Stephen King's been a busy man of late.  What with the release of Under the Dome, his first tour to support a book in ages, a recent short story in the New Yorker and talk about a sequel to his early novel The Shining, as well as suggestions of a collaboration with Steven Spielberg, King has added one more project to his plate:  Universal will produce a 13-episode limited series based on his novella The Colorado Kid for its SyFy channel, according to Variety.

Given the brand value of King's work, oddly enough Universal will rename the series HAVEN.  I understand that The Colorado Kid sounds like something more like The Country Western Channel than a channel for science fiction fans, but why bother to buy the rights to a work from the most popular author of our time, and then slap a new title on it?

Read the Variety article here for more details on King's novella and the project.

 --Phil Fasso