(1) Channel Five's US drama FlashForward had 2.3 million viewers, 9% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm.
(2) So, forget about taking a chance on convoluted "New Lost" fare such as last year's FlashForward; 2010's new dramas are all about playing it safe.
(3) Channel Five's US drama import FlashForward continued to perform strongly, attracting 2.7 million viewers and an 11% share in the hour from 9pm.
(4) Channel Five's US import FlashForward drew 1.409 million viewers (5.2%) between 9pm and 10pm.
(5) Under The Dome (Monday, 10pm, Channel 5) is an Event, a TV Happening in the same big-budget vein as Lost, Terra Nova and FlashForward, in which the inhabitants of Earth were haunted by visions of Joseph Fiennes's chinos.
(6) At the same time on Channel Five, its new US import FlashForward starring Joseph Fiennes had 3.3 million viewers, a 14% share, narrowly up on the 3.2 million who watched last week's season opener.
(7) Of its 20 most watched programmes to date, four are sport-related, 10 are films, and five US TV shows (in order of popularity: CSI, Joey, Flashforward, CSI: Miami and The Mentalist).
(8) Flashforward to 2014 and Carrie (now played by Andrea Estella) is a Lady Gaga-esque pop star who has been found dead in her bathtub.
Prolepsis
Definition:
(n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
(n.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
(n.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
(n.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the appearance of his 18th novel, Millennium People, Ballard demonstrated his powers of prolepsis once more: as anti-terrorist forces rolled into Heathrow airport in February 2003, Ballard was putting the finishing touches to his own work of urban terrorism, a novel which rips open with an explosion at Heathrow's Terminal 2.