BREAKING. Falling Skies on FOX in South Africa renewed for a 4th season of 10 episodes.

Falling Skies, the science fiction drama from Steven Spielberg seen in South Africa on FOX (DStv 125 / TopTV 180) and currently in its third season in the United States has been renewed for a fourth season.

Unlike the previous two seasons South African viewers are not seeing episodes of the current latest third season of Falling Skies close to the American broadcasting date which is produced by DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg and starring Noah Wyle.

That is because the deal between Fox International Channels Africa (FIC Africa) and MultiChoice to also add the FOX channel to DStv means that FIC Africa is first reshowing and rebroadcasting the episodes from both the first and the second season of Falling Skies on FOX to help DStv subscribers catch up.

The one benefit is that episodes of Falling Skies are seen in South Africa for the first time in high definition (HD). The third season of Falling Skies will only start showing on FOX on DStv and TopTV in September.

The fourth season of Falling Skies will also have 10 episodes.

BREAKING. Falling Skies on Fox Entertainment renewed for a 3rd season in America.

Falling Skies, the science fiction drama executive produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Noah Wyle and see in South Africa on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on Mondays at 20:15 has just been renewed for a third season.

" Falling Skies is television storytelling at its very best, a powerful drama that's told on both an epic scale and on a deeply personal level," said Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in America, in a just-issued press statement.


Episodes of the second season of Falling Skies which just started in South Africa is showing within mere weeks of the American broadcasting date.

""With all the memorable and surprising moments taking place during the second season of Falling Skies, we can't wait to see what DreamWorks Television and Falling Skies' terrific production team and cast members have in store for season three," said Michael Wright.


The 3rd season of Falling Skies will have 10 episodes which will be shown in 2013.


In support of the current second season - and perfect for South African viewers and fans since episodes roll out basically concurrently to the American broadcasting date - is the new weekly web series, 2nd Watch, hosted by Wil Weaton at http://fallingskies.com. Each episode features discussions on the latest episode and interviews with special guests from the cast and crew, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, fan questions and trivia.

FALLING SKIES. The second season of Falling Skies on Fox Entertainment finds Tom inside an alien ship getting a proposal.

I've just finished watching the first episode of the second season of the science fiction drama Falling Skies which will start in America on 17 June and in South Africa on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on on Monday 2 July at 20:15 and all I can say is ... awesome!

I just finished watching the online screener of the first brand-new episode (thanks Fox International Channels Africa) which was made available today and although I'm going to keep my review - and the full revelations - in the first episode of the second season until a bit later, I will spill a few non-spoilers of what I've just seen.

"We've studied you in great detail, professor. We've drawn from that a proposal that will end hostilities between us."

Those are the chilling words from the alien (spoken through not the alien) when professor Tom Mason comes face to face with the aliens inside the alien ship. Viewers will remember that the first season of Falling Skies ended with Tom Mason being visited by one of the alien creatures and asked to come to their one ship.

The first episode of the second season of Falling Skies contains extensive scenes taking place inside the alien ship - somewhat resembling in appearance the Hive ships from Stargate Atlantis. Oh, and the alien makes Tom Mason - and by implication mankind - a proposal (which I won't reveal for now).

Somebody's Harley gets destroyed, the aliens have developed a new way of tracking humans, and there's one word (actually two!) that you would have heard in Star Trek ... the "neutral zone"! All the so-far known types of aliens are going to be seen, very clearly, in daylight, as well as an alien ship in the first episode.

Also Tom Mason (when he gets "released") is nowhere close to Boston, so he has to try and make his way back there.

More later, but all I can say for now is that the start of the second season of Falling Skies remains good primetime television if you like drama and like science fiction.

BREAKING. Falling Skies back on Fox Entertainment with the new second season kicking off on 2 July at 20:15 only two weeks after America.

You're reading it here first. 

I can exclusively reveal and be first to break the news that the second season of the great science fiction drama Falling Skies will start on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on Monday 2 July at 20:15 - with episodes again following just 2 weeks after the American broadcasting date.

The second season of Falling Skies with Noah Wyle as Tom Mason battling alien invaders will start on 17 June in America. Fox International Channels (FIC) Africa is again bringing the sci-fi drama to South African viewers incredibly fast after episodes unspool in America.

The second season of the highly-anticipated show will have 10 episodes.

The brand-new Falling Skies poster already yields once clue - if Tom Mason went with the alien whose spaceship landed in the final scene of the first season, he is definitely back and didn't stay ... "abducted". Something he did, or something he said, made them release him again - although they very well know that he is the leader of the human resistance.

The Steven Spielberg drama also teased saying that many twists and surprises are waiting in the new second season and that in regard to the aliens and who they really are, isn't everything it appears to be.

Programming note: TV marathons of The Simpsons, Falling Skies, Camelot and The Walking Dead coming to Fox Entertainment, FX over Christmas.

Massive TV marathons of The Simpsons, Falling Skies and Camelot are coming to Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) over Christmas, with a marathon of The Walking Dead early in January on Fox FX (TopTV 110).

The Simpsons Christmas Hamper will run from 16:00 to 18:15 on 24 December on Fox Entertainment with 6 very special Simpsons Christmas episodes.

On 26 December TopTV subscribers will be able to gorge on what Fox Entertainment calls ''Boxing Day Box Sets": a TV marathon of the first season of the great new Steven Spielberg produced sci-fi drama Falling Skies, with episodes that will run from 13:30 until 21:00.

Camelot will follow after that, with the first season's set of episodes that will unspool back-to-back from 21:00 to 04:30.

The Walking Dead also gets a quick daily-repeat cycle. All the episodes from the first season as well as the first half of the second of The Walking Dead will be shown on Fox FX from 1 to 6 January from 21:15 every night before the second half of the second season's episodes start in February in America and which will again be shown in South Africa a few days later.

''The exclusive screeing of the second season of The Walking Dead on FX on TopTV showed that Fox International Channels (FIC) is serious about bringing quality, edgy, winning entertainment shows timeously to South Africa,'' says Thandi Davids, Fox Africa director.

''We beat the broadcasters with this one. In 2011 we kept the show locked on FX exclusively for TopTV subscribers, now we give them a unique experience early in the New Year,'' she says.

''This is good news for fans who want to play catch-up. We'll be showing the entire first season and the first part of season two. A series that will be going into a third season next year.''

The Walking Dead will have the following January broadcasting times:
Season 1, episodes 1 – 3: Sunday, 1 January, 21:15 – 23:45
Season 1, episodes 4 – 6: Monday, 2 January, 21:15 – 23:30
Season 2, episodes 1 – 3: Tuesday, 3 January, 21:15 – 23:45
Season 2, episodes 4 – 7: Wednesday, 4 January, 21:15 – 00:15

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Falling Skies on Fox Entertainment is going to take your breath away with what's coming.

I was drinking some Lemon Twist and some just went into my nose. There is simply no better drama show on South African television right now that Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies on Mondays on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) at 20:15.

Skitters? Mechs? Oh please. How about ... gasp! Another third type of alien? The real extra-terrestrial puppet masters ... revealed!

Of course I'm watching ahead with Falling Skies, so I can warn you: keep watching or start watching this fantastic show! I'm not going to spoil any upcoming surprises but boy, will you're eyes go big look like Noah Wyle's (who plays Tom) when you get to the upcoming episode where a true close encounter of the third kind awaits.

''They don't ... understand.'' ''They didn't expect ... resistance ... on this level ... They want to talk.''

BREAKING. Falling Skies on Fox Entertainment renewed for a second season and 10 more episodes.

Falling Skies, the new Steven Spielberg produced drama that started this Monday on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) in South Africa was just renewed in America for a second season and 10 further episodes.

Falling Skies with Noah Wyle about an alien invasion on Earth is just 3 episodes behind America where the first season will have 10 episodes.

''Falling Skies is a true standout series, from its ambitious storytelling, high-profile cast and production team to its phenomenal success when it comes to international and time-shifted viewing,'' say Michael Wright, head of programming for TNT in a press release that distributes Falling Skies internationally. ''We're reaching new audiences with Falling Skies and look forward to seeing where this fascinating and exciting series takes us next.''

THE FORCE IS WITH FALLING SKIES: Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi TV drama contains a shout-out tribute to George Lucas' Star Wars.

What do you do when you're big friends in real life, if you both love science fiction, if you both create science fiction movies and TV shows, and if you love each other's work? Well, if you're Steven Spielberg you do a micro second tribute in your science fiction show of your friend's science fiction work.

Steven Spielberg's new TV sci-fi drama Falling Skies starts Monday 4 July at 20:15 on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180). Fox Entertainment made the first few episodes of this great new TV show available as a preview screener to a select group of South African TV critics. Exactly 8 minutes and 16 seconds into the first episode of Falling Skies I noticed a micro second don't-blink-or-you'll miss-it moment: a shout-out tribute by Steven Spielberg to his buddy George Lucas's Star Wars mythology.

The commander of the ragtag group of humans still left forming the resistance after Earth's been invaded by aliens in modern-day Boston, moves his hand on the map whilst discussing strategy. In a split second in Falling Skies, almost too quick to catch it, what viewers will see is Star Wars figurines - a Battle Droid and Anakin Skywalker action figures from Star Wars The Clone Wars (The Cartoon Network, DStv 301, Thursdays, 17:55). The Battle Droid represent the Mechs - the one type of alien attacking humans. Anakin Skywalker of course represents the remaining humans.

Below I have another image from the first episode of Falling Skies, the other type of alien called Skitters, who run and surround a human they just shot:

BREAKING. Steven Spielberg's new Falling Skies drama series starting on Fox Entertainment on 4 July is an immediate out-the-box TV hit.

The new highly anticipated Steven Spielberg drama Falling Skies starting in South Africa on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on Monday 4 July at 20:15 is an out-the-box TV hit in America where the first two hour premiere Sunday had a record viewership.

Falling Skies had 5,9 million viewers Sunday night in America which makes it the most-watched start of any TV show this year on a pay TV channel in America, and even beating the popular The Walking Dead that was shown last year on TopTV Fox FX channel and started with 5,3 million viewers in America.

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In Falling Skies Noah Wyle plays a dad Tom Mason in Boston who leads a group of resistance fighters after aliens have attacked and invaded Earth while he's looking for his one son who has been ''altered'' by the aliens looking for teenagers. South African viewers will only be three episodes behind America with Falling Skies that will have a definite full first season of 10 episodes.

BREAKING. The skies are falling: Falling Skies starting 4 July on Fox Entertainment in South Africa, will launch in 75 countries worldwide.

This is going to be the biggest event since well, The Event on M-Net: The upcoming highly-anticipated Steven Spielberg drama series Falling Skies about an alien invasion on Earth will be launching in more than 75 countries - including of course, South Africa - at the same time.

I broke the news RIGHT HERE early last month that Falling Skies will be starting on Monday 4 July at 20:15 on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) for a first season of 10 episodes. Turner Broadcasting System International just announced that South Africa will be one of more than 75 countries that will be seeing Falling Skies simultaneously including Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Canada, South Korea and Britain.

Falling Skies with Noah Wyle who leads a group of humans to fight back while he's searching for his younger son who's been kidnapped and ... ''altered'', starts on 19 June in America on the TNT channel after which the show will have an almost immediate roll-out globally with South Africa just 3 episodes behind America. The show is produced by Dreamworks Television.

''The launch of Falling Skies promises to be a global television event,'' says Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks. ''We're excited that people around the world will be able to experience this great new series.''

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BREAKING. Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies starting on Fox Entertainment on Monday 4 July at 20:15 for 10 episodes.

You're reading it here first.

Breathe. I can exclusively reveal that the highly-anticipated, mega-buzz Steven Spielberg science fiction drama Falling Skies will start on Fox Entertainment (TopTV 180) on Monday 4 July at 20:15 for 10 episodes.

Falling Skies is on the verge of getting renewed for a second season even before the first season's even started yet in America.

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In Falling Skies Noah Wyle as prof. Tom Mason leads a ragtag group of survivors in modern-day America (they call themselves 2nd Mass) after Earth is overrun by invading aliens. With his two sons he goes to look for his third who's been captured (and given a mind-controlling device that plugs straight into the backbone).

The producers already said there's more than one alien creature that will be seen in Falling Skies - as is also evident from the already released trailer - giant slimy reptilian things, and more mechanical ''Mech'' robot-like things. TV/Line revealed one yesterday (below) - the Mech ones that will mostly be seen battling the remaining humans in what is left of Earth's cities.

HOT TRAILER! Watch the first trailer for Falling Skies, 2011's first big buzz TV show.

You will want to watch this. (''I was in school when the ships came. . . They were really big. We weren't gonna attack them with nuclear bombs because they might have wanted to be friends. But they didn't want to be friends. . . )

And here's something even I don't know yet: Will South African TV viewers get to see Steven Spielberg's awesome looking new science fiction drama Falling Skies first on TopTV's FX (TopTV 110) like The Walking Dead, or on DStv's M-Net (DStv 101) like The Event and V?

The very first trailer for this new drama starring ER's Noah Wyle is now out, and the mesmerizing post-apocalyptic show that will start in America in June is a combination of The Walking Dead (minus the zombies), The Event, Lost, V and Independence Day.

The show calls itself ''a tale of endurance, committment and courage in which everyday people are called upon to be heroes'' and starts in the aftermath of an alien attack (aliens called Skitters and Mechs and they're still here and we see them) that has left the world incapacitated. Noah Wyle plays professor Tom Mason who leads a band of  survivors and tries to find his family. Falling Skies is produced by DreamWorks Television.