“Falling Skies” receives second season renewal
TNT has picked up its sci-fi drama “Falling Skies” for a second season, according to a news release.
The series, which comes to the network from DreamWorks Television and executive producer Steven Spielberg, stars Noah Wyle as a Boston history professor and the father of three sons who becomes one of the leaders of the survivors of a desolating alien attack on Earth.
The first season of “Falling Skies,” which premiered June 19, has also been executive produced by DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank, Graham Yost and screenwriter Robert Rodat.
Rodat wrote the pilot from an idea he formulated with Spielberg.
Ten episodes have been ordered for the second season, which is scheduled to air in summer 2012.
Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy and Connor Jessup also star in “Falling Skies,” which airs at 9 p.m. Sundays on TNT.
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