One of the most interesting science-fiction TV series aired on CW, and also streamed on Netflix is “The 100”.
Let’s find out more about the series!
- The 100 is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series.
- It premiered on March 19, 2014, on The CW.
- It ended on September 30, 2020.
- The series was developed by Jason Rothenberg.
- It was loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan.
- The series follows a group of post-apocalyptic survivors, chiefly a group of criminal adolescents, including Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), Finn Collins (Thomas McDonell), Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley), Octavia Blake (Marie Avgeropoulos), Jasper Jordan (Devon Bostick), Monty Green (Christopher Larkin), Raven Reyes (Lindsey Morgan), and John Murphy (Richard Harmon). They are among the first people from a space habitat, the Ark, to return to Earth after a devastating nuclear apocalypse.
- Other lead characters include Dr. Abby Griffin (Paige Turco), Clarke’s mother; Marcus Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), a council member on the Ark; and Thelonious Jaha (Isaiah Washington), the Chancellor of the Ark and Wells’ father.
- Filming for the series takes place in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Production on the pilot occurred during the second quarter of 2013.
- After the show received a series order, filming occurred for the first season between August 2013 and January 2014.
- Filming for the second season commenced on July 7, 2014, and concluded on January 23, 2015.
- The third season was filmed between July 15, 2015, and February 2, 2016.
- Filming for the fourth season commenced on August 2, 2016, and concluded on January 18, 2017.
- Filming for the fifth season commenced on August 14, 2017, and wrapped up on January 27, 2018.
- Post-production work, including ADR recording for the series, was done at the Cherry Beach Sound recording studio.
- David J. Peterson, who created Dothraki and Valyrian for Game of Thrones, developed the Trigedasleng language for The Grounders. Jason Rothenberg said it was similar to Creole English.
- The language is called “Trig” on the show.
- After his constructed language work on Star-Crossed, Peterson was contacted by the producers of The 100 to create a language for the Grounders, an evolution of English.
- In the setting, 97 years have passed since the apocalypse, which is a very short time for significant language change.
- Because of this, Peterson posited an accelerated evolution in which the early Grounders used a cant specifically to obfuscate their speech and to differentiate between friend or foe.
- Trigedasleng derives from that cant and evolved over several short generations of survivors of the apocalypse.
- On March 12, 2020, Warner Bros. Television shut down production on all of their shows due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, writer Kim Shumway confirmed they were able to complete filming for their seventh season.
- In late February 2013, Bob Morley and Eli Goree were cast as Bellamy Blake and Wells Jaha, respectively, followed a day later by the casting of Henry Ian Cusick as Marcus Kane.
- Less than a week later, Eliza Taylor and Marie Avgeropoulos were cast in co-starring roles as Clarke Griffin and Octavia Blake, respectively.
- Throughout March, the rest of the cast was filled out, with Paige Turco cast as Abigail Walters (now Abigail Griffin), Isaiah Washington as Chancellor Jaha,Thomas McDonnell as Finn Collins, Kelly Hu as Callie Cartwig, and Christopher Larkin as Monty Green.
- For the second season, Adina Porter and Raymond J. Barry were cast in recurring roles as Indra and Dante Wallace, respectively, along with Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa.
- In Canada, Season 1 of The 100 was licensed exclusively to Netflix. The series premiered on March 20, 2014, the day after the mid-season premiere of Season 1 on the CW.
- In New Zealand, the series premiered on TVNZ’s on-demand video streaming service on March 21, 2014.
- In the UK and Ireland, The 100 premiered on E4 on July 7, 2014. The first episode was viewed by an average audience of 1.39 million, making it the channel’s biggest ever program launch. Season 2 premiered on January 6, 2015, and averaged 1,118,000 viewers.Season 3 premiered on February 17, 2016.
- In Australia, The 100 was originally scheduled to premiere on Go! but instead premiered on Fox8 on September 4, 2014.[61] Season 2 premiered on January 8, 2015
- Warner Home Entertainment released the first five seasons’ DVDs, and the first season’s Blu-ray while the remaining five seasons’ Blu-rays were released through Warner Archive Collection who also released a manufacture-on-demand DVD for the sixth season
- The series started filming before the first book was released.
- Accordingly, the two series (television and book) have almost nothing in common besides the names of a handful of characters and the basic premise of the very beginning of each.
- Many of the young characters’ names are taken from notable science-fiction writers: Clarke comes from Arthur C. Clarke, Wells comes from H.G. Wells, Octavia comes from Octavia Butler, Bellamy comes from Edward Bellamy. Many of the younger characters who aren’t named after science-fiction authors are characters that were created for the series but who aren’t in the source novel.
- Since its release in 2014, “The 100” is the most watched show in its time slot on The CW.
- On the original script, Raven was supposed to be Finn’s mother but decided to make her more like Glass from the novel and Bellamy and Octavia’s surname was Blake.
- Much of the the series music score is inspired from the Fallout game series
- Arkadia is not only named for the Ark, but it is also named for one of the stations of the Colony in the novels, Arcadia.
- Through social media, Shawn Mendes announced he’d be in Season 3. He performed an acoustic version of “Add It Up” by the Violent Femmes during the season.
- Raven was initially going to be killed off in Season 1. However, the producers eventually decided against this and instead promoted Lindsey Morgan to series regular for Season 2.
