A New NBC’s Day One Pic Shows What’s Left

NBC’s “Day One” was supposed to be a full series but for reasons unknown, it’s getting the chop down to a 4 hour miniseries. “Day One” is about a group of people trapped, hiding or sticking together in an apartment complex after something invades the hell out of us.

So the miniseries gets to be a big teaser. Jesse Alexander (Heroes, Lost) is the man with the plan and he has this to say on his blog.

“Launching a new scripted series in prime-time on a broadcast network has never been more challenging.

For Day One to have the greatest chance of long term success, a new launch model was needed.

Working closely with NBC’s creative team, I came up with something very exciting. We’re taking the thirteen hours of story that was to be drawn out over as many weeks, and making four hours of spectacular entertainment. Showing it over two nights in a row. It’s the miniseries model. A contained story. Easy to market and promote. Asking the audience to make a finite commitment: Show up at this time on these two nights and watch something incredible. If you like it, we will make more.”

Well, congrats to him for spinning this so well. The trailer looked pretty good I’ll have to say. I’ll refresh your memories with a repost. Along with that we have a nice new still showing of what invading aliens think of our cities. Thanks Quiet Earth.