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EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek veteran Brannon Braga has joined the upcoming Steven Spielberg/Peter 
Chernin pre-historic drama Terra Nova as executive producer/ showrunner. Though no deals have been finalized, with Braga on board, I hear the project has unofficially been given a 13-episode order and has started staffing. For Braga, the high-profile gig stems from the rich overall deal he recently inked with 20th Century Fox TV, which is producing Terra Nova with Chernin Entertainment.
Terra Nova follows a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to prehistoric Earth ruled by dinosaurs. It was co-written by Craig Silverstein and British scribe Kelly Marcel, from an idea of Marcel’s. On the show, Braga joins fellow executive producers Silverstein, Marcel, Aaron Kaplan, Spielberg, Chernin, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and Katherine Pope. Braga landed the job on Terra Nova after meeting with the heads of Fox, 20th TV, Spielberg and Chernin on Friday where the project gathered momentum toward a series order.
Braga is an experienced showrunner with strong sci-fi background, which includes stints on four Star Trek series: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, which he ran, and Enterprise, which he co-created and ran. He also ran CBS’ Threshold co-created ABC’s freshman drama Flash Forward. Braga was brought in to Terra Nova because Silverstein is in first position on the hot CW pilot Nikita, which he wrote and is executive producing. Braga was in a similar situation last year when he could not run Flash Forward, a series he created with David Goyer, because of his obligation to 24.
Braga, who spent the last two seasons on 24, most recently as an executive producer, is repped by WME, which also reps DreamWorks TV, Chernin Entertainment and Silverstein and put the project together.
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Smart choice. He wrote the pilot for Flashforward which is easily the best episode of the series. And 24 has been amazing. What exactly is a “pre-historic drama”?
This combo should produce something worth watching! Can’t wait!!
9 Executive Producers?????? And, 6 of those non-writing??????? hilarious. tv is dumb.
Have liked this concept, glad its getting close but my gosh – isn’t it just an absurd amount of non-writing, non-showrunning Executive Producers who will be doing absolutely nothing on a series!?! Nothing new, but just one of the many reasons network episodic television costs are so out of control. Who knows how the deals are structured, it may not be that bad, but it sounds expen$ive! Of course, all names are seasoned veterans, and the chances of hitting the dart board are greater? Maybe long ago this was good logic, but year after year we see big names flop.
Come, come. They won’t be doing absolutely nothing. They will do plenty of shitty advice giving about plot, design and any other creative field they have no qualifications for.
I hope he hires some female writers for Terra Nova–something he refused to do at “24.”
I thought Howard Gordon and Joel Surnow ran 24. Fact check anybody?
Joel Surnow and Howard Cochran, original creators. Howard Gordon was co-showrunner with them and then as Joel and Howard stepped back, Howard and Evan Katz took the reins. Brannon ran lots of shows before and was a big presence, but he wasn’t even #2 on 24.
Isn’t this the same guy who ran the Star Trek franchise into the ground at warp speed?
Also, was not crazy about this concept when it was called Land of the Lost.
Yeah, Braga (along with Rick Berman) trashed the Star Trek franchise. The guy’s a total enema – put him on your team and all you’re gonna get is bunch of sh*t. Not even “24″ could survive his pen of mass destruction.
All, of course, in my humble opinion.
Actually, 24 has been amazing! You sound like the Comic Book guy on the Simpsons.
Von Bruno got it exactly right. Braga is really great at pushing things towards lowest common denominator mediocrity. Ever notice how all the characters in his shows do things so stupid or immature that most of us viewers would never even consider them? He’s a panderer. I have no idea if it’s intentional (which would be repulsive) or unintentional (which is just pathetic).
Fox can no longer claim that if you’re a “non-writing producer” you can no longer get an EP credit.
That is simply amazing.
-RnsW
They claimed that for about 5 seconds.
Look at his track record, he’s yet to launch and sustain a succesful show and history will repeat itself again. THRESHOLD, FLASH FORWARD and everything else are flameouts.
FYI, Braga never wrote for Deep Space Nine – he went straight from The Next Generation to Voyager.
And yeah, he was the guy the drove the franchise into the ground from pretty much the second he took over as Voyager’s showrunner.
seven seasons with voyager, four with enterprise. kwitcherwhinin’ trekkies. somwhat less than warp speed.
the “brand” died of natural causes.
What I love about this guy is that – while his shows aren’t always successful – he’s high concept. His ideas are so out of the box, that even if I don’t like the shows, I can appreciate how they aren’t the status-quo.
It’s not Braga’s idea. He didn’t write the pilot.
Maybe Spielberg and Chernin need to invent a new credit for themselves, since they’re stuck here sharing thd same dumb/meaningless ep title with the execs from their companies and various other random folk who neither write nor actually produce. “Special Executive Producer” or “Senior Executive Producer” could work, and set them apart as the two names with the clout to get this turkey of a show off the ground.
About the premise–since it’s so utterly derivative of Lost in Space it looks like we’ll be seeing humanoid aliens (or maybe Atlanteans) on prehistoric Earth, since there are only so many “escape from raptors” scenes you can do with the family before it gets a bit tired–this premise is going to have to be brilliantly written to come off as anything more than DinoQuestDSV. I give it 1 agonizingly unprofitable season, tops, especially with Brannon onboard.
The concept sounds like a cross between Primeval and Land of the Lost — and that’s not a good thing.
Yes, Primeval, but cross it with Swiss Family Robinson. For now on I wait until Fox scifi dramas get renewed once before committing.
Am I the only one here old enough to remember IT’S ABOUT TIME?
It’s about time. It’s about space. It’s about caves and the caveman race.
I don’t know … Brannon Braga heading another project that deals with time travel and the use of science as magic wherein technobabble will invariably save-the-day and everything will get the big old reset at the end just sounds like more of the same old tripe he’s given us before. I hope Kyle Chandler has the good sense to stay away from this sure fire stinker.
At least that’s the way I see it.
Sigh. Jaded nerds. So angry.
It always amazes me that people who have never worked in television and could not sell a sentence, much less a script or an entire series, think they know so much. It’s very easy to be opinionated and negative when you’re doing it anonymously online. Terra Nova sounds like it could be cool, so I’ll reserve judgment until I actually see it air.
When I first found this I got all excited thinking it was a reference to the Terra Nova colony from the Trek franchise. I got my hopes up for a new show. Then my heart sank when I saw its about dinosaurs and time travel.
I am pleased to see that Brannon Braga is going forward into a new project. I only recently became a Braga fan after watching every episode of Star Trek:Enterprise on HDNET in one short year. That show was amazing, and though I’m sorry that I didn’t watch it way back in 2001, I have to admit that being able to watch it all on my new High Definition TV was outstanding. The finale was awesome, as it gave a fitting ending to a great series unlike so many other series that are short lived yet good. I din’t realize that Braga was involved with 24 until the final episode when I saw his name in the opening credits. I never ever missed an episode of 24 either which spanned my use of a VCR and finally DVR to be able to catch it all. I wish Braga continued success with his new project. Let’s just hope that whetever network picks it up, they don’t do the injustice done to other great shows in the past like Earth II(NBC shame on you), Defying Gravity(was that CBS??),Sara Conner Chronicles and so many other quality shows that weren’t given the chance to at least have an entire season. Flashforward was a great show also, sorry to hear that it’s not going to be around and will be lost in that great big ozone that all the great failures go to after the idiot TV companies screw them all up with programming errors and bad time slots.