Spielberg’s sci-fi TV thriller ‘Falling Skies’ hits Asia
It’s set to run in 75 markets throughout the world and now Steven Spielberg’s hit TV series on what’s been called “an extraterrestrial invasion of apocalyptic proportions” is about to hit Asia’s audiences.
“Falling Skies,” the Spielberg-produced hit cable TV series of 2011, will premiere in Asia on October 3. It airs Mondays at 8:20 p.m. in 14 markets across the region, first and exclusively on the pay-TV channel AXN Beyond.
Spielberg himself was involved in shaping the script, cast, edits, post production down to the spaceships and aliens, designed to look like six-legged spiders or bipedal robots with deadly projectiles shooting from their arms.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat of “Saving Private Ryan” is co-creator of the series.
Apocalypse later
Set in the aftermath of an all-out invasion of Earth by aliens, “Falling Skies” begins six months into the alien occupation where survivors have banded together in an attempt to fight back.
Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominee Noah Wyle (“E.R.”) stars as Tom Mason, a Boston history professor whose wife was killed in the invasion and the second of his three sons was captured by aliens.
Moon Bloodgood (“Terminator Salvation”) plays Anne Glass, a pediatrician helping children cope with the upheaval.
Drew Roy (“Secretariat”) plays Tom's eldest son, Hal, who has to grow up overnight to fight alongside his father. Maxim Knight (“Brothers & Sisters”) is the traumatized youngest son, Matt.
‘Serious but not grim’
“Falling Skies” premiered in the U.S. to 8 million live and time-shifted (digital video recorders) viewers, which made it cable TV’s top new series launch of 2011 to date.
The Los Angeles Times called it “serious without being grim, uplifting without being saccharine.” The U.S. paper also said that “Falling Skies” imagines a future that the movies don’t—when heroes fail to “bring down the mother ship in time.”
Worldwide, “Falling Skies” will be seen in 75 markets across Europe, South America and Asia. The series’ popularity has already ensured a second season is confirmed and will premiere in the U.S. in the summer of 2012.
With a mix of action, adventure, mystery, drama and nail-biting suspense in which ordinary people are called upon to become heroes, “Falling Skies” promises to make Monday nights all throughout Asia a reason to hurry home for mega-doses of chills and thrills.
