If there's one thing better than TV shows stretched out into terrible low-budget movies, it's big-budget movies squeezed into comparatively low-budget TV shows, like what's happening with The Terminator.
Long-mooted Terminator TV spinoff The Sarah Connors Chronicles has finally come to fruition, with the Fox network greenlighting the series and hoping that Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles will recreate The Terminator's explosive action on a smaller scale, starting with the first episode, entitled Sarah Connors Scares Off A Cardboard Terminator With Some Scary Indoor Fireworks.
If you're like us, the question that keeps you awake most nights is "What happened after Terminator 2? Well, Terminator 3, obviously, but what happened between those two movies?" And now, thank Christ, we're all about to find out. Fox announced that it was planning a Terminator TV series late last year, and after a successful pilot, the network is now greenlighting a series of The Sarah Connors Chronicles. TV.com reports:
David Nutter will direct The Sarah Connor Chronicles for Warner Bros. TV, to air on the Fox network. Nutter has directed episodes of Smallville, Supernatural, and Without a Trace.
But, as with any TV series based on an expensive movie franchise, corners will have to be cut. That's why The Sarah Connors Chronicles will focus on Sarah Connors trying to evade authorities with her young son while planning to attack and destroy SkyNet and not Sarah Connors fighting off a relentless wave of unstoppable Terminators with a flamethrower the size of a juggernaut and 300 tonnes of plastic explosives. It might also be the reason why The Sarah Connors Chronicles will be shot in Mexico rather than America, and it's almost certainly the reason why neither Linda Hamilton or supreme world-offender Arnold Schwarzenneger will appear in the new Terminator TV show. However, despite all this, David Nutter is confident that The Sarah Connors Chronicles will be a big hit:
"It's important for me to live up, as best I can, to the bar that Jim Cameron set. [It] has to carry as much of a punch."
We, on the other hand, are kind of hoping that Terminator: The Sarah Connors Chronicles is a gigantic failure. Not because we dislike it – we're actually pathetically excited about it – but because if the Terminator TV show gets cancelled, maybe someone will have second thoughts about the Mr & Mrs Smith TV show before it's too late.
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Nutter Brings Terminator Saga To TV – TV.com
[story by Stuart Heritage]