Flashforward
FlashForward is an American television series, adapted for television by Brannon Braga and David S. Goyer, which aired for one season on ABC between September 24, 2009, and May 27, 2010. It is based on the 1999 novel Flashforward by Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. The series revolves around the lives of several people as a mysterious event causes nearly everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for two minutes and seventeen seconds on October 6, 2009. During this blackout, people see what appear to be visions of their lives on April 29, 2010, a global "flashforward" six months into the future.
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| Country of origin | United States
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| Original language | English
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| No. of seasons | 1
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| No. of episodes | 22
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| Running time | 41-44 minutes
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| Original release | September 24, 2009 –
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![Joseph Fiennes, Sonya Walger - TV Guide Magazine Cover [United States] (23 November 2009)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/n/e/nekbc35y4l32ln5b.jpg?skj2io4l)
- Jack Davenport and Sonya Walger both starred in the television show Coupling (2000). Davenport in the UK version and Walger in the short lived US version.
- The novel is set in 2009, the same year the television show airs.
- Based on the novel "Flash Forward" by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1999 by 'Tor Books,' and which differs from the series plot, where the world's given a glimpse at their lives 21-years into the future.
- The character of D. Gibbons is named after Dave Gibbons, the illustrator of the graphic novel 'Watchmen'.
- The character of Al Gough is named after Alfred Gough, a friend and neighbour of co-creator Brannon Braga.
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