And while we still haven’t had the sci-fi big-budget prestige TV equivalent of fantasy’s Game of Thrones, we’re getting closer all the time with shows like HBO’s Westworld, Netflix’s Altered Carbon and Amazon’s takeover of The Expanse getting full support from their respective networks.įrom time-travel to alien encounters to the possibilities of new technologies, the steady march of human progress would be colored by what we can imagine on screen. But it was really Gene Roddenberry’s groundbreaking 1966 series Star Trek that would forever shape what was to follow. since the early days of television, with kids’ programs like Captain Video and His Video Rangers in 1949 and Space Patrol in the 1950s.
Science-fiction has been broadcast in the U.S.
