Despite the fact that those previews we’ve seen for the show looks pretty finished in terms of CGI, it appears the show itself is anything but. Or at least, that’s the excuse FOX is going with.
The network announced on Friday that they have canceled the scheduled May 2-hour/2-night preview of their super expensive show “Terra Nova”, and will now premiere it in the Fall along with the rest of the series instead.
The reason for the cancellation? FOX Prez Kevin Reilly claims it’s because “the cutting-edge visual effects used to create the world of Terra Nova, which is of massive scope and scale, require more time to be realized.”
The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers to TERRA NOVA, the first colony established in this beautiful yet forbidding land led by its founder COMMANDER NATHANIEL TAYLOR (Stephen Lang, “Avatar”). JIM SHANNON (Jason O’Mara, “Life on Mars”), a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family – wife ELISABETH (Shelley Conn, “Mistresses”); and children JOSH (Landon Liboiron, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”), MADDY (Naomi Scott, “Life Bites”) and ZOE (newcomer Alana Mansour) – through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. In addition to blue skies, towering waterfalls and lush vegetation, TERRA NOVA offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. These adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding TERRA NOVA are teeming with danger – and not just of the man-eating dinosaur variety. The Shannons will come to suspect that not everyone on this mission has the same idea of how to best save mankind; in fact, there may be forces intent on destroying this new world before it even begins.
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