Threshold
Creator Brannon Braga reveals how the team would have fought to save the world — if his show had survived.
I admit that the way we ended Threshold was much too hasty. For a show that was about an alien race’s long-range plans to alter human DNA to make us more like them, we had to wrap up quickly. So in the last of the 12 episodes we shot — only eight of which aired in America — we had this dream sequence with Dr. Molly Caffrey (Carla Gugino). She was the one who had come up with the strategy to deal with an alien invasion of Earth. In the dream, the first alien-human child born comes to her and tells her, “Your plan will work and you will not live to see it.” With only one day to come up with something, that was our lame-ass conclusion.
Fans will get to see all 12 episodes in the DVD collection we’re releasing, but we had tons of other
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Rachel Dratch has joined Saturday Night Live cast mate Tina Fey's NBC comedy pilot about an SNL-type show.... Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) will star in the Fox comedy Till Death.... Kim Raver (24) has been added to ABC's drama about nine strangers held hostage during a bank robbery.... Kelli Williams (The Practice) is back doing the lawyer thing on ABC's Women in Law.... Jeffrey Donovan is one of the Enemies in ABC's drama about two childhood friends who grow up to be a lawman and a mobster.... Meta Golding (JAG) is the sister of Taye Diggs' framed cop in ABC's Day Break.... Currie Graham (Lynette's boss on Desperate Housewives) has joined the CBS drama Edison.
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JAG alum David James Elliott has been tapped to star in Sixty-Minute Man, an ABC drama pilot about a family man who, unable to recall hourlong chunks of his days, begins to suspect he is part of a national conspiracy. Hey, as long as those missing hours weren't spent cozying up to Catherine Bell, I don't see the problem.
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Catherine Bell
JAG knockout Catherine Bell recently shot a guest-star appearance for CBS' Threshold as a genetic engineer who, sources say, could become a recurring character should the sci-fi thriller receive a (much-deserved) full-season pickup. What's more, executive producer Brannon Braga revealed in a conference call with the press that Red Team member Lucas will get an as-yet-uncast fiancée and Lost creepazoid William Mapother's alien infectee from the series premiere will come back "in a very, very unexpected way."
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Question: Who was the girl who played Ms. Parker on The Pretender? Thanks.
Answer: That's an actress named, appropriately enough, Andrea Parker playing Centre operative Ms. Parker, Pete. And if you believe the show's press materials, the character was named before she was cast. Before you caught her on The Pretender, you might also have seen her both in bit parts and recurring roles on such shows as ER, JAG, Seinfeld, Coach, Married... with Children and Ellen.
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NBC is heading for a fall this fall, and it isn't likely to be pretty. The network didn't even make much effort to pretend otherwise over the last few days of presentations, and that's rare honesty for a summer press tour. Entertainment chief Kevin Reilly, mired in the post-Friends doldrums that his predecessor Jeff Zucker left behind upon ascending the corporate ladder, knows the turnaround will be slow and ugly.
Certainly, the response was tepid to hostile for such middling-to-awful new series as Surface (a "big tent" family/sci-fi/fantasy drama about a new species of sea creature), Inconceivable (a smarmy drama set in a fertility clinic) and E-Ring (a rare misfire from Jerry Bruckheimer's factory, an uninspired JAG-lite set
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