Eureka - Assignment X: Jamie Paglia Exclusive Interview Pt 1

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ASSIGNMENT X: Exclusive Interview: EUREKA co-creator Jamie Paglia looks back and forward – Part 1

The series co-creator/exec producer talks about the series coming to the end

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
June 4th, 2012


EUREKA is Syfy’s much-loved and successful series about a town full of good-hearted geniuses working on secret science projects that accidentally almost destroy the world every week or so. The show, starring Colin Ferguson as regular-guy town sheriff Jack Carter, Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Jack’s love Dr. Allison Blake, Erica Cerra as deputy-turned-chief of security for town science hub Global Dynamics Jo Lupo, Neil Grayston as GD chief Douglas Fargo and Joe Morton as eccentric engineer Henry Deacon, is in its fifth and final season Monday nights.

Jaime Paglia, who co-created EUREKA with Andrew Cosby, and remains as one of its executive producers and show runners, sits down at a lovely pond-side location for this two-part exclusive interview...


... AX: Were there concerns about the “butterfly effect” – one small change in the past could affect everything in the future – with the Season Four reset, when Jack, Allison, Jo, Fargo and Henry get sent back to 1942 and find the present somewhat altered when they return?

PAGLIA: "Honestly, I think that we were so excited by the potential of what that was going to give us in terms of taking our same town and our same people, but putting them into these unknown roles and giving each of them basically an upside and a downside to [coming back to a changed town], it was going to be such a rich opportunity to tell new stories with them, that it was going to be worth the risk. And when we went in, my co-show runner Bruce Miller and I went in to pitch this to the network, what we were going to do for the season. We said, “We go back in time and there’s a reset, we come back and Henry’s married to a woman he’s only met, Tess [Carter’s ex-girlfriend played by Jaime Ray Newman] never left, so Carter and Allison can’t be together, and Jo is now the head of security and Zane [Niall Matter] never proposed to Jo, so there’s an upside and a downside, Allison’s son doesn’t have autism any more and Fargo is running Global Dynamics.” They just danced in their chairs. But after everybody was so excited about this, they said, “So when are you going to make it all go back to normal?” And we said, 'We’re not...'"

Eureka season five airs Monday at 9/8C on Syfy.