In Support of ‘Journeyman’
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Tonight, NBC will air what might very well be the first of three final episodes for the time-travel newbie Journeyman. In a November 23 interview with website Premium Hollywood, series creator, executive producer, and showrunner Kevin Falls expressed reservations about the future of his excellent contribution to the Fall 2007 season due to its low ratings and the current writers strike.
I truly hope Falls is wrong since after having watched every single episode of Journeyman, I can vouch that its quality and promise for future improvement is as strong as any other freshman series that has already been picked up this season. One of the show’s main problems is that its much-hyped lead-in Heroes performed so underwhelmingly in recent months.
On December 3, NBC pulled Journeyman in order to give the post-Heroes midseason finale time slot to another entertaining rookie, the recently picked-up police procedural Life. The two shows have something else in common besides their network. They both star talented actors from across the pond who do an incredible job coming across as bona fide Americans, Englishman Damian Lewis in Life and Scotsman Kevin McKidd in Journeyman.
McKidd and Journeyman fans will be happy to learn that, despite previous speculation to the contrary, NBC will air all 13 episodes of the show that have been produced, starting with tonight’s eleventh installment “Home by Another Way.” The twelfth episode, “The Hanged Man,” follows on Monday, December 17, with the thirteenth, “Perfidia,” coming to Life‘s former time slot on Wednesday, December 19.
If you want to see Journeyman picked up for a full season, I urge you to make sure you watch all of the remaining episodes. I’d hate to see a show this good get the boot just because of unfortunate scheduling, a sluggish start, and inadequate word of mouth.
The next three episodes of Journeyman air at 10pm EST on NBC
Journeyman photo courtesy of NBC
Did the actual plot of what was happening on Journeyman ever get revealed??
Sadly, no.
However, the final two episodes did indicate that jumpers — the series only revealed three: Dan, his former fiancée Livia, and one other man named Evan (played by Don McManus) — were born around the same time that a rare comet called the Joseph Lee Comet passed by Earth.
Otherwise, we fans were pretty much left hanging. Thanks for nothing, NBC!