Defying Gravity: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present. Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.

Series details

• Title: Defying Gravity
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2009-08-02
• Final broadcast date listed: 2009-10-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CTV
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.8/10
• TVMaze ID: 446

Cast and credited roles

• Andrew Airlie — Mike Goss
• Christina Cox — Jen Crane
• Dylan Taylor — Steve Wassenfelder
• Eyal Podell — Dr. Evram Mintz
• Florentine Lahme — Nadia Schilling
• Karen LeBlanc — Eve Weller-Shaw
• Laura Harris — Zoe Barnes
• Malik Yoba — Ted Shaw
• Paula Garcés — Paula Morales
• Ron Livingston — Maddux Donner
• Ty Olsson — Rollie Crane
• Maxim Roy — Claire Dereux

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-08-02; final listed air date 2009-10-23; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Defying Gravity on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.