Terra Nova Pushed Back to Fall 2011!

[Mordock]

The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article that shines a light on everything that's gone wrong with Terra Nova to date (intense post-production needs, difficulties shooting on location, difficulties getting the scripts into shape...) and it sounds like a complete mess.

 

[Alex1939]

Wow that sounds like a nightmare! Good read.

 

[Mr Light]

Holy crap. Family stranded in dinosaur world. Doesn't sound that difficult to write... I mean location shooting causing problems is one thing but to still be dithering over a two hour script at this stage?!

 

[Dream]

Yikes! It is looking more and more like this show might be a bomb.

This show's pilot is more expensive than the first ep of LOST? How is that freaking possible? It seems the major problem is that there are too many people running the show.

I guess we now know why Fringe was renewed.

 

[Gepard]

How is that freaking possible?

Um, dinosaurs? Plus, we don't know how much of a stickler for accuracy Spielberg is being; the Earth looked pretty different 85 million years ago.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

I dunno who thought this concept could be a viable, on-going weekly series. A miniseries, I could see. Who knows, maybe they'll make it work and it'll be my favorite show evah. Damned ambitious, though.

 

[The Wormhole]

Honestly, I can't say I'm surprised. Just the fact that a network, Fox at that was even considering a sci-fi series was hard to believe, and then to learn it was a time travel show about dinosaurs made me skeptical such a thing would even be possible.

Still, while it may not be surprising, it is nonetheless disappointing. Despite my skepticism, I was hopeful that this could be a cool show.

 

[Dream]

How is that freaking possible?

Um, dinosaurs? Plus, we don't know how much of a stickler for accuracy Spielberg is being; the Earth looked pretty different 85 million years ago.

I guess that is why LOST never showed a dino in it's pilot. Too expensive.

Spielberg needs to stick with movies if he wants insane budgets so badly.

 

[bigdaddy]

Wow what a shock. Most here, myself included, knew this was going to happen. Its clear they had no plan besides "dinosaurs are cool". I still stand my theory it will canceled after a Friday night at 8 timeslot.

It is why Fox will announce renew of Lie to Me and Chicago Code next month because Fox is somewhat smart and wants backups.

 

[Noname Given]

Just goes to show what happens when you get a guy who's experience is MOSTLY with one show, shot on a soundstage for the most part, and was part of a 40+ year successful TV franchise:

Fox, citing the difficulty of timing action sequences, splits the blame between Graves and Braga. "Brannon misjudged it at the script stage, and Alex and his script supervisor misjudged it as it was being shot," a spokesman says. (The spokesman acknowledges that Echevarria was actually the showrunner and says it's impossible to parse responsibility between him and Braga.)

As far as the bolded portion I can only say - "Gee, what a surpprise...Brannon Braga misjudged a script. That's been a LARGE habit with him over his entire career (imo)"

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ Fair point. Generally speaking, I tended to dislike many of Braga's TNG stories.

 

[The Wormhole]

Just goes to show what happens when you get a guy who's experience is MOSTLY with one show, shot on a soundstage for the most part, and was part of a 40+ year successful TV franchise:

Fox, citing the difficulty of timing action sequences, splits the blame between Graves and Braga. "Brannon misjudged it at the script stage, and Alex and his script supervisor misjudged it as it was being shot," a spokesman says. (The spokesman acknowledges that Echevarria was actually the showrunner and says it's impossible to parse responsibility between him and Braga.)

As far as the bolded portion I can only say - "Gee, what a surpprise...Brannon Braga misjudged a script. That's been a LARGE habit with him over his entire career (imo)"

That's a bit unfair. Braga was actually a good writer on TNG and during Voyager's early years. Even the later years he did what he could despite UPN's interferance. His work on Enterprise leaves much to be desired.

Mind you if there is one weakness Braga had (in Trek, anyway), it was his two-parters. Part 1 tended to be really well done, unfortunately there was very little pay-off in part 2 to what was set up in part 1 and part 2 tended to come of as rushed.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Braga was actually a good writer on TNG

No he wasn't.

 

[The Wormhole]

Okay, so most of his TNG episodes were either time travel/alternate realities or really weird. I still enjoyed them anyway.

 

[The Habs Fan]

Interesting that it looks like Echevarria and Braga are now co-showrunners on the project. Is this the first time they've worked together since TNG?

 

[Jax]

Terra Nova is 13 episodes right, now with this mess I wonder if they are better to push it even further back to January 2011 along with American Idol. If they order it in the fall and FOX wanted more episodes for midseason, could they even do it in time with the mess they made so far

I predict a 15 million+ audience for the pilot but would not be surprised to see the show lose 50% of its audience by episode 13.

 

[bigdaddy]

Terra Nova is 13 episodes right, now with this mess I wonder if they are better to push it even further back to January 2011 along with American Idol. If they order it in the fall and FOX wanted more episodes for midseason, could they even do it in time with the mess they made so far

I predict a 15 million+ audience for the pilot but would not be surprised to see the show lose 50% of its audience by episode 13.

I saw the 13 episode order will at some time be canceled and what we get is a two hour movie to be burned off in July.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

You'd think that this premise would be as close to a no-brainer success as imaginable. You have Stephen Lang as the charismatic semi-villain, just cast the family as non-annoyingly as possible, add dinos and bake.

But this has all the earmarks of a show that's going to be ruined because too many people have to mess with it...

 

[Harvey]

Terra Nova is 13 episodes right, now with this mess I wonder if they are better to push it even further back to January 2011 along with American Idol. If they order it in the fall and FOX wanted more episodes for midseason, could they even do it in time with the mess they made so far

I predict a 15 million+ audience for the pilot but would not be surprised to see the show lose 50% of its audience by episode 13.

I saw the 13 episode order will at some time be canceled and what we get is a two hour movie to be burned off in July.

With Spielberg executive producing and so much money already invested? Not a chance. Nah, this thing will have a first season, and then the ratings/budget will determine if it goes forward beyond that, or is simply filed away as a huge fiasco.

 

[bigdaddy]

They will sell the two hours as a movie over seas and make their money back. They have been working for years and have 1,5 episodes. At this rate it will be 20 years before we get 13 episodes.