The Lazarus Project
Sky’s time-twisting espionage series “The Lazarus Project,” starring Paapa Essiedu, has been renewed for a second season to air next year. Joe Barton (“Giri/Haji”) thought the show. The eight-part first season launched in June and became the second biggest Sky original drama of the year so far. [Source: THR]
brutal nature
IDW is teaming with Latin American animation studio Anima on “Brutal Nature,” an adult animated series based on Luciano Saracino and Ariel Olivetti’s IDW comic about a collection of masks that transforms a young man into innumerable beasts and monsters. Fernando De Fuentes and Jose C. García de Letona will produce. [Source: Variety]
asphalt
Radar Pictures (“Jumanji’0 and N4XT Experience are developing a driving-themed reality competition series based on Gameloft’s “Asphalt” video game series.
Gamers, car enthusiasts and adrenaline-seekers will compete to earn a spot on the track. From there, finalists will move into Asphalt House and hone their driving skills in order to face off in real-life races in their supercars. [Source: Deadline]
Fargo
FX chairman John Landgraf has teased that the upcoming fifth entry in the “Fargo” anthology series is “particularly comedic” this year and much more comedic than in recent years. The new season takes place in 2019 in the upper Midwest. Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh lead the cast. [Source: THR]
The Sandman
While a renewal order has yet to be handed out for Netflix’s series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s magnum opus, executive producer David S. Goyer has revealed that writing on the second season is well underway and is “going smoother” than the first season. The first season adapted stories across the first two of the ten trade paperbacks that make up the series. [Source: Den of Geek]