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Showtime to premiere new sci-fi thriller
The future is now
as Showtime will
premiere Total
Recall 2070.
Showtime will launch its
stylish new sci-fi thriller se
ries Total Recall 2070 on
March 7, 8 p.m. (ET/PT) with
a two-hour premiere episode
titled “Machine Dreams.” Fol
lowing this, the network has
committed to run an addi
tional 20 episodes of the se
ries, which is based on ele
ments of the hit feature film.
Total Recall 2070 is a produc
tion of Alliance Atlantis in
association with Showtime
and PolyGram television.
Total Recall 2070 stars
Michael Eason (Two, 413 Hope
Street and Ally Mcßeal) as
police detective David Hume
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and Karl Pruner (Showtime’s
The Fixer) as his android part
ner, lan Farve. As membersof
the Citizens Protection Bu
reau (CPB), whose mission is
to defend innocent parties
from unchecked societal pow
ers, their investigations in
volve mysterious and often
perilous cases that will take
them from Earth to the colo
nies on Mars.
Cast regulars include
Michael Anthony Rawlins
(NYPD Blue) as Hume’s boss
Martin Ehrenthal; Cynthia
Preston (Madonna: New York
Music Story) as Hume’s wife
Olivia; Matthew Bennett (Due
South) as James Calley, head
of a special internal affairs
unit; and Judith Krant (Pri
vate Parts) as the CPB’s top
forensics investigator, Olan
Chang.
In the two-hour premiere
episode, “Machine Dreams,”
Hume and Farve are in pur
suit of rogue androids im
planted with illegal, tempo
rary bio-technology that al
lows them to experience emo
tion and memory. Resorting
to violence to save their “souls
on loan,” the androids flee to
Mars where Hume and Farve
n.ustrely on help from ashady
corporate czar, played by guest
star Nick Mancuso (Under
Siege.)
The series was created by
Art Monterastelli (High In
cident, Nowhere Man) whois
also the writer of the pre
miere episode. Jeff King
(Showtime’s Stargate SG-1
and Due South) serves as su
pervising producer for the
series. Total Recall 2070 is
inspired by the work of ac
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claimed writer Philip K.
Dick, whose original short
stories were the basis for the
films Total Recall and Blade
Runner. The two-hour pre
miere was directed by Mario
Azzopardi, who previously
helmed the premiere of
Showtime’s Stargate SG-1.
The show’s special effects,
elaborate sets and stylized
mix of genres will serve as a
backdrop for taut, action-ori
ented storylines focusing on
human drama, conflicts and
emotions.
In creating Total Recall
2070, Art Monterastelli (cre
ator and writer) and Jeff
King (supervising producer)
present a 21st century world
that has undergone dramatic
change. In the aftermath of
environmental and man
made disasters, govern
ments and nations have dis
solved. = Six powerful con
glomerates known as the
Consortium arise to domi
nate world affairs. The Citi
zens Protection Bureau, in
which Hume and Farve
serve, is authorized to thwart
espionage and provide a
check to the powers of the
Consortium. With society’s
near-collapse in 2020 and the
ensuing deterioration of
much of its infrastructure,
2070 presents an odd juxta
position of advanced technol
ogy and decayed environs.
In the offices of the Citizens
Protection Bureau, for ex
ample, the latest in liquid
plasma screens and surveil
lance monitors sit atop old
wooden desks in an imposing
room replete with enormous
concrete pillars and beams.
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