Fox Has Renewed ‘Terra Nova’ For A Second Season (April Fools!)

Posted Sunday, April 1st, 2012 01:00 pm GMT -4 by Scott West0

'Terra Nova: Bylaw' episode - Taylor and Jim Just last week, we got word that streaming video provider Netflix had dropped its plans to acquire the recently canceled ‘Terra Nova’ from Fox Television. At that time, it seemed like the time travel sci-fi favorite show was gone for good… much to many fans’ dismay.

Then, late yesterday, Fox did the unthinkable and announced that it had decided against canceling the show. There’s no word on whether Fox’s decision had anything to do with Netflix’s interest in picking it up or not, but ‘Terra Nova’ executive producer Brannon Braga put out a press release stating:

“After executives took another look at both the ratings for ‘Terra Nova’ as well as the production costs of the show, Fox has reconsidered its decision to cancel the show”

Actor Jason O’Mara, who plays Jim Shannon said of the unexpected flip, “I am overjoyed that ‘Terra Nova’ is returning. I had a lot of fun in that world and with the cast. There is so much left to explore.” O’Mara can also be seen next year in the TV mini-series ‘To Appomattox’ where he costars with Rob Lowe.

Since the change was made so quickly after the cancellation announcement, it appears that the entire cast will continue on with their roles in season two. Now that things are back on track, ‘Terra Nova’ will begin filming in early summer and is expected back on the air before the end of 2012.

What do you think, fans? I wasn’t a big fan of ‘Terra Nova’, but I know from your comments that a lot of you are glad that it’s returning. Comment below and let us know what you’d like to see in season two.

Of course this news would make a lot of fans happy, but sadly for them, it’s untrue………..

HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY!!!!!

Stjepan

1.4.2012
Thermerower

Mean!
Frost

Nothing quite as stupid and mean-spirited as jokes like this. What’s next, you’re going to go wave a bit of candy in front of a child and then go “neener neener” and eat it in front of the kid? Funny April fools: Reddit introducing a timeline that goes not just back but to the future. Or Star Wars TOR introducing a minigame that makes you the ship droid. Painfully unfunny April fool’s? This crap. You suck at April fools.
- http://www.sciencefiction.com Patrick Ruddell
  
  Bazinga!
Jaxx55

This is pretty f#cked up. I shoulda known better. Kudos to you sir! You had me right up til that last bold caps sentence.
Kaybee464

You are a jerk!! I loved that show!! It’s cancelation is almost as bad as Joss Whedon’s Firefly!!
Codylexky

I love Terra Nova!! Great family show! We watch religiously!
cokid22

Ohhhhh thats f***ed up haha my girlfriend told me that it was coming back and she was so excited and I guess she didnt read all the way to the bottom of the article. Now I have to go and tell her, thanks guys
Attack

Oh thank all that is holy for that last line. Terra Nova was un-scientifically-accurate drivel. They promised us dinosaurs but they gave us a soap opera. Let that show never return. EVER.
Matty’O

Joyous news indeed! And with Terra Nova off NetFlix’s plate, maybe they’ll turn their attention to another show that is in desperate need of a break. Namely, BSG: Blood & Chrome.
SWeetarts08

omfg IM soo happy <333333
You are a prick!

A$$hole!
Linalombardi

Realy bad idea for a hoax!
Cheryld60

I agree with the comments before, you’re a bleep — You and others including those at Fox are the type who just love “reality TV” and can justify spending money on real crap! Instead of supporting a show that actually is entertaining!.

TV is really going to the dogs!
Whitearab

now lets bring back caprica
Tlingit56

Our whole family enjoyed Terra Nova and can’t wait for it to begin season 2. My grandson just called me and asked me to check the internet to find out when its coming back on.
Liderc

So sad, TN had nearly 10million viewers including the dvr viewers. They really had a show people were watching, they just didn’t have the guts to see if they’d stick around until the next season. Advertisers need to figure out how to make money off of DVR/on-demand viewers, we’re moving into that direction whether they want or not.

TN was seeing 3-4million DVR viewers each week, that’s nearly half of some television shows viewers and I think studios and advertisers just don’t know how to create advertising campaigns that work for them, which is a shame because we’ll continue to see shows people are watching get canned because a good portion of the viewers aren’t watching it live.

I loved the show myself and yet I never once watched it live due to Monday night football.
http://profile.yahoo.com/LKA6HKHJWAKVSGYXTSFDWS6OTY b

Meh, it was mindless fun. Normally I don’t like mindless fun shows but I liked the characters enough in this show to follow it.
Hannah

This show was awesome! This article is not funny. April Fool’s jokes that are supposed to be funny, are the one’s that you make up bad news, then tell them you’re joking.
Sylar

im sylar and ill visit the author soon to steal his retarded troll abilities for good
Travel7062

Cruel freaking joke.
Vamp85

That is not freaking cool
Sage

Absolutely disgusting…
- http://www.facebook.com/MichaelJDance Michael Dance
  
  Why did they do that the wankers?
lyndabird

That was a cruel joke. Terra Nova was, at least family friendly. The shows are so bad now, I am thinking of cancelling my fios. There is hardly anything on that is not full of foul language, sex, violence, and coruptions.
It’s pretty disgusting.
- http://www.facebook.com/MichaelJDance Michael Dance
  
  One word “Wankers”
http://profile.yahoo.com/YBFPRYOC5HOAO2PZZ3IFMQCMVI David

Terra Nova was a throw-back to the Irwin Allen days of “family” science fiction shows of the 1960′s like Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, and Land of the Giants (but none of them were huge successes). But a family show does not mean it has to be boring, which was this shows greatest crime. Creatively, and after months of tweaking the program, the creators never balanced the shows potential (despite stealing most of its ideas Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and to a lesser extent, Voyager) with interesting characters. The two biggest issues I saw was the the teenage son (really, how many more times are we going to see a son and father always be estranged. It’s silly) and the youngest daughter, who’s sole role on the show -beyond the older brother- was to get trapped in the well week in and week out. Lassie, this ain’t. And we’re living in 2012, not 1962. Plus we had an unconvincing villain with even more Daddy issues, and muddled plot that was more complicated than it had to be. Even FOX executives saw that the show never came together creatively – they all were archetypes we’ve seen for the last 50 years of TV. It had potental, but the squandered it away fair early. And you would have thought with a 6 month delay, they would have figured that out.
Tbartlett1

I think it is great!
nuanced

You are a world class prick. I will never start watching another sci-fi series. I will never watch any series on Fox. I am totally fed up. Now I will never read another sci-fi reviewer. Back to books and movies. At least I know they will have an ending. So far I haven’t read any books where halfway through the rest of the pages are blank or any movies where the screen goes dark in the middle..
- Wolf
  
  I can´t but agree totally to that!
Shirley Podraza

Cruel joke. Terra Nova is the only family show we all shared together. We looked forward to it every week. Bring it back…bring it back!
Colecrazers

I’m torn on whether to hate or love this article. I love it because it gave me such a thrill, and of course I hate it because that excitement was suddently cast away…
Chris Kelley, Framingham MA

Awesome. Terra Nova is the best show on TV. Great idea for a show and a terrific cast.
- poølmhø pokjøkl
  
  the cast isnt terrible
pssdoff

total arse, first and last time to ever go anywhere near this site…bunch of idiots..
Witt_woody

Personally, I will never watch another Fox series due to cancelling show after show for retarded greed reasons. Star Trek would of never made it off the ground under this type of management…..
Jared

LOL AT DAVID! YOU THINK YOUR MOVIE/SHOW CRITIC! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Mcbro98

terra nova is the best show ever and fox is now doomed to not make another good series and they just lost Millions of fans but to them they saved millions of dollars
Averybruni

This is annoying. It’s not funny to mess the many fans that Terra Nova has. This was done in ill tast.
Bree

And what amusement did you get out of stepping on people’s hopes Terra Nova would be coming back? Yeah, Happy April Fools….
Des

I really don’t appreciate someone writing this and raising my hopes up even if for only the 2 seconds it took to read this article. Terra Nova was my favorite show last year and I’m still shocked that it wasn’t continued. Very poorly done!
Lilla

Terrible joke, but love it anyway. I used to watch V when it was airing, then it got cancelled. I watched Terra Nova especially after seeing a preview of it a week after dreaming about something so similar in respect. Now that’s cancelled too. Since then, I’ve started watching Touch, which is a pretty good show as well. It’s also pretty much the only reason I watch Fox anymore, along with House, aside from the occasional Simpsons episode I’ll catch while channel surfing. FX shows good movies as well, but without the series to go with it, there’s little chance I’d continue watching Fox as much as I do other tv networks where most of the good the series actually continue for more than one season.
J

Im. So. Happy.
Wolflover60

If FOX isn’t taking Tera Nova for season 2 they will be picked up by someone and people will follow. FOX just makes bad deciesion, they put the new show on Mob Doctor ( a show that shows kids how to get indebted with the mob then pay off by doing things for mob / or watch the perfect role model BS on X- factor / or a girl living with 3 guys/ I wish I could be in position to pick it up, just so many ways to go and do with that Series
bickthepickle

LOL. What a duche! I was so excited…
Chuck Kopsho

This series reminded me of the sci-fi shows that Irwin Allen did. Example, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The time tunnel, and Land of the Giants. They may not have been masterpieces, but they were enjoyable to watch. Anyhoo, he also made two of the biggest blockbusters of the ’70′s, The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Inferno. Long live Irwin Allen!
RoRo

That was a real piss-off. I was actually excited to see some good news like that on the internet about the show going back on. The first season was amazing !
Too bad now its all over. I hate this so much ! Screw you !
Train

Cruel guys. the show was excellent, and had perfection when it came to the facts.
Even the ending of season one was great, leaving options for season two. Why did a Viking-age ship hull get into the Badlands? I suppose we’ll never know.

But this was awful, the way you guys pulled off this cruel ‘joke’. I hope you had your laughs, because nobody else is laughing.
anonymous

That isn’t funny…
Carlos Amaya

This is not cool
TerraNovan

I felt joy pretending this review was true. TY.
scarlett

not cool y would they do this?

Fox Has Renewed ‘Terra Nova’ For A Second Season (April Fools!)

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