National Post on the Flash Forward TV series
by Rob - May 11th, 2009.Filed under: FlashForward.
A wonderful piece by the terrific Mark Medley is online here. And note my comment, added at the end:
Many thanks for the terrific article. A small clarification, if I may. The article says, “HBO was keen at first, but passed after reading the pilot.” In fact, HBO is still very keen, and retains a financial interest in the show.
It’s not that HBO read the pilot and lost enthusiasm; quite the contrary — they read the pilot, loved it, and said this could run for a hundred episodes. At HBO they tend to do just a handful of episodes of anything a year; they felt the scope of Flash Forward was something a broadcast network, doing 22 episodes a year and with bigger budgets per episode, could better do justice to.
Oh, and check out the National Post‘s review of my latest novel, Wake, right here.
(National Post is a major Canadian daily newspaper, headquartered in Calgary.)
Photo: series star Joseph Fiennes and Robert J. Sawyer on the set of Flash Forward
Visit The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site
and WakeWatchWonder.com