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From Sheldon Turner, whose writing career has spanned an Oscar nomination for Up In The Air as well as remakes of The Longest Yard and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, comes The Advocate, which is based on the real-life story of Turner’s former agent, Byrdie Lifson-Pompan. The agent had a brain tumor go undetected after a misdiagnosis, and though she eventually made a full recovery, several of her family members suffered misdiagnoses as well. This prompted her to switch careers and become a patient advocate. It could be a refreshing new take on the well-worn medical drama, or it could be The Longest Yard meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre set in a hospital. The former is a lot more likely, but—admit it—the latter would be pretty awesome.
Can drilling for oil in Teddy Roosevelt’s head be far behind?
Less ripped-from-the-headlines as ripped-from-the-fever-dreams of ExxonMobil stockholders, Boom is set during a fictional oil boom in which North Dakota is revealed to have a reservoir of crude that rivals that of Saudi Arabia. As the series begins, a young couple strikes out for the oil fields hoping riches await, and they meet “roughnecks, grifters, oil barons, criminals, and fellow prospectors” along the way. Presumably, one of those people will attempt to drink their milkshake.
Not to be confused with The Advocate, The Adversaries is built around a New York legal dynasty whose patriarch ends up in trouble, forcing his daughter—a federal prosecutor—to pick sides. Rounding out the drama pickups is Kingmakers, which is about a young man who infiltrates a university’s Skull And Bones-type society after his sister is found murdered during her freshman year at the school.
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