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"An intriguing drama about a detective (Jason Issacs, "Harry Potter," “Brotherhood”) who finds he is leading an arduous double life that defies reality. When Detective Michael Britten (Issacs) regains consciousness following his family's car accident, he is told that his wife Hannah (Laura Allen, “Terriers”) perished but that his teen son, Rex (Dylan Minnette, “Saving Grace”), has survived. As he tries to put the pieces of his life back together, he awakens again in a parallel reality in which his wife is very much alive -- but his son Rex died in the accident. In order to keep both of his loved ones alive at one time, he begins living two dueling realities in parallel worlds"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdhXyBgN_QU

I thought this looked to be far and away the best network series picked up, and I really dug creator Kyle Killen's previous show Lone Star so I have high hopes for this.

5/26/2011 3:46:38 PM

This is definitely the one I am most interested in as well. I feel NBC really has a great one on their hands if they'll give it time. I watched that preview the other day and it really builds some anxiety and intensity in a short amount of time.


There are actually several new shows coming this fall that i'm interested in checking out. I need some fresh network blood.

5/26/2011 4:12:49 PM

that sounds terrible

5/26/2011 4:26:55 PM

Says the guy who liked The Cape.

5/26/2011 4:35:26 PM

i'll give it a shot. I liked Lone Star.

5/26/2011 4:35:57 PM

Dude took pleasure in gutting Heath Ledger.

5/26/2011 4:39:33 PM

Sounds interesting. A bit like "Life on Mars" to me. I'll have to check it out.

5/26/2011 4:55:54 PM

well, he got gutted by sam neil, so its all good

5/26/2011 5:10:04 PM

looks pretty cool, although i'm sure by the time i get really invested in it, it'll get the axe. just the way things work on network tv. maybe they'll pull a fox and debut it on friday night, cause it's sure to succeed that way.

5/26/2011 5:18:23 PM

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"A bit like "Life on Mars" to me."

if Life on Mars mixed with Journey Man and took a dump on My Own Worst Enemy and made a much better show.

5/27/2011 8:18:30 AM

fuck you

5/27/2011 8:30:00 AM

haha i'm not saying i didn't like Life on Mars. I liked it and really liked JM. but NBC failed hard with the alt-timeline show My Own Worst Enemy. So here's hoping that this formula works better

5/27/2011 8:56:07 AM

My Own Worst Enemy was a good concept, but Christian Slater cannot single handedly carry a show. They could have salvaged it with a great costar, but they decided on Mike O'Fucking Malley of Guts, Yes, Dear, and now Time Warner Cable commercial fame. Good concept, but two piss poor casting decisions doomed this bad boy from the start

5/27/2011 9:07:01 AM

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"Show: "Awake" (NBC) The Pitch:"It's like 'Inception,' only not very much like 'Inception,' but maybe more like a police procedural, but kinda not." Quick Response: For last night's Take Me To The Pilots, I tore into "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," one of the worst pilots of the year. To wash the taste out of my mouth, I'm cheating and saying a few words about one of my favorites pilots of the year, even though NBC is holding it for midseason. "Awake" may be the best-looking network pilot in several years. From the opening shots, in which we witness the tragic car accident that sets the plot in motion, director David Slade ("Hard Candy," "30 Days of Night") puts his fingerprints all over "Awake." The wallpaper pops in ever interior. Raindrops explode off the screen. An emotionally draining session with a shrink is drained of primary colors. It's gorgeous to look at and leading man Jason Isaacs successfully grounds the mind-mending plot about a detective living two parallel lives, one when he's awake and another when he's asleep. Which is which? What is reality and what is dream? Isaacs has a human gravitas and uses his conviction to make every beat of Kyle Killen's verbose script seem worthy of consideration, even if parts of the pilot feel a bit too much like the gleeful meanderings of a Psych major delving too deeply into rudimentary dream theory. Isaacs has some exceptional support, including "Terriers" vet Laura Allen, who was wisely bumped from a supporting role into the female lead. I also liked both Steve Harris and a self-consciously mas-macho Wilmer Valderrama as the main character's partners in the different realities. My question after watching the pilot is the same thing I worried about after reading the script: What is the week-to-week series here and what are the chances audiences will respond to what is a VERY cerebral show, especially when the dream theory stuff resonates much more strongly than the procedural stuff? I can't be bothered with the second part, since I know that *I* responded. Audiences either will or won't respond and this is *my* gut reaction. But the first part, I'm not sure if there's a "Daybreak"/"Journeyman" sort of conspiracy/mythology at the root of the "Why is this strange thing happening to this guy?" mythology or if we're supposed to feel like it's all in his head. "Awake" has the ability to go either way and I can imagine resolutions that could be intriguing and others that could be infuriating. And I can't imagine what Season 5 of "Awake" is. Who knows? Who cares? This is a pilot. And, on its own, it's a good one. Desire To Watch Again: Oh, I'm there for a second episode. No question. There are one or two pilots that I like roughly as much, but I don't think I watched a network pilot this summer that I liked more. I'm also incredibly interested in seeing what "Awake" looks like without Slade at the helm. Will all of the visual inventiveness go out the window? Or will they take advantage of a limited spring run to hire a different type of director to maintain the pilot aesthetic?"

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-fien-print/posts/take-me-to-the-pilots-11-nbcs-awake

7/12/2011 2:01:42 PM

don't screw this up, NBC

11/15/2011 5:42:01 PM

yeah they "temporarily" shut down production the other week and now it's off NBC's midseason schedule so who knows when this will air or how many episodes we would get.

11/15/2011 6:00:55 PM

that's never good. it was my front runner for most interesting pilot before the fall season. i suppose now we should curb our excitement

11/15/2011 6:50:48 PM

nbc doesnt want to end their streak of shit

11/15/2011 11:23:04 PM

Set to premiere Thursday, March 1st at 10PM. It will probably fail miserably in that timeslot, but whatever.

2/3/2012 1:41:29 PM

going up against the mentalist and private practice...

2/3/2012 1:44:55 PM

I just hope they run some promos for it during the Superbowl.

2/3/2012 1:55:59 PM

i think they've already spent that budget on Smash

2/3/2012 2:01:41 PM

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"With "The Firm" tanking badly in the ratings in NBC's once-prized Thursday at 10 p.m. timeslot, the only question was exactly when NBC would pull it and whether it would be replaced by a pair of comedies ("Community" and "Bent," perhaps?) or by NBC's only unscheduled mid-season drama: "Awake." After "The Firm" pulled a pathetic 0.8 rating last night in the adults 18-49 demographic, it was finally decision time, and the answers are as follows: * "Awake" will take over the Thursday at 10 timeslot starting Thursday, March 1. * "The Firm" will move to a Burn-Off Theatre timeslot on Saturdays at 9 beginning February 11. * Between now and the "Awake" premiere, NBC will air "Grimm" repeats on Thursday nights. Had NBC made this decision a few weeks ago, they could conceivably have gotten "Awake" on the air as soon as next week, banking on promotion during the Super Bowl to get the word out. But at this point, the Super Bowl would essentially be the series' entire promotional campaign, and even with the expected audience, that's not enough. "Awake" was created by Kyle Killen from "Lone Star," and stars Jason Isaacs as a cop who gets into a car crash with his wife (Laura Allen from "Terriers") and teenage son (Dylan Minnette), and finds himself living two lives at once: one where only his wife survived, and one where only his son did. As I've said before, it's the best network pilot I saw this season, though I'm not sure exactly how Killen and producer Howard Gordon ("Homeland") can make it work on a weekly basis. (Then again, I felt the same way about the second-best network pilot, ABC's "The River," and what I've seen of later episodes in advance of next week's premiere has been surprisingly reassuring.) Considering the state of NBC in general and NBC in Thursday in particular, that 10 p.m. timeslot isn't the prize it used to be when "L.A. Law" and "ER" aired there, but the "Awake" pilot at least feels like a creatively worthy successor to those shows, "Hill Street Blues" and "Homicide." "

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/nbc-schedules-awake-for-thursdays-bumping-the-firm

2/3/2012 2:14:24 PM

clutch promo placement.

2/5/2012 10:03:22 PM

Didn't even know this was a show until the superbowl

2/5/2012 11:04:16 PM

hell yes cant wait

2/6/2012 1:42:00 PM

spoiler: the dude is really the one who's dead

2/6/2012 3:22:06 PM

so i wonder where this show is going to go if he's totally fine with living in two separate realities

2/6/2012 9:16:36 PM

NBC is now streaming the pilot on Hulu in it's entirety.

2/16/2012 2:17:42 PM

It's as interesting visually as anything this side of Breaking Bad, and it hits the emotional beats right on the money. Definitely has the feel of an FX or AMC drama in the best possible sense. They work the procedural elements in deftly enough, though I doubt the marketing is going to draw in many casual viewers at this point. I can't wait to see some more episodes.

2/17/2012 1:14:16 AM

yeah im excited for new eps.

as a side note i hadnt used hulu in forever and its just as terrible as i remember.

2/17/2012 1:19:09 PM

I just watched the Pilot and thought it was fantastic. I'm not sure how they could keep up a plot like this in the long-term but it is really interesting. Definitely wanting more...

2/28/2012 8:05:36 PM

you can download the pilot for free on itunes

2/28/2012 10:20:29 PM

Did the pilot air on TV already or did you guys catch it online?

2/29/2012 6:51:04 PM

pilot was on hulu and maybe some other places. but i guess its gonna air on broadcast tomorrow

2/29/2012 10:21:00 PM

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"I'm not sure how they could keep up a plot like this in the long-term"

This is exactly why I won't be watching any more, and also why it will be canceled after 6 episodes.

Actually, I should say this is why it will be canceled after 6 episodes, and THAT is why I won't bother watching any more.

3/1/2012 12:09:31 PM

The pilot basically summed up the series. the only thing you don't know is which story line is real or if they are pulling a sixth sense/purgatory switch.

look what he says at the end of the pilot.

[Edited on March 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM. Reason : z]

3/1/2012 3:44:49 PM

i wasn't paying attention. does he live the same day twice?

3/1/2012 10:47:14 PM

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"NBC's "Awake" premiere did 6.25 million viewers and the hour-winning 1.9 rating among adults 18-49, which counts as far better than the recent premiere for "The Firm" and marginally better than the September launch (against a full slate of competition) for "Prime Suspect.""

3/2/2012 12:38:57 PM

i still hate NBC for not giving chuck full support and instead coming up with shit like playboy club and the firm

3/2/2012 1:03:27 PM

yeah...fuck NBC for giving Chuck 5 seasons when it would have gotten cancelled on any other network after 1.

3/2/2012 2:04:45 PM

just watched the pilot, definitely intrigued.

[Edited on March 7, 2012 at 11:31 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2012 11:27:20 PM

Yeah, NBC was actually really kind with Chuck. They gave them 5 seasons and let them do a proper end for the series.

3/7/2012 11:42:03 PM

wow, this last episode was really good, not a big fan of cop shows but this one is really interesting

3/11/2012 4:27:41 AM

The reveal at the end of the second episode was lame, but it was pretty good other than that.

3/12/2012 10:09:50 PM

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"i still hate NBC for not giving chuck full support and instead coming up with shit like playboy club and the firm"

The Playboy Club was actually pretty good (even for an NBC show). It just had the ill-fate to come on directly after a family friendly show.

3/12/2012 10:13:52 PM

man, only two episodes before the cliche shadow conspiracy is unveiled?

3/19/2012 9:41:54 AM

did I miss something? what cliche shadow conspiracy?

3/19/2012 8:08:15 PM

Is anybody watching this? I'm actually loving it. The end of the last episode has me QUITE intrigued...

3/30/2012 8:27:25 PM

wait, what was intriguing about the last episode

3/30/2012 8:28:29 PM