Stars: Sam Jaeger, Adrianne Palicki, Michael Jai White, Matthew Marsden, Kyra Zagorsky, Ty Olsson, Olivia Cheng, Zahf Paroo, Aren Buchholz, Lisa Chandler, Mike Dopud, Monique Ganderton, Dakota Guppy, Marci T. House | Written by Jonas Barnes, Keith Domingue | Directed by Tony Giglio
An in-name only sequel- it’s been six years since the last S.W.A.T. movie, Firefight, and you Really don’t have to have seen the previous film – or the 2003 original – to appreciate this, the third film in the S.W.A.T. franchise. Yet another take on the Assault on Precinct 13 story model, S.W.A.T.: Under Siege sees a Swat compound come under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle Swat after a raid went horribly wrong.
So why now? Why make another S.W.A.T. film now? Maybe it’s because CBS are planning a new TV iteration of the classic series,...
An in-name only sequel- it’s been six years since the last S.W.A.T. movie, Firefight, and you Really don’t have to have seen the previous film – or the 2003 original – to appreciate this, the third film in the S.W.A.T. franchise. Yet another take on the Assault on Precinct 13 story model, S.W.A.T.: Under Siege sees a Swat compound come under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle Swat after a raid went horribly wrong.
So why now? Why make another S.W.A.T. film now? Maybe it’s because CBS are planning a new TV iteration of the classic series,...
- 9/13/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
This review may contain spoilers. The theme of this week.s episode of .Defying Gravity. was that man cannot exist alone in the universe. For, as Donner said, .Man by his very nature is dependent on other men to survive.. As the Antares. electrical system went haywire and caused the lights and heating system to malfunction, we saw the crew react in very different ways to their predicament. But despite their differing reactions, foremost in everyone.s minds was: Where.s Ajay? After all, Ajay (Zahf Paroo) was the guy who helped design the system. He was the missing element that they needed. Flashing back to five years earlier, we watched Donner (Ron Livingston) and Ted (Malik Yoba) painfully endure the fifth anniversary of the Mars disaster and the loss of their crew members left behind ...
- 8/19/2009
- GeekNation.com
ABC's new outer-space drama debuted on Sunday night. Will Defying Gravity be allowed to complete its mission or, like so many shows before it, be lost in space?
Defying Gravity follows the adventures of eight international astronauts as they fly a spaceship named Antares. On a top-secret mission, their lives are being recorded and telecast on Earth as part of a documentary. Despite the fact that the crewmembers wear libido-suppressing devices, there are plenty of romantic entanglements.
The show features the talents of Andrew Airlie, Christina Cox, Paula Garces, Laura Harris, Peter Howitt, Florentine Lahme, Karen LeBlanc, Ron Livingston, Ty Olsson, Zahf Paroo, Eyal Podell, Maxim Roy, Dylan Taylor, and Malik Yoba.
The sci-fi drama's storyline is strangely similar to the failed pilot for Virtuality that aired a month ago. Defying Gravity is a Canadian series that's co-produced by CTV, Omni Film Productions Limited, and Fox Television Studios. Filming has...
Defying Gravity follows the adventures of eight international astronauts as they fly a spaceship named Antares. On a top-secret mission, their lives are being recorded and telecast on Earth as part of a documentary. Despite the fact that the crewmembers wear libido-suppressing devices, there are plenty of romantic entanglements.
The show features the talents of Andrew Airlie, Christina Cox, Paula Garces, Laura Harris, Peter Howitt, Florentine Lahme, Karen LeBlanc, Ron Livingston, Ty Olsson, Zahf Paroo, Eyal Podell, Maxim Roy, Dylan Taylor, and Malik Yoba.
The sci-fi drama's storyline is strangely similar to the failed pilot for Virtuality that aired a month ago. Defying Gravity is a Canadian series that's co-produced by CTV, Omni Film Productions Limited, and Fox Television Studios. Filming has...
- 8/5/2009
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
On the 40th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, ABC is setting out on an outerpace endeavo of their own with the premier of "Defying Gravity" on August 2. The saucy space series follows the zero gravity fortunes of eight international astronauts enlisted on a long and risky mission.
Inspired by a BBC docudrama "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets," the puzzling and often pulse racing mission of the Antares and her crew is spliced with flashbacks from the character's lives back on Earth.
From executive producers James Parriott and Michael Edelstein, the "Defying Gravity" is led by a sizable cast. Ron Livingston ("Office Space," "Sex and the City") stars as the vessel engineer Maddux Donner. Laura Harris ("24") plays on-board geologist Zoe Barnes, one of the many scientific brains working on the ship.
Malik Yoba, Christina Cox, Paula Garces and Zahf Paroo are just a few of talented names...
Inspired by a BBC docudrama "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets," the puzzling and often pulse racing mission of the Antares and her crew is spliced with flashbacks from the character's lives back on Earth.
From executive producers James Parriott and Michael Edelstein, the "Defying Gravity" is led by a sizable cast. Ron Livingston ("Office Space," "Sex and the City") stars as the vessel engineer Maddux Donner. Laura Harris ("24") plays on-board geologist Zoe Barnes, one of the many scientific brains working on the ship.
Malik Yoba, Christina Cox, Paula Garces and Zahf Paroo are just a few of talented names...
- 7/23/2009
- icelebz.com
If you're a fan of sci-fi and haven't yet heard of the new summer filler, Defying Gravity, premiering on ABC on August 2, catch up fast. The series is well put together and fantastic! More on that later. For now, I have a few episode summaries for the two-hour premiere, as well as the third episode that will air on 8/9. The series starts on ABC on Sunday, August 2, from 9pm to 11pm (Eastern standard time) and then will fall into a normal Sunday timeslot at 10pm/9 central.
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
Premiere
The Space Program Sets Its Sights On A New Frontier When Eight Astronauts Set Their Course For A Six-year Discovery Mission Into Space, On ABC's "Defying Gravity"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," Sunday, August 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., Et) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts,...
- 7/22/2009
- by SpoilerGuy
- TVovermind.com
Fox TV Studios, Vancouver’s Omni Film Productions and the Canadian network CTV are teaming up to bring you the show that’s being dubbed “Grey’s Anatomy in space”. Yeah, that’s a weird tagline, right? Perhaps a longer explanation is in order.
Back in 2004 the BBC produced a series called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, which is the inspiration for Defying Gravity. Space Odyssey was broadcasted as a docudrama about a group of astronauts traveling to different planets. Defying Gravity has a similar premise: “[it's a] sexy, provocative relationship drama set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. With the eyes of the world upon them – everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized – they soon discover that...
Back in 2004 the BBC produced a series called Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, which is the inspiration for Defying Gravity. Space Odyssey was broadcasted as a docudrama about a group of astronauts traveling to different planets. Defying Gravity has a similar premise: “[it's a] sexy, provocative relationship drama set in the very near future against the background of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering eight billion miles. With the eyes of the world upon them – everything they do is monitored, and every emotion they feel, scrutinized – they soon discover that...
- 7/11/2009
- by clarissa
- TVovermind.com
I've been a fan of women in space movies ever since I watched Kate Capshaw and Lea Thompson in Space Camp as a kid. Although I've never gotten into the Star Trek or Star Wars franchises too much, because they rarely give women leadership roles — except for Star Trek: Voyager, which I've seen all seven seasons of — and I've only watched some of the Battlestar Galactica episodes, I enjoyed Jodie Foster's Contact (at least the first half), and Lori and I both loved the 2002 Showtime series Odyssey Five.
So I was excited to hear about the new space drama coming to America (and Canada, Germany, and the U.K.).
Last week, ABC purchased 13 episodes of the new Canadian sci-fi drama Defying Gravity, which has this description, "In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometers.
So I was excited to hear about the new space drama coming to America (and Canada, Germany, and the U.K.).
Last week, ABC purchased 13 episodes of the new Canadian sci-fi drama Defying Gravity, which has this description, "In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometers.
- 7/10/2009
- by sarahwarn
- AfterEllen.com
Welcome to your Friday morning television briefing. I was lucky enough to see an advance screening of upcoming film Julie & Julia last night and urge all you film-loving foodies to head out and watch it when it's released. Just make sure you eat beforehand! Comedy Central has ordered ten episodes of an untitled multi-camera comedy series starring Jon Heder (Blades of Glory, Napoleon Dynamite). Project, about an unemployed It specialist who returns to his smalltown to move in with his parents and younger brother, will be written by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy. Series hails from Debmar-Mercury and Gary Sanchez and will have an initial run on Comedy Central; if it scores with audiences, another 90 installments will be automatically picked up with Comedy Central having the first window while Debmar-Mercury will sell the series into first-run syndication at the same time. (Variety) ABC has announced that it will...
- 7/10/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Laura Harris, Eyal Podell, Christina Cox and Zahf Paroo have been cast in the BBC/Fox TV co-production Defying Gravity. The quartet join Ron Livingston and German actress Florentine Lahme in the show, which revolves around eight astronauts from five different countries embarking on a six-year space mission. Grey's Anatomy's James Parriott created the big-budget drama and will executive produce alongside Desperate Housewives' Michael Edelstein. Jane Tranter, Controller of BBC Fiction said: "The calibre of the talent involved in this drama series both in front and behind the (more)...
- 12/17/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
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