Beyond Tomorrow (TV series)
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Beyond Tomorrow | |
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Also known as | Towards 2000 (1981–1984) Beyond 2000 (1985–1995, 1999) |
Created by |
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Starring | Beyond 2000
Beyond Tomorrow
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Composer | Neil Sutherland |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | Beyond 2000: 475 Beyond Tomorrow: 50 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Lloyd Capps - creator Towards 2000 (1981–84)
Beyond 2000 Peter Abbott (1985–1993) John Hosking (1993–1996) David Alrich (2005–2006) |
Camera setup | Network Ten (1993–1995, 1999) |
Release | 27 July 1985 |
Release | 1 June 2005 30 August 2006 | –
Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series produced by
Towards 2000 and Beyond 2000
Towards 2000 debuted on the ABC in 1981 as a half-hour show dedicated to showcasing developments and inventions in science and technology. Original presenters were Jeffrey Watson, Sonia Humphrey and David Flatman. There were four series of the program (1981, 82, 83 and 84) and it was a popular and high rating success on the national broadcaster. After production finished on the 4th series, the ABC decided not to continue with Towards 2000, and instead started up a new science program, named Quantum, under the newly appointed Dick Gilling from BBCTV.
The Towards 2000 reporters then spoke with Ted Thomas, General Manager of ATN 7, who agreed that his network could start a new hour long production and name it Beyond 2000, airing until 1993 when it was picked up by
Fourteen series of Towards/Beyond 2000 were produced, with the last being made in 1999 as a one-off, after a production break of about four years. At this point, the rising cost of producing the series, coupled with increased competition from other science and technology shows forced the cancellation of the show.
A Beyond 2000 website was published by the same company between 1999 and 2003. This provided science and technology news, as well as video clips from the old TV shows. The website was eliminated in a round of company-wide budget cuts that reflected a general downturn in the Australian media industry at the time.
Presenters
- Sonia Humphrey
- Iain Finlay
- Jeff Watson[2]
- David Flatman
- Carmel Travers[3]
- Chris Ardill-Guinness
- Simon Reeve
- Amanda Keller
- Andrew Carroll
- Maxine Gray
- Anthony Griffis
- Dr Caroline West
- Dr John D'Arcy
- Simon Nasht
- Sharon Nash
- Bryan Smith
- Tracey Curro
- Andrew Waterworth
- American versions were presented by Henry Tenenbaum,[4] Dave Marash and Susan Hunt.
Beyond Tomorrow
In 2005, Beyond 2000 returned to the
Segments from MythBusters, another Beyond Television production, also aired as part of the program, which was criticised by Australian viewers because Beyond Productions had also sold Mythbusters to SBS. Both shows aired at almost at the same time, with the Beyond Tomorrow version redubbing the American narrator with an Australian narrator in Beyond 2000 by calling them "Beyond Tomorrow's Mythbusters", leaving some viewers feeling the company was insulting their intelligence by doing this double dip into the Australian market.[citation needed] The series had also been criticised by some fans of the earlier Beyond 2000 for featuring "futuristic" technologies that were obsolete or have been in common use for several years at the time.[citation needed] The theme music was also criticised for not being on par with Beyond 2000's, with some calling it lazy, generic and bland.[citation needed]
Beyond Tomorrow also aired in the US on
Presenters
- Matt Shirvington
- Graham Phillips
- Hayden Turner
- Anna Choy
- Dr Caroline West
- Sara Groen
- Grant Denyer
- Kim Watkins (February 2006 - July 2006)
International
- In the United States, episodes of the series aired on the Fox network, under the Beyond Tomorrow name, from 1988 until 1990. The show was produced by Beyond International Group. From 1992 until its cancellation, the Discovery Channel aired Beyond 2000 with all of the episodes and segment introductions (along with new material) hosted by KRON-TV news anchor Henry Tenenbaum.
- In Sweden, a version called Bortom 2000 was hosted by nature photographer Bo Landin on TV4in the early 1990s. (The series was short lived, however.)
- In Finland, a version called 2000 Nyt! was presented in 1994 on the MTV3 channel.[5]
- In Italy, Beyond 2000 aired from 1988 to the early '90s on syndication network Odeon TV.
- In Malaysia, Beyond 2000 previously aired in the late 1980s through the early 1990s on Discovery Channel (Southeast Asia)in the mid-2000s.
- In Indonesia, Beyond 2000 was aired on RCTI every Saturday morning in the early 1990s.
- In South Africa, Beyond 2000 was screened on SABC, M-Net[citation needed] and Bop TV.
- In Ireland, Beyond 2000 aired on Two.
- In Saudi Arabia, Beyond 2000 was shown on the English speaking television network Saudi 2.
- In New Zealand, Beyond 2000 was aired on TV One.
- In Jordan, Beyond 2000 was broadcast on the English, Arabic and French language television channel Channel 2 in English.
- In Kuwait, Beyond 2000 has been shown on KTV2, the country's governmental television channel dedicated for the English-speaking public.
- In Namibia, Beyond 2000 began airing on SWABC (when the country was originally known as South West Africa at the time) in 1989 and then on NBCin March 1990 (several days after the country had changed its name to Namibia).
- In Thailand , Beyond 2000 was aired on CH7HD in 1990
External links
- Beyond Tomorrow at Science Channel
- Beyond Tomorrow at IMDb
- Beyond 2000 at IMDb
- Beyond 2000 - Towards 2000 at the National Film and Sound Archive
References
- ^ "Beyond 2000 on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Jeff Watson - Speaker - Ovations!". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Travers, Carmel (November 1991). "Address to WISENET 1991 AGM". 27: 8–16. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Henry Tenenbaum". Archived from the original on 26 August 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Paukku, Timo: Sujuva uusi tiedeohjelma esittelee suomalaista osaamista sopivan verkkaiseen tahtiin. Helsingin Sanomat 9.1.1994 (in Finnish) (a paid article)