IR In Space With Defying Gravity?

:smt066Malik Yoba plays the co-pilot & according to the trailer it looks like he might get some IR play but here's a synopsis of the series:
Defying Gravity A Genre-Twisting Space Adventure
By Randy Shore, Vancouver SunJuly 27, 2009

:arrow: Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner.

Defying Gravity boldly goes where no relationship drama has gone before.
When flight engineer Maddux Donner is suddenly added to a deep-space mission departing for a tour of the solar system with an eight-member crew, including his current lover and a former girlfriend with a torch for him, things are going to be awkward.

Did I mention the mission lasts six years? Donner, played by lovable lantern-jawed lug Ron Livingston, is at the centre of a love triangle of galactic proportions. Crack German pilot Nadia Schilling, played by Florentine Lahme, lets it be known that she will not back off one inch from what she believes belongs to her.

Longing former lover, mission geologist Zoe Barnes, played by Laura Harris of 24 and Dead Like Me, completes the triangle. The relationship between Barnes and Donner has unexpected texture that reveals itself in the pressure-cooker of the cramped space vessel they live, work and play in 24/7.

The vessel Antares and ground control are populated by characters that reflect the international consortium behind the mission, including a wise-cracking Canadian biologist, a dour Israeli-American doctor, a devout Hindu mission specialist, a Canadian physicist super-geek with a porn addiction and a once-disgraced British reporter who smells something sinister. Antares is a perfect fishbowl for a watching world and one loaded with crushing expectations.

"It has a definite soap opera element to it," Livingston said. "But it's more Big Brother than As The World Turns."

The tension gets turned up as the crew learns their mission has a terrible secret agenda and the protective emotional layers begin to peel off the characters like onion skin. Everything about the new TV series Defying Gravity is experimental from the dramatic concept to the 8,000 kilometre-wide consortium that created it.

Relationship drama in space. Science fiction without aliens. Workplace soap where no one goes home. Defying Gravity is a genre-twister that the producers hope will draw audience from every corner: science geeks and soap lovers together.

Also together for the first time in this co-venture are Fox Television Studios and Vancouver's Omni Film Productions which produced the series in association with CTV and Germany's ProSieben.

The series will also air on the Space Channel in Canada and the BBC in the U.K.

This space adventure follows an international mission to the planets in our solar system, but keeps its feet firmly planted on the ground. Two timelines unfold in parallel: one in the "now" of the mission set in 2052 and the second in the "past" during the five years the crew trained together.
Flashbacks add texture to the characters as the plot unfolds deep in space, at mission control and a particularly earthy tavern nearby.

Defying Gravity contains structural elements of runaway hits its creators helped to spawn. Jim Parriott (Grey's Anatomy) and Michael Edelstein (Desperate Housewives) put their heads together to create a familiar human drama in an entirely new setting.

"There are going to be people who say it's Grey's Anatomy in space, but it's not," said Parriott. "It's very much its own animal."


Defying Gravity airs on CTV and ABC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/and Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE. Series begins with a two-hour episode Sunday, Aug. 2 on CTV and ABC at 9 p.m./and Friday, Aug. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on SPACE.

 

Malik Yoba is in this? I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Malik Yoba!

 

Don't forget to record the episode when it happens.

 

Yeah I think he's supposed to betray his wifey & his buddy by hitting the babe astronaut on the top left (Christina Cox) who's his buddy's girlfriend.


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Swirl-time!

 

seen the pilot for the show online...

it manages to keep my interest

 

-Bravo 2, IR has been confirmed on a two-zero-six, over..


Network TV wild sex, intimate feelings, need to cheat on husband for black d*ck, the whole nine yards..

I'm starting to like the show, lol. Plus, this time, a black guy is screwing a white girl who happens to be an astronaut, instead of the usual crack-whore, jail bird, who has to settle for a black man, to make her feel good about her candy-ass life.

 

The chick flirting with Malik Yoba's character looks bi-racial or latina.

 

Definitely.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

interesting..

after doing some digging, it appears Christina Cox, the lady portraying Jen Crane (the guy Malik used to banged in the show), was originally cast in the TV show 'Girlfriends,' as Lynn. Lynn's character model is a bi-racial daughter, of a black man and white woman.

hmm

 

For all the people on Pacific Standard time, it just came on.

Enjoy!

 

I'm sorta watching it and..












This shit is kinda lame. :|

 

hehe..I like it..

then again, I also like Star Trek

I also like techno-babble, like reproducing gravity through the slow spinning of specific sections of their ship, while in a zero-gravity environment...

I started watching the show after finishing up LOST online. I'm also waiting for the return of 'The Unit.' That's my spot right there.

 

looks like this IR-laden show has been 'temporarily' dropped by ABC, and now airs new episodes in Canada.



ABC has said that they're still looking at the possibility of broadcasting the show, some time in the future. (??) :smt104

I guess no one except me and Noble tuned in.

 

eh???? they dropped it???

 

I'm not suprised they "dropped" the show.

I forgot that it still exists.

 

lol

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/6696

they dropped the show from the current lineup..but as the article says, the network will try to find a spot for it. Of course, shitty ratings are the culprit. I actually liked the show. The new episodes are airing in Canada, as I mentioned before tho.

I knew something was up when I went to watch the latest episode, in high def online, only to see the same episode as last week in its place.

 

Shows that air on national tv that involve any sort of IR relationships always seem to get canceled.


Now, it could be due to a few things.

- Shitty actors
- Terrible storyline
- Low-ratings.


Whatever the case may be, its destined to fail.

 

With that being said:





"Keep hope alive!"

 

That's Disney for you, mate. (face palm)