Lost has popularised flashbacks to an epic extent. The bandwagon is one that the whole TV industry has been all too keen to jump on... so, it's perhaps somewhat appropriate that Fast Forward should offer us the opposite... which is to say, a global event where near enough the entire population sees 137 seconds of their lives six months in the future.

An interesting premise for a story, yes? Well - yes... it's an interesting premise. Shame about the execution. Several episodes in and it's hard to really care about any of the characters... You really need to care about the characters in this but whether it's the writing, the direction or the actors... it's hard to like any of these characters.

And that makes it difficult to really take any interest in the show. Apathy toward characters kills any real interest in the overall plot - which amounts to how the "flash forward" happened, who did it and why... but yeah, who cares about that when most of the characters are either bland or spend their time being angry and shouting a lot. Most of these people are constantly at the level of angry Rush from Stargate Universe. It's based on a book - maybe it's better to just check that out and save yourself the time.