HBO is in early development on Loner, a drama based on the 2016 novel by Teddy Wayne, who will write the pilot and co-executive produce, Deadline reported.
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Neil Gaiman has teamed with Fremantle and the Jim Henson Company to develop a reimagined version of Henson's iconic '80s anthology series, The Storyteller, for television. Deadline reported that the new incarnation, written and executive produced by Gaiman, "will create a mystical world combining various fairy tales and folklore."
Noting that it will be updated to work "for the binging kind" of viewer of today, Gaiman added: "Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don't know. Who was the Storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I'd love to do is an inside story that's as long as the outside story. We're going to find out a lot about who the storyteller is, we're going to find out things we don't even know that we don't know. We're going to begin in a Northern kingdom where stories are forbidden and where the act of telling a story is liable and can get you imprisoned or executed. If you put a storyteller into that situation, things would need to start getting interactive."