Defying Gravity: Does ABC Even Know It’s On?

I'd be sad to see this go.. its got potential.. and here in Canada i see ads for it dozens of time a day on Space Channel!

ABC invest in a show... doesn't promote it... and whines and let it die after.. did i miss something here?

Nope, I don't think you did NIGHTWARP. At least you're seeing ads. Anyone else seeing ads for DEFYING GRAVITY?

Never even heard of it before this post.

It a fnastastic show, virtuality was a pile compared to this which is actually a original production and no plagiarised from a book but then Ron moore never did have a original idea did he.

Shame about the lack of advertising and then airing it on a Sunday night in summer could not of help it out neither.

Guest we will have to see how it numbers are outside of the US. At least the BBC will advertise the hell out of it having put money directly into the project.
An at least we will get to see all the episodes from Canada or if it come to it the BBC.

Very Good show............and yes ABC crapped in it's own mess kit on this one. I used to think FOX was the worst about knowing how to figure out advertising, but I was wrong. ABC ties it for #1 in that area.

I was warned early on that ABC HAD to have purchased the airing rights to this because they were looking for a filler show, there was no way that "Play it safe ABC" would take a chance on something as orginal as Defying Gravity.
I should have listened.

I would say we could at least watch the remaining five episodes on the ABC home page, but even that is screwed up 90% of the time.

ABC=Morons

Amy J.
At worse, try to watch them on space.com webpage, full eps are available there.

I'm really enjoying this show. Compelling drama with interesting characters. Yes, it's another soap opera in space, but then so was BSG!

I agree with David, Defying Gravity is a fantastic show that has alot of potential. ABC let it drop. Before it started there were maybe 10 commercials a week for the show...tops. 2nd week there were about 5. Third week forward there were none. By the fourth week, we didn't even get a glimpse of the next episode - we got a Gray's Anatomy commercial as the credits rolled. ABC promotes Modern Family & Flash Forward with at least 2 commercials per half hour, as a matter of fact they promote them so much that I don't want to see them anymore.If ABC had invested some promotional time and effort DG's ratings wouldn't be so low.

Love Defying Gravity. I really hope they keep it around. So much better than all the poop that's out there now.

And everyone is right about how ABC hasn't done Defying Gravity justice with the non existent advertising. But I have seen it advertised on the Space Channel quite a lot. Yay!

Hope ABC is smart enough to keep it around!!!!!

IMO Defying Gravity was put together somewhat like a 13 part mini-series but many people are reviewing it like a regular weekly network show.

The slow build and the way that bits and pieces of information are doled out to the viewers is something I enjoy and others find irritating. I like the way I'm feeling teased and tantalized about what's going to happen and who it's going to happen to--and most of all--why??

Here's hoping that we get to see all 13 episodes somewhere!

Your kidding RIGHT?!?!? this show is crap. There are so many technical errors in it alone that the crew should have been dead by episode 2. It is a rip off of virtuality, i believe that if they had given that show a chance, ron more would have given us a new battlestar. Also i liked virutality because it had some modicum of science attached to it. But no, this show should be sponsored by TIDE with the amount of soap in it. The only interesting character is the crazy baby lady who slept with the mission commander after saving the fat porno hunting physicist on board. The show is poorly written and needs to die. It is the offspring the writers strike in which we now also have 20 new reality shows that are all "compelling human dramas."

Honestly thought that this was just a mis-summer movie filler like those two asteroid movies that were on around the same time. Didn't realize it was a series.

@Amy J. - Couldn't agree more about how bad some stations are at promoting shows. I'm still mad at FOX for how they handled Arrested Development, I would remember watching football on Sunday's and always see promos for 24 and other big shows that everyone already knew when they were on, but were so hush-hush about when they would move AD around from Sunday's to Thursday's to Monday's to Friday's. They never really gave AD a fair shot.

well I have to say that while John is right about the technical flaws that run rampant through the show, it does offer us a different glimpse of characters that are not cookie cutters for a change, I liked seeing religion treated as seriously and as personally as it is here. I like how whatever in pod 4 can play the maguffin as long as it has is a nice tease and the tension between the people doing the job and the management types back home has a real whiff of realism if you ask me. Does it mean that it couldn't be better, sure, but compared to what else is out there, I'm still watching it, after all there's only some many dirty jobs and mythbuster reruns you can stand before you want a taste of something else. I wish I could understand why these guys don't allow their content to be more accessable, if people could watch episodes and get caught up (you know, like they did with Jericho) they might pick up more viewers if WOM could get going. These days of letting shows grow and build audiences is really too old school I suppose.

John says:

The only science I remember in Virtuality was them saying they developed a brand new drive base on brand new physics, then it turn out to be base of 1960s idea of exploding a bomb behind a plate of mettle and use the wave of the bomb to push the spacecraft along in space. I Actually burst out laughing when they said, look like there was two people writing the script or may be Ron just got confuse why Plagiarising other people work. Whole there was one other odd thing about virtuality, to do with gravity which what most people have issues with on DG, there space craft which suppose to make gravity by spinning sections of it around, well that what the space craft look like it was design to do, one major tiny little flaw with that is that non of the sections actually spun around and so there should not off been any gravity with in the craft. Also bugs on board a space ship, in a green house, do not know who Ron science advisor was but even I know that just would not happen no matter who running the mission, nasa would not dream of allowing bugs onto international space station.

Do not remember any other science in the entire episode of virtuality. May be you would point it out. I notice a lot more science in Defying gravity than I ever did in Virtuality an most of it turning out to be accurate. Even the gravity thing.
An anyway at least they brave enough to tackle the issues of science rather ignore them like Ron more did/do.

I had high hopes for the show, but have been let down somewhat by:
-overly cryptic "mars wasteland scenes" when communicating with some supposed alien entity on board? - how long will it take this story line to reveal some fruit??? too long at the current pace it will be season 3...
-too much soap opera and not enough sci-fi. While we need character development to get into the cast and feel an attachment, they've just gone TOO FAR with all the pregnancy and touchy feely going on there -- is the head writer a woman just off a soap opera gig??? Where's the SCI-FI???
-what knowledge of/interest that has been developed in the characters hasn't been leveraged (fitting word...) to see them use their strengths to get through some crisis. Only crisis I recall was tied to hallucinations, not some clever teamwork to get around it. Dear writers: space is DANGEROUS and UNKNOWN. Bring this into the scripts! Watch Leverage one night and see how they play off each other... You've got a big cast, but I'm tiring off watching the chick tell the geek to not knock on her door anymore, just to have him chop off her thumb and ruin her dream of piloting the lander... Is anyone experiencing any PEAK MOMENTS watching this thing? I fear not. Whereas I have 3 an episode on Leverage, 1-2 on Chuck, etc. etc. etc. It's headed for the cutting room if it doesn't take a hard left and real soon.

Oh, I hope that its not gone. I've been watching it on Hulu. I've started to fall for all of the characters, even Nadia. Zoener is pulling on me like Kayon and Spuffy. As long as Hulu keeps loading new eppies, I am happy!

There's so few good tv shows with drama, tension and mature themes. Thank goodness Twilight and sparkly vampires haven't infected every silver screen.

~Seryna

Noooooo you cannot just end the show like that!!! I waited for months,(all summer), to view this program... Jeez a program that makes you listen. I love hearing the brainic's talk space science.

It's fresh and new and you learn about what is all around us and not just in front of us... It's like am a space pioneer too, I'm making the trip with them. I can't wait until they get into the real nuts & bolts of science, planets, stars, meteors, aliens... for petesakes somebody be brave enough to talk about it.

Its the new rage, (SPACE), people!! Why are we here, our purpose. CSI all the crime drama were really cool too... but this is now and what is happening... we are the chosen poeple living in this time... this programing is opening up the sleeping masses... if you give it time and write more into the scripts... more space science like tonight you could have said more about Solar Flares... it can happen to Earth.

I love this show... getting to know each crew member now. Who is Beta? Divine enity or alien being... WTHeck!!! I'll just spin-off the planet if you take this show off... seriously please reconsider. A huge fan!

I was lucky enough to catch Defying Gravity on Hulu shortly after it's first air.
It's an excellent show, with solid acting, decent sets, excellent camera work, good scripts, and an interesting storyline.
No it's not "all action" and guess what, that's a good thing. I like the voice-over/commentary from Donner. It's nicely paced, little mysterious, little fantasy, and I think represents some of how we'd LIKE a space adventure to be.
More about the humans in space, not about the technology, or the danger, or the science.
I am certain that ABC is going to kill it, simply because ABC/Disney looks at the dollar signs, and doesn't see any coming from this. (of course, sunday night at 10PM EST, is not exactly a showcase timeslot)

For all fans of "Defying Gravity", it looks like CTV (Canadian Television) will still be airing 3 more episodes this season... and lucky for us, these can be viewed on their website the day after they air (September 18, 25, and TBA)!

Naturally anything that examines human nature without a monster of the week Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea style fails. I remember that sixties show lasting eons, now all the writing talent of the ages can't save shows like this one. The attention span of the video game crowd is not content unless what it watches has all the meaning of sticking your wet fingers into an electric socket.

Hopefully, the report the remaining five episodes are not being given air time. One is scheduled the 20th of Sept, we might learn what or who BETA is, the rest if shelved might wind up on ABC's website or HULU.COM for at least closure.

In any event, there is one redeeming feature. The taste of most TV watchers is just gawdawful, which actually says something positive about the show.

How the heck can ABC just stop the show? Boy I am going right to the channel and letting them have a thought or two of mine. They must be WWWWWAAAAYYYYY above any one. Thinking they can't go to heck like so many corporations have. See you on the flip side.

My husband is handicapped and watches the sci-fi channels and programs. What the ---- was that stupid channel thinking.

Do I detect a rift in the space-time continuum?

It would figure that the networks are out of touch. Any show with substance that's not a fracking reality show can't be good right? WRONG. This is the first show since the new Battlestar Galactica that has an underlying mystery that makes you want to watch the next episode. Hopefully, the SciFi channel will pick it up and continue. I need to know what's in POD number 4!!!

maybe they can save the show if they add a couple of cops or whinning doctors that with sing and dance at the end of every episode.

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unfortunately, I've read somewhere that they've torched the sets for DG at the Vancouver studios.

Which is going to be interesting, because a friend of mine in the UK says they've just started airing it, and it's gaining popularity.

I watched the first two episodes of this, thought it was terrible, vowed never to watch another...and here I am at episode 8. Originally I thought it was just going to be a series-length version of the one-off docudrama Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets from 2004, which was passably made but dull as ditchwater.

There's still plenty that irritates me about DG (the odd bout of plinky-plonky music to megaphone something "lighthearted" for one), but the flashback and narration format seems to work, and the big secret of what's in Pod 4 has kept me watching.

Contrary to what david in the third post above assumed would be the logical thing for the BBC to do, they've practically ignored this show, from episode 6 even moving it from a 9pm midweek slot to 11.10 on a Saturday night. Despite recent media hoo-hahs about corporate expenses they obviously don't mind throwing their money away.

So have the final five episodes actually aired in the US and Canada, or has top James Cameron lookalike Goss got his wish and found a real-world way of stopping us from finding out what's in Pod 4?