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To read the rest of the article click Television: Sci-fi dramas are landing on a planet near youThree of Fox’s five new dramas — “Night Visions,” “Freakylinks,” “Dark Angel,” — have sci-fi themes, and an “X-Files” spinoff, “The Lone Gunmen,” is expected to premiere in January. There’s the NBC summer series, “Mysterious Ways,” described by producers as “Touched By An Angel” meets “The X-Files,” which moves to the Pax network on Aug. 22. Over at the WB, “Roswell” — the drama about teen extraterrestrials hiding out in a New Mexico town — only survived when producers promised network executives that the show’s second season would be less about high school and more about alien adventures.<\/p>\n And while writers and stars of these shows will tell you that they never would attempt to imitate “The X-Files,” they admit that all sci-fi shows in the near future will be judged against it.<\/p>\n “I think ‘The X-Files’ created a litmus test for all sci-fi shows,” said “Roswell” star Jason Behr. “Because that show is in its last season and some key people are not going to be involved anymore, everyone wants to fill that void.” <\/p>\n[…]\n Colin Hanks, who co-stars in “Roswell,” said good sci-fi TV must be grounded in realistic heroes and stories. “It isn’t just about spaceships,” he said. “‘X-Files’ gave sci-fi a human quality. Most of the other science-fiction shows relied on the science fiction too much. Ultimately, I don’t think people want something that is totally, completely 100-percent not possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks to Cindy for sending this in. To read the rest of the article click here. Television: Sci-fi dramas are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2377,2375,3],"tags":[40,18,13],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colin-hanks","category-jason-behr","category-leading","tag-article","tag-colin-hanks","tag-jason-behr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28282,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/28282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}here<\/s>.<\/p>\n\n