A head start for NBC and ‘Robinson Crusoe’

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The new season is only one week old, and NBC already has begun picking up new series for next TV season.

Today, NBC ordered 13 episodes of ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ a drama based on Daniel Defoe’s classic novel about an Englishman marooned on a tropical island for 28 years. ‘Updated and adrenaline-charged,’ according to the show’s log line, the series will take place in the 17th century and explore the challenges facing Robinson Crusoe and his native friend, Friday. Like the novel, the series will follow Crusoe and Friday’s adventures overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild cats, starvation and apocalyptic lightning storms but will add other characters and contemporary elements.

The series, produced by Universal Media Studios and the British-based Powercorp International, has not been cast. It will air in either fall of 2008 or in early 2009.

--Maria Elena Fernandez