CREATOR EXCLUSIVE
Falling Down
Strange occurrences and alien ships mix in Debris, the new show from one of the creatives behind Fringe
“I dunno… it looks pretty much like a chair to me.”
→ WHEN FRINGE HIT THE airwaves back in 2008, plenty of critics labelled it as a clone of The X-Files, thanks to its mix of science and supernatural cases investigated by the FBI. But then showrunners Jeff Pinkner and JH Wyman moved the series into deeply emotional territory, with complex serialised storytelling that made it a contemporary classic.
Pinkner now writes movies, but Wyman is trying television again with Debris. It’s set in the near future, where alien existence has finally been confirmed because parts of a destroyed spacecraft are raining down on Earth. And those pieces interact very strangely with the human species. To investigate and protect us, Orbital – a new coalition between MI6 and the CIA – sends out agents like Finola Jones (Riann Steele) and Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker) to collect the debris.