Noah Wyle stars in Falling Skies as Tom Mason.
After a wash of cancellations and series finales in recent months, it’s nice to get some good news in the science fiction community. TNT announced yesterday that they have renewed Falling Skies for a second season.
The new drama is set six months after the invasion and occupation of Earth by a hostile alien race. It stars Noah Wyle (ER) and Moon Bloodgood (Journeyman, Terminator: Salvation), and features Stargate‘s own Colin Cunningham (Major Paul Davis) in the important, recurring role of John Pope — leader of a gang of outlaws.
The second season will be comprised of 10 episodes, like the first, and will air next summer.
The show is TNT’s first foray into genre programming since the failed launch of the Babylon 5 spin-off Crusade 12 years ago.
Falling Skies airs Sundays at 10/9c on TNT in the United States. Four episodes have aired to date.
(Thanks to Ibby for the tip!)
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Does this have anything to do with Stargate?
No.
So then why report about it?
Oh I don't know, he does a lot of reporting on former cast members, especially when they do genre work, so it counts based on this: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192271/
I'm a little surprised it was picked up. It's fine, I enjoy watching it, and will watch it until it gets canceled, but it's really not much more than like an "Earth 2"/"Jericho" mash-up of sorts. Little heavy on the Christian themes (or maybe that one girl just bugs me and makes me feel like I'm being preached to) for my tastes (being a recovering Catholic and a lone, blue dot in a sea of red in Arizona), but to each his own.
The Admiral, have read it, at least? If you did you would know that it has something to do with Stargate because Colin Cunningham is on it.
Admiral: A Stargate actor features prominently in this series, and it's a genre show. Therefore the news is deemed noteworthy to GateWorld's readership.
Really, I'm getting tired of the complaining about what we choose to publish. If it doesn't interest you, don't click on it. Every guffaw that enters your fron does not have to go up in the comments section.
@ Darren
Well said. I think The Admiral and other complainers are just depressed about the end of Stargate for the foreseeable future.
I personally like reading about new or ongoing projects that Stargate alums are working on.
Keep the information flowing. :)
I totally agree with Darren amd Slayme. It's important to support new and upcoming sci-fi shows-- especially with the tough time they staying relevant with reality-centric programming. The best way to do that is to inform fans on forums such as Gateworld, so that we can support shows that we enjoy and prevent them from the same fate as our beloved Stargate.
*they have (typing so fast I missed a word)
@ The Admiral:
In case you forgot, Stargate is cancelled, off the TV, done. So there probably won't be hardly ANY Stargate news for a long while.
And did your post have anything to do with Stargate?
No.
So why post it? ;)
Hey Darren, well said. I always thought fron was spelt fraun though. In my fraun, that's how fraun was spelt. Your thoughts?
well this is the only scifi page i have bookmarked lol so its nice to see the other scifi shows listed here if it was just stargate there would be barely any news to post, so im fine with it u need to remember ALOT of scifi actors stick to doing scifi shows so falling skies will feature more stargate actors in the future.