Terra Nova (TV series)

Terra Nova
Genre	Drama Science fiction Action Adventure Adventure fiction Family saga
Created by	Kelly Marcel Craig Silverstein
Developed by	Mitch Kramer
Starring	Jason O'Mara Shelley Conn Christine Adams Allison Miller Landon Liboiron Naomi Scott Rod Hallett Alana Mansour Stephen Lang
Composer	Brian Tyler
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	11 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Steven Spielberg Peter Chernin René Echevarria Brannon Braga Jon Cassar Aaron Kaplan Katherine Pope Darryl Frank Justin Falvey Alex Graves Craig Silverstein Kelly Marcel
Producers	Mark H. Ovitz Livia Hanich (co-prod.) (consulting producers) Chris Brancato Michael Fazekas Tara Butters
Production locations	Queensland, Australia
Cinematography	Nelson Cragg
Editors	Jeff Betancourt Caroline Ross Henk Van Eeghen, ACE
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	20th Century Fox Television Amblin Television Chernin Entertainment Kapital Entertainment Siesta Productions
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 26, 2011 (2011-09-26) – present

Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series that airs on Fox on Monday nights. It premiered on September 26, 2011 with a 90 minute episode, and the first season concluded on December 19, 2011 with a two-hour finale. The show follows the Shannon family as they go 85 million years into the past. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel.

Plot

The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction due to worsening air quality and overpopulation worldwide. It has become virtually impossible for humanity to survive, and almost no vegetation remains. At Hope Plaza, a massive ring shaped structure in Chicago, scientists discover a rift in space-time that allows people to travel 85 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous period of an alternate prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddie, and Zoe) join the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova becoming part of the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway.

The Shannon family starts a new life in Terra Nova while dealing with carnivorous dinosaurs and the Sixers, a splinter group of colonists from the Sixth Pilgrimage who are trying to transport all of Terra Nova's resources back to 2149.

Production

Season 1

Alex Graves signed on to direct the pilot. Brannon Braga and René Echevarria serve as showrunners. Australia was chosen after producer Steven Spielberg vetoed Hawaii because he wanted a different filming location from his 1993 film Jurassic Park. The two-hour pilot was filmed over 26 days in late November to December 2010. It was shot in south-east Queensland, Australia, with locations in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast Hinterland. The shoot was plagued by torrential rain and additional material had to be shot in 2011, with a total estimated cost between $10 to $20 million to be amortized over the season. More than 250 sets were constructed. An episode takes eight to nine days to shoot, like most television dramas, but six weeks in post-production, twice the television average. The average episode budget is about $4 million, compared to an average of $3 million for broadcast network dramas. Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly stated, "This thing is going to be huge. It's going to take an enormous production commitment."

In an unusual decision, Fox skipped ordering just a pilot, and instead immediately ordered thirteen episodes. This was partly due to financial reasons, as the large Australian sets are expensive to dismantle and rebuild. Despite this decision, the producers denied the production was over-budget, with Peter Rice explaining instead the show is "a very expensive... very ambitious television show". Kevin Reilly continued, "We're not in completely uncharted territory here. The start-up cost for the series is definitely on the high end. But it's not some bank-breaking series". With only 10% of Cretaceous-era dinosaurs recorded in the fossil record, the producers decided to supplement the series with ones which might have existed; palaeontologist Jack Horner was brought in to help create realistic creatures for the period and different from those of the Jurassic Park film franchise.

In June 2010, the first cast member was announced – Jason O'Mara as Jim Shannon. In late August, Allison Miller joined the cast. In September, Deadline Hollywood reported that Stephen Lang signed on to play the role of Commander Taylor. An executive producer, David Fury, left the series as a result of creative differences. In September, Shelley Conn landed the female lead role. In October, Brian Tyler was chosen as the composer, Mido Hamada was cast as a security head, while Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott, and Alana Mansour were cast as the three children. In November, Christine Adams was cast as Mira. In May 2011, Rod Hallett joined the cast.

The cast and crew returned to Queensland, Australia on May 20, 2011 to continue production on the first season. Filming commenced on May 25, 2011. With a long production process on the series, it was announced in July 2011 that the first season would consist of thirteen episodes to finish airing in December 2011.

Season 2

FOX Broadcasting stated that no decision will be made until 2012 regarding the continuation of the series.

Cast

Main

• Jason O'Mara as James "Jim" Shannon, former Chicago Police narcotics detective and devoted father with a complicated past. He is sentenced to six years in prison after assaulting a Population Control officer after it is discovered that he and his wife broke the law by having a third child. Two years later, his wife Elisabeth helps him escape and Jim successfully makes it into Terra Nova with his family. After saving Commander Nathaniel Taylor's life, Jim joins Taylor's security team. He is also the third-in-command of Terra Nova, a position he assumed in episode 9.
• Shelley Conn as Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon who has been recruited for Terra Nova. She is married to Jim and mother to their three children. She helps Jim escape prison so he can accompany the family to Terra Nova.
• Christine Adams as Mira, leader of the Sixers, a rebel group that opposes Terra Nova. They are called Sixers because they arrived as part of the sixth pilgrimage. In "The Runaway", the Sixers demonstrate that they are not "all bad". Mira says in that episode that she has a daughter in 2149 named Sienna, who was only four when Mira left, and that all she wants is to make sure that she will be able to see her daughter again and have a life in one of the domes. However, this does not stop her from using a young girl roughly her daughter's age as a spy to steal from Terra Nova by threatening to kill her brother.
• Allison Miller as Skye Alexandria Tate, a veteran resident of Terra Nova from the fifth pilgrimage and a friend to Josh. Her parents reportedly died three years before the Shannons arrive, and was adopted afterwards by Commander Taylor. She is later revealed to be a Sixer mole, though she was acting in that capacity to keep her mother alive in a Sixer camp; they possess the only cure for the virus that killed her father and infected her mother. The Sixers administer the medicine so long as Skye acts on their behalf.
• Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 17-year-old son. Reluctant to leave his girlfriend behind, he is at turns resentful and rebellious towards his father, which situation later resolves.
• Naomi Scott as Maddy Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 16-year-old daughter. An extremely intelligent and socially awkward teenager, she reveals that felt like an outcast at her old school; other kids would cheat off her homework and tests while not even knowing her name half the time. She develops a relationship with Mark Reynolds, a soldier on Terra Nova's security detail. The two later share a kiss on their first date together; when he is injured by the Sixers in "Vs.", she rushes over and kisses and fusses over him.
• Rod Hallett as Dr. Malcolm Wallace, who recruited Elisabeth for Terra Nova. The two were romantically involved before she met Jim, and he sought to bring her to Terra Nova, back when he thought she would leave her husband behind in 2149.
• Alana Mansour as Zoe Shannon, the five-year-old daughter of Jim and Elisabeth Shannon. All families in 2149 are restricted to no more than two children. Zoe was kept hidden until Population Control officers raided the Shannon residence and arrested Jim.
• Stephen Lang as Commander Nathaniel Taylor, a pioneer and leader of Terra Nova. The first person to arrive, Taylor survived the first four months (118 days) on his own, then began building a community as new settlers came through; he has been the leader for seven years. When Skye's parents died, he became her legal guardian and father figure to her. Taylor has a son named Lucas, who has abandoned Terra Nova and is working with the renegade Sixers. Lucas blames Taylor for his mother's death which Taylor was unable to prevent; Taylor, ashamed of his son's betrayal, has told everybody that his son has gone missing. In early development, Nathaniel Taylor was named Frank Taylor.

Recurring cast

• Caroline Brazier as Deborah Tate, Skye's mother who was infected by Sincyllic Fever and was in the custody of the Sixers. Skye had to do what they say in order to guarantee Deborah's survival. She and the medicine that was used on her were extracted from the Sixers' camp by Tim Curran. She now currently lives in Terra Nova with her daughter.
• Damien Garvey as Tom Boylan, a bar owner who sometimes trades with the Sixers. He is shown to cause problems at times which often angers Taylor and can also be quite difficult, especially with Josh when he starts working at the bar. He was once a soldier and a friend of Taylor's. Despite causing problems; Boylan has been shown to be ultimately loyal to Terra Nova; using his antique revolver to shoot a Sixer attacking Taylor.
• Dean Geyer as Private (later Corporal) Mark Reynolds, a soldier and Maddy's love interest. They start dating in "Night Fall" and kiss when Maddy asks him to because she is afraid they might die. Mark finds Maddy interesting and despite the fact he's a bit older than her, the two love each other deeply and care for one another. In the episode "Now You See Me" he told Jim that he would someday like to make Maddy his wife (he said he'd wait till she was older). He takes his job as a soldier seriously.
• Simone Kessell as Lieutenant Alicia "Wash" Washington, the second-in-command to Nathaniel Taylor. She is executed by Lucas in the first season finale.
• Jay Ryan as Curran, a member of Terra Nova's security team who was banished from Terra Nova for killing another security officer who owed him money. After saving Curran from the local fauna, Taylor offers the murderer an opportunity to be readmitted into Terra Nova if he can find the Sixers' mole. He is later readmitted after bringing Deborah Tate and the medicine the Sixers were giving her out of the Sixers' camp back to Terra Nova.
• Ashley Zukerman as Lucas, Taylor's son who is against his father and Terra Nova as he has been hired by his father's superiors to program the time portal to go both ways (back to the future) so that they may seize control of Terra Nova, strip the land of its resources, and control the future. He is shown as brilliant yet mentally unstable and ruthless as seen when threatening to throw Skye's ill mother out of the Sixers camp and let her fall to the ground below and die. It has been revealed that he has resented his father ever since his mother died because Taylor could not save her. He is shot by Skye after he stabs his father, but escapes in "Resistance".

North American broadcast

Terra Nova was expected to premiere in May 2011 with a two-hour preview, but due to the time involved for visual effects, its pilot was moved to autumn (late September) 2011 to air with the rest of season one. In May 2011, Fox announced the series would air on Monday nights, and released a full trailer. Terra Nova premiered at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2011. The FOX premiere drew 9.22 million viewers and 3.1 in the 18–49 demo in live plus same day results, rising to 4.1 in Live+3, the best result by a new drama. Terra Nova's high DVR gains were attributed to competition from Monday Night Football which, being a sports event, is less conducive to delayed viewing. In its second week on FOX, the show retained 100% of its demo rating (3.1), the best retention by a new series, CityTV simul-casts the series for audiences in Canada. The Canadian premiere drew 1.4 million viewers, the largest audience for a drama in CityTV's history.

International broadcast

• In Armenia, Russia and few other CIS countries the series premiered on Channel One on September 27, 2011.
• In Australia, Network Ten has picked up the series, where it will air within days of its U.S. release.
• In the French-speaking part of Belgium, BeTV is broadcasting the series on Thursdays, three days after US FOX, in a new "Direct from US" program, the premiere debuting on September 29, 2011, in HD and SD. In the Dutch-speaking part, 2BE started broadcasting the series on December 12, 2011.
• In Belgium, 2BE started broadcasting the series on Mondays as of December 12, 2011.
• In Brazil the premier with subtitles in Portuguese aired on October 10 by Fox Brazil
• In Finland, MTV3 has picked it up, and is set to premiere it in January 2012.
• In France, Canal + will air the series on January 19, 2012, before a broadcast on M6.
• In Germany, ProSieben has picked up the series, and will air in spring 2012.
• In Iceland, Stöð 2 picked up the series, and airs each episode one day after the U.S.
• In India and Pakistan, it premiered on October 8, 2011 on Star World in both high definition and standard definition.
• In Israel, yes has picked up the series, where it will air within a day of its U.S. release in both high definition and standard definition.
• In Italy, satellite channel FOX Italy acquired the series, which airs one week after its original U.S. airing. The premiere aired on October 4, 2011.
• In Latin America, Fox LA broadcasts the series on Mondays
• In Japan, FOX will premiere Terra Nova on December 13, 2011.
• In Malaysia, Terra Nova aired by FOX Asia with Dual Language English and Malay.
• In the Middle East, the series premiered on September 28, 2011 on OSN First.
• In Norway, TV2 Zebra has picked it up, and is set to premiere it on the last Sunday of November 2011.
• In the Philippines, Jack TV is set to broadcast on January 12, 2012.
• In Poland, Fox has picked up the series, and premiered it six days after its U.S. debut (on Sunday).
• In Portugal, TVI is broadcasting the series on Sundays, starting November 6, 2011.
• In most of the Southeast Asian countries, FOX and FOX HD bought the rights to air the series starting October 29, 2011.
• In South Africa broadcast is set to start on M-Net (DSTV channel 101) on January 25, 2012 as announced on the company's official Facebook page.
• In Serbia broadcast is set to start on December 5, 2011 on Fox Life Serbia
• In Slovenia broadcast is set to start on December 5, 2011 on Fox Life Slovenia
• In Sweden, TV4 has picked up the show, with release date yet to be set.
• In Turkey, FX is broadcasting the series on Thursdays.
• In the UK and Ireland, digital channel Sky 1 has picked up the series, which premiered on October 3, 2011 and airs one week after its U.S. airing.

Episodes

Main article: List of Terra Nova episodes

Terra Nova
Genre	Drama Science fiction Action Adventure Adventure fiction Family saga
Created by	Kelly Marcel Craig Silverstein
Developed by	Mitch Kramer
Starring	Jason O'Mara Shelley Conn Christine Adams Allison Miller Landon Liboiron Naomi Scott Rod Hallett Alana Mansour Stephen Lang
Composer	Brian Tyler
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	11 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Steven Spielberg Peter Chernin René Echevarria Brannon Braga Jon Cassar Aaron Kaplan Katherine Pope Darryl Frank Justin Falvey Alex Graves Craig Silverstein Kelly Marcel
Producers	Mark H. Ovitz Livia Hanich (co-prod.) (consulting producers) Chris Brancato Michael Fazekas Tara Butters
Production locations	Queensland, Australia
Cinematography	Nelson Cragg
Editors	Jeff Betancourt Caroline Ross Henk Van Eeghen, ACE
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	20th Century Fox Television Amblin Television Chernin Entertainment Kapital Entertainment Siesta Productions
Original release
Network	Fox
Release	September 26, 2011 (2011-09-26) – present

Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series that airs on Fox on Monday nights. It premiered on September 26, 2011 with a 90 minute episode, and the first season concluded on December 19, 2011 with a two-hour finale. The show follows the Shannon family as they go 85 million years into the past. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel.

Plot

The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction due to worsening air quality and overpopulation worldwide. It has become virtually impossible for humanity to survive, and almost no vegetation remains. At Hope Plaza, a massive ring shaped structure in Chicago, scientists discover a rift in space-time that allows people to travel 85 million years back in time to the late Cretaceous period of an alternate prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddie, and Zoe) join the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova becoming part of the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway.

The Shannon family starts a new life in Terra Nova while dealing with carnivorous dinosaurs and the Sixers, a splinter group of colonists from the Sixth Pilgrimage who are trying to transport all of Terra Nova's resources back to 2149.

Production

Season 1

Alex Graves signed on to direct the pilot. Brannon Braga and René Echevarria serve as showrunners. Australia was chosen after producer Steven Spielberg vetoed Hawaii because he wanted a different filming location from his 1993 film Jurassic Park. The two-hour pilot was filmed over 26 days in late November to December 2010. It was shot in south-east Queensland, Australia, with locations in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast Hinterland. The shoot was plagued by torrential rain and additional material had to be shot in 2011, with a total estimated cost between $10 to $20 million to be amortized over the season. More than 250 sets were constructed. An episode takes eight to nine days to shoot, like most television dramas, but six weeks in post-production, twice the television average. The average episode budget is about $4 million, compared to an average of $3 million for broadcast network dramas. Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly stated, "This thing is going to be huge. It's going to take an enormous production commitment."

In an unusual decision, Fox skipped ordering just a pilot, and instead immediately ordered thirteen episodes. This was partly due to financial reasons, as the large Australian sets are expensive to dismantle and rebuild. Despite this decision, the producers denied the production was over-budget, with Peter Rice explaining instead the show is "a very expensive... very ambitious television show". Kevin Reilly continued, "We're not in completely uncharted territory here. The start-up cost for the series is definitely on the high end. But it's not some bank-breaking series". With only 10% of Cretaceous-era dinosaurs recorded in the fossil record, the producers decided to supplement the series with ones which might have existed; palaeontologist Jack Horner was brought in to help create realistic creatures for the period and different from those of the Jurassic Park film franchise.

In June 2010, the first cast member was announced – Jason O'Mara as Jim Shannon. In late August, Allison Miller joined the cast. In September, Deadline Hollywood reported that Stephen Lang signed on to play the role of Commander Taylor. An executive producer, David Fury, left the series as a result of creative differences. In September, Shelley Conn landed the female lead role. In October, Brian Tyler was chosen as the composer, Mido Hamada was cast as a security head, while Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott, and Alana Mansour were cast as the three children. In November, Christine Adams was cast as Mira. In May 2011, Rod Hallett joined the cast.

The cast and crew returned to Queensland, Australia on May 20, 2011 to continue production on the first season. Filming commenced on May 25, 2011. With a long production process on the series, it was announced in July 2011 that the first season would consist of thirteen episodes to finish airing in December 2011.

Season 2

FOX Broadcasting stated that no decision will be made until 2012 regarding the continuation of the series.

Cast

Main

• Jason O'Mara as James "Jim" Shannon, former Chicago Police narcotics detective and devoted father with a complicated past. He is sentenced to six years in prison after assaulting a Population Control officer after it is discovered that he and his wife broke the law by having a third child. Two years later, his wife Elisabeth helps him escape and Jim successfully makes it into Terra Nova with his family. After saving Commander Nathaniel Taylor's life, Jim joins Taylor's security team. He is also the third-in-command of Terra Nova, a position he assumed in episode 9.
• Shelley Conn as Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon who has been recruited for Terra Nova. She is married to Jim and mother to their three children. She helps Jim escape prison so he can accompany the family to Terra Nova.
• Christine Adams as Mira, leader of the Sixers, a rebel group that opposes Terra Nova. They are called Sixers because they arrived as part of the sixth pilgrimage. In "The Runaway", the Sixers demonstrate that they are not "all bad". Mira says in that episode that she has a daughter in 2149 named Sienna, who was only four when Mira left, and that all she wants is to make sure that she will be able to see her daughter again and have a life in one of the domes. However, this does not stop her from using a young girl roughly her daughter's age as a spy to steal from Terra Nova by threatening to kill her brother.
• Allison Miller as Skye Alexandria Tate, a veteran resident of Terra Nova from the fifth pilgrimage and a friend to Josh. Her parents reportedly died three years before the Shannons arrive, and was adopted afterwards by Commander Taylor. She is later revealed to be a Sixer mole, though she was acting in that capacity to keep her mother alive in a Sixer camp; they possess the only cure for the virus that killed her father and infected her mother. The Sixers administer the medicine so long as Skye acts on their behalf.
• Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 17-year-old son. Reluctant to leave his girlfriend behind, he is at turns resentful and rebellious towards his father, which situation later resolves.
• Naomi Scott as Maddy Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 16-year-old daughter. An extremely intelligent and socially awkward teenager, she reveals that felt like an outcast at her old school; other kids would cheat off her homework and tests while not even knowing her name half the time. She develops a relationship with Mark Reynolds, a soldier on Terra Nova's security detail. The two later share a kiss on their first date together; when he is injured by the Sixers in "Vs.", she rushes over and kisses and fusses over him.
• Rod Hallett as Dr. Malcolm Wallace, who recruited Elisabeth for Terra Nova. The two were romantically involved before she met Jim, and he sought to bring her to Terra Nova, back when he thought she would leave her husband behind in 2149.
• Alana Mansour as Zoe Shannon, the five-year-old daughter of Jim and Elisabeth Shannon. All families in 2149 are restricted to no more than two children. Zoe was kept hidden until Population Control officers raided the Shannon residence and arrested Jim.
• Stephen Lang as Commander Nathaniel Taylor, a pioneer and leader of Terra Nova. The first person to arrive, Taylor survived the first four months (118 days) on his own, then began building a community as new settlers came through; he has been the leader for seven years. When Skye's parents died, he became her legal guardian and father figure to her. Taylor has a son named Lucas, who has abandoned Terra Nova and is working with the renegade Sixers. Lucas blames Taylor for his mother's death which Taylor was unable to prevent; Taylor, ashamed of his son's betrayal, has told everybody that his son has gone missing. In early development, Nathaniel Taylor was named Frank Taylor.

Recurring cast

• Caroline Brazier as Deborah Tate, Skye's mother who was infected by Sincyllic Fever and was in the custody of the Sixers. Skye had to do what they say in order to guarantee Deborah's survival. She and the medicine that was used on her were extracted from the Sixers' camp by Tim Curran. She now currently lives in Terra Nova with her daughter.
• Damien Garvey as Tom Boylan, a bar owner who sometimes trades with the Sixers. He is shown to cause problems at times which often angers Taylor and can also be quite difficult, especially with Josh when he starts working at the bar. He was once a soldier and a friend of Taylor's. Despite causing problems; Boylan has been shown to be ultimately loyal to Terra Nova; using his antique revolver to shoot a Sixer attacking Taylor.
• Dean Geyer as Private (later Corporal) Mark Reynolds, a soldier and Maddy's love interest. They start dating in "Night Fall" and kiss when Maddy asks him to because she is afraid they might die. Mark finds Maddy interesting and despite the fact he's a bit older than her, the two love each other deeply and care for one another. In the episode "Now You See Me" he told Jim that he would someday like to make Maddy his wife (he said he'd wait till she was older). He takes his job as a soldier seriously.
• Simone Kessell as Lieutenant Alicia "Wash" Washington, the second-in-command to Nathaniel Taylor. She is executed by Lucas in the first season finale.
• Jay Ryan as Curran, a member of Terra Nova's security team who was banished from Terra Nova for killing another security officer who owed him money. After saving Curran from the local fauna, Taylor offers the murderer an opportunity to be readmitted into Terra Nova if he can find the Sixers' mole. He is later readmitted after bringing Deborah Tate and the medicine the Sixers were giving her out of the Sixers' camp back to Terra Nova.
• Ashley Zukerman as Lucas, Taylor's son who is against his father and Terra Nova as he has been hired by his father's superiors to program the time portal to go both ways (back to the future) so that they may seize control of Terra Nova, strip the land of its resources, and control the future. He is shown as brilliant yet mentally unstable and ruthless as seen when threatening to throw Skye's ill mother out of the Sixers camp and let her fall to the ground below and die. It has been revealed that he has resented his father ever since his mother died because Taylor could not save her. He is shot by Skye after he stabs his father, but escapes in "Resistance".

North American broadcast

Terra Nova was expected to premiere in May 2011 with a two-hour preview, but due to the time involved for visual effects, its pilot was moved to autumn (late September) 2011 to air with the rest of season one. In May 2011, Fox announced the series would air on Monday nights, and released a full trailer. Terra Nova premiered at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2011. The FOX premiere drew 9.22 million viewers and 3.1 in the 18–49 demo in live plus same day results, rising to 4.1 in Live+3, the best result by a new drama. Terra Nova's high DVR gains were attributed to competition from Monday Night Football which, being a sports event, is less conducive to delayed viewing. In its second week on FOX, the show retained 100% of its demo rating (3.1), the best retention by a new series, CityTV simul-casts the series for audiences in Canada. The Canadian premiere drew 1.4 million viewers, the largest audience for a drama in CityTV's history.

International broadcast

• In Armenia, Russia and few other CIS countries the series premiered on Channel One on September 27, 2011.
• In Australia, Network Ten has picked up the series, where it will air within days of its U.S. release.
• In the French-speaking part of Belgium, BeTV is broadcasting the series on Thursdays, three days after US FOX, in a new "Direct from US" program, the premiere debuting on September 29, 2011, in HD and SD. In the Dutch-speaking part, 2BE started broadcasting the series on December 12, 2011.
• In Belgium, 2BE started broadcasting the series on Mondays as of December 12, 2011.
• In Brazil the premier with subtitles in Portuguese aired on October 10 by Fox Brazil
• In Finland, MTV3 has picked it up, and is set to premiere it in January 2012.
• In France, Canal + will air the series on January 19, 2012, before a broadcast on M6.
• In Germany, ProSieben has picked up the series, and will air in spring 2012.
• In Iceland, Stöð 2 picked up the series, and airs each episode one day after the U.S.
• In India and Pakistan, it premiered on October 8, 2011 on Star World in both high definition and standard definition.
• In Israel, yes has picked up the series, where it will air within a day of its U.S. release in both high definition and standard definition.
• In Italy, satellite channel FOX Italy acquired the series, which airs one week after its original U.S. airing. The premiere aired on October 4, 2011.
• In Latin America, Fox LA broadcasts the series on Mondays
• In Japan, FOX will premiere Terra Nova on December 13, 2011.
• In Malaysia, Terra Nova aired by FOX Asia with Dual Language English and Malay.
• In the Middle East, the series premiered on September 28, 2011 on OSN First.
• In Norway, TV2 Zebra has picked it up, and is set to premiere it on the last Sunday of November 2011.
• In the Philippines, Jack TV is set to broadcast on January 12, 2012.
• In Poland, Fox has picked up the series, and premiered it six days after its U.S. debut (on Sunday).
• In Portugal, TVI is broadcasting the series on Sundays, starting November 6, 2011.
• In most of the Southeast Asian countries, FOX and FOX HD bought the rights to air the series starting October 29, 2011.
• In South Africa broadcast is set to start on M-Net (DSTV channel 101) on January 25, 2012 as announced on the company's official Facebook page.
• In Serbia broadcast is set to start on December 5, 2011 on Fox Life Serbia
• In Slovenia broadcast is set to start on December 5, 2011 on Fox Life Slovenia
• In Sweden, TV4 has picked up the show, with release date yet to be set.
• In Turkey, FX is broadcasting the series on Thursdays.
• In the UK and Ireland, digital channel Sky 1 has picked up the series, which premiered on October 3, 2011 and airs one week after its U.S. airing.

Episodes

Main article: List of Terra Nova episodes

Reception

Critical reception

Early reviews indicated much promise in the series. In June 2011, Terra Nova was one of eight honorees in the Most Exciting New Series category at the Critics' Choice Television Awards, voted by journalists who had seen the pilots. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette compared it to Outcasts. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Easily the most exciting show of the fall season, Fox's "Terra Nova" has such obvious, instant and demographically diverse appeal." The New York Post called it "Good family fun", while USA Today says "What matters are the dinosaurs, who– particularly in the first hour– are as convincing and startling as TV has ever offered, roaming a gorgeous, CGI-enhanced terrain." The Wall Street Journal wrote: "Terra Nova leaves ye olde cheap-set series in the dust with production values that make each episode look cinematic." The Washington Post writes "Literally the biggest thing on TV this fall, Terra Nova has it all: time travel, misguided utopianism, "Swiss Family Robinson"-style cohesion and lots of hungry dinosaurs. It's all pretty dazzling."

However, some later reviews have been highly critical. The show was called "Stargate: SGU by Dr. Seuss" by Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald. Sam Wollaston of the Guardian observed that there was only one interesting character and that "A lot of the fault lies with what they have to say to each other. The script is as corny and cheesy as a family-sized portion of cheesy corn nachos." New York Magazine reviewer Chadwick Matlin vowed never to watch the show again, saying "Sure, the premise had promise, but even masochists like us can only take so much." The series' first season received an aggregated score of 64% across 28 reviews from Metacritic.

US Ratings

The first season averaged 7.52 million American viewers and a 2.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Season	Episodes	Timeslot (ET/PT)	Premiered		Ended		TV season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
			Date	Premiere viewers (in millions)	Date	Finale viewers (in millions)
1	11	Monday 8:00 PM	September 26, 2011	9.22	December 19, 2011	7.24	2011–12	TBA	7.52

External links

• Official website
• Terra Nova at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com
• Terra Nova Wiki
• Production team thanks Dinosaufact.net

Reception

Critical reception

Early reviews indicated much promise in the series. In June 2011, Terra Nova was one of eight honorees in the Most Exciting New Series category at the Critics' Choice Television Awards, voted by journalists who had seen the pilots. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette compared it to Outcasts. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Easily the most exciting show of the fall season, Fox's "Terra Nova" has such obvious, instant and demographically diverse appeal." The New York Post called it "Good family fun", while USA Today says "What matters are the dinosaurs, who– particularly in the first hour– are as convincing and startling as TV has ever offered, roaming a gorgeous, CGI-enhanced terrain." The Wall Street Journal wrote: "Terra Nova leaves ye olde cheap-set series in the dust with production values that make each episode look cinematic." The Washington Post writes "Literally the biggest thing on TV this fall, Terra Nova has it all: time travel, misguided utopianism, "Swiss Family Robinson"-style cohesion and lots of hungry dinosaurs. It's all pretty dazzling."

However, some later reviews have been highly critical. The show was called "Stargate: SGU by Dr. Seuss" by Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald. Sam Wollaston of the Guardian observed that there was only one interesting character and that "A lot of the fault lies with what they have to say to each other. The script is as corny and cheesy as a family-sized portion of cheesy corn nachos." New York Magazine reviewer Chadwick Matlin vowed never to watch the show again, saying "Sure, the premise had promise, but even masochists like us can only take so much." The series' first season received an aggregated score of 64% across 28 reviews from Metacritic.

US Ratings

The first season averaged 7.52 million American viewers and a 2.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Season	Episodes	Timeslot (ET/PT)	Premiered		Ended		TV season	Rank	Viewers (in millions)
			Date	Premiere viewers (in millions)	Date	Finale viewers (in millions)
1	11	Monday 8:00 PM	September 26, 2011	9.22	December 19, 2011	7.24	2011–12	TBA	7.52

External links

• Official website
• Terra Nova at IMDb
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• Terra Nova Wiki
• Production team thanks Dinosaufact.net