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ABC President Steve McPherson calls Flash Forward their “most buzz-worthy show” and says that despite the initial science-fiction element, it’s actually “an intimate, personal story about the question of fate”. Read more below:
As for Flash Forward, taking over Ugly Betty’s Thursday-night spot, McPherson admits it was a big decision. “Flash Forward has already generated millions of hits online to our ‘What did you see?’ campaign. It’s the most buzz-worthy show we have right now, and we really wanted to build on the success of Private Practice and Grey’s being a perfect pair and bolster our Thursday night, which has been incredibly successful for us. We think there’s no better lineup right now than Thursday nights. With Lost having launched at 8, we really feel that there’s a great opportunity for Flash Forward as well,” McPherson added.
While McPherson admitted that Flash Forward was indeed science fiction, he said the David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga series is actually “an intimate, personal story about really the question of fate. Can you change your fate? Of love and loss and all the things that go into ‘What if we knew our future?’ So I think that one specifically. … It’s science fiction in the sense that there’s that one event, but it really isn’t moving forward that. And I think as you get to the mythology, [it] is absolutely unbelievably grounded.”
Source: SciFi Wire
