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[1] (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. It premiered on September 26, 2011 with a two-hour premiere,^[2] and the first season concluded on December 19, 2011 with a two-hour finale. The series follows the Shannon family as they travel 85 million years into the past. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel.^[3]

Plot

The series is initially set in 2149, a time when overpopulation and declining air quality worldwide threatens all life on Earth. After scientists discover a rift in spacetime, they begin sending people in a series of "pilgrimages" 85 million years into Earth's Cretaceous past, to a different "time stream".^[4][5][6] The series focuses primarily on the lives of the Shannon family (Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddie, and Zoe) as they join the Terra Nova colony in the prehistoric past.^[7][8]

Opposing the colony and its leader, Commander Nathaniel Taylor, is a group of separatists known as the "Sixers", who arrived in the "Sixth Pilgrimage" and are working in concert with corporate industrialists and Taylor's estranged son Lucas in an effort to strip the distant past Earth of its resources and send them back to 2149. At the end of the first season, Jim Shannon travels back to 2149 to destroy the gateway that controls the wormhole in the future, effectively severing their ability to travel to and from the past. However, the colonists discover that a nearby area called the Badlands holds an artifact from Earth's history.

Production

Season 1

Alex Graves signed on to direct the pilot.^[9] Brannon Braga and René Echevarria serve as showrunners.^[10][11] Australia was chosen after producer Steven Spielberg vetoed Hawaii because he wanted a different filming location from his 1993 film Jurassic Park.^[12] The two-hour pilot was filmed over 26 days in late November to December 2010.^[3] It was shot in south-east Queensland, Australia, with locations in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast Hinterland.^[13][14] 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.^[12][15] More than 250 sets were constructed.^[16] An episode takes eight to nine days to shoot, like most television dramas, but six weeks in post-production, twice the television average.^[3] The average episode budget is about $4 million,^[15] compared to an average of $3.7 million for broadcast network dramas.^[17] Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly stated, "This thing is going to be huge. It's going to take an enormous production commitment."^[18]

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".^[19] 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.^[12]

In June 2010, the first cast member was announced – Jason O'Mara as Jim Shannon.^[20] In late August, Allison Miller joined the cast.^[21] In September, Deadline Hollywood reported that Stephen Lang signed on to play the role of Commander Taylor.^[22] An executive producer, David Fury, left the series as a result of creative differences.^[23] In September, Shelley Conn landed the female lead role.^[24] In October, Brian Tyler was chosen as the composer,^[25] Mido Hamada was cast as a security head,^[26] while Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott, and Alana Mansour were cast as the three children.^[27] In November, Christine Adams was cast as Mira.^[28] In May 2011, Rod Hallett joined the cast.^[29]

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.^[30] With a long production process on the series,^[16] it was announced in July 2011 that the first season would consist of thirteen episodes to finish airing in December 2011.^[31]

Future

Shortly after the airing of the season one finale in December 2011 FOX Broadcasting stated that no decision would be made until 2012 regarding the continuation of the series.^[32] FOX Entertainment's president Kevin Reilly said the show was profitable for the network.^[33]

Cast

Main

• Jason O'Mara as James "Jim" Shannon, a former Chicago Police narcotics detective and devoted father.^[34] After a lengthy imprisonment for breaking population-control laws in 2149, he escaped and rejoined his family as they emigrated to the Terra Nova colony. After gaining Commander Nathaniel Taylor's trust, he joined the Terra Nova security forces,^[35] eventually earning the position of third-in-command of the colony.^[36]
• Shelley Conn as Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon and chief medical officer of Terra Nova. She is married to Jim and is the mother of their three children.^[34] In the series premiere, she was instrumental in Jim's escape from prison and arrival in Terra Nova.^[35]
• Christine Adams as Mira, the leader of the "Sixers", a rebel group that arrived with the Sixth Pilgrimage but who soon broke away to oppose Terra Nova^[34] and to prepare the way for the Phoenix Group's invasion. Mira's daughter, Sienna, is still in 2149 and is being held by Mira's employers to ensure her cooperation. Mira's ambition is to return to 2149 and have a comfortable and peaceful life with her daughter.^[37]
• 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 arrived, and she was subsequently adopted by Commander Taylor. She is later revealed to be a Sixer mole, though she was acting in this capacity under threat from the Sixers, who held her mother hostage and controlled the medicine which kept her alive.^[21]
• Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 17-year-old son. Reluctant to leave his girlfriend behind in 2149,^[34] he was initially resentful and rebellious towards his father.^[35] In later episodes they have gradually repaired their relationship.
• Naomi Scott as Maddy Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 16-year-old daughter.^[38] An extremely intelligent but socially awkward teenager, she is developing a relationship with Mark Reynolds, a soldier on Terra Nova's security detail.
• Alana Mansour as Zoe Shannon, the five-year-old daughter of Jim and Elisabeth Shannon.^[34] Early in her life, she was kept hidden by her family as she was Jim and Elizabeth's third child and thus contravened the population control laws of 2149. When she was discovered, Jim was arrested and sent to prison.
• Rod Hallett as Dr. Malcolm Wallace, the chief science officer for the Terra Nova colony. Early in the first season, it is revealed that he recruited Elisabeth for Terra Nova. The two were romantically involved before she met Jim, and Malcolm sought to bring her to Terra Nova when he believed she would leave her husband behind in prison in 2149.^[29]
• Stephen Lang as Commander Nathaniel Taylor, a pioneer and leader of Terra Nova.^[34] The first person to arrive, Taylor survived 118 days on his own, helped build a community as new settlers came through, and has been the colony's leader for seven years. When Skye's parents died, he became her legal guardian and father figure.^[39] Taylor's relationship with his son, Lucas, has degraded severely since an incident in 2138 in which Taylor was forced to decide between saving his wife or saving Lucas, and chose his son. Lucas later arrived in Terra Nova on the Second Pilgrimage but Taylor discovered that his son was working for the Phoenix Group and banished him from the colony, hiding his humiliation by claiming that Lucas had simply gone missing.

Recurring cast

• Caroline Brazier as Deborah Tate. Under the cover story that she died in a fever epidemic, she was abducted by the Sixers and held as ransom to force her daughter Skye to feed them intelligence from the Terra Nova settlement. Later in the first season, she was extracted by Curran and returned to the colony.
• Damien Garvey as Tom Boylan, a bar owner and former soldier who occasionally trades with the Sixers. Often secretive and abrasive, he runs a wide variety of illegal schemes under his bar's cover but ultimately proves to be loyal to Terra Nova and its residents.
• Dean Geyer as Private (later Corporal) Mark Reynolds, a soldier and Maddy's boyfriend. Though he is a competent soldier, he is formal and straightforward to a fault in his concepts of courtship. He and Maddy began dating early in the first season. Several episodes later, he informed Jim that he intends to marry Maddy when they are both older.
• Simone Kessell as Lieutenant Alicia "Wash" Washington, the second-in-command to Nathaniel Taylor. She had served with Taylor for several years prior to her assignment to Terra Nova.^[40] In the first season finale, she was executed by Lucas Taylor after she covered the Shannon family's escape from the settlement.
• Romy Poulier as Kara, Josh's girlfriend from 2149. She was unable to join the Shannons on the Tenth Pilgrimage in the series premiere and Josh cut a deal with the Sixers in order to bring her to Terra Nova. She eventually arrived with the Eleventh Pilgrimage, but she was killed when the Phoenix Group invaded shortly thereafter.
• Rohan Nichol as Weaver, a senior associate of Lucas and the Phoenix Group. He commanded the mercenary forces that invaded Terra Nova in the first season finale. He returned to 2149 but was ultimately slain by a juvenile Carnotaurus during a battle in Hope Plaza.
• Jay Ryan as Curran, a member of Terra Nova's security team. Banished from the colony for murdering a fellow soldier, he was later employed by Taylor to infiltrate the Sixers' camp. Curran proved instrumental in extracting Deborah Tate, and in recognition of his actions he was readmitted to the colony.
• Ashley Zukerman as Lucas Taylor,^[41] the estranged and vengeful son of Nathaniel Taylor. A brilliant yet unstable physicist, he was hired by the Phoenix Group in order to find a means for the time fracture to be utilized for two-way travel. His employers intend to strip-mine the past Earth in order to gain wealth and power in 2149. Though the attempted invasion in "Occupation" and "Resistance" ended in failure, Lucas escaped with his life.

Broadcast

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[1] (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. It premiered on September 26, 2011 with a two-hour premiere,^[2] and the first season concluded on December 19, 2011 with a two-hour finale. The series follows the Shannon family as they travel 85 million years into the past. The series is based on an idea by British writer Kelly Marcel.^[3]

Plot

The series is initially set in 2149, a time when overpopulation and declining air quality worldwide threatens all life on Earth. After scientists discover a rift in spacetime, they begin sending people in a series of "pilgrimages" 85 million years into Earth's Cretaceous past, to a different "time stream".^[42][43][6] The series focuses primarily on the lives of the Shannon family (Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddie, and Zoe) as they join the Terra Nova colony in the prehistoric past.^[7][8]

Opposing the colony and its leader, Commander Nathaniel Taylor, is a group of separatists known as the "Sixers", who arrived in the "Sixth Pilgrimage" and are working in concert with corporate industrialists and Taylor's estranged son Lucas in an effort to strip the distant past Earth of its resources and send them back to 2149. At the end of the first season, Jim Shannon travels back to 2149 to destroy the gateway that controls the wormhole in the future, effectively severing their ability to travel to and from the past. However, the colonists discover that a nearby area called the Badlands holds an artifact from Earth's history.

Production

Season 1

Alex Graves signed on to direct the pilot.^[9] Brannon Braga and René Echevarria serve as showrunners.^[10][11] Australia was chosen after producer Steven Spielberg vetoed Hawaii because he wanted a different filming location from his 1993 film Jurassic Park.^[12] The two-hour pilot was filmed over 26 days in late November to December 2010.^[3] It was shot in south-east Queensland, Australia, with locations in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast Hinterland.^[13][14] 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.^[12][15] More than 250 sets were constructed.^[16] An episode takes eight to nine days to shoot, like most television dramas, but six weeks in post-production, twice the television average.^[3] The average episode budget is about $4 million,^[15] compared to an average of $3.7 million for broadcast network dramas.^[17] Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly stated, "This thing is going to be huge. It's going to take an enormous production commitment."^[18]

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".^[19] 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.^[12]

In June 2010, the first cast member was announced – Jason O'Mara as Jim Shannon.^[20] In late August, Allison Miller joined the cast.^[21] In September, Deadline Hollywood reported that Stephen Lang signed on to play the role of Commander Taylor.^[22] An executive producer, David Fury, left the series as a result of creative differences.^[23] In September, Shelley Conn landed the female lead role.^[24] In October, Brian Tyler was chosen as the composer,^[25] Mido Hamada was cast as a security head,^[26] while Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott, and Alana Mansour were cast as the three children.^[27] In November, Christine Adams was cast as Mira.^[28] In May 2011, Rod Hallett joined the cast.^[29]

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.^[30] With a long production process on the series,^[16] it was announced in July 2011 that the first season would consist of thirteen episodes to finish airing in December 2011.^[31]

Future

Shortly after the airing of the season one finale in December 2011 FOX Broadcasting stated that no decision would be made until 2012 regarding the continuation of the series.^[44] FOX Entertainment's president Kevin Reilly said the show was profitable for the network.^[33]

Cast

Main

• Jason O'Mara as James "Jim" Shannon, a former Chicago Police narcotics detective and devoted father.^[34] After a lengthy imprisonment for breaking population-control laws in 2149, he escaped and rejoined his family as they emigrated to the Terra Nova colony. After gaining Commander Nathaniel Taylor's trust, he joined the Terra Nova security forces,^[35] eventually earning the position of third-in-command of the colony.^[45]
• Shelley Conn as Dr. Elisabeth Shannon, a trauma surgeon and chief medical officer of Terra Nova. She is married to Jim and is the mother of their three children.^[34] In the series premiere, she was instrumental in Jim's escape from prison and arrival in Terra Nova.^[35]
• Christine Adams as Mira, the leader of the "Sixers", a rebel group that arrived with the Sixth Pilgrimage but who soon broke away to oppose Terra Nova^[34] and to prepare the way for the Phoenix Group's invasion. Mira's daughter, Sienna, is still in 2149 and is being held by Mira's employers to ensure her cooperation. Mira's ambition is to return to 2149 and have a comfortable and peaceful life with her daughter.^[37]
• 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 arrived, and she was subsequently adopted by Commander Taylor. She is later revealed to be a Sixer mole, though she was acting in this capacity under threat from the Sixers, who held her mother hostage and controlled the medicine which kept her alive.^[21]
• Landon Liboiron as Josh Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 17-year-old son. Reluctant to leave his girlfriend behind in 2149,^[34] he was initially resentful and rebellious towards his father.^[35] In later episodes they have gradually repaired their relationship.
• Naomi Scott as Maddy Shannon, Jim and Elisabeth's 16-year-old daughter.^[46] An extremely intelligent but socially awkward teenager, she is developing a relationship with Mark Reynolds, a soldier on Terra Nova's security detail.
• Alana Mansour as Zoe Shannon, the five-year-old daughter of Jim and Elisabeth Shannon.^[34] Early in her life, she was kept hidden by her family as she was Jim and Elizabeth's third child and thus contravened the population control laws of 2149. When she was discovered, Jim was arrested and sent to prison.
• Rod Hallett as Dr. Malcolm Wallace, the chief science officer for the Terra Nova colony. Early in the first season, it is revealed that he recruited Elisabeth for Terra Nova. The two were romantically involved before she met Jim, and Malcolm sought to bring her to Terra Nova when he believed she would leave her husband behind in prison in 2149.^[29]
• Stephen Lang as Commander Nathaniel Taylor, a pioneer and leader of Terra Nova.^[34] The first person to arrive, Taylor survived 118 days on his own, helped build a community as new settlers came through, and has been the colony's leader for seven years. When Skye's parents died, he became her legal guardian and father figure.^[39] Taylor's relationship with his son, Lucas, has degraded severely since an incident in 2138 in which Taylor was forced to decide between saving his wife or saving Lucas, and chose his son. Lucas later arrived in Terra Nova on the Second Pilgrimage but Taylor discovered that his son was working for the Phoenix Group and banished him from the colony, hiding his humiliation by claiming that Lucas had simply gone missing.

Recurring cast

• Caroline Brazier as Deborah Tate. Under the cover story that she died in a fever epidemic, she was abducted by the Sixers and held as ransom to force her daughter Skye to feed them intelligence from the Terra Nova settlement. Later in the first season, she was extracted by Curran and returned to the colony.
• Damien Garvey as Tom Boylan, a bar owner and former soldier who occasionally trades with the Sixers. Often secretive and abrasive, he runs a wide variety of illegal schemes under his bar's cover but ultimately proves to be loyal to Terra Nova and its residents.
• Dean Geyer as Private (later Corporal) Mark Reynolds, a soldier and Maddy's boyfriend. Though he is a competent soldier, he is formal and straightforward to a fault in his concepts of courtship. He and Maddy began dating early in the first season. Several episodes later, he informed Jim that he intends to marry Maddy when they are both older.
• Simone Kessell as Lieutenant Alicia "Wash" Washington, the second-in-command to Nathaniel Taylor. She had served with Taylor for several years prior to her assignment to Terra Nova.^[40] In the first season finale, she was executed by Lucas Taylor after she covered the Shannon family's escape from the settlement.
• Romy Poulier as Kara, Josh's girlfriend from 2149. She was unable to join the Shannons on the Tenth Pilgrimage in the series premiere and Josh cut a deal with the Sixers in order to bring her to Terra Nova. She eventually arrived with the Eleventh Pilgrimage, but she was killed when the Phoenix Group invaded shortly thereafter.
• Rohan Nichol as Weaver, a senior associate of Lucas and the Phoenix Group. He commanded the mercenary forces that invaded Terra Nova in the first season finale. He returned to 2149 but was ultimately slain by a juvenile Carnotaurus during a battle in Hope Plaza.
• Jay Ryan as Curran, a member of Terra Nova's security team. Banished from the colony for murdering a fellow soldier, he was later employed by Taylor to infiltrate the Sixers' camp. Curran proved instrumental in extracting Deborah Tate, and in recognition of his actions he was readmitted to the colony.
• Ashley Zukerman as Lucas Taylor,^[41] the estranged and vengeful son of Nathaniel Taylor. A brilliant yet unstable physicist, he was hired by the Phoenix Group in order to find a means for the time fracture to be utilized for two-way travel. His employers intend to strip-mine the past Earth in order to gain wealth and power in 2149. Though the attempted invasion in "Occupation" and "Resistance" ended in failure, Lucas escaped with his life.

Broadcast

Episodes

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North America

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.^[47] In May 2011, Fox announced the series would air on Monday nights,^[34] and released a full trailer.^[48] Terra Nova premiered at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2011.^[49] 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.^[50][51] 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.^[51] In its second week on FOX, the show retained 100% of its demo rating (3.1), the best retention by a new series.^[52] FOX aired the entire first season consecutively on Monday nights, until its two-hour finale on December 19, 2011. In Canada, Citytv simulcast every first season episode; the Canadian premiere drew 1.4 million viewers, the largest audience for a drama in Citytv's history.^[52]

International

Country	Channel	Premiere date
Armenia Russia few other CIS countries	Channel One	September 27, 2011[53]
Australia	Network Ten	within days of its U.S. release[54]
Belgium	BeTV (French) 2BE (Dutch)	September 29, 2011 December 12, 2011[55]
Brazil	Fox Brazil	October 10, 2011
Finland	MTV3	January 28, 2012
France	Canal +	January 19, 2012[56]
Germany	ProSieben	spring 2012[57]
Iceland	Stöð 2	one day after the U.S.
India Pakistan	Star World[58]	October 8, 2011
Israel	yes	within a day of its U.S. release[59]
Italy	FOX Italy	October 4, 2011
Latin America	FOX Latin America
Japan	FOX Asia	December 13, 2011
Malaysia	FOX Asia
Middle East	OSN First	September 28, 2011
Norway	TV2 Zebra	last Sunday of November 2011
Philippines	Jack TV	January 12, 2012
Poland	Fox (Poland)	six days after its U.S. debut[60]
Portgual	TVI	November 6, 2011
most of the Southeast Asian countries	FOX and FOX HD	October 29, 2011[61]
South Africa	M-Net (DSTV channel 101)	January 25, 2012
Serbia	Fox Life Serbia	December 5, 2011
Slovakia	TV JOJ	late 2012
Slovenia	Fox Life Slovenia
Sweden	TV4
Turkey	FX
United Kingdom Ireland	Sky 1	October 3, 2011[62]

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.^[63] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette compared it to Outcasts.^[64] 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."^[65] The New York Post called it "Good family fun",^[66] while USA Today wrote, "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."^[67] 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."^[68] The Washington Post wrote, "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."^[69]

However, mid-season reviews were highly critical. The show was called "Stargate: SGU by Dr. Seuss" by Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald.^[70] 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."^[71] 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."^[72] But by the finale in December things had turned around again where critics were mostly pleased and enthusiastic.^[73][74][75] The series' first season received an aggregated score of 64% across 28 reviews from Metacritic.^[76]

US Ratings

The first season averaged 7.52 million American viewers and a 2.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic.^[77] The show was ranked the #2 new drama among adults 18-49, the #1 new show among men 18-49, 18-34, and 25-54 and was one of the top 20 regular programs among teens, as of January 1, 2012.^[78]

References

External links

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

North America

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.^[1] In May 2011, Fox announced the series would air on Monday nights,^[2] and released a full trailer.^[3] Terra Nova premiered at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International on July 23, 2011.^[4] 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.^[5][6] 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.^[6] In its second week on FOX, the show retained 100% of its demo rating (3.1), the best retention by a new series.^[7] FOX aired the entire first season consecutively on Monday nights, until its two-hour finale on December 19, 2011. In Canada, Citytv simulcast every first season episode; the Canadian premiere drew 1.4 million viewers, the largest audience for a drama in Citytv's history.^[7]

International

Country	Channel	Premiere date
Armenia Russia few other CIS countries	Channel One	September 27, 2011[8]
Australia	Network Ten	within days of its U.S. release[9]
Belgium	BeTV (French) 2BE (Dutch)	September 29, 2011 December 12, 2011[10]
Brazil	Fox Brazil	October 10, 2011
Finland	MTV3	January 28, 2012
France	Canal +	January 19, 2012[11]
Germany	ProSieben	spring 2012[12]
Iceland	Stöð 2	one day after the U.S.
India Pakistan	Star World[13]	October 8, 2011
Israel	yes	within a day of its U.S. release[14]
Italy	FOX Italy	October 4, 2011
Latin America	FOX Latin America
Japan	FOX Asia	December 13, 2011
Malaysia	FOX Asia
Middle East	OSN First	September 28, 2011
Norway	TV2 Zebra	last Sunday of November 2011
Philippines	Jack TV	January 12, 2012
Poland	Fox (Poland)	six days after its U.S. debut[15]
Portgual	TVI	November 6, 2011
most of the Southeast Asian countries	FOX and FOX HD	October 29, 2011[16]
South Africa	M-Net (DSTV channel 101)	January 25, 2012
Serbia	Fox Life Serbia	December 5, 2011
Slovakia	TV JOJ	late 2012
Slovenia	Fox Life Slovenia
Sweden	TV4
Turkey	FX
United Kingdom Ireland	Sky 1	October 3, 2011[17]

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.^[18] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette compared it to Outcasts.^[19] 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."^[20] The New York Post called it "Good family fun",^[21] while USA Today wrote, "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."^[22] 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."^[23] The Washington Post wrote, "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."^[24]

However, mid-season reviews were highly critical. The show was called "Stargate: SGU by Dr. Seuss" by Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald.^[25] 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."^[26] 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."^[27] But by the finale in December things had turned around again where critics were mostly pleased and enthusiastic.^[28][29][30] The series' first season received an aggregated score of 64% across 28 reviews from Metacritic.^[31]

US Ratings

The first season averaged 7.52 million American viewers and a 2.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic.^[32] The show was ranked the #2 new drama among adults 18-49, the #1 new show among men 18-49, 18-34, and 25-54 and was one of the top 20 regular programs among teens, as of January 1, 2012.^[33]

References

External links

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