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FlashForward is a science fiction television series currently in production by ABC Studios for the 2009–2010 television season. It is based on the novel Flashforward by Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. With the end of Lost in 2010, ABC studios hopes it will be a companion series to the show during its sixth and final season.
PLOT
A mysterious global event causes everyone to simultaneously experience, for two minutes and seventeen seconds, his or her life six months in the future. When they wake up from the "flash forward", everyone is left wondering if what they saw will actually happen. Many are dead in accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control.
A Los Angeles FBI agent named Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) tries to figure out what exactly happened and why it happened. Along with his team, he creates a database of people's flash forwards from around the world called the Mosaic Collective (a website for which has been launched).
Differences between the novel and the series
In the novel the protagonist is Lloyd Simcoe, a 47 year old Canadian particle physicist works with his fiancée Michiko, who has a daughter, Tamiko, who is killed as an out-of-control vehicle plows into her school. In the series, the episodes revolve around Agent Benford. However, a character named Lloyd Simcoe (portrayed by Jack Davenport) will appear on the show.
The visions experienced by people in the novel take place 21 years in the future, in the TV series the interval is only six months.
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