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Eureka
Eureka opening title card
Also known as	A Town Called Eureka
Format	Science fiction
Created by	Andrew Cosby Jaime Paglia
Starring	Colin Ferguson Salli Richardson-Whitfield Jordan Hinson Joe Morton Ed Quinn Debrah Farentino Matt Frewer Erica Cerra
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	25 (List of episodes)
Production
Location(s)	British Columbia, Canada
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 44 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Sci Fi Channel
Original run	July 18, 2006 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Eureka is an American science fiction television series set in a town inhabited entirely by geniuses. In the UK, it is known as A Town Called Eureka.

The Sci-Fi Channel has renewed Eureka for a third season^[1], but to what extent this will be affected by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike is unknown.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Characters 3 Episodes 4 Ratings and critical reaction 4.1 Awards 5 Production notes 5.1 Filming locations 5.2 International distribution 6 Media 7 References 8 External links

Eureka takes place in a high-tech community, located somewhere in the Pacific Northwest and inhabited entirely by brilliant scientists working on new scientific advancements that frequently go awry. The town's location — indeed, its very existence — is a closely guarded secret.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon Eureka while transporting a fugitive prisoner — his own rebellious teenage daughter Zoe — back to her mother's home in Los Angeles. When a faulty experiment cripples the sheriff of Eureka, Carter finds himself quickly chosen to fill the vacancy. Despite being only slightly above average intelligence — and thus arguably the slowest-witted resident of a town full of super-geniuses — Jack Carter's uncanny ability to connect what others in the town do not see has repeatedly saved Eureka, and indeed the entire world, from one would-be disaster after another.

The location of Eureka has never been explicitly revealed in the series. However, various hints and passing references imply that the town is situated in Oregon, near the state capital Salem.

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Actor/Actress	Role
Colin Ferguson	Sheriff Jack Carter
Salli Richardson-Whitfield	Allison Blake
Jordan Hinson	Zoe Carter
Joe Morton	Henry Deacon
Ed Quinn	Nathan Stark
Debrah Farentino	Dr. Beverly Barlowe
Matt Frewer	Jim Taggart
Erica Cerra	Deputy Jo Lupo
Neil Grayston	Douglas Fargo
Chris Gauthier	Vincent

Main article: List of Eureka episodes

The episodes of season one were not aired in the order intended by the show's creators. This is suggested by the episodes' production numbers which are displayed on the Sci-Fi channel's Eureka website next to episode titles quite often. There are some small inconsistencies when watched closely, but such inconsistencies are minimal and were intentionally controlled. In podcast commentaries with the show's creators and star Colin Ferguson, they confirm that the production order is in fact the order they intended the show to air, but the network executives changed the order to try and place stronger episodes earlier in the run as to help attract viewers. As such, the creators were able to make minor changes in editing and sometimes ADR dialogue in later episodes (such as removing the explicit mention of Zoe's first day at school) to try to eliminate audience confusion.

Eureka was originally planned as an animated series.^[2]

The series's premiere garnered high ratings, with 4.1 million people tuning in. Eureka was also the top rated cable program for that Tuesday night, and was the highest-rated series launch in Sci Fi's fourteen-year history.^[3] The season two premiere drew 2.5 million viewers, making it the top-rated cable program of the day.^[4]

Critical reaction was mixed, with general praise for the premise, but overall middling reaction to the writing of the pilot.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

It's all very quirky. Too quirky, maybe, for an audience that is used to spaceships, robots, and explosions. Though every episode promises an "aha!" moment based in quantum physics and obscure scientific laws, this world is relatively flat, conceptually speaking, in comparison to the complexity woven into series such as Stargate SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica. This does not mean Eureka is a complete waste of time. Not at all. The characters are fun, Ferguson is believable and pleasant, the script is solidly constructed, and the visuals are slickly produced. All in all, it's a sweet series and probably not long for this world.^[5]

The New York Post:

3 out of 4 stars

The New York Daily News:

With its playful new series "Eureka," set in the Pacific Northwest and telling the story of an outsider who comes to explore, and settle in, a remote town full of eccentrics, Sci-Fi Channel isn't just inviting comparisons to "Twin Peaks" and "Northern Exposure." It's demanding them. But co-creators Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia hold up to them pretty well. "Eureka" has a premise, a cast and a plot that make it one of the TV treats of the summer. The folks at Sci-Fi Channel clearly intended to reinvent the summer TV series here, and come up with something breezy and fun. And "Eureka" - they've done it!

Eureka was nominated for a 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. The other nominees were Battlestar Galactica (the winner), Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, and Rome.^[6]

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• Chilliwack, British Columbia – Downtown Wellington Avenue on April 12, 2006
• Duncan, British Columbia
• Ladysmith, British Columbia – Downtown First Avenue
• Nanaimo, British Columbia – Ney Drive, Biggs & Townsite Roads
• Surrey, British Columbia – (Sullivan Heights Secondary School, Fraser Heights Secondary School)
• Victoria, British Columbia
• Port Moody, British Columbia – (Heritage Woods Secondary School) Exterior shot of Global Dynamics. The interior of the school has also been used as the school that Brian Perkins attends, on May 3, 2007.
• Ashland, Oregon – (City Hall) Interior and exterior shots of city hall
• Burnaby, British Columbia – Vancouver Film Studios for the majority of the Global Dynamics building interiors, cafe interiors as well as the home of Sheriff Carter.

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Country	Channel	Season 1 Premiere date	Season 2 Premiere date
Republic of Ireland	Sky One	August 2, 2006	August 2, 2007
	Sci Fi	January 11, 2007
United Kingdom	Sky One	August 2, 2006	October 2, 2007
	Sci Fi	January 11, 2007
Canada	Space (English)	September 3, 2006	September 10, 2007
Ztélé (French)	August 27, 2007
Turkey	DiziMax	October 11, 2006
Israel	AXN	November 6, 2006	December 18, 2007
Spain	Cuatro, Sci Fi	January 6, 2007
	Sci Fi	January 10, 2007
Hungary	TV2	February 3, 2007
Asia	Star World	May 30, 2007
Croatia	HRT 2	July 4, 2007
Italy	FOX	August 4, 2007
Poland	Canal+	August 30, 2007
Sweden	TV6	September 28, 2007
India	Star World	October 24, 2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina	OBN	December 1, 2007
Portugal	FX and TVI	October 4, 2007 and November 24, 2007

Universal released a 3-DVD set containing all 12 episodes of the first season in Region 1 on July 3, 2007. The design of the case is unusual in that it is biodegradable, with the disks stored in trays made from compressed potato starch.

The set contains "10 hours of behind-the-scenes extras" including deleted scenes narrated by Colin Ferguson (Jack Carter).^[7]

• Official Eureka site at Sci Fi.com
• Eureka at SciFipedia

• Eureka at the Internet Movie Database
• Eureka at TV.com

v • d • e Eureka
Characters	Beverly Barlowe • Allison Blake • Jack Carter • Zoe Carter • Henry Deacon • Douglas Fargo • Jo Lupo • Nathan Stark • Jim Taggart
Other	Episode list • Global Dynamics • Artifact • SARAH