Reacting to news that the Steven Spielberg-produced dino-drama Terra Nova has been pushed back to a Fall 2011 air date, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly spoke to the TCA Press Tour and revealed his reasons for the delay.
iF Magazine has the quotes:
“There are two advantages to [air the pilot in the Spring],” says Reilly. “First, is to do pilot right, and on marketing side, recreate the same thing we did with Glee. Then we can give [the audience] materials over the summer. Secondly, this is a show that needs to be ahead in cycle. They can’t finish in one week and three weeks have a show on air”
Reilly also spoke about Steven Spielberg's work on the show, which fans will be pleased to hear is quite hands-on.
“He has been in town and immersed in every element of it from conceiving the world, to the script and characterizations,” says Reilly. “He loves it. When you get in a room with Steven Spielberg he’s Steven Spielberg.”
A recent Fox press release explained the plot of Terra Nova as such:
Terra Nova, an epic family adventure 85 million years in the making, follows an ordinary family embarking on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a massive experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149 the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. Knowing there is no way to reverse the damage to the planet, a coalition of scientists has managed to open up a fracture in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race…possibly changing the future by correcting the mistakes of the past.
The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first colony of humans in this second chance for civilization. JIM SHANNON, a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family – wife ELISABETH and children JOSH and MADDY – through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. In addition to blue skies, rolling rivers and lush vegetation, Terra Nova offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. These adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding Terra Nova are filled with dangerous dinosaurs and other prehistoric threats, as well as external forces that may be intent on destroying this new world before it begins.
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