Variety:
M. Night Shyamalan is heading to Apple.
The streaming service has given a straight-to-series order to a psychological thriller series from writer Tony Basgallop that Shyamalan will executive produce. Plot details for the series are being kept under wraps. The half-hour series has received a 10-episode order, with Shyamalan also set to direct the first episode.
To me, M. Night Shyamalan is exasperating. I am a huge fan of The Sixth Sense, and the connected series, Unbreakable, Split, and the upcoming Glass. But interspersed throughout those movies is a series of projects that just left me cold. And there were a lot of them.
Shyamalan’s most recent TV effort was Wayward Pines, well received, but it ultimately ended after two seasons.
Fingers crossed on this one.
There are huge differences between what M. Night Shyamalan produces and what he writes and directs. He is the exec producer for this Apple show. It cannot be compared to Sixth Sense and other signature Shyamalan films, good or bad. Please do not conflate apples and oranges.