and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment discussed co-producing FlashForward, but Braga eventually pulled out of his "day-to-day" involvement with the project.
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According to Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the premiere has received a "generally favorable" score of 72, based on 26 reviews.
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Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger) scrubs up at the hospital before surgery; Bryce Varley (Zachary Knighton) prepares to commit suicide by shooting himself at the beach; Aaron Stark (Brían F. O'Byrne) and Mark attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting; Nicole Kirby (Peyton List) sneaks a boy into the Benford's house as she babysits their daughter Charlie (Lennon Wynn).
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Goyer also directed the episode, which originally aired in the United States on ABC on September 24, 2009.
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As the episode closes, FBI Agent Janis Hawk makes a startling discovery: an image from CCTV in Detroit of a man in black, walking through the stadium while everyone around him is unconscious.
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In the early stages of development, ABC considered coupling the new show with Lost.
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FBI Agent Mark Benford and a team of agents in Los Angeles begin gathering clues as to what might have happened as they struggle to come to terms with their own visions, or lack thereof.
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With the consent of HBO, Goyer and Braga pitched the idea to both ABC and Fox, with ABC winning the bidding war.
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This episode was watched by 12.47 million American viewers, with a 7.7/13 overall household rating.
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The episode's teleplay was written by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga, who also conceived of the television story, based upon the novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer.
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The series opens on a seemingly ordinary day on October 6, 2009, that soon becomes extraordinary as everyone in Los Angeles blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds.
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In an interview with Digital Spy, Walger described Olivia as the "main woman in the show".
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In April 2010, this episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form.
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Some critics, however, had more mixed feeling towards the pilot episode.
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Within the show's logo in this episode is a friendship bracelet in the hand of Charlie Benford when she gives it to her father, Mark.
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This episode also was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), and Outstanding Stunt Coordination.
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Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) climbs out of his wrecked car and looks around him: there is devastation everywhere, people lie injured and/or dead in the road, cars and trucks are piled up and things are on fire.
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The two had previously worked together on the short-lived CBS series Threshold The idea was originally pitched to HBO, a pay-cable network, however the HBO leadership felt that the series was better suited to a broadcast network.
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