Does anyone remember the shortlived 'Invasion'?
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It aired on ABC from 05-06.
If you haven't watched it or even heard of it, it was created by Shaun Cassidy and revolved around 2 families dealing with an 'alien' invasion in their town.
I loved the show. I have the DVD and have rewatched it countless times. The ratings started off big, but because the show was a bit slow at first people stopped watching. By the end of the show around half of the viewers had abandoned it. It's a shame too because the second half of the series was excellent, and the last 3 episodes were possibly my favourite 3 hours of TV I've ever watched.
Is anyone else here a fan? Everything about the show was perfect, and while I hate that it was cancelled (especially when it ended with that cliffhanger), at least it was given a full season.
If you've never watched it, buy the DVD and you will not regret it. I will admit that I wasn't hooked instantly like I was with Lost, but if you stick with it you'll be glad that you did. It's an extremely underrated show, and defnitely one of the best.
Her'es the IMDb page - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651/
If you haven't watched it or even heard of it, it was created by Shaun Cassidy and revolved around 2 families dealing with an 'alien' invasion in their town.
I loved the show. I have the DVD and have rewatched it countless times. The ratings started off big, but because the show was a bit slow at first people stopped watching. By the end of the show around half of the viewers had abandoned it. It's a shame too because the second half of the series was excellent, and the last 3 episodes were possibly my favourite 3 hours of TV I've ever watched.
Is anyone else here a fan? Everything about the show was perfect, and while I hate that it was cancelled (especially when it ended with that cliffhanger), at least it was given a full season.
If you've never watched it, buy the DVD and you will not regret it. I will admit that I wasn't hooked instantly like I was with Lost, but if you stick with it you'll be glad that you did. It's an extremely underrated show, and defnitely one of the best.
Her'es the IMDb page - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651/
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A shame, a decent series that ultimately was let down by its own writers.
Personally, as much as I detest Brannon Braga, I thought Threshold was marginally better.
I guess Flashforward was The Invasion of 2009/2010
Buzzed about show, big audience, declining audience half way through and then cancellation
not a bad series but like most have said it just took to long to get going.
the shreiff was the only guy that i liked,the rest were pretty bland
It was actually only supposed to be about 13 episodes!! IIRC, Mr Cassidy proposed a story of around 13 eps, and the studio bought into it. As soon as they started filming, the studio insisted on umpteen further episodes and Cassidy was unable to hold them to the original plan, so 9 or so filler episodes were slotted in the middle. That's why many folk (myself included) thought the show started off great and reasonably fast-paced, then slowed down quite a bit in the middle, before picking up again.
Personally, I loved the whole thing, and was gutted it got cancelled. I always think that every show (not just the ones I like myself!) should have a budget for an extra 2 or 3 eps lying in the bank, so that if it doesn't get renewed, the funds are there to try and give some kind of reasonable closure to a show - like a thank you to the fans who DID follow it all through.
But until I win Euromillions after a 10 week rollover, its never gonna happen for some of my favourite cancelled shows!!!:D
It was on Channel 4 and E4 (First Look).
That was the year that there were three new shortlived alien series. All of them failed.
Invasion looked interesting but most people gave up after a few episodes in which time nothing had happened.
Surface was very silly with some ludicrous plotting, bad science and annoying kids but somehow survived a whole season. Lake Bell was cute though.
Threshold was terrible. Brent Spiner plus Brannon Braga does not necessarily good sci-fi make. Can't remember how many episodes were made but I gave up after three.
He does seem to have really bad luck, American Gothic was excellent but the studio screwed with the episode running order so it made no sense when shown in the US. At least channel 4 showed it in the correct order, its just a shame that when they finally released it on DVD it was still in the US running order.
Finally, someone who agrees with me on that terible show. Literally the only saving grace of the programme was having an excuse to stare at Carla Gugino for 42 minutes a week. For the life of me, i can't understand why people seem to hold Threshold in such high regard.
Invasion - should, and could, have been better, but I quite enjoyed it.
Threshold - mindless, stupid fun that didn't quite hit the spot. Enjoyable, mainly for the reason stated above - and the funny dwarf.
Could be right, I can't remember