Steven Spielberg Talks Falling Skies and Upcoming TV Projects
Though he’s best known as an Oscar-winning filmmaker, Steven Spielberg has been making TV since the 1970s, directing episodes of Marcus Welby, Columbo and his breakthrough project, the action TV-movie Duel. Even as his movie career exploded, he maintained ties to TV — most notably as an executive producer of ER — and this year he is returning to the medium in a big way with the new TNT alien-invasion hit Falling Skies (which had the year’s biggest cable debut with 5.9 million viewers), the fall dinosaur series Terra Nova for Fox and the NBC mid-season musical drama Smash. TV Guide Magazine caught up with the legendary director to chat about Falling Skies, why he enjoys doing TV and his enduring love for sci-fi.