(As the show has been cancelled, I expect that news items pertaining to Threshold may be few from here on...but I'll update with news on developments with the cast when possible.)

 

Threshold – Currently showing on Sky One, but now cancelled stateside by CBS. Digital Spy reports that Sky will be showing all thirteen episodes, with the world premiere of ‘The Crossing’ set for Wednesday, January 11th. What went wrong with Threshold? Read my thoughts in the Great Link Productions Blog.

 

And a reminder:  Holiday greetings for the cast & creative team!  The Brannon Braga website has a Christmas/holiday greeting project in the works now for fans who want to send e-mails, letters or cards of greeting to their favorite Threshold team members! Even if you're not usually one to send fan letters I'd give this one a shot...it may be hard to find these folks soon with the show cancelled, and your holiday well-wishes would be another nice way to show a hard-working cast and crew your appreciation and support of their work! 

 

Various articles added to the "Articles & Interviews" section, all detailing the show's cancellation...although still no official word on the fate of the remaining episodes.  (Please note: some fans have generously e-mailed additional article links which have not been posted, as they are only syndicated duplicates of what has already been featured here...but thanks for thinking of the site, and keep writing!)

"E.T., GO HOME: And in another blow to compelling, scripted television, CBS has yanked this Tuesday's episode of Threshold and, according to TheFutonCritic.com, halted production of the alien-invasion drama. Filling Threshold's time slot tomorrow at 10 pm/ET will be a repeat of Criminal Minds and a good deal of grumbling from sci-fi geeks. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Robert Bianco at USA Today:  "What to watch Tuesday night:" CBS' Threshold (10 p.m. ET/PT) moves to its new night with a particularly strong episode as the team tangles with an infected Washington socialite (Elizabeth Berkley). It makes for an entertainingly scary hour for a show that seems to be morphing into Alias with aliens.

 

TV Guide also lists tonight's episode in their Hot List:  "Elizabeth Berkley guest stars on this chilling episode as one of three D.C. residents who become infected by the aliens. Berkley plays an oil billionaire's trophy wife who viciously attacks a bank teller. But her reaction is mild compared to an artist who rips her husband's head off and tosses it out of a window, and an attorney who mutates and explodes on a street corner. (Video clip available at the link!)

 

 

 

 

 

November 7, 2005:  Timeslot change!  The Futon Critic is reporting that Threshold is being moved to a new timeslot: Tuesdays at 10pm EST, beginning November 22!

 

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"Catherine Bell will soon join the show's cast in a recurring role. Bell, who will also star in SCI FI Channel's upcoming original miniseries The Triangle, will play a genetic engineer who joins the Red Team of Molley Caffrey (Carla Gugino), which is trying to stop an alien threat..." and "Gunneson (William Mapother), the alien infectee from the pilot episode, will come back "in a very, very unexpected way when he appears in Molly's nightmare." 

 

"The unseen fiancé of character Lucas Pegg (played by Robert Patrick Benedict) will make an appearance. "You're finally going to meet her in an upcoming episode... in fact, she's going to become a recurring character," ..."She's cool and pretty," Braga added. "She's a research physician at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Lucas is going to go through a very traumatic experience where having watched that alien video tape, he starts to unravel,"... the "refrigerator dude, Gunnison" will be reintroduced to the show. "He is going to come back in a very, very unexpected way when he appears in Molly's nightmares. They're going to find out some very disturbing things about that ship at the bottom of the ocean that you saw in the last episode; that's going to start coming back. We're definitely picking up threads from previous episodes and paying them off."

 

"One of our characters is going to become unglued, start to tune into an alien. It's one of the three who was infected from the videotape in the pilot -- Lucas, Molly, Cavennaugh. One of those three is going to go down," ...also, if the show is picked up for a full season, look for JAG's Catherine Bell to appear in a three-episode arc!

 

Is Threshold a goner?
Is riding the fence right now. Spread the word to watch it on Tuesday nights! This week's ep is the one with Elizabeth Berkley, she gets infected at a sperm bank because one of the ship's infected crew members has been donating sperm. Her friend who goes to the same fertility clinic is also infected. They're trying to spread the signal. Another woman who's infected isn't as lucky...And someone get shot at the end.

 

"If we get that back order, there are lots of big twists and turns coming, and big escalating things happening both plotwise and characterwise that we want to do. Molly's going to lose control of Threshold. She's going to ... find herself in a position where she may completely lose control of the entire operation. Ramsey 's [Peter Dinklage] going to be going down a very dark path as he starts turning to his vices more and more. ... And ... we're going to find out more about what these aliens are doing. Unfortunately, right around the time our team starts to figure it out, we figure out that what they plan is infinitely more terrifying than what we've seen so far."

 

"Is euthenasia an option for humans infected with the alien strain?  As interesting as it would be to hear the issue argued before the Supreme Court, time constraints (and security issues) necessitate that the debate be left to Molly and Fenway when a contaminated guard would rather die than face mutation."