Let's be clear that this is not a reboot. Where reboots take a new approach to something that has been done before, Quantum Leap Season 1 Episode 1 is the beginning of a continuation of the Quantum Leap project. The next chapter, if you will.
It acknowledges the legacy of Sam and Al, brings back Ziggy, and introduces the team assembled to turn the experimental accelerator into a viable tool.
At the same time, the premiere manages to tap into the madcap humor of the original series and points out the more idiosyncratic foibles of the concept that newcomers might question.
Altogether, this is the premiere I wanted because I didn't know what kind of a premiere was needed. Without Scott Bakula or Dean Stockwell, how would this team feel authentically tied to Quantum Leap?
With the thirty years that have passed, is there a place in the television landscape for Quantum...
It acknowledges the legacy of Sam and Al, brings back Ziggy, and introduces the team assembled to turn the experimental accelerator into a viable tool.
At the same time, the premiere manages to tap into the madcap humor of the original series and points out the more idiosyncratic foibles of the concept that newcomers might question.
Altogether, this is the premiere I wanted because I didn't know what kind of a premiere was needed. Without Scott Bakula or Dean Stockwell, how would this team feel authentically tied to Quantum Leap?
With the thirty years that have passed, is there a place in the television landscape for Quantum...
- 9/20/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
Exclusive: Sky is taking another crack at time-travel after the pay-tv giant began developing a remake of H.G. Wells’ classic novella The Time Machine with Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions.
The BBC Worldwide-backed production company is developing the project with Nick Payne, the British playwright who recently wrote Toni Collette-fronted BBC drama Wanderlust, and director Kibwe Tavares, who has been involved in Mammoth Screen’s adaptation of Noughts & Crosses for the BBC. I understand that the project in the “very early stages of development.”
The drama would likely air on its Sky Atlantic channel, which is looking for more big-budget originals to air alongside dramas such as Riviera and Tin Star as well as its imported shows from HBO and Showtime.
The Time Machine, which was published in 1895, follows an English scientist living in Victorian England who recounts that time is simply a fourth...
The BBC Worldwide-backed production company is developing the project with Nick Payne, the British playwright who recently wrote Toni Collette-fronted BBC drama Wanderlust, and director Kibwe Tavares, who has been involved in Mammoth Screen’s adaptation of Noughts & Crosses for the BBC. I understand that the project in the “very early stages of development.”
The drama would likely air on its Sky Atlantic channel, which is looking for more big-budget originals to air alongside dramas such as Riviera and Tin Star as well as its imported shows from HBO and Showtime.
The Time Machine, which was published in 1895, follows an English scientist living in Victorian England who recounts that time is simply a fourth...
- 8/17/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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