I was encouraged to hear that Eleventh Hour Executive Producer Cyrus Voris told the Television Critics Association last week that “We’re trying very hard to ground our show in the real world. There was a CBS press release that described the show as ‘five minutes in the future.’ I don’t even know if it’s even five minutes in the future. I think it is sort of happening now.”

Executive Producer Ethan Reiff added, “Our lives have been directly touched in one form or another over the last decade by these endless cutting-edge breakthroughs in genetics, in biochemistry and [in] miniaturization and nanotechnology. Speaking for myself, I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic, and the insulin that keeps me alive now is manufactured by genetically engineered bacteria. So that’s where this show lives and breathes… the science that’s really here. And we think that’s really cool.”

That’s good news for me; I always argued that straight scientific probity was the show’s USP. Not science fiction, but thrillers about headline science.

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