This just in: @UnderTheDomeCBS has been renewed for Season 2! 13 new episodes will air in Summer 2014.
— TV Guide Magazine (@TVGuideMagazine) July 29, 2013
This just in: @UnderTheDomeCBS has been renewed for Season 2! 13 new episodes will air in Summer 2014.
— TV Guide Magazine (@TVGuideMagazine) July 29, 2013
Yay! I figured it would be.
ReplyDeleteGood, they kept it a summer show.
ReplyDeleteI really love it :)
ReplyDeleteCool. I've noticed a lot of people on this site don't really like it, but I'm digging it.
ReplyDeleteYESSSS! Awesome news! Of course 100% expected, but yesss!
ReplyDeleteI think there is a strange phenomenon of whenever a show is very successful ratings wise (especially if unexpectedly), people will hate on it.
ReplyDeleteFINALLY!!! :D:D:D
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased but I'd rather this series be a mini-series just like "Harper's Island". I have a feeling that the more it drags, the more it loses its charm.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised but yay! These past few episodes have been really great and have kept me interested in the show.
ReplyDeleteNot surprised in the least but this does make me very happy!
ReplyDeleteCrap. Under the Dome should've been a mini-series but of course CBS won't turn down extra cash and now they're going to make it another show with stupid twists to prolong the story.
ReplyDeleteno big surprise there. I like the show but maybe one season should have been the end
ReplyDeleteIn news that surprised no one! ;) But still good to have confirmation! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat news, but just one more. I don't need many seasons.
ReplyDeleteThey said before the show even premiered they were planning on more than one season, though. That's one of the reasons they changed stuff from the book.
ReplyDeleteAlso, perhaps now CBS will realize that serialized shows can work!
ReplyDeletewe all were waiting for this! the show is a hit
ReplyDeleteI have to be perfectly honest about this, I don't know how I feel about this yet. This is one of those shows where I don't think it should go on more than what feels natural. How long can this city stay dome-d? They will eventually run out of the essentials, such as food, drinks and water. 13 episodes in season 01 so far seems to cover a lot of issues, I don't know what kind of issues a second season could give us and I just don't want it to go out in misery. If they manage to keep the show at top quality the remainder of the season, then I will keep an open mind on a second season, but as of now, I'm just scared for how the show will turn out.
ReplyDeleteI hope they keep it was 26 episodes. Its only one book... stretching it will change it to much
ReplyDeleteThis one was a no-brainer for CBS. Of course they had to renew it with those ratings. Very glad they are keeping it in summer and that it will only be 13 episodes though. I don't think it would as well received if it were a fall or midseason show.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought this was a mini-series, so it's a welcome surprise as I do really enjoy this show :)
ReplyDeleteYes, the show runners and Stephen King have mentioned multiple seasons for as long as I have seen interviews for it. I heard the have a three season plan but I'm not sure how many episodes that contains.
ReplyDeleteI've missed that entirely then, I'm too used to hearing Stephen King adaptation and just expecting a mini-series haha. It's good to hear and looking forward to new stuff from the show
ReplyDeleteRenewal was expected given the ratings but the news doesn't thrill me either. Evidently in the "revamped UTD" the Dome produces its own atmosphere and rain ... (see promo for tonight's episode) so the Dom-ees can in theory plant more crops for food and the livestock will reproduce. Sure, medical supplies will run out but there are handy dandy herbal and naturopathic remedies that some enterprising residents may found growing in the area and some people might die from disease or injury where modern treatment would save them but what makes this "UTD" any different from a pre-modern civilization?
ReplyDeleteMuch of the drama in the book - outside of the horrific climax- was caused by their dwindling supply of essentials, including breathable air. Not that the series can't come up with new dramatic situations but without any "urgency" that the book had, I can see the UTD TV series devolving into 'soapy mess'.
Good news for fans and good on you CBS for proving that good programming will succeed during the summer. Now all they have to do is add to the summer slate with more decent SCRIPTED programming.
ReplyDeleteDecent show but come on CBS will do nothing but ruin this, it will either be canceled on a cliffhanger or run 10 years. Les's comment "why can't they stay under the dome for years? It's television!" was disgusting and a perfect example of how lame CBS is.
ReplyDeleteHa! They do seem to do that a lot to King. I am very excited to hear he is writing the season 2 premiere. How interesting it must be to write for your characters again but in a world different than the one you made for them.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. I think the reason people hate on this show's renewal is simply because we don't want it to... well, fuck up, in the second season. So many people love the show right now, and 13 new episodes may be enough to drag out storylines and make them boring. Part of why I have loved the series so much is how it all moves at such a fast pace, so many things happen in every minute and every scene. If they drag things out for numerous episodes, then the storylines will get more and more boring and people's love for the show will eventually fade away.
ReplyDeleteCan I ask for a source on that? I must've missed that interview, but I would really like to read it now.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to agree with you, but I have to. Most of my experience from CBS is they only care about the money - there's no heart or love for a series. They renew a show until they can still make decent money off it, and then it's "Fuck off!" even if it hasn't gotten a proper ending. My favorite series from them was cancelled after so many years, with no proper ending, and I still haven't forgiven them. But I just can't avoid watching UTD though, it's awesome at the moment (and I hope that doesn't change!)
ReplyDeleteUnder the Dome 2: Still Under the Dome
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's my reasoning.
ReplyDeleteYeah... seriously!
ReplyDeleteThey haven't done it to Haven which is going into its 4th season and is also another one by King.
ReplyDeletesomewhere on this site i found that out before even 2nd episode airs. don't have time to find it.
ReplyDeleteTrue although Haven has very little to do with anything in the Colorado Kid story Stephen King wrote. There is hardly any resemblance between them. I think it may be the very loosest of the loosely based upon King works.
ReplyDeleteThe question is are they still sedated under the dome. That's the only way I can explain how calm most of them have been so far. I think the dome pumps something into the air.
ReplyDeleteThe first mention of it not being a mini-series but open for season 2 if the ratings merited it that I found is the Zap-to-It article below. It was released almost 2 months before Under the Dome premiered: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/05/cbs-under-the-dome-acts-as-a-parable-will-have-different-explanation-from-the-king-novel.html
ReplyDeleteHowever the interview Klutzy Girl was probably talking about is this one with the producer, Brian K. Vaughan, posted June 19th: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/under-the-dome-cbs_n_3424387.html
Thank you for the links! :D
ReplyDeleteNo problem. The Brian K. Vaughan interview was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteNot really. Everyone has their own opinion and people get tired of stale characters and poor writing (Revolution being the first show I think of).
ReplyDeleteGreat news! I love this show, and i kinda expected this renewal based on the huge ratings on a Summer Season. Really excited to see what comes next!
ReplyDeleteI've read that complaint from others as well. I don't think that UtD has done a very good job of emphasizing just how little time has passed since this all started. It has only been a couple of days and people generally are very adaptive, at least for short periods of time. Once the long-term prospects of what life will be like under this thing sinks in with people, sh*t will start getting real. Then again, from the promos for tonight's episode, it looks like pandemonium will come sooner rather than later.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the timing has anything to do with panic. They were faced with an unknown threat and have no idea where it came from, why, or when it will be over. They have no way to get help either. That alone is enough to make people panic. Plus anyone in there who has ever seen a disaster movie should be hoarding supplies by now. They are far too calm for people with a newly uncertain future.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the electricity, they're not really in need of much help just yet. It's when you start stripping away the trappings of everyday life and any semblance of normalcy is being stripped away, that's when people will freak out.
ReplyDeleteWhen given the slightest opportunity, people will rationalize anything. It's a standard coping mechanism. People are still going to work, they're adhering to standard social customs, they're trying to go about their lives as normally as they can. There will come a time very soon when life will become too difficult (food, water, power, hygiene/health issues) and the town can't sustain the illusion of normalcy anymore. That is when the collective freakout will begin.
I disagree. I think that the initial shock of the dome should have had people freaking out for several days. Then they would go into the calm you described before hitting a second panic stage when they realized they were in serious trouble.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to see this! I agree it's a good summer show.
ReplyDeletereally don't see how they can drag out "extinction event of the week" for another season.
ReplyDeleteEp1 - we'll all die stuck under the dome
Ep2 - fire might wipe out the town
Ep4 - meningitis will wipe out the town (but thank god for tv generic "anitbiotics" that cured everyone in a day, that sure was lucky)
Ep5 - the mother of all bombs will wipe out the town
Ep6 - the food and waters running out and it will wipe out the town
it needs to be more than what its becoming....and the acting/dialogue needs to get a lot better (Deputy Linda "I have a permanent cold" Esquivel I'm looking at you) and even despite it being a show about a town trapped under a dome there are an awful lot of big and small logic holes that just always stand out.
maybe I'm just spoiled by all the much better shows out there...i want to like it....but it needs to pick its game up...
oh and..."gangnam style" seizures.....seriously?
and the lesbian mothers from LA who are an african american and a hipster, diabetic doctor, how many stereotypes can they shove into one couple?
YAY! so exciting ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm in shock! SHOCK I SAY!!!!
ReplyDeleteOne would hope....
ReplyDeleteThat's where a little suspension of disbelief toward a wacky premise comes in handy.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but I am at my suspension of disbelief limit right now. If they try to tell me again that the dome is a sentient being I may have to start viewing this as a sci fi comedy instead and make up my own wacky theories.
ReplyDeleteI think that may be my big fear for this show going forward. The longer its on the air, the closer it comes to being an unintentionally funny sci-fi parody.
ReplyDeleteI know this is a TV show, but it focuses on a "real" town. So, if we take that to reality, and say that my town was trapped under a massive, transparent, indestructible dome... yeah, I'd pretty much freak out completely just knowing I am trapped. I am not even claustrophobic, but it's an insane feeling.
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