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Frequency (CW) trailer - new Fall show

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maxcriden

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8Rl2n2C6Y

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Detective Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List) has always wanted to prove that she is nothingl ike her father. In 1996, when Raimy was eight years old, NYPD Officer Frank Sullivan (Riley Smith) left Raimy and her mother, Julie (Devin Kelley), behind when he went deep undercover, got corrupted, and got himself killed. Or so the story has always gone. Few people knew about the secret undercover sting operation Frank was really charged with, led by Stan Moreno (Anthony Ruivivar), who has now risen to Deputy Chief of Police. Frank’s former partner, Lieutenant Satch Reyna (Mekhi Phifer), is now Raimy’s mentor and friend, and he has urged her to let go of the hurt and anger she still feels about Frank’s disappearance and death, but the old pain still lingers. Raimy can barely bring herself to discuss Frank, even with her devoted boyfriend, Daniel (Daniel Bonjour), or her childhood friend, Gordo (Lenny Jacobson). Now, twenty years later, Raimy is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. They’re both shocked and confused, but Raimy shakes Frank to the core when she warns him that the secret sting he is undertaking will leadt o his death. Armed with that knowledge, Frank survives the attempt on his life. But changing history has dramatically affected Raimy’s life in the present – and there have been tragic consequences. Separated by twenty years,father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?FREQUENCY is from Warner Bros. Television in association with Lin Pictures,with executive producers Jeremy Carver (“Supernatural”), Toby Emmerich (“TheNotebook” feature film), John Rickard (“Horrible Bosses”), Dan Lin (“The LEGO™Movie,” “Sherlock Holmes”) and Jennifer Gwartz (“Veronica Mars”).

(via IGN)

Based on the 2000 film:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186151/?ref_=nv_sr_1
 

Skiesofwonder

Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I remember enjoying the movie (wow that was 16 years ago?), so I'm down for this.

Trailer has me optimistic, but it screams one and done to me.
 
What's with this wave of movies becoming tv shows? Limitless, Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, now this.

As a side note, the original movie was pretty good. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was fun.
 

Penguin

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What's with this wave of movies becoming tv shows? Limitless, Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, now this.

As a side note, the original movie was pretty good. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was fun.

Think the success and critical acclaim of stuff like Hannibal, Fargo, and Bates Motel opened people's eyes to all these properties they could be re-investing it.
 

game-boi

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For the longest time, I couldn't tell the difference between Frequency and White Noise. The trailer for this was okay.

Sidenote: the video linked me to the first look at No Tomorrow, which looked pretty fun in a kinda cute way.
 

IvanJ

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Movie was very good, but I think the actors had something to do with that as well.
This show has an interesting premise, but I feel it will just be a copy of Cold Case with a twist. And I expect them to get completely entangled in a crapload of time travel paradoxes and try to ignore them for the rest of the series.
 

C-Drive

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I love the movie...

But how do you stretch that into a TV show - unless it's going to be constantly one thing going wrong after another. Saves Dad > Mom Dies > Saves Mom > Fiance Dies > Save Fiance > etc until you get to the final episode where they realize the only way to fix everything is for dad to die?

There's a reason the story line fit a movie well.

Also if they're gonna go point to point with the movie, then the opening theme needs to be "When You Come Back To Me Again".
 

SeanC

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A fantastic movie, and I can see them stretching out the concept for a series pretty easily. One thing the movie only touched on is making mistakes by influencing the past and trying to fix them but I could see that being a major plot point for a series and keep it really unpredictable.
 
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