The early 2010s were filled with high concept genres on the eve of Monumental success with the secondary change of "lost". Shows like "FlashForward", "Revolution" or "The event" had ambitious concepts and great mysteries, but failed to capture the essence of what the "lost" "lost" did - a hint, it was not just the mysteries.

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One show from that wave was "Terra NOVA". There were many reasons to believe that this show would be a big hit. The cast included Stephen Lang, a hot stunning success of Jameseims Cameron's first film "Avatar". He boasted that no one other than Steven Spielberg as an executive producer. Oh, and it was a TV show for people who returned on time and fight the dinosaurs.

That's right. Steven "I directed" Jurassic Park "and changed the blockbuster cinema forever" Spielberg's CEO produced a TV show for dinosaurs. A reliable hit, right? CGI was pretty good, it had a cardboard to eat people alive, and Steven Lang did not hide the fact that he was just a package.

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Unfortunately, Terra NOVA has joined the many, many TV shows that lasted only one season (but Nowhere was near the best one -season shows). The reason is surprising to absolutely no one - barely watching the show, and was expensive as a hell of production.

"Terra Nova" had a meteor -sized budget that killed a dinosaur, with the pilot costing about $ 20 million (nearly $ 30 million today) and the ratings that fell as fast as the dinosaurs did when the meteor hit it. "It's a debacle. The price of the show is a kind of moving goal," a source close to the production for Thewrap (through Reuters) at the time of cancellation of the show. "They are in building sets in Australia, as will be the next" Jura Park "."

Surprisingly for a great production that ended with the failure with the audience, "Terra New" also had problems behind the scenes. The show had a door that turned to the creatives, with writers, directors and a show changing before the cameras finally rolled. Reportedly, Kevin Bacon and Kyle Chandler approached the Starwar, but they passed (according to Thewrap).

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By the time "Terra Nova" finally made him broadcast, it was a strange and confusing show. Of course, the dinosaurs (the greatest draw) and an interesting story about mankind that knit the earth are so much that they decided not to go to Mars, but instead. But it was also a tricky family drama with a great focus on the stories of a romantic teenager.

Of course, there was still the draw of the show produced by Spielberg, but that was not so unusual. After all, Spielberg also produced the susceptible founding of a shareholding TV show "River", the ambitious but narratively underestimated "heaven in heaven" (What now gets a second Max life), TV -Shot of the terrible "minority report" and much more.

Looking at "Terra Nova" in 2025, CG does not look so good, but it is difficult not to admire the boldness of the show to deal with one of the toughest stories of breaking and a smaller budget. After all, The only dinosaur movies that were actually hits the word "jura" in the title (No, we don't count the Monsersterse movies). However, the show had an impressive team that continued to do great things. In addition to Lang, who returned to Avatar to play the same character even after his death, there was Asoneyson O'Mara, who will continue to play Batman in animated films for nearly a decade, and Naomi Scott before Power Rangers and Smile 2. "

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