MUMBAI: Marking its official entry into developing long-form event series, US broadcaster Fox has announced that it has inked development deals for two large-scale drama projects: ?Wayward Pines?, from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan ?The Sixth Sense?, and FX Productions; and ?Blood Brothers?, from Bruce C. McKenna, Gary Randall, Timothy Scott Bogart, Boardwalk Entertainment Group and Fox Television Studios.

Fox will order its first event series pilot(s) later this year with plans to debut its first long-form event series in 2014.

Fox chairman of entertainment Kevin Reilly said, "With top-notch auspices and feature-quality production plans, ?Wayward Pines? and ?Blood Brothers? represent exactly the kind of high-impact, 10- to 12-part events we set out to develop when we entered the limited series business. These two series are the first of many big ideas, big names and big talent that you can anticipate will be on our air in the next 12-24 months."

Based on the best-selling novel, ?Pines? by Blake Crouch ?Wayward Pines? is a thriller that the broadcaster says is evocative of ?Twin Peaks?. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, on a mission to find two Missing federal agents. But instead of answers, Ethan?s investigation only turns up more questions. What?s wrong with Wayward Pines? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the life he knew, from the husband and father he was, until he must face the terrifying reality that he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.

?Blood Brothers? is the true story of the West Point Class of 1861. As the US tore itself apart over the issue of slavery, the West Point Brotherhood broke apart. Best friends, bonded in the intense crucible of the Academy, found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that quickly became the bloodiest in U.S. history. For four violent years, these former comrades fought directly against each other, even as many of them rose from lowly second lieutenants to field generals. Throughout the conflict, however, they never lost their love and esteem for each other, which often resulted in many acts of kindness that stretched across enemy lines. Some died; others were broken by the conflict. But every one of the Brothers was utterly changed by a war that not only redefined America, but which still resonates today.