Flash of inspiration
Just as it's about to cause chaos with our Freeview boxes (due for a re-tune after noon tomorrow - Wednesday September 30) Channel 5 comes up with the most promising thing on TV for some time. Interesting, too, that it has more than a smattering of British front-of-camera talent on display - rather like The Wire.
There are detectives at the forefront again, but there the comparison ends, because FlashForward is much more like Lost. It's the same Rubik's cube-style puzzle, twisting and turning plots and characters to try to make sense of the global mega-event - the whole world passing out at the same time and seeing visions of the future. Or not if you're FBI agent John Cho, sidekick of our hero Joseph Fiennes. Where Lost had a polar bear, FlashForward has a kangaroo in downtown Los Angeles.
One of the guys who has adapted the show from a Canadian SF novel is Star Trek veteran Brannon Braga, so at the moment I'm prepared to give it more of my time than I allowed both Lost and Heroes (a season each).
There is also the comforting idea that the novel (used only as 'a source' say producers) may stop events disappearing up their own black hole as Lost did - although loyalists tell me it later inmproved again. Braga by the way, is now back on 24 Hours, leaving David S Goyer, of the new-style Batman movies, as chief scribe.
Blogs are already desperately trying cross-link FF with Lost - Oceanic Airlines seems to feature in both shows, but that may be just a mischievous crossreference to keep us on our toes. And Brit Sonja Walger ( the hero's surgeon wife) was a key Lost character.
Next week we will record it so we can jump over the seemingly-endless Channel 5 ads - FlashForward living up to its name. Anyone got a theory about what's happening? Who was the guy walking round the stadium while the rest of the world was blacked out? I'm betting on Peter Mandelson.
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