Debris

Debris is an American sci-fi series, created by J.H. Wyman. It premiered on NBC on Monday, March 1, 2021 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, NBC announced during its first TCA panel on Tuesday. On May 27, 2021, NBC canceled the series.

Synopsis

 * "Two agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets — CIA's Bryan Beneventi and MI6's Finola Jones — must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind."


 * "When mysterious wreckage starts falling from the sky, a secretive international agency is tasked with figuring out what it is, where it came from, and most importantly...what it can do. British agent Finola Jones and American agent Bryan Beneventi are partners who have very different styles – she's warm, intuitive and detail-oriented, and he's charming, confident and guarded. But they have no choice but to trust each other as they track down the debris scattered across the Western Hemisphere. Each fragment has unpredictable, powerful and sometimes dangerous effects on the everyday people who find it. Every discovery is also a race against time, because shadowy outside forces seek these objects for nefarious purposes."

Main

 * Jonathan Tucker as Bryan Beneventi
 * Riann Steele as Finola Jones
 * Norbert Leo Butz as Craig Maddox
 * Scroobius Pip as Anson Ash

Recurring

 * Anjali Jay as Priya Ferris
 * Gabrielle Ryan as Dee Dee
 * Sebastian Roché as Brill
 * Thomas Cadrot as Agent Tom
 * Andrea Stefancikova as Irina
 * Tyrone Benskin as George Jones
 * Armin Karame as Brandt
 * Jennifer Copping as Julia Maddox
 * Christian Rose as Dario Maddox
 * Ben Cotton as Loeb

Production
The series was picked up for a 2020 pilot by NBC on January 11, 2020. About 80 percent of its pilot was completed before the production shutdown, because of the novel coronavirus pandemic upended. The producers were able to edit together the material from there, complementing the actual footage with additional visuals and presented it to NBC.

Trivia

 * The series marks NBC's first series to be picked up from its 2020 pilot crop.
 * Debris is NBC's second drama order for the 2020-21 season and joins the Chris Meloni-led Law & Order: SVU spinoff.
 * Debris is a co-production between Legendary TV and Universal TV.
 * Wyman serves as showrunner and executive produces under his Frequency Films banner, which is currently under an overall deal at Legendary.
 * Jason Hoffs will executive produce alongside Wyman.
 * Debris is the network's first drama to be ordered to pilot.
 * Sources say producers used sketches to help fill in the blanks to complete the pilot for network brass to review.
 * Debris is said to be in the vein of The X-Files and Men In Black.
 * News of the order comes exactly a week after NBC announced plans to stagger the remainder of its 12 pilots across this and next year’s development seasons.
 * The series has parallels to Fringe announced by the crew at TCA 2021.
 * Legendary Television, which co-produces the series with Frequency Films and Universal Television, has sold exclusive distribution rights to French network TF1 and Japanese streamer U-Next.