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apocalypsosFrom this article about summer TV viewing comes this tidbit about The 4400 ...
The 4400
Sunday, 9 p.m. ET/PT as a two-hour special, followed by 13 one-hour weekly episodes starting June 12, 9 p.m. ET/PT, USA Network (Yay! More than last year!)
Concept: An exploration into 4,400 people who, after being reported as missing or dead, reappear in a ball of light. They have not aged physically, and many of them have returned with dramatic abilities ranging from enhanced reflexes to precognition. A government agency is tracking all the returnees.
Why it'll be hot: Alien shows are the newest trend, and plenty are coming in the fall, but this one is ahead of the game. It started as a miniseries last summer, and its premiere drew 7.4 million viewers, a record for basic cable.
Billy Campbell is back as Jordan Collier, the self-proclaimed figurehead of the 4,400 returnees. (ACK. I really, REALLY hate Collier. Really.) Peter Coyote, who headed the original investigation, is gone.
Jacqueline McKenzie plays Diana Skouris, one of the agents investigating the returnees. She now has adopted Maia, a little girl who was one of the returnees.
This season, expect a further exploration into the characters and their powers.
"If you really sit back and look at it, it is deeply terrifying," McKenzie says. "I think, 'OK, what am I saying here in this scene?' We're dealing with things that are so unknown. The stakes are very high."
The returnees, she says, are "people like you and me, but have just so by chance been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or were they chosen specifically - we don't even know that."
Scott Peters, one of the creators of the series, has high hopes for this season. Last season, he says, there wasn't as much time.
"One of the greatest gifts is that we have 13 hours to tell the story and not rush through it. We're able to weave in larger themes, such as religion and the role of government in our lives. We'll be able to deepen the characters and flesh them out." He also says to expect the same "grand scale and scope" of the show. "We look at each episode as a chapter in a novel."
As for whether there will be contact this season with aliens, "you never know. Anything's possible in a world where people appeared in a ball of light."
I love the fact that they keep calling it an alien show when there's been nothing said about aliens other than speculation from the characters last season before the truth about the time-travel was revealed. And whoever it was using Kyle as a mouthpiece didn't mention aliens. At this point, it's a time-travel show, folks. Until we see ET, there are no aliens. ;P
In other news, if Shawn is going to spend the entire season acting like an asshat, I reserve the right to whack him upside the head with a clue-by-four.
Is it Sunday yet, damn it? *whimper*
EDIT:
How the BBC covers a story.
How MSNBC covers the same story.
Speaking of people who need to be hit with a clue-by-four ...
The 4400
Sunday, 9 p.m. ET/PT as a two-hour special, followed by 13 one-hour weekly episodes starting June 12, 9 p.m. ET/PT, USA Network (Yay! More than last year!)
Concept: An exploration into 4,400 people who, after being reported as missing or dead, reappear in a ball of light. They have not aged physically, and many of them have returned with dramatic abilities ranging from enhanced reflexes to precognition. A government agency is tracking all the returnees.
Why it'll be hot: Alien shows are the newest trend, and plenty are coming in the fall, but this one is ahead of the game. It started as a miniseries last summer, and its premiere drew 7.4 million viewers, a record for basic cable.
Billy Campbell is back as Jordan Collier, the self-proclaimed figurehead of the 4,400 returnees. (ACK. I really, REALLY hate Collier. Really.) Peter Coyote, who headed the original investigation, is gone.
Jacqueline McKenzie plays Diana Skouris, one of the agents investigating the returnees. She now has adopted Maia, a little girl who was one of the returnees.
This season, expect a further exploration into the characters and their powers.
"If you really sit back and look at it, it is deeply terrifying," McKenzie says. "I think, 'OK, what am I saying here in this scene?' We're dealing with things that are so unknown. The stakes are very high."
The returnees, she says, are "people like you and me, but have just so by chance been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or were they chosen specifically - we don't even know that."
Scott Peters, one of the creators of the series, has high hopes for this season. Last season, he says, there wasn't as much time.
"One of the greatest gifts is that we have 13 hours to tell the story and not rush through it. We're able to weave in larger themes, such as religion and the role of government in our lives. We'll be able to deepen the characters and flesh them out." He also says to expect the same "grand scale and scope" of the show. "We look at each episode as a chapter in a novel."
As for whether there will be contact this season with aliens, "you never know. Anything's possible in a world where people appeared in a ball of light."
I love the fact that they keep calling it an alien show when there's been nothing said about aliens other than speculation from the characters last season before the truth about the time-travel was revealed. And whoever it was using Kyle as a mouthpiece didn't mention aliens. At this point, it's a time-travel show, folks. Until we see ET, there are no aliens. ;P
In other news, if Shawn is going to spend the entire season acting like an asshat, I reserve the right to whack him upside the head with a clue-by-four.
Is it Sunday yet, damn it? *whimper*
EDIT:
How the BBC covers a story.
How MSNBC covers the same story.
Speaking of people who need to be hit with a clue-by-four ...
