The Cora Chronicles
The Cora Chronicles is a Flarlandian sci-fi/fantasy television series broadcast by Channel 14 between 1999 and 2000. It was intended to emulate with its primary competitors, like Babylon, Stargate and the local A Somersault in Time.
The series is set in the planet Atlantis, around the time of the Atlantean sci-fi revival amongst Flarlandian writers, and features Cora, a merman seeker. The planet is entirely inhabited by merpeople and mer-animals and was reportedly the inspiration for The World of Atlantis and Aquaris Quest.
Premise[edit | edit source]
Cora is searching all over Atlantis for a mysterious figure simply known as The Seer. All that he knows is that The Seer is an evil figure that might have caused Cora's village to lose the magic power.
Episodes[edit | edit source]
Production[edit | edit source]
Production for The Cora Chronicles was notorious for being affected by two minor strikes and protests from the government of the Pakifas to allow filiming there on location.
Principal filming began in October 1998 at Hawke's Bay in the central northern Pakifas. Some special effects were rendered in Wembley.
Broadcast[edit | edit source]
Flarland[edit | edit source]
In Flarland the series aired on Channel 14. Season 1 aired on Monday nights. Initially it was supposed to air on Friday nights but the channel's team needed to counter The Friday Show and its overt comedical tones. The second season aired on Sunday afternoons to lesser ratings.
Eventually the series got picked up for reruns on the local version of what was then known as Sci-Fi, where it ran between 2001 and 2003. The series was later picked up by numerous local television channels, most notably Berkstar TV in Berkshire.
In the Pakifas, where some scenes were filmed, it aired on TV3 Pakifas where it achieved considerably better ratings than in mainland Flarland.
Nashland[edit | edit source]
The series aired on NSB's Galaxy. Similarly to Flarland, it was made to counter the massification of sci-fi series, especially on Sky One. It eventually aired on terrestrial television on Four TSN. The last reported channel to air reruns was the local feed of Sci-Fi (now Syfy).
Hopeland[edit | edit source]
The series aired on the TotalAccess network rather unsuccessfully, but it managed to improve relationships between Hopeland and Flarland in the selling of television series.
It is reported that the ill-fated novelization that was unpopular in Flarland became a smash hit in Hopeland.
