The Dead Zone (TV series)
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Stephen King |
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| Opening theme | "New Year's Prayer" by Jeff Buckley (seasons 1-3) "Dead Zone Epic" by Blues Saraceno (seasons 4-6) |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 80 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Peter Lhotka Ep 1 & 2 |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
DawnField Entertainment Crescent Entertainment (2002-2007) Dead Zone Production (2002–2007) Lionsgate Television (2002–2007) The Lloyd Segan Company (2002–2007) Modern Entertainment (2002–2005) Piller2 (2002–2007) Paramount Network Television (2002–2006) (seasons 1-5) CBS Paramount Network Television (2006–2007) (season 6) |
| Distributor |
Debmar-Mercury/20th Television (USA) CBS Studios International (non-USA) |
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| Original network | USA Network |
| Original release | June 16, 2002 – September 16, 2007 |
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The Dead Zone, a.k.a. Stephen King's Dead Zone (in USA) is an American/Canadian science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based on characters" from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and CBS Paramount Network Television (Paramount Network Television 2002-06) for the USA Network.
The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show and it was picked up instead by USA. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal.
The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season; however, due to low ratings and high production costs the series was canceled in December 2007, without a proper series finale.
Some rumors spread that Syfy would pick up the series after it was canceled by USA, but it did not happen. Rumors of a made-for-TV movie have all but faded with time.
Small-town teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a car accident that leaves him comatose for approximately six years. After regaining consciousness, Johnny begins having visions of the past and future triggered by touching items or people; doctors attribute the visions to activity in a previously unused "dead zone" of his brain that is attempting to compensate for the impaired function of the portions injured in the accident. Johnny also learns that his fiancée, Sarah, gave birth to his son in the interim following the accident, but has since married another man.
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