In August, NBC decided they’d really like a new version of Quantum Leap and commissioned a pilot: “The story revolves around a man who travels back in time to correct wrongs, with a romantic storyline as well.”
Well, Quantum Leap seems to have taken a grip on US networks. Now The CW has put into development Jumper, a show in “a young male FBI agent… jumps into the body of someone who’s about to be murdered. He must then solve the crime (along with his young female partner) and prevent it before it happens.”
Dear oh dear.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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