Here's a good example of the Genre Watch from Entertainment Weekly, stressing the idea of the genre Hybrid, in this case the fantasy police procedural, of which I can't think of many examples (Life on Mars, I suppose)-- But suddenly there's a rush of such projects. Here's the opening paragraph of the piece but keep reading.
NBC has picked up another pilot mixing fantasy with a crime drama: The network has greenlit Grimm, described as a “dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.” (Gotta love mining expired copyrights in the public domain!)....The order comes on top of Battlestar guru Ron Moore’s 17th Precinct, also at NBC, about cops working a town where people have magical powers.
Okay, EW didn't do that good a job reporting on the trend. Ain't it Cool news did better, mentioning these other projects:
Okay, EW didn't do that good a job reporting on the trend. Ain't it Cool news did better, mentioning these other projects:
" ... It also sounds a bit like the ABC project“Fables,” based on Bill Willingham’s DC/Vertigo graphic novels about fairy-tale characters who find themselves exiled to contemporary New York.
And sounds not unlike Fox’s “Georgia and the Seven Associates,” about a young lawyer banished from a top law firm run by her stepmother and forced to team up with seven quirky lawyers at a storefront legal office. One of her cases dealt with three people whose homes were taken away by something called Wolf Corp."
Kudos to AICN for at least mentioning Fables, which is a comic series that is certainly influencing all of these projects. This whole concept reminds me though of the 1990 cop musical show, "Cop Rock." which you have to see to believe how bad it was. Are all genre hybrids possible, or are some incompatible?
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