nobledruali
Well-Known Member
:smt066Malik Yoba plays the co-pilot & according to the trailer it looks like he might get some IR
play but here's a synopsis of the series:
Defying Gravity A Genre-Twisting Space Adventure
By Randy Shore, Vancouver SunJuly 27, 2009
:arrow: Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner.
Defying Gravity boldly goes where no relationship drama has gone before.
When flight engineer Maddux Donner is suddenly added to a deep-space mission departing for a tour of the solar system with an eight-member crew, including his current lover and a former girlfriend with a torch for him, things are going to be awkward.
Did I mention the mission lasts six years? Donner, played by lovable lantern-jawed lug Ron Livingston, is at the centre of a love triangle of galactic proportions. Crack German pilot Nadia Schilling, played by Florentine Lahme, lets it be known that she will not back off one inch from what she believes belongs to her.
Longing former lover, mission geologist Zoe Barnes, played by Laura Harris of 24 and Dead Like Me, completes the triangle. The relationship between Barnes and Donner has unexpected texture that reveals itself in the pressure-cooker of the cramped space vessel they live, work and play in 24/7.
The vessel Antares and ground control are populated by characters that reflect the international consortium behind the mission, including a wise-cracking Canadian biologist, a dour Israeli-American doctor, a devout Hindu mission specialist, a Canadian physicist super-geek with a porn addiction and a once-disgraced British reporter who smells something sinister. Antares is a perfect fishbowl for a watching world and one loaded with crushing expectations.
"It has a definite soap opera element to it," Livingston said. "But it's more Big Brother than As The World Turns."
The tension gets turned up as the crew learns their mission has a terrible secret agenda and the protective emotional layers begin to peel off the characters like onion skin. Everything about the new TV series Defying Gravity is experimental from the dramatic concept to the 8,000 kilometre-wide consortium that created it.
Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner: science geeks and soap lovers together.
Also together for the first time in this co-venture are Fox Television Studios and Vancouver's Omni Film Productions which produced the series in association with CTV and Germany's ProSieben.
The series will also air on the Space Channel in Canada and the BBC in the U.K.
This space adventure follows an international mission to the planets in our solar system, but keeps its feet firmly planted on the ground. Two timelines unfold in parallel: one in the "now" of the mission set in 2052 and the second in the "past" during the five years the crew trained together.
Flashbacks add texture to the characters as the plot unfolds deep in space, at mission control and a particularly earthy tavern nearby.
Defying Gravity contains structural elements of runaway hits its creators helped to spawn. Jim Parriott (Grey's Anatomy) and Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives) put their heads together to create a familiar human drama in an entirely new setting.
"There are going to be people who say it's Grey's Anatomy in space, but it's not," said Parriott. "It's very much its own animal."
Defying Gravity airs on CTV and ABC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/and Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE. Series begins with a two-hour episode Sunday, Aug. 2 on CTV and ABC at 9 p.m./and Friday, Aug. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE.
Defying Gravity A Genre-Twisting Space Adventure
By Randy Shore, Vancouver SunJuly 27, 2009
:arrow: Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner.
Defying Gravity boldly goes where no relationship drama has gone before.
When flight engineer Maddux Donner is suddenly added to a deep-space mission departing for a tour of the solar system with an eight-member crew, including his current lover and a former girlfriend with a torch for him, things are going to be awkward.
Did I mention the mission lasts six years? Donner, played by lovable lantern-jawed lug Ron Livingston, is at the centre of a love triangle of galactic proportions. Crack German pilot Nadia Schilling, played by Florentine Lahme, lets it be known that she will not back off one inch from what she believes belongs to her.
Longing former lover, mission geologist Zoe Barnes, played by Laura Harris of 24 and Dead Like Me, completes the triangle. The relationship between Barnes and Donner has unexpected texture that reveals itself in the pressure-cooker of the cramped space vessel they live, work and play in 24/7.
The vessel Antares and ground control are populated by characters that reflect the international consortium behind the mission, including a wise-cracking Canadian biologist, a dour Israeli-American doctor, a devout Hindu mission specialist, a Canadian physicist super-geek with a porn addiction and a once-disgraced British reporter who smells something sinister. Antares is a perfect fishbowl for a watching world and one loaded with crushing expectations.
"It has a definite soap opera element to it," Livingston said. "But it's more Big Brother than As The World Turns."
The tension gets turned up as the crew learns their mission has a terrible secret agenda and the protective emotional layers begin to peel off the characters like onion skin. Everything about the new TV series Defying Gravity is experimental from the dramatic concept to the 8,000 kilometre-wide consortium that created it.
Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner: science geeks and soap lovers together.
Also together for the first time in this co-venture are Fox Television Studios and Vancouver's Omni Film Productions which produced the series in association with CTV and Germany's ProSieben.
The series will also air on the Space Channel in Canada and the BBC in the U.K.
This space adventure follows an international mission to the planets in our solar system, but keeps its feet firmly planted on the ground. Two timelines unfold in parallel: one in the "now" of the mission set in 2052 and the second in the "past" during the five years the crew trained together.
Flashbacks add texture to the characters as the plot unfolds deep in space, at mission control and a particularly earthy tavern nearby.
Defying Gravity contains structural elements of runaway hits its creators helped to spawn. Jim Parriott (Grey's Anatomy) and Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives) put their heads together to create a familiar human drama in an entirely new setting.
"There are going to be people who say it's Grey's Anatomy in space, but it's not," said Parriott. "It's very much its own animal."
Defying Gravity airs on CTV and ABC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/and Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE. Series begins with a two-hour episode Sunday, Aug. 2 on CTV and ABC at 9 p.m./and Friday, Aug. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE.
