MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC is going the sci fi route. It has picked up IDT Entertainments drama series Masters of Science Fiction featuring works from some of the most well known authors of science fiction.

Negotiations are underway to include works from Isaac Asimov who wrote I Robot and Nightfall, Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Harlan Ellison and Robert Heinlein. IDT Entertainment, in association with Industry Entertainment, will produce a minimum of four one-hour episodes.

ABC Entertainment senior VP motion pictures for television and miniseries Quinn Taylor says, With IDT Entertainment and Industry bringing such high-end talent, we are very excited about this anthology. We have been trying to put together this kind of series because it has great potential to become appointment television.

IDT Entertainment COO John Hyde says, We are delighted that Masters of Science Fiction has found a broadcast home on ABCs primetime lineup. ABC is the perfect venue for these interpretations of science fictions seminal literary voices.

Industry Entertainment partner Keith Addis says, We are in advanced discussions with distinguished screenwriters and directors to bring the works of these science fiction icons to a broad audience in the most compelling and entertaining way.