Submitted by ionscifi on February 28, 2023 - 13:00
Reports earlier this month indicated that shot in Victoria sci-fi drama La Brea had been renewed for a third and likely final season. Shorter courtesy of an impending writer's strike.
Showrunner David Applebaum now contradicts those reports.
Filmed in Australia sinkhole sci-fi drama La Brea isn't a show we'd call great. We couldn't make it through the first episode. Critics also don't love it.
But it continues to rate not terribly on US network television and in later streaming. Enough to be renewed for a third season.
In addition to a US September 19 premiere date, more information about the plot of the Quantum Leap revival has been shared.
We already knew that this won't be a reboot in the sense of pretending like the original series never happened and reimagining it with the same or new characters.
The Quantum Leap reboot has leapt ahead of the competition to be the first of this year's US Network pilots to get a series order, i.e. season 1 production has been approved.
NBC made the announcement 29 years to the day after the final episode of the original show aired in the US.
Submitted by ionscifi on February 11, 2022 - 12:16
Helen Shaver has been selected to direct NBC's pilot of the Quantum Leap "reboot".
Though it might be more accurate to call it a revival. This is a thirty-years-later continuation of the original series not a throw it all away and do it all again thing.
Shot in Melbourne and regional Victoria, it's a special effects heavy sci-fi drama in which a whole bunch of people get sucked into a sinkhole and become trapped in a primeval land.
