NBC's Day One now down to a 2-hour movie

[FreezeC77]

- Another NBC sci-fi project, "Day One," has been shortened yet again.

The alien-invasion show, which began life as a 13-episode series, then became a four-hour miniseries, will now air as a two-hour movie. The good news is that it will also be a back-door pilot -- meaning that if it performs well, NBC could pull the trigger on more episodes.

For now, though, the two hours is all NBC has shot. The now-movie focuses on a small group of survivors of an invasion and stars David Lyons ("ER"), Julie Gonzalo ("Eli Stone"), Carly Pope ("Dirt," "24"), Catherine Dent ("The Shield") and Xander Berkeley ("24"). Jesse Alexander ("Heroes," "Alias") created it

lol. At this rate by the time it finally airs it may just be during commercials.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Based on that promo we saw way back when, I'd say shorter is better for that sucker.

 

[FreezeC77]

Based on that promo we saw way back when, I'd say shorter is better for that sucker.

No doubt. It looked pretty laughable... Considering NBC is bagging Jay Leno and needs content for the 10pm hour it shows how bad this thing is that they don't consider it having 4 hours worth using.

 

[23skidoo]

I'm actually surprised to see this because you'd think NBC would be scrambling for anything to show at 10 p.m. If they took a 4 hour mini series and actually split it into 4 hours they'd be able to fill a month of Thursdays with that.

Alex

 

[bigdaddy]

Costs too much money, they rather have nothing to show at 10pm.

They should have made it a true miniseries for 13 episodes and have it run for 2 weeks every week night at 10pm.