Terra Nova For Sale

BREAKING NEWS. On March 5, 2012, Fox announced that its freshman show,TERRA NOVA, IS OFFICIALLY CANCELLED... for now.

Due to the low ratings of the show during its air from September to December 2011, Fox finally let go of this expensive series (en episode costs more than a million dollars). 20th Century Fox Television is currently selling Terra Nova to other networks for its second season.

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".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.

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 series, 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.

 Terra Nova's star Jason O'Mara expressed his sadness in his twitter account last Monday. "“Bad news guys, Terra Nova has been cancelled by Fox. We’re gonna try and get another network to do it. Stand by.”

As mentioned above, Fox will not broadcast the series in the said network anymore but its production company - 20th Century Fox Television - are currently selling Terra Nova to other networks.

Too bad the show's cancelled. But I hope a good network will buy this show. But I can say I am not surprised that it got cancelled. The plot has a lot of potential but the writing was really bad and how it was developed was boring.