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Defying Gravity Lots of drama and sex in outer space

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 08:17 AM

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[/font]ABC now has a premiere date (Aug. 2) and a promo for “Defying Gravity,” a 13-hour summer series about horny astronauts on a mysterious six-year 8-billion-mile mission to Venus and beyond. (I say beyond because Venus sometimes gets as close as 24 million miles from Earth; I think Neptune, the most distant planet in the solar system, is only about 2.7 billion miles from Earth.) “Gravity” was created by James Parriott, who also created “Misfits of Science” and “Forever Knight” but has more recently been toiling in such estrogen-soaked ABC hourlongs as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty.”

The series stars Ron Livingston (“Office Space”), Laura Harris (“Dead Like Me”), Christina Cox (“The Chronicles of Riddick,” “Blood Ties”), Malik Yoba (“New York Undercover”) and Florentine Lahme (ABC’s terrible astronaut miniseries “Impact”).


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ASTRONAUTS EMBARK ON PROVOCATIVE SPACE THRILLER IN "DEFYING GRAVITY," A NEW SERIES STARRING RON LIVINGSTON AND LAURA HARRIS, BEGINING WITH A SPECIAL TWO-HOUR PREMIERE SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 ON THE ABC TELEVISION NETWORK

From executive producers James Parriott and Michael Edelstein comes "Defying Gravity," a sexy, provocative space thriller set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. The adventure begins on SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 with a two-hour premiere from 9:00-11:00 p.m. The series will air regularly from 10:00-11:00 p.m., starting Sun, August 9 on the ABC Television Network.

Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present.

Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.

The series' international ensemble cast is led by Ron Livingston ("Office Space," "Sex and the City") as Antares flight engineer Maddux Donner, Laura Harris ("24") as the ship's geologist, Zoe Barnes, Malik Yoba ("New York Undercover") as Antares commander Ted Shaw, Christina Cox ("Blood Ties") as biologist Jen Crane, Florentine Lahme ("Impact") as pilot Nadia Schilling, Paula Garces ("The Shield") as pilot, scientist and on-board documentary producer Paula Morales, Eyal Podell ("24") as psychiatrist and medical officer Evram Mintz, and Dylan Taylor ("House Party") as theoretical physicist Steve Wassenfelder. The cast on planet Earth is led by Andrew Airlie ("Reaper") as Mission Control commander Mike Goss, Karen LeBlanc ("ReGenesis") as scientist Eve Shaw, Zahf Paroo ("Battlestar Galactica") as grounded flight engineer Ajay Sharma, and Maxim Roy ("MVP") as flight surgeon Claire Dereux. Episodic director Peter Howitt also plays the role of BBC journalist Trevor Williams.

Created by James Parriott, "Defying Gravity" was inspired by "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets," a fictional docudrama produced by Impossible Pictures ("Walking with Dinosaurs") for the BBC. The series is a co-venture between Fox Television Studios and Omni Film Productions and is produced in association with Canada's CTV and Germany's ProSieben.


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I can't really decide.

On one hand this is Greys Anatomy in space, they even have a fucking make out session in the first two seconds of their trailer, but on the other hand... It's a series about astronaughts, travelling through space on some sci-fi mission, it has to be cool.



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Posted 12 July 2009 - 10:00 AM

I don't know why the sex was needed... Is it not possible to create a sci-fi series thats going to appeal to people without gratutious amounts of face-eating?
It's not like someone who doesn't like sci-fi will pick this up and think "Ah, look, sex. I think I'll give this whole genre a go after all!"

Sorry, I'd prefer a proper hard sci-fi series instead.
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Posted 12 July 2009 - 10:12 AM

Well, obviously it's just an over the top drama series idea.

Probably some intern dropped a stack of manuscripts about various concepts on the way to the boss' office and just shuffled them together. The boss being an idiot, just saw there was sex and astronaughts in the manuscript and accepted the prosal.

But it's a series about astronaughts. I have to watch it.

Why aren't there more astronaught series? Like some story about the every day life of a group of astronaughts and scientists trying to build and maintain an international spacestation in orbit around Earth, there's potential for stories about tension in the living quarters, pseudo science stuff, exciting views of astronaughts working in space, shuttle launches, various nationalities and faiths clashing, politics, zero gravity hardcore sex, etc.

It could expand to be about Japan, China and the US having a spacerace to reach the moon, to further prepare for the mars missions.
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Posted 12 July 2009 - 10:14 AM

Cus presumably astronauts just aren't as interesting as, say, doctors. And they are harder to identify with.
And it would be awesome if it got more serious, and began to include politics...
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Posted 12 July 2009 - 10:21 AM

BY the way Lish, could you fix the "on" typo in the tittle?
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Posted 12 July 2009 - 10:23 AM

No problem, typo corrected.
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Posted 12 July 2009 - 12:02 PM

View PostAptorian, on Jul 12 2009, 02:12 PM, said:

Why aren't there more astronaught series? Like some story about the every day life of a group of astronaughts and scientists trying to build and maintain an international spacestation in orbit around Earth, there's potential for stories about tension in the living quarters, pseudo science stuff, exciting views of astronaughts working in space, shuttle launches, various nationalities and faiths clashing, politics, zero gravity hardcore sex, etc.


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The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present


I was under the impression that this series is roughly what you are looking for.

But seriously, if it's going to be Gray's anatomy in space, I'm not watching it.
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 02:31 PM

See also 'VIRTUALITY', vaguely similar idea, 'series' became 'mini-series', lasted about two eps.

Networks seldom have any decent expectations for series released mid-summer. It's basically a way to burn off something they paid for but don't want to run during 'real' tv season time because they know it won't get the viewer numbers.

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