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This new CBS series is excellent! Boy Brannon Braga from the Star Trek production crew might have had burnout on Enterprise but he’s really stepped it up on this show!
It’s like XFILES meets TOM CLANCY. There’s lots of spooky scifi stuff but they have SWAT teams!
The tough mercenary type guy reminds me a lot of Kurt Russell when he was in STAR GATE. Real tough macho guy but intelligent. Spiner is fun in this. He isn’t a wild character but he makes witty remarks occasionally and plays a competent medical doctor. Definetley worth a watch (Friday nights on CBS at 9pm est time – check your local listings)
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Threshold is in a tough time-slot and up against established sci-fi programs. Hopefully more people will find it, though.
I borrowed this from trektoday.com
Quote:Threshold, the new CBS show co-executive produced by Brannon Braga and co-starring Brent Spiner, received only mediocre ratings for its premiere.The new series earned a 5.3 rating/9 share in the fast national ratings for CBS, according to Zap2It. This means that approximately 5.3% of American households with television sets were tuned to CBS during the 9 p.m. hour, representing 9% of households watching television at that time. The second hour of NBC’s Dateline took the top spot, although Threshold finished ahead of UPN’s Smackdown! with a 3.2/6, the WB’s season premieres of Reba and Living with Fran with an average 2.2/4, ABC’s Hope & Faith and Less Than Perfect which tied the WB numbers and FOX in last place with a rerun of the Reunion premiere.
NBC averaged a 6.0 rating/11 share in primetime for the night, beating the 5.2/9 for CBS, although the Eye network was top-rated among adults 18-49. Dateline’s ratings also went up from the 8 p.m. hour to the 9 p.m. hour, starting out with a 5.3/10 and improving to a 6.9/12 against Threshold, which improved in its second hour to a 5.6/10.
Reviews had largely been positive, with DailyPress.com calling Threshold “frighteningly good.” Called the best of the Lost parallels, Threshold is praised for its “gasp-out-loud scary” story. Newsday called the new series “not for the young or squeamish”, noting, “It’s no surprise to learn the sci-fi suspenser ‘Threshold’ is being produced by ‘Star Trek’ spin-offs veteran Brannon Braga.” The paper did not believe that Spiner’s role was in the new series’ best interest, however, saying, “Casting Brent Spiner in a quirky role does not a youthful stew make. ‘Trek’ itself is old news now, and the notion CBS doesn’t know that does not bode well for a concept that might otherwise be enlivened into something worth watching again.”
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