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Journeyman

2007 · 1 season

A thoughtful, bittersweet time-travel drama that balances personal stakes with gentle mystery, asking you to care about the people being saved.

Created by: Kevin Falls
Genres: Drama, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Reed Diamond, Moon Bloodgood

Tagline: Time changes everything
Overview: This mystery-drama revolves around a newspaper reporter named Dan Vasser who suddenly begins to travel through time to change the lives of those around him. When his travels reunite him with his long-lost fiancée Livia, life with his present-day wife gets very interesting.

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Created by: Kevin Falls
Genres: Drama, Sci-fi & fantasy
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Reed Diamond, Moon Bloodgood

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: fate
love
family
identity
betrayal
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by: Kevin Falls
Written by: Paul Redford, Joan Binder Weiss, J.R. Orci, Tom Szentgyorgyi
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Reed Diamond, Moon Bloodgood, Brian Howe, Gretchen Egolf, Charles Henry Wyson, Melinda McGraw, Don Franklin
Length: 1 seasons, 13 episodes, 60 min each
Network: NBC
Languages: English

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