Tyler Labine revealed that he had a personal conversation with series creator Shaun Cassidy about what would have happened during Season 2 of Invasion.
“Shaun told me Larkin was going to [be presumed dead]. I was going to get all militant and shave my head, and Russell and I were going to join forces against Tom. Tom was going to find out that his first wife was actually alive, and she was running this whole military operation, and she was Szura’s boss.”
ABC stuck with with its SF series Invasion until the very end, with hopes that it would eventually find an audience, but network president Stephen McPherson told SCI FI Wire that it eventually had to cut the series loose after a dramatic drop in audience.
Even with a lead-in like the hit show Lost, Invasion suffered a dramatic downturn in viewers, and ABC decided not to renew the alien mystery series, though it attracted about 10 million viewers a week. McPherson said in an interview at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif., last week that he is aware that some fans were angry about the decision to pull the heavily serialized drama before its storylines were wrapped up.
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The escaped inmates from Prison Break will face a formidable nemesis next season, to be played by “Invasion” star William Fichtner.
The second season of Fox’s Prison Break chronicles the manhunt for Michael, Lincoln and the other inmates who successfully broke out of prison at the end of Season 1. Fichtner will star as a federal agent assigned to track down and apprehend the escaped convicts.
The search for an actor to play the role went down to the wire. Production on the show, which was shooting on location in Dallas, was postponed by a day until the deal with Fichtner was completed.
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With ABC’s new fall schedule being releasd this Tuesday, word is going around that ABC does not intend to pick up Invasion for a second season. But that bad news could have a silver lining. It appears that The CW is interested in bringing Invasion to its new network should ABC fail to sign it up for a second season.
Invasion is a very entertaining Science Fiction show, much like Surface. And both shows left us with cliffhanger season finales that I want to see resolved. Ideally they both get renewed for second season, but if not, at least there is hope for another a season of Invasion. Hopefully The CW or another network is looking at Surface too because both of these shows are entertaining, and that is a rare quality in freshman series this year.
Sinister Eli Szura puts his plan into motion as Hurricane Miranda heads straight for Homestead. Russell and Sheriff Underlay take measures to get their families out of harm’s way, then devote their energies into trying to stop Szura. Meanwhile Dave is determined to videotape the next wave of the alien invasion and break a very big story.
Invasion is coming to DVD on August 22, and the 6 disc set will include all 22 episodes from the first season of the series. Warner Brothers is advertising 50 minutes of extras. The set will sell for around $59.98.
Fox has announced the DVD release of their 2005/2006 hit show, Prison Break, on August 8. The 6 disc set will include all 22 episodes (966 mins), along with some extras. The set will have an anamorphic widescreen trasnfer, and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. This set will also be priced around $59.98.
After a minibreak from ABC’s schedule, Invasion is back where it belongs. Tonight Sheriff Underlay is enlisted by an Air Force colonel to look for a military pilot on the lam. Larkin manages to run into the AWOL pilot. Meanwhile, Dave and Russell make some disturbing discoveries on Szura’s island in the Keys, and Jesse is bullied by kids at school who have changed since the hurricane.
Tyler Labine, who plays Dave on ABC’s Invasion, told SCI FI Wire that his alien-invasion theorist character will be vindicated when the series returns from its hiatus on April 19 and promised that many questions will be answered on the way to the season-ending cliffhanger. “There’s some different sides of Dave coming out here,” Labine said in an interview. “Let me just say this: I can only be pushed so far. And I think I finally snap. It’s in a very positive way, but I finally take some initiative and grow a bit stronger of a backbone. Let me just say some familial things push me to the edge.”
Labine added: “I have a lot of things coming up with Deputy Sirk, the one-armed deputy, and he’s very strongly involved in my vindication.”
Labine’s Dave, who was considered a bit of a conspiracy nut in the beginning of the series, quickly set forth his own theory about the changes in many of the local residents after Hurricane Eve hit the town of Homestead, Fla. Those changes involved so-called “extraterrestrial biological entities,” or EBEs.
The series is headed for “the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers,” Labine said. “We are steam-rolling towards the pinnacle of the show. The episodes we’ve shot have been so unbelievably well-planned throughout the whole season. There’s stuff coming up that I didn’t even remember that we shot. And it’s being tied in so cleverly. … It was like things that you felt were insignificant or out of place early on, they weren’t. They’re being tied in all over the place, and we are shooting the finale right now. It’s got a really, really huge cliffhanger shocker at the end.”
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