CBS' Threshold May Make Unprecedented Move Goyer says series will change its name every year October 26th 2005 11:34pm | Posted by: Robert Falconer HNR Senior Editor CBS' popular "alien invasion" series Threshold is poised to chart new television territory according to producer David S. Goyer. In a recent interview with About.com, Goyer said that the plan for the series is to fundamentally evolve the circumstances for the characters each year, thereby fundamentally altering the tenor of the series as well.   "Dr. Molly Anne Caffrey's (Carla Gugino) contingency plan is broken into three stages," Goyer says. "It goes Threshold, Foothold and Stranglehold. In the end of the first season, that's when the news gets out to the general public that it's happening and the sh*t hits the fan even more. They have to declare marshal law in season two. By season three, we're kind of in 28 Days Later land." However, CBS has not committed to the name change officially. "Well, they'll never give you a contractual commitment, but they liked the idea of that," remarks Goyer. For those unfamiliar with the series, Threshold is a suspense drama about a team of experts who are assembled when the U.S. Navy makes a chilling discovery: an extra terrestrial craft - likely a probe of some sort - that has arrived in the mid-Atlantic ocean (for more details, click here). The weird starfish-like symbol that often shows up in episodes, that has become the series' trademark sign is explained by producer Brannon Braga. "That thing which we’re calling the fractal pattern which is the alien’s calling card, appears whenever the alien presence is near," offers Braga. "Whether it’s someone who’s been infected by the signal and whose DNA is being transformed, and it might appear in metal flakings like that. It could appear as schools of fish, or birds might take on the pattern. It could be thumbtacks that form the pattern." Despite the show's portentous arc, the staff still find time to think about the humor, as evidenced by one tongue-in-cheek staff discussion about victims of the alien signal bleeding out their anuses. "For all we know, it is serious but we just couldn’t show it on TV," Goyer says. "If we were on Showtime, there would be bleeding anuses." Threshold airs Fridays at 9 pm ET/PT on CBS. Source: About.com In: General TV News |Visit the HNR Forums

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