'Obviously, we are living under a dome, and what we do has a very direct impact on the environment. Unlike other TV series, such as Revolution and The Walking Dead, Dome is 'a parable about our world,' says Vaughan. Just outside the clinic, cars and trucks are randomly scattered, as if a toy box filled with Matchbox cars has been upended. Thanks to green-screen technology, it will look in the finished film like a woman wearing a green glove lost her hand as the edge of the dome fell on her arm as she was gardening. On the first day of shooting, on a sunny day in late February, actors covered with fake blood stumble into the clinic after the dome slams down on the little town. My challenge was, what do you leave out?' The one thing Stephen told us is, feel free to use the book as a launching point. He calls the heft of King's novel a blessing - 'to have that much good material from a writer I love that much. Although Dome is being filmed near the coast amid Carolina pines, 'we're playing this show as taking place in Anywhere, America,' says executive producer Neal Baer.Ĭreator Brian Vaughan, a writer/producer on Lost for three seasons, says life under the dome doesn't exactly reflect the book, but it is his inspiration. This seaport town near Wilmington, and neighboring Burgaw, are standing in for Chester's Mill, Maine, the hamlet where Stephen King set his nearly 1,100-page 2009 novel that inspired the series. The 13-episode series premieres Monday at 10 ET/PT. Under the Dome is set in a small New England town trapped under an impermeable bubble that seems to have fallen, inexplicably, from the heavens. But this summer, CBS is trying something different.

In Syfy's Defiance, alien spaceship debris regularly rains down on already decimated American cities. ABC's Lost begins with a jet crashing onto an island. It's not unusual for TV series to hinge on things falling from the sky. Watch Video: Trailer: 'Under the Dome' (CBS)

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