TERRA NOVA

TERRA NOVA Television series. Fox, premiered 26 September 2011. Craig Silverstein, Kelly Marcel, creators; with Allan Loeb, series writing credit. Australia/USA: Amblin Entertainment and Chernin Entertainment, prod. (see IMDb for details ). Carlos Barbosa and Joseph A. Hodges, series prod. design.

IMDb version of logline: "Centers on […] an ordinary family from 2149 [Chicago] when the planet is dying[,] who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth[,] where they join Terra Nova, a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization." In the premiere episode, "Genesis," the BLADE RUNNER-esque shots of and in Chicago of 2149 are of interest, as is the potential in the series for juxtaposition in frame of 22nd-c. technology (vehicles, weapons, etc.) and prehistoric flora and fauna — plus, of course, the potential for juxtaposition of shots from 2419 and far more natural world of present minus 85M years. Device for transporting people to Earth's distant past, but on a different timeline, produces a portal, plus images of death-and-transcendence, vaporization, and (reinforced in VO) birth.

5. DRAMA, RDE, 26/IX/11