11/21/2023 0 Comments Terra nova season 2‘Smash,’ the NBC backstage musical drama set on Broadway, has had promising ratings, but it’s still too early to tell its ultimate fate. In 2011, two Spielberg-produced series have demonstrated once again the filmmaker’s fickle relationship with televised science fiction. Its premiere episode was the highest-rated cable launch of 2011, with 5.9-million viewers. His pair of World War II miniseries for HBO, ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘The Pacific,’ have both resulted in high ratings and critical acclaim.Īnd another cable sci-fi series Spielberg produced, ‘Falling Skies,’ has been renewed for a second season for TNT. ‘Taken,’ about alien abductions, aired for 10 nights in 2002 to strong ratings for its cable channel, the Sci-Fi Channel (later renamed SyFy). The filmmaker has had better luck in recent years with televised miniseries. It was canceled by NBC after the first season.Īnother Spielberg-produced series, the cop drama ‘High Incident,’ aired for only two seasons in 1996. Its backstory was not as rocky as ‘SeaQuest’s,’ but it also wasn’t as popular. Though Spielberg wasn’t credited as a producer on this series, its premise was remarkably similar to ‘Terra Nova,’ following a group of settlers fleeing an uninhabitable Earth in search of a new, pristine planet in which they can restart civilization. The same year, another science-fiction series from Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, ‘Earth 2,’ made its debut on NBC. Though the series premiered as the second-most-watched show on its night (to an audience of 16.8 million), it soon dwindled in popularity, sliding to 78th place near the end of its first season. Fights between the show’s producers and the network coincided with a steep decline in ratings. The series, which also aired on NBC, was set in the near future and starred Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ hero, Roy Scheider, as the captain of a hi-tech submersible ship named SeaQuest DSV. But he went back to the sci-fi well in 1993, serving as executive producer of the underwater series ‘SeaQuest DSV.’ Spielberg had more success with his animated endeavors, including ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ in 1990 and ‘Animaniacs’ in 1993. NBC bought two seasons’ worth of episodes at $750,000 apiece without ever seeing the pilot and canceled the show as soon as they were aired. Putting aside his career start directing episodic television and movies of the week, Spielberg’s first major crack at prime-time TV came with the 1985 anthology series ‘Amazing Stories.’ Though Spielberg was at the height of his producing powers at the time (‘Back to the Future’ and ‘The Goonies’ were released in theaters the same year) and his name attracted top-drawer filmmaking talent (Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood both directed episodes in the first season), the show struggled mightily in the ratings.
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