TNT heads to Comic-Con with Falling Skies

By April MacIntyre Jul 1, 2010, 20:09 GMT

TNT is going to give fans the very first look at the eagerly anticipated new series "Falling Skies" from DreamWorks Television.

Sci-fi and Spielberg come to TNT.

TNT is going to give fans the very first look at the anticipated new series "Falling Skies" from DreamWorks Television.

The series is executive producer Steven Spielberg and stars Noah Wyle.

Premise

Slated to premiere in summer 2011, the series envisions a world where aliens have invaded, and the fate of humanity lies in the hands of a few survivors. 

Cast at the Con

Series stars Wyle and Moon Bloodgood will join co-executive producer and writer Mark Verheiden (Heroes, Battlestar Galactica) at Comic-Con for a Q&A panel session scheduled to take place Friday, July 23, from 4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. (PT) in Room 6A.  They will also be available for an autograph signing, time and location to be announced.

Premise

Wyle stars as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force.  Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation. 

The series also stars Drew Roy as Hal and Maxim Knight as Matt, Tom’s two sons; and Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group’s commissary.  Will Patton plays a fierce leader of the resistance.

Falling Skies is executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, along with DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank and screenwriter Robert Rodat.  Rodat, who earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Saving Private Ryan, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with Spielberg. 

TNT is home to The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick; Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton; and Dark Blue, starring Dylan McDermott; the upcoming Rizzoli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander; Memphis Beat, with Jason Lee; Men of a Certain Age, with Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula; and Southland, from Emmy®-winning producer John Wells (ER).