Looks like this could have some possibilities:

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/07/video-nbc-day-one-trailer.html

I noticed that Julie Gonzalo (http://www.nbc.com/upcoming-shows/video/clips/julie-gonzalo-interview/1095426/), late of Eli Stone fame is listed as one of the stars.

Looks like this could have some possibilities:

http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/07/video-nbc-day-one-trailer.html

I noticed that Julie Gonzalo (http://www.nbc.com/upcoming-shows/video/clips/julie-gonzalo-interview/1095426/), late of Eli Stone fame is listed as one of the stars.

Holy crap! This is NBC?

So we can expect that its a good high production quality program that once discovered by GE's bean counters will be unceremoniously canceled with out cries from the fans who will get 8 more epodes after the good writers have walked and their budget has been cut to sh--. Oh and then they'll cancel it again and the bean counters and others at GE will say that kind of show is not what people want and let's replace it with some guy eating worms on TV and call it another reality show.

"Well, 09/10 was the only good year for Day One." :o

Well of course the pilot will have a bigger budget as no show on TV could maintain SFX like that in every episode. NBC has high hopes for this one and they will stand behind an SFX SciFi type drama as Heroes should prove as long as it gets some ratings support.
Day One's fate will be up to the viewers who give it ratings, that is the bottom line.

Frak it, Pete....you beat me to it. I meant to post about a peek behind-the-scenes trailer I saw for this when I went to see Transformers 2. And I must say, they put a lot a money into this pilot and it looks good; I just hope it was not in vain.

However........if they drag out the mystery of the plot, a la Lost (and they probably will), a lot of folks may just tune back out. I'll certainly watch the pilot, but have faint hope it'll survive half a season.

Frak it, Pete....you beat me to it. I meant to post about a peek behind-the-scenes trailer I saw for this when I went to see Transformers 2. And I must say, they put a lot a money into this pilot and it looks good; I just hope it was not in vain.

However........if they drag out the mystery of the plot, a la Lost (and they probably will), a lot of folks may just tune back out. I'll certainly watch the pilot, but have faint hope it'll survive half a season.

We probably need to get the word out. I realize they probably sunk a bunch into that pilot. From what I could see on a small monitor, that looked film quality.

But this IS NBC we are talking about sooooo.......:eek:

Holy crap! This is NBC?

So we can expect that its a good high production quality program that once discovered by GE's bean counters will be unceremonious canceled with out cries from the fans who will get 8 more epodes after the good writers have walked and their budget has been cut to sh--. Oh and then they'll cancel it again and the bean counters and others at GE will say that kind of show is not what people want and let's replace it with some guy eating worms on TV and call it another reality show.

"Well, 09/10 was the only good year for Day One."

Do you work in the programming department for NBC, because you have a very good grip on how things work. :D:D:D

...Day One's fate will be up to the viewers who give it ratings, that is the bottom line.

aye, and there's the rub.

Name one quality production SFX SciFi type drama that ever had a chance to develope on NBC more than 30 seconds before it was canceled. It must meet the NBC/GE Buck Rogers standard, cheesy, "cheese cake", and cheap.

Day One, what a great program you were, I miss you already. :)

And if NBC cared about ratings more than their bottom of the barrel bottom line they would allow good ideas to develop into programs instead of having to beg them in mail campaigns to do their job. I hope CBS eats their lunch by picking up their canceled, "Medium".

Heroes has been given time well past its due. That's sci-fi; I don't know if it's cheap.

Name one quality production SFX SciFi type drama that ever had a chance to develope on NBC more than 30 seconds before it was canceled. It must meet the NBC/GE Buck Rogers standard, cheesy, "cheese cake", and cheap.

Day One, what a great program you were, I miss you already. :)

And if NBC cared about ratings more than their bottom of the barrel bottom line they would allow good ideas to develop into programs instead of having to beg them in mail campaigns to do their job. I hope CBS eats their lunch by picking up their canceled, "Medium".


errr Heroes, Chuck.

Name me one CBS SciFi drama that was given a chance? Jericho? CSI Europa would be the only thing CBS would greenlight.

errr Heroes, Chuck.

Can't count them because the fan base for those shows had to beg NBC not to shoot themselves. The GE bean counters still emaciated their budgets affecting the quality of those shows.

Chuck is coming back in 2010 with half their episodes and Heroes has been strained to the point of being a caricature of its former self. ;)

This one looks good, I'm in. Is it actually on the schedule for fall, or is it going to be one of those "it's not quite ready yet" deals that eventually never makes it to air?

This one looks good, I'm in. Is it actually on the schedule for fall, or is it going to be one of those "it's not quite ready yet" deals that eventually never makes it to air?
According to NBC.com, March 2010.

Well of course the pilot will have a bigger budget as no show on TV could maintain SFX like that in every episode.

Yeah, no kidding. Normally pilots are finished in early May. This show was still working on their visual effects mid-June, and not near completion. Supposedly it has the largest number effects ever in a TV show. The guy in charge of that is the person who supervised the effects for Pushing Daisies. It should be really good.

NBC’s Day One cut down to a 4 hour miniseries

Posted on 01 October 2009 by Robert Seidman

The order for NBC’s midseason drama series “Day One” has been reduced to the two-hour pilot plus two episodes.

The show, chronicling life on Earth after a global catastrophe, now will air as a four-hour miniseries following NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.

NBC’s scripted chief Angela Bromstad repeatedly has said that the network brass was envisioning “Day One” as “a big event.”

After examining the promo budget associated with launching a 13-episode midseason series, NBC executives opted to run the drama as a miniseries, with creator Jesse Alexander said to be on board with the decision.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/10/01/nbcs-day-one-cut-down-to-a-4-hour-miniseries/29247

^Well, I suppose some exposure is better than just cancelling the project completely. Doesn't sound like we should make any emotional investment in it if they are already having doubts about it.

^Well, I suppose some exposure is better than just cancelling the project completely. Doesn't sound like we should make any emotional investment in it if they are already having doubts about it.

Tightening it up may improve the final product. Not every high-concept project needs to be stretched out to a complete series. Personally, I'd welcome more mini & midi length series which tell a great story tightly and quickly and then get off the stage.

Tightening it up may improve the final product. Not every high-concept project needs to be stretched out to a complete series. Personally, I'd welcome more mini & midi length series which tell a great story tightly and quickly and then get off the stage.

I agree,at least we get a story from beginning to end instead of being left out in space like Defying Gravity.

Four hrs seems a little short though, it gives it that Irwin Allen disaster film connotation, which regardless of what the disaster was, I don't think I've ever watched any of them, far too cheesy for me. :p

This NBC we're talking about.

Consider the recent track record:

1.a. They canceled Life. Admittedly after trying to retool it into a procedural following a well-received first season. (Side note: "They canceled Life" sounds like it should be a joke from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)

1.b. After canceling Life, they managed to greenlight Trauma AND Mercy.

2. The Bionic Woman remake. A can't-miss show destroyed in one fell swoop by casting the single least badass chick ever as the Bionic Woman. And mind you, they had Katee Sackhoff in the cast.

3. Kings. Admittedly a high-concept show that was a risk. But, it did not help to surround great actors like Ian McShane and Brian Cox with a cast apparently stolen from some random show the CW has in the pipeline.

4. Jay Leno. You know, I could kinda hang with it if it were just Leno in a different time slot. But, does every night have to include some eyesore of an attempt at pimping some company or product?

Trust me. NBC will screw Day One up. Somehow.

If it is awesome, they will retool it.

If it is decent, they will make bad casting decisions.

If it is appalling, they'll keep it and find some good show to cancel in order to keep it.

BSG Formula with a mini-series then if the ratings are good, launch the series. Better then nothing.

This was supposed to air after the Olympics but has disappeared into a black hole. The two hour movie was filmed and is in a storage unit somewhere. LOL!

The Incredible Shrinking TV Show! I hear NBC is going to further down-size it to a 5-min webisode! :p:D

Well they can air it between tv shows and stretch out the mini series, by broadcasting 5 minutes a day for a few weeks. they can have a 30 sec recap in the beginning of each showing.:p

:p:D

I guess this is never going to see the light of day. I am amazed NBC just does not burn it off on SyFy as one of the Saturday night original movies.

I have been waiting to see this. Guess it will never be :(

Journeyman and My own worst enemy add those to the list not allowed to grow.

Journeyman was a shame. I really liked that show.

I'll second whoever mentioned Kings several posts back. They cast a complete newcomer as the main character and he just wasn not up to the task to go toe to toe with Ian McShane. Didn't help that NBC put it on Sunday and Saturday nights.

has anyone checked Warehouse 13? I think it might ahve been deemed an atrifact to draw viewers and NBC immediately put it under lock and key forever ;).....

Journeyman and My own worst enemy add those to the list not allowed to grow.MOWE had an interesting premise, but Christian didn't have the acting ability to distinguish a difference between the two main characters he portrayed.