What if fairy tales were actually all true? Not fantasy, but warnings? That's the premise of the new American drama Grimm that will be starting in America in a few months' time.
Grimm (imagine Sanctuary and Supernatural combined with Highlander and) revolves around a policeman who discovers that he is actually a Grimm - a member of a family secretly known for not just writing Grimm fairy tales, but actually for protecting the world from creatures only they can see.
Grimm might have a tough time to make it through even a full first season. A little new secret from the industry world of television? Fantasy and science fiction - and Grimm obviously classifies - is now called or referred to as ''genre television''. Although its genre is fantasy or science fiction, and although Modern Family and Two and a Half Men as sitcoms will always be called comedies, Hollywood's TV industrial complex has now started using ''genre television'' when - fakely, amelioratively - talking about your Heroes-The Event-V-Smallville-Fringe type shows.
Grimm that will start on the struggling NBC network in a few months is going straight into a Friday night timeslot (where shows usually go to die).
Another brand-new ''genre show'' that will start this year is Once Upon a Time on the ABC network. A woman goes to a small town to be told that she is believed to be Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter who was sent away to be protected from the Evil Queen's curse and must now try to save her world.
