"Year Zero" finds home at HBO and BBC Worldwide

   Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor says HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions are (finally) moving forward with the development of "Year Zero," the grim pre/post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic that Reznor has chronicled in his music as well as in a celebrated Alternate Reality Game (ARG), the LA Times confirms.
  "We are in [the development phase of] pre-production with HBO and BBC [Worldwide Productions] to do a miniseries," Reznor said Monday. "It's exciting. I probably shouldn't say too much about it except that I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It's been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we're writing drafts back and forth. So it's very much alive and incubating at the moment."
   Reznor is working with the team of Lawrence Bender, and Kevin Kelly Brown.
"BBC [Worldwide Productions] was the first to show interest and came on as the studio," Reznor explained. "Our writer is Daniel Knauf from 'Carnivàle' and he's busy with pages right now and revising the overall world Bible. It's been an interesting collaborative effort but I've learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace."