Stephen King's Under The Dome TV Series Given Green Light

’s 2009 novel – about a small New England town that is inexplicably sealed 🌊off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome – is set to become a 🌄13-part TV series for CBS, to be broadcast in the summer of 2013.

The show has been commissioned straight-to-series, bypassing the usual pilot route. It will be made by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television production company. Comic writer Brian K Vaughan has scripted the adaptation. Niels Arden Oplev – who directed the Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – will call the 𝄹shots on the first episode.

In the story, the trapped townsfolk have to woꦓrk out how to survive while trying to 🧸work out what caused the dome and how to make it go away.

CBS and King’s publishওers Simon & Schuster will cross-promote the television series and book in advance of the show's summer launch with the April 2013 re-release of trade paperback and electronic editions from its Pocket Books imprint.

"This is a great novel coming to the television screen with outstanding auspices and in-season production values to create a summer programming event," said Nina Tassler, President of CBS Entertainment. "We're excited to transport audiences Under the Dome and into the extraordinary world th🦩at Stephen King has imagined."

Lots of online interactivity is planned.



Dave Golder
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