Day Zero: The Series

Day Zero: The Series
Created by Cal Nguyen
Starring Bill Gillane
Colin McDermott
Flo Donelli
Cal Nguyen
Morgan Mabey
Deven Skye
Ken Applegate
Emilyne Guglietti
Leo (Jared) Lynton
Richard Scott Dean
Julie Touchet
Ethan Aguilar
Kabrina Miller
Scott Smith
Jonathan C. Young
Crystal Udy
John F. Cruz
Jaclyn Easton
Corey Sondrup
Jonny Swenson
Amy Buchanan
Jason Buchanan
David Bodtcher
Quinci Staker
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 20
Production
Executive producer(s) Cal Nguyen
Running time 30 min.
Release
Original network Indieflix / Tuff TV
Original release October 8, 2011 / February 20, 2014
External links
Website

Day Zero: The Series is a United States post-apocalyptic, award-winning web and television series first broadcast in 2011 on the web series site blip.tv, and was created and developed by filmmaker/actor Cal Nguyen. It currently resides at Tuff TV and Indieflix (blip.tv shut down August 20, 2015).

Plot

During the 22nd Century, science and technology had advanced beyond ethical bounds, so most of mankind reversed course. Eventually, global dictatorships violated the United Nation's Bioethics Treaty, secretly stockpiling arms. As a result, an oblivious America was attacked. Retaliation with augmented nuclear weaponry had unforeseen effects, affecting most survivors in the Western Hemisphere and altering the rest. Those infected became ravenous beasts, feeding off the remaining population. But pockets of humanity remain...

Cast

TV Premiere

In 2014, Over-the-Air television network Tuff TV announced that it had acquired a non-exclusive licensing U.S. syndication agreement and began airing the once web-only series for the first time targeting national TV audiences in over 30 million North American homes, beginning in February 20, 2014. It can be currently viewed Fridays on Tuff TV at 130am EST/PST as technically re-runs while blip.tv continued its own non-exclusive runs, showing more frequently the show's newest episodes, available online 24/7 worldwide, free of charge (but with advertisements) until August 20, 2015 when Disney, who bought out Maker Studios, which were the ones who acquired blip.tv, ordering them to stop their services. Thus, as of August 25, 2015, Day Zero launched on Indieflix with its entire first season ready to view as the second season continues to be released weekly through the end of the year. These new versions of the episodes have a higher bitrate than ever before.

Cast Changes

The cast of Day Zero has undergone many changes with "Jim Lecter" being the only character to appear in every single episode since the pilot. Before filming the first season, an initial cast had been filmed partially but due to a changeover of copyright from original writer Kelsi Swensen to Cal Nguyen, and other than Cal Nguyen ("Jim Lecter") himself, the cast was replaced with an entirely new one to form the official season 1 cast (although season 1 composer Amber Masterson, who played the original "Kat Finch", made an actual guest appearance as a different character in the season 1 finale, "Dusk"). Then in season 2, most of the cast other than Cal Nguyen and Deven Skye (Baldwin), remained while new main characters were created. Along with new sets, new title credits and theme music, the crew also changed considerably considering season 1 mainly only had two members (Cal Nguyen and Tim Sabuco), who tripled up duties.

DVD Release

On November 3, 2011, Fofanugget Productions released the original pilot episode of Day Zero ("Lethal") on DVD in Region 1.[1]

Historical Archives

"Day Zero" the Series is listed in the paperback book, "Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013",[2] by Vincent Terrace, a former researcher for ABC television. This is the first ever compilation on Internet television, documenting 405 web or TV-based programs in this genre.

Press Interviews

Standard-Examiner, December 19, 2014[3]

Filmed in Utah, December 23, 2012[4]

Film Buzz (also on KJZZ "Movie Show"), August 15, 2013[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Day-Zero-Season-Episode-Lethal/dp/B00635B8A2/
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Science-Fiction-Television-1998-2013/dp/0786479930/
  3. ↑ http://www.standard.net/Faith/2014/12/19/Film-television-show-producer-shares-gospel-message.html
  4. ↑ http://blip.tv/filmedinutah/210-cal-nguyen-6484642
  5. ↑ http://blip.tv/filmedinutah/day-zero-season-2-set-visit-6629847

External links

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