I wish them luck. Another Star Trek alum trying his hand. I bet Ronald Moore's success with "Galactica" is a great incentive. It's great to see a decent number of speculative fiction shows again, isn't it? Always fun and frustrating to see which are good, which stink, and whether the networks make the right choice in what they kill or keep. By the way, TV Guide has picked "Threshold", along with "Invasion" and "Supernatural", as three of its favorite shows. The ones they really dogged were "Surface" and, not surprisingly, "Medium" clone "Ghost Whisperer".
-------------- Original message -------------- http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=32466 16-SEPTEMBER-05 Braga: Threshold Won't Hold Back Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive producer of CBS' upcoming SF suspense thriller, Threshold, told SCI FI Wire that the show will not be shy in explaining up front what its aliens are doing. "It's bioforming," Braga (Star Trek: Enterprise) said in an interview. "They're sending out this bizarre technological signal that mutates our DNA, [turning us] into them. There are no aliens. They're turning us into them." In Threshold, Carla Gugino stars as Dr. Molly Caffrey, the woman who wrote Operation: Threshold, a contingency plan that outlines what to do in case of an alien threat. When a cargo freighter discovers an extraterrestrial craft, Threshold is put into motion, and Caffrey must pull together a "red team" to investigate. Braga, who created the series with executive producers David S. Goyer and David Heyman, said he liked the idea of having a female protagonist. "I liked the concept that she wrote this contingency plan about what if an alien intelligence came to Earth and it was hostile," he said. "This plan was purely theoretical, and one day the government calls her and says it's really happening. So that her 'What if?' scenario becomes a 'What now?' scenario. And she really has to start planning this s--t, because it's really happening." Threshold is premiering amid a glut of new SF shows on the fall television schedule. But Braga believes that NBC's Surface and ABC's Invasion are very different shows. Threshold deals with a group of people who work for the government who are trying to stop the aliens. "In a funny way, a lot of shows deal with government conspiracy, and there are the people in the shadows who you don't quite know what they're up to," Braga said. "We are the conspiracy. We're leading the conspiracy. And they are going to do some shady things. The Threshold protocols are going to occasionally call for some gray areas to be explored." Threshold debuts with a two-hour premiere on Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "scifinoir2" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/FXrMlA/dnQLAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
