Life Of Pi scribe David Magee is
venturing into television. The Oscar-nominated
feature writer has teamed with Michael Green for
a high-concept drama project, which has landed
at ABC with significant penalty. Written by Magee
with Green supervising, Travelers centers on a
man who brings his family to a wake for the
father he never knew, only to discover that the
doors inside his father’s estate are time portals which trap them in the house
and send them on a journey through history.
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Sounds a little like Locke & Key. I'm in! Although, the past couple of years there's been like three pilots with penalties that didn't make it, so hopefully it will make it to series.
ReplyDeleteIts sounds like it should be a 2 hours family movie not a tv show. Shows about families with kid actors never do well. If they want it to work it has to have an adult edgy vibe and not be childish.
ReplyDeleteSo, Quantum Leap without the body swapping.
ReplyDeleteSounds horrible, even by ABC standards. Imagine the conversation that must've gone down at their HQ.
ReplyDelete"- Ey, have you seen the new sci-fi show by JJ, Almost Human? How about some of the recent successes dealing with time travel and such, Continuum for example?"
" - Sure I have! I have concluded that the answer should be a teenage drama with parents panicking left and right with magical doors, but instead of Narnia as the destination, we should travel through time, first to the dinosaurs and then to the future. We might just catch a glimpse at how fast we get cancelled!"
There's also a similar project in the works with Jeff Pinkner for TNT called "Portal House"!!
ReplyDeleteWell I like time travel when it's done right, so count me in!
ReplyDeleteSounds high concept and ambitious. Hope it works out...
ReplyDeleteI just about to say the same thing till i had to chase rocky and mr.possum out of my mud room!
ReplyDeleteI just looked that up, they do sound very similar. This one sounds more intriguing though, slightly.
ReplyDeleteI am always a little skeptical about time travel tv shows, but I did love Quantum Leap for instance, so I might check this out.
ReplyDeleteSo, a rip off of every unoriginal time travel story out there? How fascinating.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea, but It's on ABC... they'll program it at 8pm on Thursday and then wonder why it fails.
ReplyDeleteOnly if either OUAT gets cancelled or moved ;)
ReplyDeleteIs that in that timeslot now? *facepalm* I forget these things. :P
ReplyDeleteIt sounds intriguing and if the kid characters do not become annoying, I'm in. I like the current focus on sci fi and fantasy projects on broadcast TV.
ReplyDeleteYeah, when I first started reading it, I thought they were making another attempt at a Locke & Key pilot.
ReplyDeleteYes, non-annoying kids are a must. It better be nothing like Terra Nova. That show failed due to all the "aww, isn't the little kid petting the dinosaur cute?" moments and the angsty teen constantly doing the dumbest thing possible in the name of rebelling against his parents.
ReplyDeleteI thought the entire family was annoying, not just the kids. I still think that if the family had gotten eaten by dinosaurs and the rest of the show became about exploring Terra Nova and the mystery, the show would still be airing. What a waste of a fabulous setting to make it your mostly typical family drama!
ReplyDeleteChild/young teen characters are very difficult to pull off in action-heavy TV shows. I've seen few that I actually liked. Henry was great in the first season of Once, but he grew annoying in Season 2 - though that was partially due to poor writing.
ReplyDeleteI was going to list a few shows with kids that did well, but then I remembered that they were all played by 25 year olds.
ReplyDeleteExactly. We can only hope that all the networks learned from that terrible mistake.
ReplyDeleteLOL!! So true!
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