Outcasts (BBC)

[Harlowe]

I just found this show on Netflix and I really enjoyed it even though it didn't make it to a second season. Anyway, it's sci-fi series, I think 8 episodes, basically Earth is becoming uninhabitable, so some sort of earth collective sends groups to colonize a planet in the goldilocks zone called Carpathia (kind of a harsh climate with massive white-outs, I think it was shot in South Africa). The planet has very little natural flora and fauna, but there might be sentient "somethings". The series begins ten years after the first couple group of colonists, and they establish a bit of a tatoonine looking town called Forthaven. The people now on Carpathia really have no idea what is going on down on Earth. The news comes from the few transports that can get through the nasty atmospheric conditions.

An interesting element = Advanced Cultivars or AC's, artificially created humans designed to survive the harsh Carpathia conditions. Not exactly treated like the natural humans.

[Minute]

No 2nd Season = No Care. I simply can't make myself start watching a show knowing it doesn't get wrapped up. Especially knowing it's a good show. Just pisses me off.

[Harlowe]

Yeah, that's fair enough. For me, I'll watch anything good that's sci-fi, because there is some value just in quality sci-fi for me. Hell, Firefly was one season and I loved that series. The cult following is what enabled him to make a wrap-up film. Anyway, the BBC does this alot - 8 episode series, sometimes you get another season, often not. I think Survivors (an actual sci-fi series not the reality crap) only got one or two seasons and that was really good too.

[Ddrak]

Given Brits pay a tax for owning a TV to fund the BBC, this pretty much gives them license to do whatever the hell they want. That often means that if a key actor or writer gets bored then they'll just roll up the show and make something else, but it also means they'll make some awesome shows that never would get past an initial commercial review.

Dd

[Minute]

They should just turn the entire thing over to whoever makes Sherlock & let them run wild with any show they want.