Hi all,
Not sure if you guys have heard of it but a new Sci Fi/Drama/Thriller series started airing in the US on the ABC called
"Defying Gravity". Not sure if it will ever be picked up here in Australia, but one can hope with the recent drought of good Sci Fi Space shows. Apparently the writers were inspired by the BBC's
"Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets" and it's been done in collaboration with US/UK/German/Canadian networks, so it's not an all US thing.
More about it here:
http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/defying-gravity/
Quote:
Defying Gravity is a sexy, provocative thriller set in the very near future against the backdrop of our solar system, in which the eight astronauts from five countries undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission on the spaceship Antares.
They can’t run from karma, however, as their past actions reveal intimate and interconnected relationships that have a strange effect on the present. As the astronauts travel towards Venus, we travel into their past with flashbacks to earlier years from the grueling selection and training process. What could have happened?
Maybe there is something to this fate thing after all.
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They have all the previously aired episodes in full to watch for US residents, but unfortunately outside the US you have to settle for previews.
The promo they have on there doesn't really sell it well enough in my opinion (I was a little apprehensive when I saw it), but after *ahem* "stumbling" across the first two episodes on the internet, the show definately has promise. I like it.
Well worth watching if you can get hold of it.