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| - The original motion picture Interstellar was met with generally positive reviews and ended up grossing approximately $660 million in the overall world box office. The film snatched up quite a few awards at many awards ceremonies in February 2015. After the exceptional performance of the film on home entertainment in March 2015. The production and distribution companies decided to launch an exploratory committee to determine if an Interstellar television series would be marketable and achievable. Then, the box office home runs of The Martian and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, tipped the studios minds toward the release of a television series in November/December 2015. Season one was commissioned on January 11, 2016 as a direct-to-series order, a rarity for television. The series hired a well-known television writer who had been showrunner for the Timeframe television series which had completed its fifth and final season in May 2015, named Phillip A. Leavenworth. On January 25, 2016, he decided to keep his writing staff to a minimum of five writers including himself plus one story editor. The writers spent February 2016 puzzling out potential plots for the season and rest of the series, the pilot episode script was submitted for studio approval on March 14, 2016. The studios approved it on March 18, 2016. The series took two months to write with final approval over all season one scripts coming on May 13, 2016. The first actors to be cast were Josh Gad and Ken Jeong who were slated to play the robots LINK and ABLE albeit in voice role only, on April 4, 2016. Cuba Gooding, Jr. was the first actor to be announced to play a live action character named Collins on April 19, 2016. Brie Larson and Paula Patton were confirmed to play main characters on April 26, 2016. Haley Joel Osment, Joseph Mazzello and B.D. Wong were also confirmed on May 3, 2016. Actor Rob Lowe was the last to be cast, confirmed on May 10, 2016, as the second lead character Ansen after negotiations with actor Bryan Cranston broke down. The production design team spent March 21-May 16, constructing sets that would be used throughout the season. Principle photography on the pilot episode began on May 23 and was completed in one week. The studio approved the unedited pilot on May 30 and production resumed unimpeded on June 6, production on the next twelve episodes took sixteen weeks to complete on September 18, 2016. Special effects and editing teams were brought in to edit season one which began on June 6 and was completed on September 25. Production stills of the film were made available to Blastr, IGN, io9 and other media outlets on June 20, 2016. The series first trailer was released on youtube and CBS.com on July 15, 2016 with promotions beginning on August 15, 2016. Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Rob Lowe appeared together to promote the pilot on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Sept. 12, 2016. CBS TV aired the first ten episodes in order between September 26, 2016 and Jan. 30, 2017. The company approved a full-season order of 22 episodes to begin production on season 2 on May 29, 2017. With the cast locked-in, the writer's spent 3 months writing scripts to be produced, beginning on June 5-Sept. 4. Principle photography on season 2's first half of 11 episodes began on June 19 and was completed on Sept. 17. Special effects and editing team had season 2 first half completed on Sept. 24, 2017. Production on the second half of season 2 began on Oct. 2 and completed on Jan. 1, 2018. Principle photograpy began on Jan. 15 and completed on April 15 with editing of the 2nd half of season 2 complete on April 22. Season 2, half 2 began airing on Feb. 19 and concluded on April 30.
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