Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls was a television series on Fox, created by Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me) and Todd Holland (Malcolm in the Middle) with executive producer Tim Minear (writer and director for Firefly and Angel). Some sources use the two-word spelling Wonder Falls for the title, although it is correctly a single word (but note the title of its theme song, below). The series is a United States/Canada co-production, filmed in Toronto, Ontario and with several Canadian actors cast in lead roles (including the show's star).

Episodes

The pilot episode, "Wax Lion", received a higher Nielsen rating when it was repeated the Thursday after its premiere. The show was moved from a Friday night timeslot to Thursday after three episodes, but with little notice of the time change, and was cancelled after the fourth episode.

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Télé-Québec announced that it would broadcast all thirteen episodes of the first season in Canada, dubbed into French. (Lead actress Caroline Dhavernas, herself French-Canadian, reportedly lobbied to be allowed to dub her own voice for this.) Another Canadian network, the religious-based Vision TV, began airing all 13 episodes in English starting on October 4, 2004. Other networks have expressed interest in airing all 13 episodes in the U.S. Immediately after the show's cancellation, its producers attempted to interest other networks, including The WB in picking up the series. If they had been successful, Wonderfalls would have been the first American series in history to change networks in the midst of its first season.

Related Topics:
Télé-Québec - Canada - French-Canadian - Vision TV - The WB

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In addition, some episodes were shown in theatres in Los Angeles during the summer of 2004 in order to drum up support for the series. These episodes, many of them rough cuts without full effects and score work, were also released onto the Internet, aided by the producers themselves, who helped distribute them via the BitTorrent protocol.

Related Topics:
Los Angeles - BitTorrent

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On July 28, 2005, Logo began running Wonderfalls with multiple showings each week. Logo currently has limited distribution on cable systems in several large cities and DirecTV.

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Fox aired the first four episodes out of sequence, although the episodes as a whole were produced in a different order than was intended for broadcast. The above list shows the episodes in the order in which producers intended them to be viewed.

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In the United Kingdom all 13 episodes were picked up by Sky One, premiering on July 5 2005, with same-week repeats on Sky Mix. Sky have not followed the episode order above.

Related Topics:
United Kingdom - Sky One - July 5 - 2005 - Sky Mix

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