Beyond Tomorrow (TV series)

Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series produced by Beyond

Television Productions. It began airing in 1981 as Towards 2000, then in 1985 Towards 2000 (1981–1984)
was renamed Beyond 2000, a name the show kept until its cancellation in 1999. Beyond 2000 (1985–1995,
It then started airing again in 2005 with the nameBeyond Tomorrow. 1999)
Beyond Tomorrow (2005–
2006)
Contents
Towards 2000 and Beyond 2000
Presenters
Beyond Tomorrow
Presenters
International
See also
External links Beyond Tomorrow opening sequence
title
Created by Judith John-Story
Towards 2000 and Beyond 2000 David Summons
Towards 2000 debuted on the ABC in 1981 as a half-hour show dedicated to Carmel Travers
showcasing developments and inventions in science and technology. Original
Starring Original
presenters were Jeffrey Watson, Sonia Humphrey and David Flatman. There
Sonia Humphrey
were four series of the program (1981,82,83 and 84) and it was a popular and
high rating success on the national broadcaster. After production finished on the
Carmel Travers
4th series, the ABC decided not to continue with Towards 2000, and instead Chris Ardill-Guinness
started up a new science program, named Catalyst, under the newly appointed Amanda Keller
Dick Gilling from BBCTV. Andrew Carroll

The Towards 2000 reporters then spoke with Ted Thomas, General Manager of Maxine Gray
ATN 7, who agreed that his network could start a new hour long production and Anthony Griffis
name it Beyond 2000, airing until 1993 when it was picked up by Network Ten, Dr Caroline West
airing until 1999. Beyond 2000 was also broadcast internationally, airing on the
Dr John D'Arcy
Discovery Channel in the United States and Canada, on RTÉ in the Republic of
Jeffrey Watson
Ireland, and on the satellite channelSky News in Europe and on TV One in New
Zealand. An American-produced version of the show also aired on the Simon Nasht
Discovery Channel in 1992, with an American presenter (Henry Tenenbaum, Sharon Nash
presently an anchor/reporter for television station KRON San Francisco) used Simon Reeve
for the studio segments. An American version entitled Beyond Tomorrow was
Iain Finlay
hosted by newsman Dave Marash and aired in the early years of the Fox
Bryan Smith
television network.

Fourteen series of Towards/Beyond 2000 were produced, with the last being Present
made in 1999 as a one-off, after a production break of about four years. At this Matt Shirvington
point, the rising cost of producing the series, coupled with increased competition Graham Phillips
from other science and technology shows forced the closure of the program.
Hayden Turner
A Beyond 2000 website was published by the same company between 1999 and Anna Choy
2003. This provided science and technology news, as well as video clips from Dr Caroline West
the old TV shows. The website was summarily axed in a round of company-
Sara Groen
wide budget cuts that reflected a general downturn in the Australian media
industry at the time.
Kim Watkins
Country of Australia
origin
Presenters
Original English
Sonia Humphrey language(s)
Iain Finlay
No. of Beyond 2000: 475
Jeff Watson (broadcaster)[1]
David Flatman
episodes Beyond Tomorrow: 50
Carmel Travers [2] Production
Chris Ardill-Guinness
Executive Lloyd Capps - creator
Simon Reeve
producer(s) Towards 2000 (1981-84)
Amanda Keller
Andrew Carroll Beyond 2000 Peter
Maxine Gray Abbott (1985- 1993)
Anthony Griffis John Hosking (1993 -
Dr Caroline West 1996)
Dr John D'Arcy David Alrich (2005-2007)
Simon Nasht
Camera Single-camera (1981-
Sharon Nash
setup 1993)
Bryan Smith
Tracey Curro Multi-camera (1993-
Andrew Waterworth 2007)
American versions were presented by Henry e
Tnenbaum [3] and Running Approx 42 minutes
Dave Marash
time
Release
Beyond Tomorrow
Original ABC (1981–1983)
In 2005, Beyond 2000 returned network Seven Network (1984–
to the Seven Network under the 1993)
new name of Beyond Network Ten (1993–1995,
Beyond Tomorrow logo Tomorrow. The first episode 1999)
aired 1 June 2005. Picking up
Picture 576p EDTV (2005-2007)
where its predecessor left off,
format PAL (576i) before
Beyond Tomorrow delves even deeper into the world of technological
innovations and scientific breakthroughs. Topics range from how probes planted
Audio Monaural (1981-1999)
in the brain can now be used to battle Parkinson's disease and obsessive
format Surround (2005–2007)
compulsive disorder, to how the grumpiness of North Sea oil workers has led to Original Beyond 2000: 27 July
a cure being found for snoring. Segments from MythBusters, another Beyond release 1985
Television production, also air as part of the program (criticised by Australian Beyond Tomorrow: 1
viewers because Beyond Productions also sold Mythbusters to SBS, both shows June 2005 –
airing almost at the same timeslots, with the Beyond Tomorrow version 30 August 2006
redubbing the American narrator with an Australian narrator and calling them External links
"Beyond Tomorrow's Mythbusters", some viewers feeling the company was
Website
insulting their intelligence by doing this double dip into the Australian market).
The hour-long magazine style episodes feature breakthroughs in all areas of life including the environment, medicine, sport,
computers, space, agriculture, transport, architecture, leisure and adventure. Beyond Tomorrow airs in the US on The Science
Channel and on Discovery Channel Canada; The series has been criticised by some fans of the earlier "Beyond 2000" for featuring
'futuristic' technologies that are obsolete or have been in common use for several years. The theme music was also criticised for not
being on par with "Beyond 2000"'s, some calling it lazy, generic and bland. The official website is no longer up. Production of the
show ended in 2007 after 50 episodes, however reruns still continue to air on
The Science Channel.

Presenters
Matt Shirvington
Graham Phillips
Hayden Turner
Anna Choy
Dr Caroline West
Sara Groen
Grant Denyer
Kim Watkins (February 2006 - July 2006)

International
In the United States, episodes of the series aired on theFox network, under the Beyond Tomorrow name, from 1988
until 1990. The show was produced by Beyond International Group. From 1992 until its cancellation, the
Discovery
Channel aired Beyond 2000 with all of the episodes and segment introductions (along with new material) hosted by
KRON-TV news anchor Henry Tenenbaum.
In Sweden, a version calledBortom 2000 was hosted by nature photographer Bo Landin onTV4 in the early 1990s.
(The series was short lived, however.)
In Malaysia, Beyond 2000 previously aired in the late 1980s through the early 1990s onRTM 1 (Later RTM TV1).
Beyond Tomorrow would not be aired on the channel, but was eventually aired on theDiscovery Channel (Southeast
Asia) in the mid-2000s.
In Indonesia, Beyond 2000 was aired on RCTI every Saturday morning in the early 1990s.

See also
Tomorrow's World
The Next Step
Brink
Daily Planet

External links
Beyond Tomorrow at Science Channel
Beyond Tomorrow on IMDb
Beyond 2000 on IMDb
Beyond 2000 - Towards 2000 at the NationalFilm and Sound Archive

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