2012: The Series?

More good news for the sci-fi geek in all of us! Even before the theatrical premiere of 2012 comes news that a television series based on the movie is in the works. Roland Emmerich, the producer/director of 2012, has disclosed that the small-screen version will take place in 2013 and center around the the "resetting" of Earth:

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster,” Emmerich told EW while walking the red carpet for the 2012 premiere Tuesday. “It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harald Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Here's some more good news. According to Emmerich, ABC has expressed an interest in the series as another possible replacement for LOST after it completes it's six year run (*moment of silence*).

With FlashForward doing very well in the ratings department for ABC and this week's highly successful premiere of V doing equally well, can we expect to see a wholly night of science fiction on the network in the near future?

Does anyone else out there think that such a block of viewer-specific programming could rescue the rerun-heavy graveyard now known as Saturday night?