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NBC Greenlights LOST Vet’s Post-Apocalyptic Pilot DAY ONE!!
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NBC took “Alias”/“Lost” writer-producer Jesse Alexander off “Heroes” late last year, but they still like him enough to greenlight his sci-fi pilot “Day One,” about survivors of a mysterious global disaster.
Find all of the Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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Not that that's a bad thing, but it's been tried before. I Need some more details before this one sounds promising.
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In other words just another rip of someone elses marketed concept? Or are we actually talking an original idea (as much as this subject can have much that's original).
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instantly. We all know.
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Except I think Im getting post-apocalyptic burn-out. It's... played out. Plus Im tired of getting invested in a "mysterious happening" show just to watch it get canceled and we never get the answers. I think networks should sign a contract with the fans, that if they cancel a show, they will make the creators of the show reveal everything they were going to do with the show. Then I'll allow myself to get invested in it.
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He never actually wrote anything. For Lost OR Heroes.
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Let me guess: The survivors will be an attractive, ethnically balanced group and each have a secret from their past?
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Yes this is is going to do so much better than the last umpteen post apocalyptic shows on nbc/cbs/fox.
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I'm not interested.
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this project. Unsurprisingly, this smell reminds us of embalming fluid. Cliche. Suits. blah-blah.
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i'd rather see more of The Remnants from John August
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Delicious, tasty, post apocalyptic ass.
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that needs to happen, needs to happen to the folks who keep green lighting this shit
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2 questions:
1) Jericho aside, what other post apocalyptic shows are you talking about?
2) Would it kill you to construct an actual sentence that conveys your jaded and cynical opinion in a more colorful way? 11 year old girls use "meh". -
He wrote 4 eps for HEROES and he was an co-exec producer on LOST (whatever that title means)
and I thought 8 LEGGED FREAKS was decent.
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I have to correct you - he wrote Heroes 107, 122, 210 and 307
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...including the two-part Tarantino arc.
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or, at least, less cheesy.
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Does anybody remember a little film named The Quiet Earth? About a small band of survivors of a Global apocalyptic "event"?
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Great movie! I love how they show the one guy going kind of nuts...until he finally meets another person.
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glad i'm not the only one that sees it.
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Oh, how I've missed you!
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That show is actually pretty sweet.
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BRING BACK Journeyman!!!
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The announcement of this so soon after the remake of Survivors has aired can't help but smell fishy.If Survivors was longer than 6 episodes or didn't end in a cliffhanger they could air it on US television (and it probably will be on BBC America). Maybe once they do another series they will think about airing it on a channel other than BBC America.
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Loved BBC's recent Survivors remake (13 eps woulda been better than 6..) and remember "The Quiet Earth", a cheap New Zealand made end of the world flick, which I quite liked.
But does American (world for that matter) TV have any original ideas left?? Pretty much all of the current crop of new shows are remakes or near-copies.. -
For me to tell everyone that Aziz Ansari is the greatest thing to happen to SCRUBS in a long, long time...ZWAA!!!
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I've always dreamed of a zombie-doomsday TV show. Of course it would have to be on HBO or Showtime...
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And at the end the protagonist wakes up on a beach with Saturn rising over the ocean? Awesome movie.
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I'm sure it will be much more exciting & logical than anything by that hack.
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Not that we'll ever get it back. But what the heck.
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They should just air that instead.
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I like the premise, but well done, not like that boring show.
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I totally agree regarding being very leery of investing my time into a show that has a high likelyhood of cancellation. Just look at the looong string of early Fox cancellations for examples. And to think Journeyman was cancelled but Knight Rider was not. I love me some good (or even halfway decent) sci-fi but all I can think when I hear this news is I'll wait until it gets picked up for a second season and then I'll rent the dvd's. Network execs all too often knee jerk reactions to initially low ratings is immediate cancellation, and I think we are all sick of getting suckered in and then having the rug pulled out from under us when our new fave show is cancelled. These types of shows need to be fostered and given time to let the buzz, and fan base grow. X-Files is a great example of someone having some foresight and guts and letting a show grow.
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I wish someone would resurrect Kevin Williamsons zombie series from a few years back. And yeah, this sounds like a port of Survivors.
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...I'm looking forward to is the adaptation of THE ROAD coming out this year.
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No TV producer has the BALLS
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Should be awesome. When is that coming out?
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I preferred Jeremiah over Jericho. Well season 1 anyway. It was a better concept IMO.
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because the concept brings out the best and worst in people, and makes for good drama if done correctly. Parts of Jericho were great, and others just fell flat, especially who was behind the attacks. I would have no doubt that one of the survivors of this new series would be in some way responsible for the disaster, or knows more about it than the rest of the good looking remnant of humanity. Can't wait!
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Yeah, the guy is giving a big brother/hitleresque speech in lingerie, and has mannequins saluting him if I recall. His brain was missing in action until he found another person. If you geeks haven't seen it, get to it.
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None? I guess that's why it got cancelled, but the premise was pretty cool. Anyone who's reached puberty is gone so that leaves the children to fend for themselves, grow up, and re-shape society, so of course things are pretty Lord of the Fliesesque.
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Do you know what happened with the second season with Jeremiah? It lost all the feel of the first season for me. Was that what JMS intended or did the studio step in cause they wanted more action or something?
I also see that no one has mentioned Dark Angel, which was only semi-post apocalyptical, I suppose. It was uneven, but it was mostly ok. -
Day One... Dayyy Onnnneeeee!!!
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...end of 2009 Oscar bait.
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That NBC will let this air long.
Consider that the only real sci-fi they have is Heroes...
And if this doesn't rake in the numbers it'll be gone in like 2-3 weeks. I will watch but I bet the odds of it getting canned are pretty good especially at NBC. I feel this way especially after Journeyman got canned.
Right now if you look at NBC's overall weakly schedule, they really don't have much aside from Monday and maybe thursday. (dropping scrubs), maybe flat-lining Knight Rider, Law&Order maybe on a DNR, and bringing back a TV Show (Friday Night Lights) they cancelled and DirecTV continued.
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I didn't even know it made it to a second season. I thought it was cancelled after a few episodes. It was on when I couldn't watch it, I was working, or something, and this was long before the networks were putting their episodes online. I just always thought the premise sounded cool. Maybe that was the only cool thing about it, I don't know.
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I didn't even know it made it to a second season. I thought it was cancelled after a few episodes. It was on when I couldn't watch it, I was working, or something, and this was long before the networks were putting their episodes online. I just always thought the premise sounded cool. Maybe that was the only cool thing about it, I don't know.
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http://www.usmagazine.com/node/23482.
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I agree. Plus with the 10pm spot eaten up by Leno's giant chin of mediocrity, there's no way NBC will let anything in the 9pm slot (I can't imagine this one with an 8pm kid friendly slot) reach the maturity level and raw emotion that this type of vehichle would need to be succesful.
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Where, like Kenny, Dogmeat will die every episode.
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