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The Dead Zone | |
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Genre | |
Created by | |
Based on | Characters from The Dead Zone by Stephen King |
Starring | |
Opening theme | "New Year's Prayer" by Jeff Buckley (seasons 1–3) "Dead Zone Epic" by Blues Saraceno (seasons 4–6) |
Country of origin | United States Canada[1] |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 80 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer | Peter Lhotka ("Wheel of Fortune (Part 1)" – "What It Seems (Part 2)") |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Production companies | Crescent Entertainment (seasons 1–3) Lionsgate Television The Segan Company (seasons 1–5) Modern Entertainment (seasons 1–3) Piller2 Productions / The Piller/Segan Company Paramount Network Television (seasons 1–5) CBS Paramount Network Television (season 6) Dead Zone Production Company |
Original release | |
Network | USA Network |
Release | June 16, 2002 September 16, 2007 | –
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The Dead Zone, also known as Stephen King's The Dead Zone (in the USA) is a science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based on characters" from Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, first aired in 2002, and was produced by Lionsgate Television and Paramount Network Television (later CBS Paramount Network Television) for the USA Network.
The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network dropped the show and it was picked up by USA.[2] The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal.[3]
The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season, but due to financial concerns and fear of low ratings on the part of the producers, the series was cancelled on a major cliffhanger in December 2007 without a series finale. Syfy was rumored to possibly pick up the series after it was cancelled by USA, but it did not occur.[4]