Talks to save cancelled sci-fi drama Terra Nova have broken down, according to reports.
On-demand streaming service Netflix had been interested in picking up the show, but two industry insiders have told TV Guide that negotiations with 20th Century Fox Television have not worked out.
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One source has claimed that the talks broke down because international buyers may have been concerned about the lack of mainstream television or cable network support for the show.
Terra Nova - which counts Steven Spielberg and 24's Jon Cassar among its team of executive producers - was originally commissioned for a 13-episode run, but Fox cancelled the show earlier this month, hoping that taking the decision early would encourage another network to pick up the programme before the start of the next TV season.
Actress Shelley Conn told Digital Spy last year that she was hopeful Terra Nova would be recommissioned, saying: "We're so invested that it would break my heart if we didn't get another chance at this.
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"I just think everybody's worked so hard and we've created something that deserves to be continued."
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In July 2013, Kate joined the DS staff team as chief sub-editor and following six years as the site's managing editor, their role expanded to incorporate Hearst UK's entertainment portfolio (including Digital Spy and its sibling titles Best and Inside Soap) between late 2024 and early 2026.
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Her highlights while working at DS have included interviewing Stevie Nicks on the red carpet for her documentary In Your Dreams, sitting at a press roundtable with Formula 1 commentary icon Murray Walker, watching a life-sized LEGO car being driven around Silverstone, writing an album-by-album retrospective of Lady Gaga's genre-defying career for Living Legends, and raising awareness of receiving and understanding a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis through the lens of Bianca and Freddie's EastEnders storyline.
Upon remembering to log off the internet, Kate enjoys live theatre, dance and comedy, appreciating nature, baking (badly), tending a recently-rented allotment (equally badly) and pampering one very spoiled rescue cat named Jolene.
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