Fox pushes back TERRA NOVA premiere date to fall 2011

Fox has annnounced they are pushing back the premiere date for the Steven Spielberg-produced Terra Nova. The premiere date is moving from May 2011 to fall 2011. The series stars Jason O’Mara (Life on Mars) as the patriarch of a 22nd century family sent back in time to live in a prehistoric colony called Terra Nova. 

The show has had a bad run of luck lately. In August, Fox pushed the release date back to 2011, with plans to air a two-night preview event on May 23 and 24 before the shows official premiere in the fall. Now it appears we won't be able to see the show at all until fall 2011.

According to TVOvermind.com, special effects are to blame for the delay:

“TERRA NOVA is one of the most ambitious television series ever produced,” said [Fox entertainment president Kevin] Reilly. “The cutting-edge visual effects used to create the world of TERRA NOVA, which is of massive scope and scale, require more time to be realized. This aspect of the series is essential, so we are pushing back the special early preview date to give the visual effects team the time needed for their ground-breaking work.”

It sucks having to wait for a series that you want to see to finally get to the screen. This is usually a bad sign for the shows success because fans get annoyed, which is never good. I am willing to give it a shot. 

Be sure to check out the TV spot for the show here in cas you haven't. What are your thoughts on Terra Nova? Are you looking forward to this show?

Official synopsis:

An epic family adventure 85 million years in the making, TERRA NOVA follows an ordinary family embarking on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149 the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. With no known way to reverse the damage to the planet, scientists discover a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race…a second chance to rebuild civilization and get it right this time.

The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the Tenth Pilgrimage of settlers to TERRA NOVA, the first colony established in this beautiful yet forbidding land led by its founder COMMANDER NATHANIEL TAYLOR (Stephen Lang, “Avatar”). JIM SHANNON (Jason O’Mara, “Life on Mars”), a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family – wife ELISABETH (Shelley Conn, “Mistresses”); and children JOSH (Landon Liboiron, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”), MADDY (Naomi Scott, “Life Bites”) and ZOE (newcomer Alana Mansour) – through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. In addition to blue skies, towering waterfalls and lush vegetation, TERRA NOVA offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. These adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding TERRA NOVA are teeming with danger – and not just of the man-eating dinosaur variety. The Shannons will come to suspect that not everyone on this mission has the same idea of how to best save mankind; in fact, there may be forces intent on destroying this new world before it even begins.