Click through the jump for a round-up of the latest post-worthy news and views from the world of FlashForward:
Joseph Fiennes offers hints of what’s to come in FlashForward (mild spoilers):
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For those of you just getting up to speed, Joseph Fiennes outlines the premiere of FF:
Sonya Walger spoke to Latina.com about relationships and hope in FlashForward:
Tell us about your Flash Forward character Olivia Benford.
Olivia is a trauma surgeon. She’s a dedicated doctor and the wife of Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) who is an FBI Agent. They’ve been married for seven years—maybe 8—and he’s a recovering alcoholic so he’s in a program—and they’ve clearly had some bumpy times in their marriage in the past. But they’re in a good place now. They’ve got a little girl named Charlie, and I think the condition is for as long as he’s sober, their marriage works. But she has said to him before that if he drinks again, she’ll leave him. With him being in the FBI and her being a surgeon—they are a busy couple.
What do you think draws Olivia to Mark?
That’s a good question. I think she loves what a good dad he is, and how devoted he is to Charlie. I think she feels very loved by him as well. She knows he battles with these demons all of the time and there’s nothing she can do about them. I think that’s the endless battle of being with anyone who has an addiction—it’s not about you, it’s about how much support you’re willing to give. So I think they have a real profound connection, but I think it’s been tested over the years.
I watched the pilot and I think Olivia may have some demons too. Does she?
That’s interesting. I think if Olivia has any demons it’s her work ethic—her completely massive focus on work. Maybe she’s taken that to an extreme in the past. Yeah, I’m sure she has some demons of her own.
Obviously, one of the great things about the show is its larger-than-life scope, but what do you think is the bread and butter of this show? Is it the relationships?
Yeah, it really is. It’s epic in scale, and as you can see from the pilot, its epic in concept. It’s shot like a movie, so I think it’s breathtaking how big it looks! But it’s really intimate in terms of where the drama is coming out of—the drama is really coming out of these relationships. We’re about to start shooting episode 9 and 10 this week, and watching what is really happening to Mark and Olivia because of what she’s seen and what he’s seen that he hasn’t told her—it’s so interesting. It’s not huge crashing events that are forcing them apart. It’s just the daily wear and tear of living with someone and wondering if you’re going to cheat on them.
The first episode was a little depressing. It seemed like the lives of these people were a little hopeless. Is this a show about hopelessness?
There’s so much hope in it! The pilot only focuses on a handful of people’s flash forwards. There are so many other characters that you don’t see in the pilot, but you start seeing in subsequent episodes who have flash forwards that you hope come true! It’s so wonderful what they’re seeing in the future. So that’s what has become so interesting is that everyone is wandering through the world, and some people are trying desperately to make sure they don’t happen, but others are looking for theirs to come true.
As you well know, Flash Forward has been exhaustingly compared to Lost. How are the two shows similar or different?
I think they are very different. I think they are similar in that they have an ensemble cast and that there’s one giant event that propels everyone into these different situations. But after that, I think we part ways quite quickly. Flash Forward doesn’t have this embedded mythology in the same way as Lost. It’s very human. What you will see from here forward are the ripple effects of everyone dealing with what they saw in a very human way. People are given the real time to come to terms with what they’ve experienced. It’s not a science fiction show. It’s much more grounded in human reality, apart from the flash forward, which is the only thing that you’re asked to buy into as an audience member.
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FlashForward opened in the UK to strong numbers:
Channel Five’s new US drama FlashForward launched with more than 3 million viewers last night, Monday 28 September.The science fiction drama, in which everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds giving them a glimpse of their future, pulled in 3.2 million and a 13% share between 9pm and 9.55pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.The drama, which stars British actors Joseph Fiennes and Jack Davenport, was the channel’s highest-rating debuting show since The Mentalist in March, which picked up 3.6 million and a 16% share.The figures compare with 2.4 million for the first episode of CSI on Five in 2001, 3.1 million for CSI: Miami’s debut in 2003 and 3.4 million for CSI: NY in 2005.Five said the debut of FlashForward had nearly doubled the average share for the slot, which usually stands at 7%, while more than four times the number of 16- to 34-year-olds tuned in, making it the most watched show at the time for that demographic.
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