Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Ever since ABC premiered “Lost” to critical acclaim and commercial success in 2004, networks have tried to duplicate its success with serialized, mystery-unlocking stories. Rarely have networks succeeded. A litany of supernatural/alien-themed series — “666
When NBC’s new sci-fi drama,
Debris, drops on Mar. 1, it will be almost exactly seven years to the day since writer/executive producer J.H. Wyman (
Fringe) has given audiences new television. The finale of his futuristic A.I. cop series,
Almost Human, ended after one season in 2014, and Wyman then went into development. With his company, Frequency Films, Wyman spent a lot of time trying to figure out his “what’s next?”
From a tech and audience habits perspective, over seven years, the television landscape has practically advanced by dog years as viewers have flocked to streaming services and premium cable to get their episodic fix. And that is especially true when it comes to sci-fi and fantasy TV, where the scope there is often more cinematic and expensive in light of recent successes like