Showing posts with label Lost in Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lost in Space. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Netflix cancels Lost in Space; Robinsons and Robot reboot will end with third season in 2021.


by Thinus Ferreira

Netflix has cancelled its Lost in Space reboot with the third and final season of the series that will become available next year on the video streaming service.

While never specifying a three-year story, producer and showrunner Zack Estrin, who will continue to work with Netflix, now says the reboot of the classic American 1960s science fiction series was always meant to be a "trilogy".

Lost in Space stars Toby Stephens, Molly Parker, Maxwell Jenkins, Mina Sundwall, Taylor Russell, Ignacio Serricchio and Parker Posey.

While the first season of Lost in Space, produced by Legendary Television, grabbed 3.16 million viewers on the first day of its release in April 2018, it slumped with the second season that was released in December 2019 following a 20-month gap and that failed to make any Top 10 most-watched Netflix lists the following year.

"From the beginning, we've always viewed this particular story of The Robinsons as a trilogy: A three-part epic family adventure with a clear beginning, middle and end," says Zack Estrin in a statement announcing the show's end.

"It’s also worth noting that, with what these characters go through just trying to survive each episode - if anyone deserves to catch their breath before their next mission - it's Will, Penny, Judy, Maureen, John, Don West, Dr. Smith ... and The Robot. And, of course, Debbie the Chicken."

"So while this chapter of Lost In Space is coming to a rousing conclusion, I’m excited about continuing to explore new stories with my friends at Netflix, and for all of the incredible possibilities that lie ahead."

Ted Biaselli, director of original series at Netflix, says "We are so thrilled to share more adventures of the Robinson family and see their journey through to what is sure to be an epic finale."

"We're especially thankful to Zack Estrin, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, Kevin Burns and Jon Jashni for helming Lost in Space, which has brought viewers a premium action-packed and visually spectacular series that the whole family can enjoy together, and we can’t wait for our family audiences to see where Season 3 will lead!"

Monday, May 7, 2018

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 7 May 2018.


Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ Pay-TV woes deepening in the United States as "cord-cutting" continues and traditional pay-TV customers flee and move to things like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
The fundamental shift in consumer behaviour from traditional pay-TV to streaming services are making investors worried that pay-TV companies don't have the right assets and scale in order for them to compete against the new streaming services.

■ "Bush meat" scandal in Ghana as actress Moesha Boduong told CNN she did sex-for-rent with a married man as sexual harassment is as bad in the West African country as its economy.

■ Pay-TV cost to consumers have kept increasing astronomically the past 20 years which is why more and more people are "cutting the cord".
The monthly pay-TV bill increased much faster than salaries the past 2 decades - which means that pay-TV operators are demanding that customers pay nearly double now, than what they did 20 years ago.


MUST READ: Is peak-TV slowly killing TV critics?
There's too much TV now for anyone to keep up with, including the TV critics who are literally paid to do it.


■ Extremely depressing how TV ratings in America continue its nose-dive: Even Roseanne can't save America's tanking live TV viewership anymore.
A play-by-play for each American TV network and its increasing ratings problems.

■ Look! Camel rides and falcon shows (and how much actual reporting?) about MultiChoice's disappointing 5th Digital Dialogue Conference in Dubai.

■ Speaking of which, 4 reasons why digital media is causing the death of television.

■ An unlikely character in Netflix's new Lost in Space is an object of desire.


■ Fraudsters steal N200 million (R6.96 million) from MultiChoice Nigeria.
Three alleged fraudsters - Mor Diop (49), Ekeng Ewa Ekeng (44) and Anabel Adagbasa (26) - in court in Lagos along with Nigcom Network Solution Ltd. after allegedly hacking into DStv Nigeria's DStv and GOtv computer network data and stealing money.


■ American Horror Story and Joan Collins are perfect for each other.

■ Yet another bank in Zimbabwe has had enough and is dumping payments to DStv Zimbabwe.
CABS now also demands that customers bring cold, hard dollars as payment for the MultiChoice Zimbabwe subscription fees - plus a $5 commission fee.

■ Poor thing fired from Motherwell Diagnostics in Nigeria because she couldn't stop watching M-Net's Big Brother Naija at work on DStv and kept tuning the TV set to the show despite warnings not to.
Now she's been sacked from the medical laboratory "in order that you do not become a bad influence on the rest of the workers".

Thursday, April 5, 2018

TV NEWS ROUND-UP. Today's interesting TV stories to read from TVwithThinus - 5 April 2018.


Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:

■ MUST READ: The SABC's changes at its SAfm radio station reveals a broader malaise in a dumbed-down society.
The Mail & Guardian on the SABC's poor communication of plans, and how the SABC that wants to change SAfm from a current affairs and hard news radio station to "talk radio" is part of why the SABC remains a schizophrenic institution.

■ Mistakes cost brands customers.
A new study has found that a significant number of consumers will and do drop brands when they make mistakes. 55% of consumers say they give a brand one chance only before moving on to another brand - and millennials are the most unforgiving. Brand perception among consumers is something marketers should take very, very seriously.

■ The SABC says the South African public broadcaster is in ongoing talks with trade unions about changes at SAfm - while SABC chairperson Bongimusa Makhathini says he received an anonymous e-mail making allegations of corruption at the South African public broadcaster.

■ Jennifer Lopez' low-rated cop drama, Shades of Blue, seen on M-Net City (DStv 115), cancelled after 3 seasons.

■ Death by TV: An Irish man dies after his TV set exploded.

■ MUST READ: Reality TV changed the economics of television and now it's paying for it.
and reality TV has started to eat itself and its innovations are slowing.

■ Where are the Only Children on television?

■ Move over reality TV, this is the era of fake futility television, says The Sydney Morning Herald.

■ Has Discovery's TLC become the most exploitative TV channel?

■ The fantasy book series, Gormenghast, was a mini-series shown on M-Net (DStv 101), now a new updated TV version will be made.

■ 7 great TV shows that remain stuck in development hell and 6 TV shows that lived on after their ending on TV.

■ Australia's Channel Nine banned from the 21st Commonwealth Games - take a guess why.

■ Why the future of the reality series, Project Runway, is in doubt just as M-Net is getting ready to launch Project Runway South Africa on Mzansi Magic (DStv 161).

■ Ooh twist! In Shadowhunters on Netflix, Lilith's Owl is finally unmasked and it's ...

■ Roseanne producer wants viewers to ignore the photos of Roseanne Barr dressed up as Hitler and putting gingerbread Jews cookies into an oven.


■ Vietnam's government wants to know why the pay-TV operator VTVCab abruptly dumped 22 international TV channels without even telling subscribers, including BBC Earth, Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, Animal Planet and National Geographic.


■ So, the Enterprise shows up in the opening credits of the Lost in Space reboot that is coming to Netflix soon - and it reminds a bit of the opening credit sequence of Star Trek: Enterprise too (that featured the same Enterprise).

Thursday, March 15, 2018

The new version of the 1960's science fiction series, Lost in Space, is coming to Netflix on 13 April for 10 hour long episodes.



The new version of Netflix's Lost in Space, based on the 1960's American television science fiction series about a family's adventures in space as they try to find their way back to Earth, will start globally on 13 April - and with amazing movie budget special effects, looks nothing like the original show of 5 decades ago.

The first season of the new Lost in Space will have 10 hour long episodes and is set in the year 2046 when the Robinson family and their spaceship Jupiter 2 encounter a space-time anomaly and crashlands on an unknown planet.

Stranded without knowing where they are, they try to fix their spaceship as they encounter various kinds of mystery, a robot, and also have to deal with a saboteur in their midst.

Toby Stephens who was Captain Flint in Black Sails is the dad and leader, John Robinson, with Molly Parker as the mom, Maureen - a brilliant aerospace engineer.

Ignacio Serricchio is a blue-collar worker and a smuggler, Taylor Russell is Judy Robinson, the eldest daughter, Mina Sundwall is Penny Robinson the middle child, and Maxwell Jenkins is Will Robinson, the youngest Robinson child. As in the original, he's the most prone to seek out adventure and land in trouble, but to also save the family from dangerous encounters.

The nefarious Dr Smith who constantly tried to undermine and sabotage the Robinsons has undergone a gender change and is now portrayed by Parker Posey. Of course there's also the robot - now looking hugely different, and that in the original often shouted and warned "Danger, Will Robinson!"

Zack Estrin is the executive producer of Lost in Space, produced by Legendary Television, and he told Empire magazine that Lost in Space will be "optimistic" and be "more Star Wars than Star Trek. It's about discovery and adventure and wonder".

Toby Stephens told Collider that the new version "is fundamentally a story that it's a family that is lost in a difficult, life-threatening situation and how it challenges them and brings them closer together".

"That is essentially what the story of this is, it's just the context is a lot more modern. It's a more modern take on the '60s version. If you look at it now, it's charming, but it seems so innocent. Whereas this is a version that is for our time. I'm hoping it will still have humor and humanity in it, but it has obviously gotta be for a modern audience."

Besides the trailer for Lost in Space, Netflix also released a Lost in Space featurette to help flesh out the characters some more with the actors talking about family values and their characters.



The first season of Lost in Space was filmed last year in Vancouver and British Columbia.