ABC Picks Up Defying Gravity
July 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Email | ShareABC has picked up Fox TV Studios’ 13-episode adventure drama Defying Gravity starring Ron Livingston. Defying Gravity, whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. The series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also executive produce.
The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC, comes from creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an executive producer on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty, and executive producer Michael Edelstein, former executive producer of Desperate Housewives.
Defying Gravity is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year, along with Mental and Persons Unknown. It is the second after “Mental” to land a U.S. distributor and the first to go somewhere other than a Fox-affiliated network.
Thank you ABC for picking up Defying Gravity. I loved the first episodes that were aired this past summer and then had to download the rest through itunes because it was such a phenomenal show even though I am not a sci fi person. It is just as gripping as “Prison Break” was if not more.