SCIFI AND TV TALK: Q & A with Eureka's Colin Ferguson and Jaime Paglia
By Steve Eramo
04/16/2012
It was back in 2006 that Syfy’s Eureka premiered and the-then U.S. Marshall Jack Carter along with his daughter Zoe wound up in the small Pacific Northwest town called Eureka after having a bit of car trouble. Neither of them realized that what started out as a small inconvenience would forever change their lives. Carter found himself in the middle of a scientific mishap created by one of the local geniuses and he helped save the day. His efforts resulted in a job transfer to town sheriff, and ever since then it has been one big adventure for both Carter and Zoe.
Sadly, Eureka is coming to end an end this spring, with its fifth and final season beginning tonight, Monday, April 16th @ 9:00 p.m. EST/PST, on Syfy. A couple of weeks ago, Colin Ferguson (Jack Carter) and series co-creator, executive producer and co-show runner Jaime Paglia happily spoke at length with journalists about their work on the series. The following is an edited version of that Q & A. Enjoy!
... Q: This is such a basic question, but what do we have to look forward to with this final season of Eureka?
Colin Ferguson: "Well, I just want to say right out of the gate, that I’m usually the king of pessimism. I’m the king of like, well, we did okay. However, over the past couple of days I’ve watched the first three episodes (of season five) and I’m so proud of them from a production standpoint, a writing standpoint and an acting standpoint. I’d put them up against anything. That might sound cocky and stupid, but I’m so excited for this season to come out. It’s the best thing that we’ve done. Jaime, you can take it from there."
Jaime Paglia: "Gee, I never even make Colin happy, so that’s high praise indeed (he jokes). I do feel like our last two seasons, seasons four and five, and if you want to call it 4.5 in there as well, that everybody has really done their best work.
We just had the most amazing creative team, from our cast and crew to the writing staff, and we’ve really raised the bar once again with the level of work, I think, even after season four. What you’re sort of dealing with over the course of these back episodes are the ramifications of the experience that our characters have during the first three episodes of this (fifth) season.
So storylines will be spun out of their experience, not just psychologically as far as what’s happened to them on a character level, but physically as well with what they’ve gone through and how that actually impacts individual storylines."
CF: "And this season there’s some of the funniest stuff that we’ve done. I mean, this is the show that we always wanted to make, where things are really character-driven and fun. They (the writers) did such a great job of knowing this cast and oh, this person does this and we’re going to let them fly, and this person does this and we’re going to let them fly. It was really exciting for us."
JP: "Yes, this season was the most fun to make..."
Eureka season five airs Monday at 9/8C on Syfy.
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