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Former ABC Family channel Freeform is adding a fourth night of original series in 2018, the Disney owned cable network announced on Wednesday. Additionally, the channel has set the premiere dates for “Black-ish” spinoff “Grown-ish” (January 3) and The Lonely Island’s “Alone Together” (January 10). In addition to those new Wednesday comedies, here’s how the weekly calendar will look next year, all in Freeform’s own words: Monday nights will consist of unscripted originals kicking off with the series premiere of “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings” in the spring. Tuesday nights will be dedicated to original dramas beginning Q1 with “The Fosters,...

No, it’s not the long-mooted film version of the Stephen King novel series. Indie moviemaker John Johnson (pictured) has announced plans to shoot his own series of features inspired by the Robert Browning poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” which also sparked the King tomes.

With the first installment set to go into production at the end of this year, Johnson’s Dark Tower franchise will tell a different story of the heroic Roland as he ventures through the realm of nightmares to reach the titular landmark and rescue his lost love. A self-professed fan of the King books and the graphic-novel adaptations, the writer/director says, “I’ve had an obsession with a dark tower in my dreams since I was 5 years old. Guess it is time to face it in the best way I know how.”

Johnson’s credits include Shadowhunters, Skeleton Key and the...