Defying Gravity

[Bob The Skutter]

I know it may be a bit early to start a thread on it, but BBC 2's Spring/Summer press release is out, and Defying Gravity is listed. So I guess we can expect it in the next 4 months or so.
I'm hoping this is going to be a good show, I think someone here posted that a friend had read the first script and said it was good. I hope they're right.

From BBC Press Office

Defying Gravity
Ron Livingston (Band Of Brothers, Sex And The City) stars in an exciting new adventure drama series set in the near future about the exploits of eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission through the solar system.


With the eyes of the world upon them (everything they do is monitored and every emotion they feel is scrutinised) the four male and four female astronauts soon discover that their real assignment is not what they thought.


Defying Gravity is created and co-executive produced by James Parriott (Grey's Anatomy) with executive producer Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives). Executive producers include Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik (Omni Films) and Tim Haines (Impossible Pictures).
The cast includes: Laura Harris as Zoe; Eyal Podell as Mintz; Christina Cox as Jen; Zahf Paroo as Ajay; Florentine Lahme as Nadia; Paula Garces as Paula; Karen LeBlanc as Eve; Malik Yoba as Ted and Ty Olsen as Rollie.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've been wanting Ron Livingston to get a lead sci fi role for a while now. I hope it's a good quality production and not a Stargate style cheesefest.

 

[Hermiod]

I've been wanting Ron Livingston to get a lead sci fi role for a while now. I hope it's a good quality production and not a Stargate style cheesefest.

I'm going to follow Temis' example here and start bashing Doctor Who in everything I post just for the hell of it.

 

[Count Zero]

Sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to it, I like 'realistic' sci-fi.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I've been wanting Ron Livingston to get a lead sci fi role for a while now. I hope it's a good quality production and not a Stargate style cheesefest.

I'm going to follow Temis' example here and start bashing Doctor Who in everything I post just for the hell of it.

Yes, because 3 lefts make a right.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've been wanting Ron Livingston to get a lead sci fi role for a while now. I hope it's a good quality production and not a Stargate style cheesefest.

I'm going to follow Temis' example here and start bashing Doctor Who in everything I post just for the hell of it.

We all need our hobbies. Go for it!

 

[cultcross]

Didn't the Beeb already do something very similar to this? Can't remember for the life of me what it was called, I have the DVD somewhere. Grr. Anyway, a docudrama type show about a long term solar-system mission... One of the team gets cosmic-ray cancer... Anyone remember the title?

It looks good though, I'll definitely be checking it out.

 

[John Clark]

A few familiar names and faces there

I'll keep an eye out for this one I think

@Cult Cross - I believe it was called Space Odyssey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(Space_Odyssey

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I've been wanting Ron Livingston to get a lead sci fi role for a while now. I hope it's a good quality production and not a Stargate style cheesefest.

I'm going to follow Temis' example here and start bashing Doctor Who in everything I post just for the hell of it.

We all need our hobbies. Go for it!

To do what you do though, wouldn't he have to go and watch Doctor Who all the way through first?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm going to follow Temis' example here and start bashing Doctor Who in everything I post just for the hell of it.

We all need our hobbies. Go for it!

To do what you do though, wouldn't he have to go and watch Doctor Who all the way through first?

Yep. But that's a pretty high bar - most people bash shows they haven't actually suffered through for over a decade!

Didn't the Beeb already do something very similar to this?

There have been any number of shows very similar to this - it's good ole fashioned space opera adventure. But I don't mind the unoriginality if they can bring something new to the formula.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Didn't the Beeb already do something very similar to this? Can't remember for the life of me what it was called, I have the DVD somewhere. Grr. Anyway, a docudrama type show about a long term solar-system mission... One of the team gets cosmic-ray cancer... Anyone remember the title?

It looks good though, I'll definitely be checking it out.

Yeah, it's based on that Docu-drama.

From the original press release

]Defying Gravity was inspired by the BBC drama-documentary series Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets, broadcast on BBC One in 2004.

 

[Mysterion]

Yes, because 3 lefts make a right.

Yep. And two Wrights make an airplane.

 

[Heeroyuy]

Maybe now that Star Trek's back, Doctor Who will go away....and we wouldn't have these flame wars anymore.


Think about it. When TNG came in 1987, Who got canceled. When Enterprise went south in 2005, Who came back. Star Trek is back. Now Who faces an uncertain future with a new producer (Coupling LOL) and unpopular new Doctor (Matt Smith)....


And I used to like WHO but now that they've brought Rose back for a second time @*#*@#&@#

 

[Kelso]

Now Who faces an uncertain future with a new producer (Coupling LOL) and unpopular new Doctor (Matt Smith)....

Your ass is talking. You may want to check on that.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

What has any of that got to do with Defying Gravity anyway?
Besides, Matt Smith can't be unpopular he hasn't even been seen on screen yet, and Steven Moffat is the most popular writer on the show.

 

[diankra]

Maybe now that Star Trek's back, Doctor Who will go away....and we wouldn't have these flame wars anymore.

Or maybe we could actually like them all (when they're good)?
Who was that chap, about 2000 years ago, said something like 'Wouldn't it be nice if we all tried being nice to each other?' Think he got nailed to a tree...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Maybe now that Star Trek's back, Doctor Who will go away....and we wouldn't have these flame wars anymore.

Or maybe we could actually like them all (when they're good)?
Who was that chap, about 2000 years ago, said something like 'Wouldn't it be nice if we all tried being nice to each other?' Think he got nailed to a tree...

What? Like more than one thing at a time? Are you mad?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

What has any of that got to do with Defying Gravity anyway?

When has that ever been a precondition for these threads?

Hey, that's right, Fox should be announcing this show in their fall lineup - or something?!? - if they'll renew Dollhouse with its digging-to-China ratings, why not take a chance on space opera!?! I wanna see Ron Livingston play a Kirk knockoff. Talk about the ideal role for the guy.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

What has any of that got to do with Defying Gravity anyway?

When has that ever been a precondition for these threads?

Hey, that's right, Fox should be announcing this show in their fall lineup - or something?!? - if they'll renew Dollhouse with its digging-to-China ratings, why not take a chance on space opera!?! I wanna see Ron Livingston play a Kirk knockoff. Talk about the ideal role for the guy.

True, tangentially connected through being broadcast on BBC I suppose, but no real point to it.

I believe I read somewhere that Fox's plan was to air it on a cable network.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

I hope they use a spacey remix of the musical Wicked's song "Defying Gravity."