Debris
The X-Files meets the Men in Black?
NBC has ordered sci-fi drama Debris to series. The pilot from Fringe and Almost Human showrunner Joel Wyman was filming in Vancouver in March when the coronavirus pandemic shut down film & TV production worldwide.
Related: Supernatural, The Flash & Dozens of Other Productions Shut Down in Vancouver Out Of Coronavirus Fears.
Debris is believed to have had the most footage in the can of all the American network pilots and managed to edit together footage from Vancouver with additional visuals to make a full episode, according to Deadline: Hollywood.
Related: NBC Sci-fi pilot Debris Starts Filming in Vancouver.
NBC pilot #Debris setting up a night shoot in Surrey.
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Debris follows two agents — one American, one British — as they investigate the mysterious effects on people from the wreckage of an alien spacecraft.
Jonathan Tucker is CIA agent Bryan Beneventi. Riann Steele is MI6’s Finola Jonesmust. And Robert Leo Butz is Beneventi’s CIA handler Craig Maddox.
Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Robert Leo Butz.
Studio: Legendary TV.
Showrunners: J. H. Wyman & Jason Hoffs.
Will the series film in Vancouver too?
Related: NBC Pilots Debria and La Brea to Film in Vancouver.
What of the other NBC pilot that filmed in Vancouver? La Brea — about a family separated when a giant sinkhole into a primeval world opens up — is still under consideration for a series order with six scripts submitted.
Reminder: NBC pilot La Brea is filming in Surrey’s Redwood Park today.
About a family separated when a giant sinkhole into a primeval world opens up.https://t.co/7qSdKx1jHr— Hollywood North Buzz – YVRShoots (@yvrshoots) March 6, 2020