The Prodigies (TV series)

The Prodigies is a British-American-Canadian live action superhero/science fiction television series, developed by Edward R. Benjamin and Kasperi Salovaara for MGM Television and Netflix.

Synopsis
In 1970s New York City, gifted scientist Jimbo Farrar discovers seven teenagers who are interconnected. Ten years later, they've developed para-mental powers and are on a spiral into murderous madness.

Production
Kasperi Salovaara, on the side of running his businesses such as Styhon Battersea and Silvertop Brewery, approached Skydance Media on adapting the French novel La Nuit des enfants rois, written by Bernard Lenteric, after seeing .

After the rumors about the adaptation came out, Salovaara quoted a tweet, adding: "My only motivation for [adapting the novel] was the thought of [the film] having missed potential and so I told [Skydance] to just fricking [sic] let loose. Pull out all stops."

After Skydance Media, Lionsgate and MGM were acquired by OWL Ventures and merged to form the new MGM, Salovaara, a known friend of Oliver Watson (CEO of OWL), announced that MGM Television was working on "something that [his] dearest followers have already heard of by now".

During its post-production phase, Netflix acquired all broadcasting rights and 50% of the copyright for the series, replacing Starz as Netflix was more available to a wider audience.