Because the show has not yet begun filming and many aspects of the series are still being decided, FOX has canceled the Terra Nova panel originally scheduled for Friday, July 23 at the Comic-Con International in San Diego.

The series is set to premiere at midseason and will involve time travel and dinosaurs. Steven Spielberg is producing.

No word yet on what will take Terra Nova’s place on the Con schedule.

Source: The Live Feed

FOX has announced the premiere dates for many of their Fall 2010 shows, including returning favorites like Glee, Bones, Family Guy, and Human Target and new series such as Lonestar.

Here’s the release from FOX:

Landing on Mondays in the plum spot after House on FOX is a new series titled Lonestar.

Here’s FOX’s description for it:

From Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, the creators of “Party of Five”; Marc Webb, the director of “(500) Days of Summer”; and creator Kyle Killen, comes LONESTAR, a provocative soap set against the backdrop of big Texas oil. ROBERT/BOB ALLEN (newcomer James Wolk) is a charismatic and brilliant schemer who has meticulously constructed two lives in two different parts of Texas. He’s juggling two identities and two women in two very different worlds – all under one mountain of lies. As “Bob,” he lives in Houston and is married to CAT (Adrianne Palicki, “Friday Night Lights”), the beautiful daughter of CLINT (Jon Voight, 24, “Midnight Cowboy”), the patriarch of an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. More than 400 miles away in the suburban west Texas town of Midland, he’s “Robert,” living a second life with his sweet, naïve girlfriend, LINDSAY (Eloise Mumford, “Mercy,” “Law & Order: SVU”). In Midland, he plays the perfect boyfriend while secretly bilking local investors of their savings. In Houston, he’s a devoted husband, charming Cat and her family to cement his position in the rich family business he aims to clean out. Bob has lived both lives successfully for years without arousing any suspicions…so far. While one brother-in-law, DREW (Bryce Johnson, “Popular,” “The Mentalist”), admires Bob, his other brother-in-law, TRAMMELL (Mark Deklin, “Nip/Tuck,” “Desperate Housewives”), is suspicious of his motives. Bob begins to fear his secret lives may unravel. With the cons closing in on him, Bob is divided by his love for two women; his loyalty to his father and mentor, JOHN (David Keith, “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “The Class”); and his respect for his father-in-law, Clint. Now as he tries to hold his two lives together, while fending off angry investors and the suspicions of those around him, Bob puts it all on the line hoping he can beat the odds, leave the schemes behind and keep two separate relationships afloat.

This concept, set in Texas like that great oil-family series of three decades ago, adds new wrinkles with the main character’s double life. How does it look? Check out the promo below and see:

FOX has released an official description for their upcoming series Terra Nova.

It’s in the press release of the Fall schedule, but in case anyone is looking for this specifically, this might be an easier place to find it. Plus, look, we found a logo!

Casting is still underway for a midseason premiere.

From executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga (24, “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and David Fury (“Lost,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) comes an epic family adventure 85 million years in the making. TERRA NOVA follows an ordinary family embarking on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a massive experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149 the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. With the majority of plant and animal life extinct, devotion to science has brought mankind to the brink of destruction, but has also provided its only hope for salvation. Knowing there is no way to reverse the damage to the planet, a coalition of scientists has managed to open up a fracture in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race…possibly changing the future by correcting the mistakes of the past. The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to TERRA NOVA, the first colony of humans in this second chance for civilization. JIM SHANNON, a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. Jim’s wife, ELISABETH SHANNON, is a trauma surgeon chosen through a global lottery as a new addition to Terra Nova’s medical team. JOSH SHANNON is their son, mourning the girl he left behind, as he’s torn between two role models – his father and the charismatic COMMANDER FRANK TAYLOR, the leader of the settlement, and the heroic first pioneer through the time portal. MADDY SHANNON, Jim and Elizabeth’s teen daughter, is as independent and adventurous as her parents, but her distrust of authority soon leads her on a dangerous path. In addition to blue skies, rolling rivers and lush vegetation, TERRA NOVA offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. Additionally these adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding Terra Nova are filled with dangerous dinosaurs, and other prehistoric threats, as well as external forces that may be intent on destroying this new world before it begins. But perhaps even more threatening than what lies outside the protective walls is the Shannons’ realization that something sinister may be happening inside TERRA NOVA as not everyone on this mission has the same intentions of how best to save mankind.

Now it’s FOX’s turn to announce their Fall 2010-2011 schedule.

Here’s the press release.

What amazes me is how Human Target will now be on Friday nights, when the only other DC Comics-related TV series, Smallville., is expected to remain.

On the bright side, Terra Nova has been picked up for midseason. That one sounds cool. And they’ve also announced a post-Super Bowl episode for Glee.

Both THR and Deadline.com have posted updated tallies of how certain pilots are doing, including a few that are being covered here at KSiteTV.

At NBC, both say The Rockford Files has good chances, although Deadline says that the network has not seen the pilot yet. It sounds like J.J. Abrams’ Undercovers will definitely be on the air this Fall. Chances sound good for David E. Kelley’s pilot Kindreds, although there are some pilots NBC is more excited about.

THR says nothing about The Cape, but Deadline is saying that it seems like it’s between The Cape and The Event for a spot on the NBC schedule, with The Cape flying in slightly ahead right now.

David Tennant’s Rex Is Not Your Lawyer has had a reworked pilot which has “tested well” according to Deadline. THR didn’t mention it.

NBC also has some sitcoms that have been received well at the network. Those include This Little Piggy, Friends With Benefits, Perfect Couples, and Outsourced.

THR says the CBS Hawaii Five-O pilot screening “went great,” and the Jim Belushi drama The Defenders is also looking good. William Shatner apparently “nailed” the taping for the sitcom Bleep My Dad Says, and Chuck Lorre’s Mike & Molly apparently had a “great taping.”

Apparently FOX really likes the Texas con-man drama Midland, which is directed by future Spider-Man director Marc Webb. Terra Nova sounds like it’s a done deal for a 13-episode order. A new sitcom from My Name Is Earl creator Greg Garcia, titled Keep Hope Alive, is showing promise.

Deadline is listing most of ABC’s dramas as “looking good, sight unssen.” THR, however, calls No Ordinary Family a “stand out” and says 187 Detroit and Off The Map (the latter from Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes) are looking strong.

The Matthew Perry-starring comedy Mr. Sunshine and Debra Messing’s Wright vs. Wrong seem to also be doing well.

Deadline says The CW’s Nikita and Hellcats are “very strong” and “very on-brand” which is interesting considering Hellcats isn’t even finished yet. They say Betwixt is “cooling off,” though what exactly it is cooling off from is vague. They also have good things to say about Nomads, though they worry it might not fit the network brand. Some early script reviews for Nomads have also come in very good.

THR, on the other hand, gives props to Nikita and says the network is “also excited” about Betwixt, without mentioning the other programs.

Here’s the current schedule for when we will know the networks’ Fall line-ups. Generally, though, the schedules often leak a day or two earlier:

Monday, May 17
NBC (Morning)
FOX (Afternoon)

Tuesday, May 18
ABC (Afternoon)

Wednesday, May 19
CBS (Afternoon)

Thursday, May 20
The CW (Morning)

Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello is reporting that FOX has made a “very lucrative offer” to actor Kyle Chandler to take the lead role in Terra Nova, their new prehistoric-era series from executive producers Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin.

Chandler is best known to current TV audiences for his continuing lead role in Friday Night Lights, which is said to wrap after the fifth season is done. Myself, I remember him best for playing the role of Gary Hobson on the excellent Early Edition. (Well, it started off good anyway, until Chuck left, at least…)

No word yet on if he will accept the offer, but he IS definitely leading-man material for a series like this. It could be… dino-mite!

Those of you who were against the idea of a U.S.-based Torchwood for FOX, be happy: It’s no longer happening; at least not on FOX.

James Hibberd’s The Live Feed broke the news.

“BBC Worldwide Productions and the FOX Broadcasting Company have mutually agreed not to progress together with a 13-episode serialized ‘Torchwood’ format,” BBC Worldwide said in a statement on the site. “We are currently in discussion with several interested networks.”

BBC Worldwide programming and production VP Jane Tranter also recently said a U.S. incarnation of Doctor Who is not in the works.

“It may well be confusing to have a British Doctor and an American Doctor at the same time,” she said. “There is only one Doctor, so I don’t see that happening.”

Me, I still like the idea of an American Torchwood, so it’ll be interesting to see if another network (The CW, perhaps?) bites.

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Deadline.com has broken another exclusive — that Star Trek‘s Brannon Braga will be the showrunner for the upcoming Steven Spielberg-produced dinosaur series Terra Nova.

The article describes Terra Nova as being about “a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to prehistoric Earth ruled by dinosaurs.”

Braga’s recent credits include ABC’s Flashforward. Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva also is reporting that the project has “unofficially” been given a 13-episode order.

Deadline.com also reveals that Braga was appointed because the co-writer of the pilot, Craig Silverstein, is in “first position” to The CW’s pilot Nikita. If he is sticking with the other show it sounds promising that it might get the series pick-up from the network.

FOX has released 22 official cast images promoting the return of GLEE on April 13.

No stone is left unturned — not only are there images of the main cast, but even the supporting players like Brittany, Santana, and Principal Figgins get their own promo shots!

You can find the entire gallery at KSiteTV’s Gleeksite.