Terra Nova Pushed Back to Fall 2011!

[Mr Light]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45997

Fox held its TCA presentation Monday, and issued a press release indicating its new dinosaur adventure will not bow at midseason after all. Instead, Fox will offer a "preview" (presumably the Alex Graves-directed pilot) in May while the series proper will launch in the autumn of 2011.

Well that sucks. That was just about the only TV show this coming season I was actually interested in. Plus... pushing it back a YEAR?! Sounds like they don't have faith in the show or there are massive internal problems, like what happened to "V" last season.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Grrr.

 

[The Wormhole]

Strangely enough, I am not surprised.

I think I'll wait and pick up the complete series DVD in summer 2012.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What utter and complete shale.

(If you get the joke, slap yourself.)

 

[Temis the Vorta]

OW!

 

[Starbreaker]

Why anyone tries to deal with FOX is beyond me...

 

[Mike Farley]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45997

Fox held its TCA presentation Monday, and issued a press release indicating its new dinosaur adventure will not bow at midseason after all. Instead, Fox will offer a "preview" (presumably the Alex Graves-directed pilot) in May while the series proper will launch in the autumn of 2011.

Well that sucks. That was just about the only TV show this coming season I was actually interested in. Plus... pushing it back a YEAR?! Sounds like they don't have faith in the show or there are massive internal problems, like what happened to "V" last season.

On the other hand, this is pretty much what they did with GLEE and that turned out to be a massive hit.

 

[Noname Given]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45997

Fox held its TCA presentation Monday, and issued a press release indicating its new dinosaur adventure will not bow at midseason after all. Instead, Fox will offer a "preview" (presumably the Alex Graves-directed pilot) in May while the series proper will launch in the autumn of 2011.

Well that sucks. That was just about the only TV show this coming season I was actually interested in. Plus... pushing it back a YEAR?! Sounds like they don't have faith in the show or there are massive internal problems, like what happened to "V" last season.

On the other hand, this is pretty much what they did with GLEE and that turned out to be a massive hit.

It's a Science fiction/Fantasy based show on FOX = Dead in one season.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Fringe is going on to season 3. Not everything SF/fantasy fails on Fox. Sure most in that genre do but most new shows are canceled. This is a pretty expensive series so I think they want to make a 2 hour pilot and see how well it does. If it tanks then the just make the pilot instead of 13 episodes. Anyway since Spielberg is behind it I think they'll give it more of a chance than they normally would.

 

[Mr Light]

They pushed back Glee an entire year? I didn't know that.

 

[FreezeC77]

On the other hand, this is pretty much what they did with GLEE and that turned out to be a massive hit.

Are they going to air Terra Nova after American Idol? Since that's pretty much what made Glee a massive hit. When Glee came back from the mid-season break after American Idol started up for that season and it was airing after Idol Glee added like 4 to 5 million viewers weekly to what it was getting in the fall when it aired without American Idol.

The last couple episodes which aired after Idol finished were down several million.

 

[bigdaddy]

They didn't push it back a year, they pushed it back 6 months.

It's gonig to be DOA, let's be real.

However Fox only have 10 slots to fill with shows. Fall 2011 has The X Factor so thta take sup a few of those slots. Fox is running out of room to put shows on.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

For now I'll remain positive and choose to interpret this as a sign that FOX cares so much about this show that they're giving it the time it needs for proper development.

They need to cast Josh Holloway as the badass dino hunter. There will be a badass dino hunter, right?

 

[The Wormhole]

What utter and complete shale.

(If you get the joke, slap yourself.)

I'm surprised there haven't been more referance to that Enterprise episode whenever this show has been discussed. For obvious reasons.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

$10 million already with cost overruns before production starts

cost overruns already have put the the futuristic TV drama on the hook for nearly $10 million

the pilot alone could cost as much as $20 million, according to insiders.

October 11, 2010
http://www.thewrap.com/television/a...st-overruns-terra-nova-runaway-production-215

related thread:
'Terra Nova' dinosaur series on Fox from Spielberg

 

[jefferiestubes8]

2 hour pilot

the plan was — who knows if it still is — to start Terra Nova with a two-hour pilot, like Lost. I’m really surprised this hasn’t come back more, considering how successful it was for Lost. The double-length drama pilot used to be very common, and it’s often a good idea:

The two-hour pilot was also good for the studio, which could get added value out of a pilot that ran as long as a feature. Sometimes, as with Twin Peaks, the pilot would be sold overseas as a movie, and sometimes, as with Mullholland Drive [(2001)], an unsold two-hour pilot [Mullholland Dr. (1999)] could be released as a feature film in North America. (Of course most pilots are not by David Lynch, but the added-value aspect of long pilots was known even before him; the pilots of Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers were both released as features in North America, even though the shows actually aired.) You’d think that with the huge casts of today’s big dramas and the difficulty of introducing everybody in 40 minutes while still having a plot, there would be more of these extra-long pilots. They still happen; as befits the Battlestar Galactica franchise, Syfy will launch the next Galactica spinoff with a long pilot. But they still haven’t returned as strong as I would have expected based on Lost.

As a big expensive serial with time jumps (“it toggles between the 22nd century and prehistoric times”), science fiction and fantasy elements, and over-arching missions, it was supposed to be the biggest-ever attempt to create a successor to Lost.

Terra Not-So-Nova; Also, Two-Hour Pilots
November 3, 2010

Forget huge cast pilots only being 2 hours. Really every drama should have a 90 minute length pilot (without commercials) which would be a 2-hour pilot.
Alias premiere episode aired uninterrupted commercial-free for 69 minutes in 2001.
You just need the time to show off what a new drama series can do and also have character development.
In 43 minutes that's just too hard.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ugh, these are all bad signs. I'll try to remain optimistic. Here's some casting info.

Jason O'Mara strikes me as a bland second choice for the lead behind Kyle Chandler who unfortunately turned the role down.

Stephen Lang and Christine Adams seem poised to play the bad guys or at least the tough guys. If the idea is to make them a bit corny and over the top, then this casting might work but it strikes me as ham-handed.

Allison Miller was great in Kings. I don't recognize the other people (except for an interchangeable terrorist from 24). I hope this isn't a repeat of what happens far too often in genre shows - a whole slew of unknowns are cast and most of them come off as meh. That seems to be happening a lot lately, and there's no excuse for it, given that I can think of plenty of genre actors who would kick ass - most of the cast of Lost, several people from Heroes (why not Jack Coleman or Adrian Pasdar in the lead role?) just for starters.

 

[PsychoPere]

I just came across an article from early last month with some updates on Terra Nova that I didn't see posted already. (I apologize if I did manage to miss any or all of this being previously posted.)

I want to start listing some of these updates by quoting part of a post that Christopher made in the Brannon Braga now in charge thread (bold is mine):

[...] Most anyone out there who's a protege of Michael Piller from TNG/DS9 -- Ira Steven Behr, Naren Shankar, Rene Echevarria, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Hans Beimler -- folks like that are pretty much the backbone of modern SFTV. [...]

Echevarria has been brought in to assist Braga on the two-hour pilot.

Echevarria [...] has been tasked with bringing a steady hand to a massive production that involves large sets, big cast [...], and elaborate special effects. [...]

Echevarria was already at 20th TV [...] as the writer-showrunner of the studio's series adaptation of James Cameron's True Lies for ABC.

In addition, all of the show's writers were released due to the 4-month hiatus that filming and post-production for the pilot will require. Some of those writers (whose names you can see at the link) are now pursuing other projects, including Chris Brancato who, it was announced today, will be heading up Law & Order: Criminal Intent's final season. According to the article, Brancato "made significant contributions to the show's bible" and the studio was intending to rehire him in April if he was still available.

The article also talks about the rewrite rumors, the budget, and the involvement of Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin.

 

[bigdaddy]

This is all great news!

Not for dinosaur lovers, but as a Fringe and Chicago Code fan this fuck up is really helping me out!

 

[Mr Light]

If others haven't heard yet, they scrapped showing the pilot in May. So now it truly is starting in Fall 2011.