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Dinotopia Thursdays at 8:00 pm on WCHS-TV8 
"Dinotopia," a new live action series filmed in Budapest, Hungary, follows in the footsteps of the lavish hit 'megaseries' which aired on ABC in May 2002. The series continues to present a dramatic and emotional portrait of a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live together.Leading the new cast will be Erik von Detten ("The Princess Diaries") and Shiloh Strong, starring as teenage brothers Karl and David Scott, who find themselves castaways in a strange new world, with Michael Brandon portraying their father, Frank, a wealthy American. Dinotopia's other human inhabitants include Georgina Rylance as the smart and beautiful Marion, who is in training to be a leader of her people; Jonathan Hyde ("Titanic," "The Mummy") as Marion's father, Mayor Waldo, the overseer of Dinotopia's spectacular capital, Waterfall City; Sophie Ward ("Dracula") as Marion's mother, revered matriarch Rosemary; and Lisa Zane ("Monkeybone") as Le Sage, who becomes the beautiful leader of a renegade group known as the Outsiders. The extensive and complex visual effects created for the miniseries by London's FrameStore CFC (BBC/Discovery Channel's Emmy Award-winning "Walking with Dinosaurs") continue to be showcased on "Dinotopia." Not only did FrameStore CFC create dinosaurs, but also computer generated environments, waterfalls, submarines, airplanes and virtual people, as well as such other challenging visual effects as humans riding on the backs of dinosaurs "Dinotopia's" story began when Frank Scott, a wealthy American, crashes his plane into the Caribbean. He appears to perish, but his two teenaged sons, Karl and David, survive, only to find themselves castaways on Dinotopia. Karl and David are constantly at odds, even as they struggle to adjust to life in their strange new world 
Marion - who captures both Karl's and David's hearts - leads the brothers to Waterfall City where Mayor Waldo welcomes the "off-worlders" and has them enrolled in the capital's academy so they can learn to become Dinotopians. They're soon befriended by the talkative Zippo (now voiced by British comedian Omid Djalili, "The Mummy," Hallmark Entertainment's "Cleopatra"), an academic Stenonychosaurus who speaks 17 human and Saurian languages. Upon receiving their Dinotopian assignments, cynical Karl is assigned to a Saurian "hatchery," where he's charged with overseeing the birth of an infant Chasmosaurus named 26. David - who is terrified of heights - is ordered to partake in Skybax training on the very frontier of Dinotopia, Canyon City.
The brothers discover that they have arrived at a critical moment in the history of this lost world. The sunstones, a force of life in Dinotopia, are mysteriously failing, and Dinotopia may soon be plunged into darkness and chaos. Finally, the boys save their new home and find their father, alive and well, when they journey to the World Beneath, a dangerous territory forbidden to all the continent's inhabitants.Now, the series follows Karl, David and Frank as they face their uncertain future on this lost continent. They must attempt to adapt to their new home -- and all its inhabitants, human and otherwise -- with a bold sense of adventure, as they continue to uncover Dinotopia's long-held secrets. "Dinotopia" is executive-produced by Robert Halmi Sr. ("Arabian Nights," "Merlin") and Robert Halmi Jr. ("Cleopatra," "Lonesome Dove"). The series is a production of Hallmark Entertainment. Need to write? 
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