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8 p.m.
After landing on the burning surface of Venus, Zoe walks toward a sound only she can hear, drawn by her destiny into almost certain destruction.

8:00 PM
It’s the day of the Venus landing, a historic and dangerous event likely to alter the lives of everyone involved.

8:00 PM

It’s Election Day back on Earth but the Antares crew is still coming to terms with the awe-inspiring events that have just transformed the focus of the mission.

From Media in Canada:

• Defying Gravity falls off the grid
  “ABC and CTV are shelving Defying Gravity, though both networks say that the remaining episodes of the space drama will air sometime in the future.” Read more.

10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “Eve Ate the Apple” – ALL-NEW EPISODE

Entranced by a haunting song, the Antares crew is inexorably drawn to storage Pod 4 where the otherworldly Beta object revolves in an astonishing fractal dance. In Mission Control, Ajay (Zahf Paroo) and Arnel (William Vaughan) also see the strange object for the first time as Goss (Andrew Airlie) announces that they are now all sworn to secrecy about the real nature of the space mission.

Friday, September 11 10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “Love, Honor, Obey” – ALL-NEW EPISODE An impending solar flare threatens the crew of the Antares with dangerous radiation while the strange force in Pod 4 finally sends out a siren call that proves utterly irresistible.

From Bill Brioux at TV Feeds My Family:

• Ron James On The Right Track
  “A good sign for Ron James heading into his series debut: a rerun of one of his stand up comedy specials scored 919,000 viewers last Friday on CBC. … CTV’s Defying Gravity scored 698,000 viewers Friday night.” Read more.

Friday, Sept. 4 at 10/9C – Fear

There’s something very strange on board the Antares as nearly all the astronauts have racing heartbeats and elevated temperatures. Back at Mission Control, Goss (Andrew Airlie) is ramping up for an outer space Halloween promotional stunt that will result in billions of dollars worth of scientific funding. Desperate to keep the project on track, Goss orders Claire (Maxim Roy) to attribute the symptoms to contaminated Halos, the crew’s removable libido inhibitors. But the problems continue to escalate, with disturbing hallucinations plaguing almost everyone on board and even extending to Eve (Karen LeBlanc) on Earth.

From Darren Sumner of GateWorld:

• Stargate alums light up ABC’s Defying Gravity
  “The best summer show you might be missing is Defying Gravity, a new science fiction drama on ABC.” Read more.

From a media release – Canadian shows only:

Catch Up to Canada’s Most-Watched TV Programs Online:  CTV.ca Announces Fall Lineup

• Canada’s beloved THE LITTLEST HOBO now available on demand along with other retro classics

Responding to an outpouring of support from fans across Canada, CTV’s own THE LITTLEST HOBO returns home exclusively online with all six seasons to be rolled out over the course of the season.

CTV.ca’s 2009/10 Online Lineup:

Primetime

• THE BRIDGE **New**
• DEFYING GRAVITY **New**
• COMEDY NOW!
• CORNER GAS
• DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION
• FLASHPOINT
• THE LISTENER
• ROBSON ARMS
• SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA (highlights)

Online Exclusive **New**

• THE LITTLEST HOBO

10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “Bacon” – ALL-NEW EPISODE

Drawing closer to the orbit of Venus, some members of the Antares crew struggle with guilt and experience vivid repercussions of past actions. Meanwhile, a serious accident causes the life of a teammate to hang in the balance, uniting everyone in the desperate endeavor to save her.

CTV has moved Defying Gravity to Fridays at 10 pm ET, ahead of the US airing. The series is also now available on iTunes Canada, with the first three episodes free at the moment.

10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “Rubicon” – ALL-NEW EPISODE

It is a humbling moment for the crew of the spaceship as each of them deals with a personal point of no return. Meanwhile, the Antares crosses a critical boundary when going back to Earth is no longer an option and the home planet becomes just another twinkling light in a vast canopy of stars.

From BBM Canada:

• Top programs – Total Canada
  #6 So You Think You Can Dance Canada (1.032 million)
  #9 The Listener (894,000)
  #15 Flashpoint (758,000)
  #30 Defying Gravity (573,000)

From the Vancouver International Film Festival website:

TV TALK – Wednesday, September 30
3:30– 4:45 PM
Co-ventures in TV Land (FTV11)
Defying Gravity, Copper, Flashpoint, The Guard, and The Listener – these are a few of the Canadian-made scripted television series that have recently met with co-venture success in the US. The upside to the squeeze on production financing internationally is that US networks are looking to Canadian producers with renewed interest to carry the freight. But putting together an international TV deal is far from easy. It takes skill, talent and great timing – not just a great concept. Stop by for an in-depth session on getting a green light on scripts, budgets, cast, crew and financing on a series produced in Canada for the North American and, hopefully, world TV market.

Click here for more information and registration.

From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:

• Mad Men Hits US Sales Record
  “Not so good news for Defying Gravity, which isn’t in the U.S. The Canadian-made sci-fi series drew just 2.6 million on ABC last night, shedding too many at the half hour mark. It did much better, proportionally, Sunday night on CTV where 573,000 tuned in.” Read more.

10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “H2IK” – ALL-NEW EPISODE

The crew of the Antares face their first major crisis when the ship inexplicably begins to shut down all of its operating systems, causing the sudden failure of power, heat and gravity controls, and plunging everyone aboard into chaos during the desperate search for a solution.

From BBM Canada:

• Top Programs – Total Canada
  #20 Defying Gravity (783,000)

10 p.m. – DEFYING GRAVITY – “Threshold” – ALL-NEW EPISODE

Taboos are broken and lines are crossed as personal and professional relationships aboard the Antares and on Earth continue to intensify. The unseen power behind the mission begins to create both cellular and psychological transformations among the astronauts.

From James Hibberd at the Hollywood Reporter:

• ABC’s ‘Defying Gravity’ goes splat
  “The two-hour premiere of ABC’s “Defying Gravity” (3.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49) had a meager debut Sunday night.” Read more.