Believe

[Asgard]

Premise is like Revolution and that Fox show Touch.

 

[Kaleb]

cant get that song out of my head, I wonder who is the composer.

 

[Shifty]

SDCC Trailer:
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Looks good. Makes me wish NBC was doing a better job of putting this stuff out there.

They can start doing that later once The Voice, football and maybe a new hit show this fall. It won't be airing until February after the Super Bowl since it airs on Sundays so no point in doing much promoting right now.

 

[Asgard]

We need you to protect this little girl from dudes trying to kidnap her.

Youre gonna give me a gun rigt?

A gun? Were the good guys.

*Pinned down by automatic gunfire* Armed with a spoon.

 

[Sawyer]

Premise is like Revolution and that Fox show Touch.

I don't see a whole lot of Revolution here, but it does seem alarmingly similar to Touch, although luckily it looks like they've managed to side-step alot of the pretension that Touch had and have actually made it clear how the kid is special and isn't just going "Ooooh, numbers!!!!"

 

[Asgard]

Its similar in the girl and man with a shady past on a journey together sense.

I gave up on Touch after one episode.

 

[Sawyer]

I couldn't even make it through that pilot.

 

[jaymes_e06]

^I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Marvolo]

SDCC Trailer:
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Looks good. Makes me wish NBC was doing a better job of putting this stuff out there.

That crash scene is Cuaron through and through. Looks like an interesting premise and I will definitely be checking it out.

 

[Kaleb]

SDCC Trailer:
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Looks good. Makes me wish NBC was doing a better job of putting this stuff out there.

Is it just me or does the father sound exactly like Peter Griffin in that scene (Family Guy) 40sec-45sec into the trailer.

 

[Sawyer]

I bet NBC is name-drop the **** out of Gravity when it comes time to put out adverts/promos for the series.

 

[flickchick85]

As they damn well should! The footage in the preview has Cuaron's style all over it, so it's not like it would be a cheap or misleading name-drop, as they often tend to be.

 

[Man in the Suit]

As they damn well should! The footage in the preview has Cuaron's style all over it, so it's not like it would be a cheap or misleading name-drop, as they often tend to be.

"From producer JJ Abrams..."

I wonder who they got for showrunner because co-creater quit back in July. http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/showrunner-mark-friedman-exits-nbcs-j-j-abrams-drama-believe/

 

[Sawyer]

Well, I never said they shouldn't!

And, to be fair to JJ, I think he does have a fair amount of input on his Bad Robot projects, even if he isn't on set every day/acting as showrunner.

 

[flickchick85]

"From producer JJ Abrams..."

Lol, exactly.

I wonder who they got for showrunner because co-creater quit back in July. http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/showrunner-mark-friedman-exits-nbcs-j-j-abrams-drama-believe/

Aw, I didn't hear about that. Hope they found someone good. This has a lot of potential, imo.

 

[#root]

http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/nbc-alfonso-cuaron-jj-abrams-believe-showrunner-change-early-hiatus/

Another showrunner change. I was really excited for this because of Cuaron but all this behind the scene trouble is worrying

 

[Sawyer]

http://tvline.com/2014/01/10/nbc-midseason-schedule-2014/

MONDAY, MARCH 10
10 pm Believe series premiere, following The Voice

SUNDAY, MARCH 16
9 pm Believe time-slot premiere

 

[Sawyer]

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/tca-believe-no-touch-or-touched-by-angel-says-jj-abrams/

TCA: ‘Believe’ No ‘Touch’ — Or ‘Touched By Angel’ — Says JJ Abrams
By LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist

The high-ish rate of showrunner churn on NBC‘s high-profile mid-season drama Believe before it has even premiered, is “creativity” and “a process,” executive producer J.J. Abrams said this afternoon.

The rap on the show is that it has had trouble trying to figure out what it should be. But Abrams, talking to TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2014, preferred to think of it as a process by which they found the right fit with the “incredible pilot” directed by Gravity‘s Alfonso Cuaron — and in no way a reflection on the two “great and talented”, and departed, showrunners with whom he said he hopes to work in the future.

In December, executive producer/showrunner Dave Erickson departed and was succeeded by co-executive producer/director Jonas Pate, the second episode’s director - a rare case of a director taking the reins of a scripted series. Co-creator/exec producer/original showrunner Mark Friedman left the series in July. Friedman and Cuaron co-wrote the pilot for the high concept project, about the unlikely relationship between Bo, a girl with supernatural powers, and Tate, the man who is sprung from prison to protect her from the nogoodniks who are trying to hunt her down.

Of Pate’s new assignment, Abrams said he’s a big believer “whoever can do it… does it,” adding that they were lucky to find their new showrunner “in the family.”

Cuaron said he came up with the idea for Believe while directing Oscar-nominated Gravity, during which “I had a window, waiting for the endless process of visual effects and I wanted to do something” but did not have time to direct another film.” “First of all I wanted to do something in which people were not floating and from then on everything just came together,” he joked.

Little Johnny Sequoyah, who plays Bo, got asked what super powers she would like to have and why — children tend to get asked treacly questions like this at press tour. She said she would like to be able to stop time so “it would be quiet and it would be nice” and she’d like to stop global warming. It was adorable and her fellow cast and writers applauded her answer. Then, because the press tour is now in hit-the-wall territory, someone decided it would be great to put the same question to the adults on stage. “I’m very much a union man, however I would get rid of all the bad teachers in the educational system,” answered cast member Delroy Lindo, adding he would make sure the remaining ones got “decent working salaries.”

Round of applause.

‘I agree,” little Sequoyah added.

“It’s hard to answer without being corny,” answered Abrams. “I think I would try to make people blind to people’s difference so they wouldn’t see them as ‘other’.”

Moment of silence, as TV critics chewed on that one.

Abrams also gets points for his handling of the “Will This Show Be Like Touch” question. Because Abrams comes across at press tours as such an affable guy, he got away with responding that Believe is “wildy different” without it being translated by critics as “You are a nincompoop.” So adored is Abrams at press tours he also pulled off telling the critics how critics always seem to compare a new series to a previous series – in the form of either a) We’d Like To See Them Just Try To Top Terrific Previous Show, or b) Let Previous Show Serve as Cautionary Tale. “We’re in that weird place” where critics are now comparing Believe to other genre series, Abrams told the TV critics, adding that he aspires for Believe to become the older show to which all new genre shows will be compared going forward. Critics beamed.

Along those lines, Abrams gets major points for taking a question asking how he plans to balance the cloyingness of shows about children, and answering “Cloying is our credo.” Anticipating their next question, he said, “There is a spiritual side of the show — but we are no Touched By An Angel.”

 

[Sawyer]

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Eric Goldman
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Cauron says Abrams responded to the Believe idea and said it felt like the first chapter of a Stephen King novel. #TCA14

I guess that makes the main girl Charlie McGee. Either way, it pleases me.

 

[Man in the Suit]

Please be good please be good.

I can't remember who it was, but a few months ago, somebody I follow on Twitter said they saw the pilot and it wasn't very good.

 

[Sawyer]

Looks good to me...

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But trailers can be deceiving.

 

[chamber-music]

This show is like The Golden Child without the comedy.

 

[Sawyer]

First Two Minutes

 

[Sawyer]

Premieres tonight. 10 PM.

 

[Man in the Suit]

I thought it was pretty good! I'll keep watching.

But NBC was stupid to put this on Sundays against The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.