![]() Then there’s Leven’s pilot script, aimed straight at Planet Soap. Better known for low budget horror flicks such as “Paranormal Activity,” Blum seems lost in space trying to navigate, in his words, a 100,000 square foot spaceship as opposed to a 1,500-square-foot haunted house. The premise reaches for the stars but may have been brought down to earth by executive producer Jason Blum. There’s no attempt to explain or address gravity or weightlessness, so it looks more like a Holiday Inn than the Starship Enterprise. A few key scenes in the pilot take place in a resort-sized swimming pool supposedly on board the space station. It just doesn’t feel like Father Knows Science. Sunday’s pilot episode takes place 51 years into the mission as a murder on board the spacecraft unnerves the crew and colonists.Īs one character says in the pilot, the whole mission has a “ Father Knows Best exploring the universe” feel. “He was terrified because they had built a death star,” says Levens.Īscension asks what if Kennedy had said yes and launched Orion in 1963. Kennedy apparently spiked the project when he realized it was being weaponized. Their ancestors would eventually find a hospitable planet and start a peaceful new world. ![]() The idea was that hundreds of people would be sent into space on a 100-year mission. Kennedy in the early ‘60s as a hedge against a possible nuclear holocaust. The “Orion Project” was presented to President John F. ![]() Jacqueline Byers ( 90 Days), Andrea Roth ( Rescue Me) and Wendy Crewson ( Saving Hope) are all along for the ride.Ĭo-creator Phil Levens explained to TV critics last year that Ascension is loosely based on a decades-old secret military plan to colonize space. Almost everyone else in the cast is Canadian, including Tricia Helfer ( Battlestar Galatica) as the captain’s wife and chief steward and Gil Bellows ( Ally McBeal) as the Earth-bound son of the brilliant scientist who dreamt up this trillion-dollar enterprise. Episodes were shot last summer in Montreal with Lionsgate and Canadian partners Sea to Sky co-producing along with NBC Universal.īrian Van Holt ( Cougar Town) plays the skipper of a gigantic, interstellar space ship on a 100 year mission. The six-part space opera has already aired Stateside on the SyFy cable network. In space, no one can hear you scream, “Change the channel!”Įarthlings should listen for that sound shortly after 9 p.m. Ascension‘s three main astronauts Brandon Paul, Tricia Helfer and Brian Van Holt
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