If you live in the United States and you missed last night’s episode of FlashForward, then you’re in luck. Episode 7, “The Gift,” is available for streaming via Hulu. Of course, why click there when you can view it right here? The video is embedded below.
This is a promo video for next week’s FlashForward which aired at the end of last night’s show. The eighth episode of the show is entitled “Playing Cards with Coyote,” and will air on Thursday next week, November 12, at 8pm Eastern/Pacific, 7pm Central on NBC.
You can view the video on DailyMotion, or watch it below. As always, thanks to Brian for the video.
Episode 7 of FlashForward entitled “The Gift” aired last night on ABC. Come join us at the “The Gift” episode discussion thread to share your thoughts, feelings, and concerns about the latest episode of the show!
Two FFTV staffers will be there, Master Xander and Brian. If you still haven’t seen this episode, be aware that there will be SPOILERS.
ABC has officially picked up FlashForward for a full season, adding nine episodes to the 13 that was initially ordered back in May. This brings the total number of episodes to 22, and shows ABC’s faith in the series. The pick-up was reported by TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, and Zap2It, among others, based on an ABC press release.
EDIT AS OF OCTOBER 13, 3:3oAM: Book author Robert J. Sawyer reports on his blog that the first season order is for 24 episodes, and not 22 as we earlier reported.
FlashForward joins The Middle, Modern Family, and Cougar Town in ABC’s full season pick-ups.
Here’s what ABC had to say about the pick-up.
The ABC Television Network announced full season pick-up orders for new drama “FlashForward” and comedies “Cougar Town,” “The Middle” and “Modern Family.”
“FlashForward” (Thursdays from 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET)
What would you do if you were given a glimpse of the future? Would you accept what you saw and live life to its fullest, or would you do everything in your power to change your destiny? When the world’s population is given a glimpse of their future, it forces everyone to come to grips with whether their destinies can be fulfilled or avoided, in ABC’s drama, “FlashForward.”
Knowing their fate will alter each person’s life in one way or another, and poses the questions: Can destiny be changed? And by changing just one destiny, what effect would that have on those of others?
“FlashForward” stars Joseph Fiennes as Mark Benford, John Cho as Demetri Noh, Jack Davenport as Lloyd Simcoe, Zachary Knighton as Bryce Varley, Peyton List as Nicole Kirby, Dominic Monaghan as Simon, Br’an F. O’Byrne as Aaron Stark, Courtney B. Vance as Stanford Wedeck, Sonya Walger as Olivia Benford and Christine Woods as Janis Hawk.
The series executive producers are David S. Goyer (co-writer of “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight”), Brannon Braga (”24,” “Star Trek”), Marc Guggenheim (”Brothers & Sisters,” “Eli Stone”) and Jessika Borsiczky (”Revelations”). The pilot for “FlashForward” was directed by David Goyer. The series, which premiered on September 24, 2009, is from ABC Studios.
From 8:00-9:00 p.m. on Thursday, ABC’s “FlashForward” ranks No. 1 in Adults 18-49, leading CBS’ time-period veteran “Survivor: Samoa.” On its series debut telecast, the new ABC drama became the first regular program since “Friends” in 2004 to beat “Survivor” in the key young adult sales demo. The ABC freshman is an exceptionally strong draw among Adults 18-34, dominating its time period and qualifying as TV’s No. 1 new drama series this season. The new series is greatly improving its time period year to year for ABC, boosting the hour by 1.8 million viewers and by 32% in Adults 18-49 over the same nights last year. Based on DVR playback during season-premiere week, “FlashForward” finished as TV’s biggest freshman gainer, as its numbers jumped by 2.0 million viewers (12.5 million to 14.5 million) and 8-tenths of an Adult 18-49 rating point (4.1 rating to 4.9 rating) from the initially reported next-day numbers to DVR finals.
Fans of ABC’s FlashForward are buzzing about last night’s episode—and especially what they learned about the about the immediate future of the series after the episode was over. The sci-fi drama’s fall finale was an eventful affair, and you can read my recap of it in our TV Watch section. But the meaty three-minute tease of the second half of the season was pretty provocative, too. For starters, there was the intimation that another global blackout event is looming. And then there was the revelation that the final 13 episodes of FlashForward’s first season won’t be returning in January as previously announced but rather in March. What happened? We caught up with FFco-creator and showrunner David S. Goyer (who also co-wrote Batman Begins and wrote the story for The Dark Knight) and asked him.
EW: So… FlashForward isn’t coming back until March.
DAVID GOYER: Why?
Yes! Why?
The answer is simple. We originally planned to come back in January, but about three weeks ago we sat down with ABC scheduling and looked at what our programming schedule would be like. And I think on serialized show like 24, Lost, and Prison Break the most important thing is to air consecutive episodes without repeats or preemptions. To be brutally honest, our programming schedule in January was going to be awful. We were going to be off for four or five weeks [through December and into January], then back on for two weeks, then off for two weeks because of the Olympics, then back on four weeks, off for two weeks again, back on three, off for two again… Our first 10 episodes had one preemption; our last 13-episode arc was going to have four. I just think when we saw that, the studio and the network and all the producers looked at each other and said, “This is crazy.” We’d rather bite the bullet, come back in March, and air all 13 episodes consecutively without preemptions.
The overnight ratings for the show have steadily declined since the premiere. [FlashForward has dropped from a little over 12 million viewers to a little over 7 million viewers over the course of 10 episodes. The numbers don't reflect DVR usage, which is substantial for FlashForward.] If the ratings hadn’t been dropping do you think ABC would have made this move?
I don’t honestly know. I just know that when we first heard about this possibility three or four weeks ago, we were all looking ahead to the series of preemptions ahead of us and were feeling very concerned. One of our staff writers is from Prison Break, and he made a comment that every time their show had been preempted, it would get knocked down [in the ratings] and they’d have to build back up, and after being preempted, they’d get knocked down again and have to build up yet again—they felt like they were continually treading water. … I know for me, as an audience member, I feel incredibly annoyed when I’m watching a serialized show and have to deal with preemptions. … Our production schedule hasn’t changed at all. We’re shooting episode 14 now; we’re prepping episodes 15 and 16. We’ll have all our episodes written and most of them shot by the time we come back in March.
We recently reported that you had to shut down production to work on some scripts…
Which I was actually a bit bemused by, commenting on it as if it was a big deal.
It wasn’t?
No! We only shut down for one week. And I’ll tell you why: we were given the reins to speed up the storytelling, and we had broken episodes 15 and 16 and done some very major moves in those episodes. When the network and the studio saw the scripts for those everyone looked at each other and said “Let’s move those up to 13 and 14.” So we swapped those out and moved episodes 15 and 16 into the 13 and 14 position. In the process, we needed to take a week to re-prep.
How does the new 13-week scheduling strategy for the second half of the season affect the writing of the show?
I know we’re all as writers breathing a sigh of relief. We feel like we have all the chess pieces on the board and now we can just knock the dominos over and watch them fall in interesting ways. I kind of feel like we did when we got into working on The Dark Knight after finishingBatman Begins: we got done with the origin story, we don’t have to do that anymore, we can now hit the ground running.
So, is there really going to be another global blackout event? [SPOILER ALERT for the answer that follows!]
That may be. Look, I wish next week we could air episode 11 and then episode 12, because our biggest reveals of the season so far happen in those two episodes. On one hand, I wish those could air right now. On the other hand, they’re pretty strong episodes to be coming back to. I can give you some teases. We’ve only seen part of Mark’s flash-forward so far, but when we come back in episode 11, you’ll see all of it. And you’re also going to find out pretty early on when we come back who Suspect Zero is.
Based on your Season 1 experience, do you think Season 2 will be scheduled differently?
Yes. Definitely. But look: these decisions are not all on my shoulders. Programming is a very complicated process with a lot of influences. I wish I could say it was all me and do whatever I want.
SOURCE: EW.com
Well, there’s no more baseball to blame for this one, unlike last week. Last night’s FlashForward hit series lows across the board.
Episode 7, “The Gift,” got 8.570 million viewers, a series low for the show and down 354,000 viewers from the previous series low last week. The household rating/share was 5.5/9, another series low, dipping lower than the 5.6/9 for Episode 4 and Episode 6 (last week). Last night’s episode also hit a series low in the coveted Adults 18-49 demographic, with a rating/share of 2.6/7.
All ratings numbers provided by TV by the Numbers.
Thursday means it’s FlashForward day! Episode 7 of FlashForward airs tonight on ABC at 8pm Eastern/Pacific, 7pm Central. Entitled “The Gift,” tonight’s episode is written by Lisa Zwerling and Ian Goldberg, and directed by Nick Gomez.
You can watch a promo video of tonight’s episode here, as well as another one embedded below. If you missed it last week, you can watch last week’s episode, “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps,” here.
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Here’s the second promo video for “The Gift”:
To read the official episode description from ABC, check behind the jump!
FlashForward has come out on top this fall, becoming one of ABC’s highest-rated new dramas since Desperate Housewives. TV.com caught up with FlashForward writer Scott Gimple (a former writer for Life), who in an e-mail interview (cautiously) told us everything he could about the kangaroo from the pilot, the writing team’s feelings about FlashForward’s comparisons to Lost, and the stray dog he adopted on-set.
First things first: What is the deal with the kangaroo? Did it escape from a zoo? Are we going to see more of it?
The kangaroo does, in fact, have a deal, its OWN deal, and we will see said deal. Its deal will be fully dealt with.
Very mysterious. I know that FlashForward showrunner David Goyer has said that there’s already a plan for what caused the flash; are we going to find out what it is this season?
My mysteriousness is one part being extra spoiler careful, one part leaving story flexibility (we have a plan, I assure you, but we reserve the right to goof around with it), and one part Goyer and [recently departed showrunner and executive producer Marc Guggenheim] keeping a handful of the details of the flashes locked up away from us.
In the pilot, we saw an Oceanic Air billboard that said something about a “100% safety rating” What does that have to do with the flashforwards? Is there going to be a Lost character/storyline crossover?
It’s simply props, nothing more. And by props, I don’t mean “property props,” I mean just paying some respect. David Goyer is a friend of [Lost co-creator and executive producer] Damon Lindelof, and since both shows are on ABC, it was something fun and fairly easy to pull off. There aren’t any crossovers ahead for the shows, nor do we share the same universe. A lot of us are just huge fans, our offices are right next door to theirs, and we share one of their producers, who helps with all of our online stuff and a galaxy of things beyond that.
Another Tough Broad
After being outed by a Nazi and locking lips with a hook-up three times in one episode, Christine Woods’s tough-talking FBI agent Janis Hawk on ABC’s FlashForward might just be prime time’s best gay offering — who isn’t in Glee club, that is.
By Lesley Goldberg
Christine Woods has just joined a new group: When her Agent Janis Hawk on ABC’s rookie drama FlashForward came out, she instantly became associated with a small but notable league of gay characters on prime-time TV. And while other newbies in the group — like Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel on Fox’s Glee — spend time in high school halls and singing groups, Woods has a story line that almost requires a road map.
On FlashForward, her Agent Hawk is part of a Los Angeles-based FBI squad investigating the causes and culprits behind what led the entire world to simultaneously black out for two minutes and 17 seconds and catch a glimpse of what happens in that same amount of time six months into their future. And Hawk’s flash forward is a gem: The single lesbian is pregnant.
Woods, who is playing gay for the first time in her career, paused to discuss her character (who treated LGBT fans to not one but three on-screen smooches during a recent episode), U-Hauls, and what ABC is doing right when it comes to writing gay characters.
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FlashForward went up against the World Series on FOX last night, and the show dipped to its lowest numbers so far. Last night’s episode, “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps,” averaged below 9 million in total viewership for the first time in the show’s history, with 8.924 million viewers watching the show. This is the lowest total viewership since episode 3 (which, incidentally, was also up against some baseball) which had 9.003 million viewers.
Household rating/share for FlashForward was at 5.6/9, matching the previous series low, which was for episode 4.
The show also dipped below the 3.0 mark in the Adults 18-49 rating. Last night’s episode only managed a 2.7/7 rating/share in that prized demographic.
Last night’s show placed third in its timeslot across the board, behind FOX’s World Series and CBS’s Survivor: Samoa. (It’s worth noting that Survivor: Samoa was also down from last week, which could indicate baseball’s effect on this week’s ratings.)
SOURCES: TV by the Numbers (1, 2); Zap2It; The Programming Insider; The Futon Critic
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