ABC has its own Sci-fi show.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/picks+local+series+Defying+Gravity/1753863/story.html
May this show is why fox tried to rush out Virtuality?
I will give this show a chance… Kinda sounds like a ‘soap’ in space…
Ditto. Any scifi on TV gets a fair shot with me.
I mentioned here that I hope it’s not Grey’s Anatomy in space.
As mentioned, anything sci-fi gets a look from me.
As I also mentioned in the other thread, I’ll give it a chance based on Ron Livingston…
i’ll give it a chance for; Laura Harris alone. she was just crazy good in dead like me
Yep. Laura Harris is very fine. I’m a huge Livingston fan too. We Iowa boys have to stick together.
hmmmm not convinced it wont be crap but i will give it a try.
but we all know if it really is good they will cut it in 10 episodes 
I’m gonna TiVo this show tonite and give it a chance.
I just found about it today reading a very lame article in the Sunday TV week section of the newspaper. And the article was saying that there’s never been any sex or romance in SciFi. The story mentioned BSG not once—idiots.
EDIT: Here’s that article http://thenorthernlight.canadaeast.com/front/article/742299
I think someone needs to take Ms. Grigor’s diploma from Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology away.
“Everybody knows Captain Kirk was a ladies man, but not since William Shatner’s Starfleet days has TV dared to mix outer space with love.”
ahem I would like to call to your attention a few shows that have dabbled in romance and scifi. Babylon 5, Farscape, Roswell, not to mention every other frakkin scifi show. Where the frak have you been, Miranda!?!
Yup, I was just saying on Twitter that, I’m sure that Miranda Grigor is very nice person and all, but seeing as she graduated in 2008 …I guess we can say that she’s been nowhere.
Tom Shales reviewed this show VERY unfavorably in yesterday’s Washington Post (which itself may be a sign of how good the show is, since Shales, who has at least one Pulitzer, I believe, tends to like craaaaap like that sitcom Heather Graham had two years ago that ran a whopping two episodes, yet hates things like Arrested Development and BSG). The premise sounds, as I posted in the Virtualty thread, a bit of a hashed over version of that show to me, but what the hell, if it’s good, I’ll watch it (until it gets cancelled mid-season/mid-story arc like almost every other show I’ve been passionate about lately).
Apropos of nothing, is it bad that I read the last sentence there as “Where the frak have you been? Miranda?” 
I’m willing to give it a try and will record it. Sunday night is tough with True Blood and Entourage right now. Seems like more and more networks are doing these soft summer broadcasts.
So… I definitly seems that this show was in production when Fox found out about it and had RDM ramp up a show like it…
There is no Virtual Reality in it but there is something [spoiler] in their dreams[/spoiler]
I think it may actually be off to a good start. It didn’t feel at all like a soap opera to the stars…
Here’s hoping…
Well, I guess ya gotta sell the network execs in language they understand.l
When Gene Rodenberry was trying to pitch Star Trek to the networks of the 60s, it was a time when TV was all about Westerns. So he knew he had to pitch it as “Wagon Train to the Stars” (which it really wasn’t).
(I haven’t watched D.Grav yet–but it’s TiVoed).
I saw some of it last night. When it went to voiceover with bittersweet pop music and everyone moving meaningfully in slow motion, I was underwhelmed. It feels like the kind of “sci-fi” show that people who don’t like sci-fi will watch. And not in a relevent-to-our-times BSG kind of way, but in the way that waters down all the stuff that sci-fi usually deals with in favor of underwear models with perfect makeup sighing about their love lives and using modern day vernacular even though it’s set 45 years in the future. Inoffensive, sci-fi lite, that will probably last for several seasons of will-they-won’t-they while we never get to see what happens in Firefly.
Was that a rant?
On the other hand, was that Captain Kelly playing one of the characters, the one who had zero G sex with his wife before having to return home because of a medical condition?
I just finished watching the pilot night with the first two episodes. I have sort of mixed feelings. I liked the space and sci fi elements and the mystery will probably keep me coming back. But the romance thing was a bit over the top for me. I mean the first day of astronaut training and the girls are whispering and giggling about the guys they are gonna do and the guys go and do the same thing.
I liked it, not ashamed to admit it either. The romance was a bit much, but overall, I liked the characters and I’m intrigued by the mystery of the mission. The shots in space were amazing. It is so much like Virtuality, it makes me wonder if there was a leak on RDM’s set. Can’t believe ABC would think this stuff up on its own.
Actually from what i understand it was the other way around. This has been in production for quite a while and Fox rushed out Virtuality. Also ABC is the company that brought us LOST so they cant be all that bad. Its better than CBS at least
I watched it last night as well. Overall I was entertained. We’ll see how it plays out.