Just 12 days after the launch of what is touted to be television's greatest show ever, Terra Nova will debut this Saturday

In the Steven Spielberg-produced Terra Nova that takes place in a futuristic world, life on Earth is threatened and scientists open a door that allows people to travel back 85 million years to pre-historic times. Here, humans establish Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. Jason O'Mara who stars as Jim Shannon, the father of the Shannon household in Terra Nova, speaks about time travel, dinosaurs and how the show moves beyond just attracting the sci-fi nerd.


A still from Terra Nova (above) and a photo of O'Mara who plays Jim
Shannon

How was it like acting in a futuristic Chicago and how demanding was the filming?
Yes, well, first of all you know Brisbane stood in for Chicago (Brisbane was used as the location for a futuristic Chicago).u00a0 A lot of Chicago was Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) because we're not dealing with Chicago, we're dealing with that city 150 years or so from now. It has been very challenging shooting this show.u00a0 There were a lot of snakes. I don't know how poisonous it was, but I had a toad crawl across my boots just last week.