Falling Skies
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| Genre |
Science fiction Postapocalyptic Drama |
| Created by | Robert Rodat |
| Starring |
Noah Wyle Moon Bloodgood Drew Roy Jessy Schram Sarah Carter Maxim Knight Seychelle Gabriel Peter Shinkoda Connor Jessup Mpho Koaho Colin Cunningham Will Patton Doug Jones Scarlett Byrne |
| Composer(s) | Noah Sorota |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Steven Spielberg Darryl Frank Justin Falvey Robert Rodat Graham Yost Greg Beeman Remi Aubuchon David Eick |
| Producer(s) | John Ryan Noah Wyle Darren King Grace Gilroy |
| Location(s) |
Hamilton, Ontario (Season 1) Oshawa, Ontario (Season 1) Toronto, Ontario (Season 1) Vancouver, British Columbia (Season 2) |
| Cinematography | Christopher Faloona Nate Goodman Barry Donlevy |
| Editor(s) | Donn Aron Jon Koslowsky Robin Russell |
| Camera setup | Single camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
DreamWorks Television (2011-2013) Amblin Television (2014-2015) Invasion Productions TNT Original Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | TNT |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | June 19, 2011 – August 30, 2015 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
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Falling Skies is an American science-fiction post-apocalyptic dramatic television series created by Robert Rodat and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. The series stars Noah Wyle as Tom Mason, a former Boston University history professor who becomes the second-in-command of the 2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment, a group of civilians and fighters fleeing postapocalyptic Boston following an alien invasion that devastated the planet six months before the events of season 1.
The series, a production of DreamWorks Television—and from 2014 to 2015, being a production from Spielberg's Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Television—is broadcast in the United States on the cable channel TNT, and in Canada on Super Channel (first-run broadcasts) and on Space (second-run broadcasts on a one-year delay). The series premiered on June 19, 2011. On July 18, 2014, TNT renewed the show for a 10-episode fifth and final season, which started on June 28, 2015 and concluded on August 30, 2015.
Falling Skies begins six months after a global invasion by extraterrestrials, where in only days, the invaders neutralized the world's power grid and technology, defeated and largely destroyed all the world's militaries, and killed over 90% of the human population by destroying all of the world's major cities and capitals.
The aliens include mechanical attack drones called "Mechs"; a species of light brown-skinned six-legged beings known as "Skitters" that appear to control the mechs; and a mysterious species known as the Overlords, or "Espheni", presumably the actual engineers of the invasion and the masters of the Skitters.
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