Threshold is a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
The series was first shown on Friday nights, but was moved to Tuesday in an effort to boost ratings. This plan backfired, with the show registering a sharp drop in its ratings on its first Tuesday night showing on November 22, 2005, and CBS cancelled the series on November 23, 2005.03.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.trektoday.com/news/241105_03.shtml, with four episodes left unbroadcast.
The remaining episodes were aired on _Sky One, a channel in the United Kingdom owned by BSkyB, who co-produced the series with CBS. Threshold (the entire series) was released on DVD on August 22, 2006.
The series first aired on the Sci Fi Channel on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 10:00 pm, following a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/pr.aspx?id=20060802scifi01
Although only having had a 13 episode order, the producers had begun planning a 14th episode in case CBS decided to pick it up. CBS cancelled the series after 10 episodes and the 14th, called "Head Trip", never made it past paper.
The symbol used is an Escape-Time fractal, a version of the Julia Set, a recursively constructed shape related to the more famous Mandelbrot Set.
A space shuttle crew return to Earth, bringing alien "seeds" with them. These begin to grow into alien life-forms, needing hosts to complete their evolution... When their number reach the Threshold amount, they will be an unstoppable swarm, so it's up to two scientists to stop them beofre it's too late. Written by Smish
While repairing a spacecraft, an astronaut is perforated in the arm by a tiny meteor. Once back in Houston, he stays in the hospital for a further examination. Along the night, he breeds some sort of alien moths that attack people with B-negative blood type, transforming them in creatures with claws. Dr. Jerome 'Geronimo' Horne (Nicholas Lea) and Dr. Savannah Bailey (Jamie Lurner) have forty-eight hours for finding a way of destroying the aliens, otherwise Houston will be completely bombed to limit the outbreak. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
