With many science - fiction show facing cancellation , our in effect hope is that next fall ’s programming includes another Fringe or Lost , a thought process - provoke hit . So it ’s good news program that ABC just greenlitRobert J. Sawyer‘sFlash Forward .
Reuters reportsthat Terminator : TheSarah Connor Chroniclesis “ all but gone ” ( although at this point , insider are still insisting no decision has been made ) . Joss Whedon ’s Dollhouse obviously has a fifty - fifty chance of coming back . And Eleventh Hour , the flavorless weird - science procedural , is believably toast . Chuck , meanwhile , had a valuation uptick this past week , but is still in deep difficulty — specially since NBC ’s police force play , Southland , is doing well . ( And NBC wo n’t have as many meridian time slot next nightfall , when Jay Leno takes over the 10 PM slot every weekday . ) The 2008 - 2009 season may stand out as the last time choice time goggle box included a significant number of strong science fable display .
So it ’s great news that the Hollywood Reporter is reporting Flash Forward , based on Robert J. Sawyer ’s novel , is “ a ringlet for a series order . ” In Flash Forward , an experiment involving the Large Hadron Collider impart everyone on Earth a two - hour glimpse of the future . But unlike the novel , in which everyone sees twenty year into the future , the show , produce by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga , give everyone a glimpse five calendar month into the futurity . And at the end of each season , the show resets and masses get another future tense - glance . The show star Joseph Fiennes , John Cho , Sonya Walger and Jack Davenport .
Other pilots that are look dependable for next downslope , concord to THR : the John Updike conjuring trick - fest Eastwick , the alien - encroachment remake quintet , and Captain Cook ’s Extraordinary Atlas , in whicha girl uses a magical atlasto discover an substitute world beneath our own . A show called Vampire Diaries is one of four pilots competing for six time slot on the CW . To be reliable , none of those show sound as interesting as Flash Forward , or any number of of late canceled or “ bubble ” show . They ’re also a lot more fantasy than scientific discipline fiction .
And there ’s no mention whatsoever of Day One , the post - apocalyptical NBC show from Heroes ’ Jesse Alexander which supposedlyfilmed a pilota while back . Also no acknowledgment of Boldly Going Nowhere , the science fiction funniness from the makers of It ’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia which filmed a pilot last twelvemonth — but since Fox already ordered five more episodes , that may be in the bag already . And , as you likely already knew , Ron D. Moore ’s big Fox pilot program , Virtuality , is reckon dead in the water .
One reason we might be go through less science fiction on television for a while ? Apparentlythe networks are tighten their beltsin the Wake Island of the econom - ick and the losses from the writers ’ strike . display have to be cheaply made , and film in Vancouver .
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