FOX cancels Terra Nova
 

According to Deadline, Terra Nova won't be coming back...at least on FOX.

Fox Cancels Drama ‘Terra Nova’, Series Being Shopped To Other Networks

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Add a giant shark and a croctopus and syfy will be all over this shit.

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If this improves Alcatraz's prospects for a 2nd season, I'll be happy.

Kind of feel bad for Jon Cassar, who was the lead director on the series. I know he liked working on this show from reading his Tweets last year during production of the series. But, I think his talents are better suited elsewhere.

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I'd rather someone come up with a new, good sci-fi show than try to keep this turkey going.

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I thought it was mediocre. I would have watched a second season, but didn't mind if it got cancelled either. It was a toss up for me.

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Squandered potential ... this show should have been so much more. Terra Nova was good at walking right up to the line and then refusing to tackle the difficult socio-political issues. Starting with the pilot episode they would flaunt an issue and the never explore it -- the morality of intrusive governmental policies vs. the "good of the whole" (limited family sizes, a police officer willingly violates the law), do societal punishments fit the crime (they send him to prison, making him a bigger burden on society and allow the illegal child to live, further taxing resources), illegal immigration (an escaped convict illegally enters the past and everybody is OK with it?), and even the rights of the few vs. the whole (should the colony have the right to protect its own rights when it damns the future world to death?).

Instead we get Lost/X-Files light ... we'll throw in a mysterious hermit/prodigal son, some funny drawings on rocks ... and then ignore most of that stuff until the last episode, and then - hopefully - a new mystery (the ship's figurehead) might buy us another season ...

Nonetheless, I enjoyed it while it lasted ... here's to hoping somebody will pick it up!

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Didn't the first episode cost something like 20 million? No one's picking this expensive turkey up.

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Have one more eleven episode season to tell one more story and tie up any lose ends. (If a season is twenty two episodes there really needs to be more then one story if that is the format it is using)

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edit:

Deadline.com provided the exact figures on how much Terra Nova cost:

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According to an update on Deadline.com story. It said that the studio was going to change showrunners for season 2 and they brought in a potential new showrunner to pitch a season 2 idea to FOX's President. Apparently he never really liked Terra Nova in the 1st place and just decided to cut his losses and pull the plug. :lol:

Edit:

The Deadline.com article also says that is possible Fringe could get a 13 episode final season if it's budget can be trimmed.

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no loss in my book, I lost interest in the series half way through it's season.

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Someone must have came in and pitched a "new" reality show ... -rolleyes-

With the crap, and I mean CRAP that is on TV today, I am not the least bit surprised at this. It may not have been great but it was miles better than most shit on TV
Rather than see what they can do to minimize the budget, they just ditch it to spend more money and more resources on something that will probably only last one season itself. Maybe not even a few episodes.

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You must be stuck in the past :) There's a lot of great shows currently. Terra Nova wouldn't even make my Top 15.

This is the real news. Please let it happen. Please!

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Time for the writers to get book/graphic novels started continuing the series.

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:up:

Terra Nova entertaining? Yes. Better than most shows? Not by a long shot.


-pray-

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Glad I ditched when I did...

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+1

I would hope. Warner ought to heavily subsidize this show to lower passed-on production costs off to FOX. If this final season happens and they get to tie up everything, the show will do much better in syndication as will home video sales than if S4 leaves the series unresolved.

Yeah. Glad I saw the final episodes, but mid-season on, I always had a MAJOR backlog of it on my DVR. It was always literally the last thing I'd watch.

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I won't be missing it. Didn't expect it to return anyway.

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Same here. I love sci-fi and was really hopeful, but this show tried to be too many things and did none of them very well, IMO.

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:up: I know they said they had a 6 season plan, but giving them a 5th season should at least allow them to wrap things up in a satisfactory way. Then again Chuck wasted a half a season on Morgan knowing full well it was the final season. :lol:

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I hope they bring it back without all of that expensive CGI, and just retool it as a family melodrama set in the jungle.

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This show is part of that crap, I mean CRAP that is on TV today. Only it's not on TV anymore.

Go watch Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Justified, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Dexter, Homeland, Shameless, Southland, Downton Abbey, Awake, etc;

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I wanted to see the crappy future more. The first episode was very cool and Blade Runner-esque.

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Brannon Braga's golden touch continues unabated.

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With all of these dramas ending and being cancelled, Fox has to keep some of them.

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Not a loss at all. Watched the first few episodes and was bored.

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Really? If you consider how much of their schedule is taken up by X-Factor in the Fall and American Idol in the Spring, are they ever really hurting for actual non-reality programming?

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Yes, what are you doing with Mondays?

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I think they have some hopes for Touch.. and maybe this will save Fringe for one more season...

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I am actually quite pleased to read this news. If it in any way results in permanently ensuring that television will never again be infected by Brannon Braga Mediocrity (TM), then we can rejoice in the fact that this show's existence will have served a very noble purpose indeed. So say we all. Amen.

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Now THIS is a show that deserves renewing. Hope this is true.

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I know some people liked this show and I don't like celebrating their loss, but I have to agree with those that say good riddance.

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I gave up on the show after 3-4 episodes so no big loss to me. It had great potential though. Touch better live up to the hype of the pilot; fox's lineup seems pretty scarce these days. Bring back Jack Bauer; I want my Prison Break/24 Mondays back!!

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Bring back Xfiles a Xfiles/Fringe friday night would be awesome lol

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Ah well. I only had a passing interest, but my 9 year old enjoyed a lot.

Thos.

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I found it entertaining, but it looked and felt like a SyFy show. With the budget they had, there was no excuse for that.

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Tera Nova is my favorite porn star.

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Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Confidential. ;)

Seriously? That is two hours of programming. If they bring back Alcatraz, they only have an hour to fill (Touch).

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I've read conflicting reports about the plans for Fringe. I do remember them throwing around the six season plan when it started, but I also remember an interview a few years later where they sort of backed away from that.

At any rate, I don't think it would be too difficult for them to compress two seasons of major arc stories down to thirteen episodes if they cut out all of the standalones and cases.

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Wow, am I the only one who DOESN'T want FRINGE to come back? They were given a "gift" this year with a renewal and the writers have really slacked off on that show. If I were a network exec, there's no way I'd bring FRINGE back...it's one of the lowest rated network shows currently on.

ALCATRAZ I can take or say goodbye to...pretty much the same way I felt about TERRA NOVA...I'd watch it if it was on, but wouldn't miss it if it wasn't.

I think TERRA NOVA got the axe because FOX expects TOUCH to do quite well...but what happens if TOUCH's ratings look worse than TERRA NOVA and ALCATRAZ's in a few months?

If I were FOX, this is what I would have done with TERRA NOVA: No, we're not picking you up for 13 episodes, but we are picking you up for three 2-hour movies (essentially a six-episode order). That would have been a great way to keep costs down, quality the same, and the fans happy.