Apple Orders Original Drama ‘Foundation’ from Skydance

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Apple has ordered an original drama Foundation from Skydance Television.

Apple is expected to spend more than $1 billion on programming as its prepares to launch a streaming TV service.

The show is based on the novel by the same name written by the late science fiction legend Isaac Asimov. The series follows the thousand-year saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who find that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.

The series will be executive produced by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman. The two will also serve as showrunners for the series.

Skydance Television is producing Foundation, with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross serving as executive producers. Skydance previously produced Altered Carbon, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Dietland.

His daughter Robyn Asimov will also serve as an executive producer.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.