Music Theme From Series Now and Again 2000

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Now and Once again

Genre	Scientific discipline fiction Comedy drama
Created by	Glenn Gordon Caron
Starring	Eric Close Dennis Haysbert Margaret Colin Heather Matarazzo John Goodman
Opening theme	Gimme a Sign performed by Ariel Ryder
Composer	Douglas J. Cuomo
Country of origin	United States
Original linguistic communication	English language
No. of seasons	i
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producers	Glenn Gordon Caron Ronald 50. Schwary
Producer	Henry Bronchtein
Running time	lx minutes
Production companies	Picturemaker Productions CBS Productions Paramount Network Television
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24) – May 5, 2000 (2000-05-05)

At present and Over again is an American science fiction comedy-drama telly serial created by Glenn Gordon Caron^[1] that aired from September 24, 1999 until May five, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves effectually the U.s. government engineering the perfect human body for utilise in espionage, simply not beingness able to perfect the brain. In an attempt to become the projection up and running, they accept the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed in a train blow.

Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.

Plot [edit]

Michael Wiseman (John Goodman in the pilot and flashbacks, and afterward Eric Close) lives in suburban New York with his wife Lisa (Margaret Colin) and daughter Heather (Heather Matarazzo) and works as an executive at an insurance company. When passed over for a promotion, Michael and his friend and co-worker Roger (Gerrit Graham) go out drinking after work. While standing on the subway platform heading dwelling house that night, Michael is accidentally knocked off the platform straight into the path of an oncoming railroad train. When he awakes, he sees Dr. Theodore Morris (Dennis Haysbert), the head of a elevation undercover government project to artificially engineer the perfect man body. Unable to create a brain from scratch, Dr. Morris has rescued Michael'due south brain from his dead body and implanted it in the engineered body. The procedure allows Michael Wiseman to proceed to live, only also forces him to work equally an experiment for Dr. Morris and occasionally help fight terrorists. Because of the superlative underground nature of the project, Michael is told he may never have contact again with his wife or daughter, under punishment of his own decease and the death of anyone he tells of his existence. Despite the threat, Michael finds ways to contact his family unit while keeping his true identity a secret.

Over the course of the series, Dr. Morris continues to experiment on Michael, testing the limits of his abilities and force. Michael is occasionally used to complete secret missions or foil criminal action. Lisa and Heather notice themselves running out of money considering the insurance company refuses to pay on Michael's policy leading Lisa to become a realtor.

Characters [edit]

Principal [edit]

Michael Wiseman (Eric Close), an insurance executive who was killed in an blow; his brain has been implanted into a genetically-engineered body.
- John Goodman plays Michael in both pilot and flashbacks
Dr. Theodore Morris (Dennis Haysbert), the head of the top surreptitious government project to engineer a homo being
Lisa Wiseman (née Slegermelge) (Margaret Colin), Michael's housewife widow who must learn to motion on with life after her husband'south death
Heather Wiseman (Heather Matarazzo), Michael'south teenage daughter
Roger Bender (Gerrit Graham), Michael's best friend and fellow executive at the insurance company

Recurring [edit]

The Eggman (Kim Chan), a terrorist who uses eggs to incorporate a deadly poisonous gas
Gerald Misenbach (Chip Zien), a lawyer who represents Lisa in dealing with Michael's insurance visitor, and later a potential suitor
Craig Spence (Chad Lowe), Michael'due south scheming and corrupt dominate at the insurance company who is dead-set against paying on Michael'due south policy
Special Agent #1 (Mike Henry), Dr. Morris' right-mitt man
Ruth Bender (Christine Baranski), Roger's never-seen wife

Notable guest stars [edit]

In the first episode and flashback scenes in later episodes, John Goodman played Michael Wiseman in his original body.
Reiko Aylesworth appeared as Dr. Taylor, a concrete therapist for Michael Wiseman, sent to test his romantic attachment to his quondam married woman.
Mick Foley appeared in the concluding episode every bit the Eggman's cellmate, and assists in the Eggman's escape from prison.
Ian Somerhalder appeared every bit Brian in the episode "A Girl's Life".
Mark Margolis appeared equally Nicky Vordogov in the episode "Pulp Turkey".

In addition, beginning with episode x, Charles Durning was heard reading a brief narration at the beginning of each episode summarizing the show's backstory.

Production and broadcast [edit]

The testify ran for one season. Airing on Fri nights, the show garnered just fair ratings. The reasons cited past CBS for its cancellation included the unjustifiable expense of the program and the low ratings.

Episodes [edit]

Dwelling house media [edit]

In 2014, CBS DVD released Now and Again: The DVD Edition on region 1 DVD in the Us.^[ii] The five-disc set features all 22 episodes of the series, 2 featurettes and a nearly ii-hour long retrospective documentary. These include interviews and total participation from nearly all of the leading bandage and coiffure, bar John Goodman. According to the packaging the "music has been changed for this home entertainment version."

In 2016, an identical set was released on region four DVD in Australia by Via Vision Entertainment (VVE), though it was slightly retitled Now and Again: The Consummate Serial.

Awards [edit]

In 2000 Now and Again won 3 Saturn Awards for:

"Best Genre Goggle box Actress" – Margaret Colin
"Best Genre TV Supporting Actor" – Dennis Haysbert
"All-time Network Television Series"

Now and Again was also nominated for an Emmy in 2000 for Outstanding Master Title Pattern.

References [edit]

^ Tomashoff, Craig (Dec 12, 1999). "Encompass STORY; But a Regular Guy, Who Can Outrun a Machine". The New York Times.
^ "Finalized Date, Bonus Material for DVDs of the Late-'90s Sci-Fi Thriller!". Tvshowsondvd.com. 2014-05-27. Archived from the original on 2017-09-29. Retrieved 2017-05-19 .