After being eyed by the Peacock, Rosario Dawson's upcoming sci-fi web series Gemini Division has in fact been picked up by NBC, confirms The Hollywood Reporter.
The company has inked a deal with Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky's Electric Farm Entertainment for the domestic rights to their upcoming Internet sci-fi series "Gemini Division," starring Rosario Dawson. NBC Uni also has acquired the rights to Electric Farm's next scripted online series, the zombie comedy "Woke Up Dead."Sony Pictures TV International has come aboard to co-produce and distribute the two series internationally on mobile, broadband and traditional TV. Under the deal with NBC Universal Digital Studio, the 50 three-minute episodes of "Gemini" and "Dead" will run on various company Web sites, including NBC.com. The first several episodes of the series -- as many as eight -- will get a preview across a number of NBC Uni platforms, including TV networks. "Our vision is to use the TV assets as a marketing device to attract viewers to the Internet series," Rogow said. "Gemini," eyed for a late-summer launch, stars Dawson as a New York cop who uncovers a global conspiracy involving the creation of simulated live forms that have assimilated with the unsuspecting public.
Question that everyone is asking: after the short shelf-life of other NBC-nabbed web series quarterlife, could Gemini be destined for the same fate?