NBC is looking to get back into the genre with a new pilot from producer Michael McDonald, who has worked on Scrubs and Cougar Town.
According to TV Guide, Beautiful People is a “what if?” drama set 10 minutes into the future and focuses on families of mechanical people that exist to serve the human population — except, the robots begin to awaken.
ABC Studios and Universal TV are producing what’s touted as “low-tech, high drama.”
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Caprica anyone? Like the idea though.
10 minutes in the future?!?!
lol what?...you don't have your own personal robot slave yet?
LOL... 10 minutes from now I will
Eddie
10 minutes in the future. Lets hope they do a good job and to "sell" a SciFi show there has to be action and lots of it.
"Low Tech, High Drama"? I hate when producers feel like they have to apologize for sci-fi. Sounds like another way of saying: "We'll dumb it down for the masses." Most Sci-fi on tv is technically "Low Tech." Premise has potential though I think.
It has always been the shame of sci-fi that in order to "sell" a Sci-fi show there has to be lots of action. But once again the masses won't "buy" something highly philosophical or highly intellectual. Well, this is why we read.
"Low tech/High drama" = Cheap, almost no expensive special effects, but robots!, night-time soap opera.
Sheesh.
Here's an idea: How about bringing back JOURNEYMAN? Or what about bringing EUREKA to the Network?
If NBC really wanted a Sci-Fi show, why didn't they just bring over what they already had: a show with audience numbers and a fan base.
The problem is this: NBC/Universal/CableTown/Comcast/Whatever doesn't *reallly* want a Sci-Fi show. (No Network wants anything that's going to cost them a little bit of money...which they're already making hand over fist.)
Or, since "True Blood" is still kicking for HBO, why not water down SyFy's "Being Human" even *more* and put that on at 10pm?
OK, yeah, that suggestion was a bit of a stretch, but...
Yeah clearly rubbish (unless you are under 15 and haven't seen anything) and as TallGrrl says they don't want a scifi show, so its just going to be some sort of soap opera. Oh well.