developed into television projects with showrunners attached to each. The series in development include “Bacchus,” “Dragon Puncher & Spoony,” “Korgi,” “Lodger,” “Relic of the Dragon” and “Satellite Falling.”

Based on Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel published by Idw’s Top Shelf Productions, “Bacchus” will be written and executive produced by Will Davies and Chloe Moss. The drama series drops the gods of ancient Greece into present day as if they had never left.

Development will be led by Idw’s vice president of live action, Jonny Gutman, and director of live action, Julie Winograd. Davies is repped by UTA, 42 and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner & Klein. Moss is repped by 42.

“Dragon Puncher & Spoony” will be showrun and executive produced by Holly Huckins. Based on the Top Shelf book by James Kochalka, the comedy...

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Can Da Vinci's Demons really spare the time for a dream episode at this stage? Here's our review of season three's The Labrys...

This review contains spoilers.

3.4 The Labrys

An adorable little boy playing with toys that look suspiciously like models of Da Vinci's famous tanks and castles. Mother's getting water from the well... and by mother I mean Lucrezia Donati. The little boy's name is Andrea, after a famous teacher of artisans. And the boy's father? Leonardo Da Vinci, of course, who emerges from his workshop with a model of his famous gyrocopter. Da Vinci is being summoned to Rome, but the trip will be dangerous because the Italian peninsula has dissolved into civil war between the Sons of Mithras and the forces of the Horns of the Increate.

If this is confusing to you, what with the creepy cave echoing with chanting voices and the...

This week on Where Monsters Dwell the guys welcome Hope Nicholson to the Monster Cave. Hope is one of the two driving forces behind the successful Kickstarter campaign to recover and reprint Nelvana of the Northern Lights; Canada’s first superheroine, one of the very first female superheroes ever created, and one of the most popular creations of the Canadian Golden Age of comics.

Hope is also a producer on Lost Heroes, a documentary on Canada’s superhero history set to air on Superchannel in 2014. Lost Heroes is directed by Orphan Black & Bitten writer/producer Will Pascoe and explores the past of the Canadian superhero from Nelvana to Captain Canuck and Cerebus.

Update: Listen to episode 281 now!

If you have a question for Hope Nicholson or for Wmd hosts Remington J. Osborne and/or Monster Mike, feel free to post it on their Wmd Facebook wall or give the show...

Four-and-a-half months after it was announced, Humanitas' New Voices initiatives for emerging TV writers has received its first four script orders from participating studios/networks. Back in November, 20th Century Fox TV, NBC Universal, CBS, ABC Studios, Lionsgate and HBO each made blind commitments to buy two scripts written by up-and-coming writers under the supervision of a Humatitas’ Trustee or Board member. Since then, FX has joined the group, bringing the total number of blind script commitments to 14. And now, 20th TV, its cable division Fox 21, CBS TV Studios and ABC Studios has each ordered one pilot script, with a fifth script deal pending. 20th TV has bought a pilot script for Mambo Palace, a single-camera comedy by Luisa Leschin, with Humanitas Trustee Ali LeRoi, creator of Everybody Hates Chris, supervising. CBS Studios has ordered Neil Cohen’s single-camera script Judge School, which is being supervised by Trustee Gary David Goldberg.