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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘4400’ On The CW, A More Diverse Remake Of The ‘00s Time Travel Series

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The 2004-07 USA Network series  The 4400 was popular because of the central time-travel mystery, where 4400 people from various time periods are zapped from their times and dumped in 2004 Seattle. It was popular enough to get the 2020s reboot treatment, but with a twist: A mostly Black cast and undertones of racial inequality driving the mystery. Read on for more.

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Opening Shot: A couple wake up in the morning. The husband pretends that they’re waking up in Paris, but they really live in the Detroit area, and they have a four-month-old daughter.

The Gist: Shanice Murray (Brittany Adebumola) is going back to work at her law firm after her maternity leave. It all looks like it’s happening now, but something seems amiss when her husband Logan (Cory Jeacoma) hands her a Blackberry. She pulls up to her office, then all of a sudden, a green light blows her out of her car and deposits her somewhere else, at night. A large number of people are also deposited in the same place, 4400 in all.

The authorities come immediately, including Jharrel Mateo (Joseph David-Jones), a social worker, and a corrections officer named Keisha Taylor (Ireon Roach). Some of the people who appeared out of nowhere are being held at a local hotel but the government can’t identify all of them. Others were reported missing in cases going back a few decades.

Among them: Dr. Andre (TL Thompson), who seems like he lived somewhere around the World War I era; Claudette (Jaye Ladymore), who is from the 1950s and finds that she has the power to heal herself quickly; Isaiah “Rev” Johnston (Derrick A. King), a young reverend whose sweater and fade shout early ’90s; LaDonna (Khailah Johnson), who is probably a 2010s Instagram user; Mildred (Autumn Best), a white hippie teen who can seemingly control things with her mind; and a young man (AMARR) who doesn’t talk when Keisha interviews him.

Mildred helps Shanice escape to see if she can find her family, and the rest of the group starts getting irritated that they’re being held against their will, even if they all realize that their frames of reference are all from different time periods. Shanice finds that her family has moved from their home to a suburb, and a sympathetic Jharrel redirects Keisha and the cops so he can help take her to Logan and their daughter. This is when she finds out that her daughter is now 16, and Logan has remarried, thinking that Shanice ran off when the daughter was a baby; he found a note that Shanice wrote in the throes of postpartum depression, before she got help.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? 4400  is a reboot of  The 4400 , a 2004-07 series that aired on USA Network. Only now, the cast is more diverse, and the locale has switched from Seattle to Detroit.

Our Take: All of what made  The 4400 a cult hit back in the ’00s is at play in this remake. But what showrunners Anna Fricke and Ariana Jackson have added into this mix of mystery and science fiction is the fact that most of the people who have been yanked from their times and transported to 2021 have dealt with discrimination in one form or another.

It was an interesting twist to make the cast mostly Black, playing both the victims of this time travel mystery but also some of the authorities in charge of the case. This way, the mistrust flows in multiple directions, including the more regimented Keisha butting heads with the more sympathetic Jharrel. There’s a reason why Jahrrel doesn’t want to treat these people as criminals; his brother Manny disappeared the year prior and he wants to think that he’s among the 4400 that landed that night.

Is some of the messaging a bit heavy-handed? Sure. You see white cops in pandemic-friendly masks menacing the victims, and people like Claudette voicing to the good doctor that they’re so far in the future and very little has changed. The idea that Shanice’s husband Logan got married to a white woman after her disappearance is a bit on the nose.

For the most part, though, the showrunners keep the mystery front and center, with the messaging being a component of it. At some point or another, we’ll get more information on why some of these time refugees have powers and others don’t, and we’ll get a better idea of their backstories, sort of like we did when we saw Shanice and Logan meet cute at what we assume was a 1990-era Gulf War protest.

If the show can focus on the mysterious aspect of the story, the addition of the very relevant stories of discrimination through the ages will only add to that mystery and why these people were chosen for this ride through time. But if it gets too heavy-handed with that messaging, that’ll likely make fans of the original turn elsewhere.

Sex and Skin: None.

Parting Shot: The mysterious young man finally speaks, giving Keisha a message for Jharrel.

Sleeper Star: Jaye Ladymore is especially good as Claudette, whose world weariness is not just apparent in her classic Southern accent but her advice about slick guys like Rev. Johnston. And if that’s her singing “Lucille,” she’s pretty good at rocking out, too.

Most Pilot-y Line: Menacing white cop after he stops Claudette’s impromptu concert. “This isn’t summer camp.”

Our Call: STREAM IT. While  4400  may need to smooth down some of its more noticeable tone hiccups, it has set up a very interesting mystery with undertones of issues that are very relevant to 2021.

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Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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The CW’s ‘4400’ Is a Back-From-the-Past Reboot That Benefits From a Light Touch: TV Review

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In the original “The 4400 ,” characters who’d long been missing suddenly return from an unknown alternate dimension, all at once. As the title suggests, the group of returned individuals numbers some 4,400 strong. The franchise itself now does something similar: After leaving USA Network in 2007, the show returns, having shed an article in its title — it’s just “4400” now — and picked up a lightness of touch that feels breezy and fresh.

In its CW incarnation, “4400” promises drama without heaviness, and the pilot sets up various story points without feeling too portentous. One plotline concerns the government response, with a social worker (Joseph David-Jones) and corrections officer (Ireon Roach) working together in the midst of a government response we increasingly see as punitive. Elsewhere, Shanice (Brittany Adebumola), who was ripped away from her husband and daughter in the early 2000s, finds that they’ve moved on, and grown up, without her. Elsewhere, the dislocation of disappearance and reappearance seems to have lent special powers. Claudette (Jaye Ladymore) experiments with her seeming ability to heal instantly.

The pilot pushes up against certain limits: Its budget strains when trying to convey the scope of the reappeared, all of whom are supposedly being sequestered together by the government. (It might have been easier to call this show “The 44.”) And the show’s hand with the historical-fiction sketches it produces can feel unsteady: Characters from the more distant past can, in “4400’s” first installment, feel more like broadly drawn types than like people for whom we are meant to feel.

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The first of these, viewers on the show’s wavelength can likely get past; the second, the show likely will. The pilot’s culture-clash elements don’t consistently work, but there are glimmers of moments in which characters from different historical eras work together to figure out the mess they’re in; if “4400” leans into its curiosity about what relationships between these characters can look like, and not just how they might needle each other, it will be on to something.

And its look at Shanice’s state of mind feels rooted in potential to do something at least somewhat ambitious for a teen-centric network. There are big, teenage-sized emotions here, but also adult ambiguity, as Shanice had been grappling with regret and desire to perhaps walk away from her family before she was taken. It may read as faint praise, but the mere fact of postpartum insecurity being an element of an often gleefully big and unapologetically goofy sci-fi serial suggests it’s a show with more than one might suspect on its mind.

“4400” premieres Monday, Oct. 25, at 9 p.m. on the CW . 

• Production: Executive Producers: Ariana Jackson, Sunil Nayar, Anna Fricke, and Laura Terry.
• Cast: Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, Brittany Adebumola, Cory Jeacoma, TL Thompson, Jaye Ladymore, Derrick A. King, Khailah Johnson, Autumn Best, Amarr Wooten.

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For decades, people have been spinning tales of alien abductions. Such interstellar kidnappings serve as the starting point for USA Network’s The 4400 , a sci-fi mind meld of The X-Files and X-Men that wonders: What if everyone ever abducted—4,400 of them, to be precise—returned at the same time in a ball of light, not a day older than when they had their close encounters? So where did they go? Why are they back? Who took them? And why are The 4400 endowed with special powers?

The series focuses on five pivotal returnees. Maia, abducted at age 8 in 1946, now has precognitive abilities. Eighteen-year-old Shawn, who vanished in 2001, can either heal people or drain the life from them. Lily, taken in 1993, marries Richard, a black Korean War vet snatched in 1951. Finally, charismatic Jordan Collier is determined to unite—and exploit—the thousands of marginalized citizens trying to rebuild their lives.

Monitoring The 4400 are government agents Tom Baldwin (Shawn’s uncle) and Diana Skouris (Maia’s adoptive mother). Their noble attempts at understanding and re-assimilating the returnees is complicated by red tape and society’s fear of the visitors. But paranoid prejudice benefits no one. In fact, these “freaks” may hold the key to mankind’s survival. Last season’s finale revealed that The 4400’s captors weren’t aliens at all, but humans from the future intent on using them to avert a catastrophe. A key figure appears to be Lily’s baby girl, somehow conceived during Mom’s absence.

Mysterious developments keep coming. Each week, viewers meet new members of The 4400 who make brief appearances in the show’s bizarre, occasionally violent story arc. How violent? When Bible-quoting vigilantes hunting down mild-mannered heroes fall prey to telekinesis, one man puts a shotgun under his chin and pulls the trigger. Beyond fistfights and gunfire there have been numerous fatalities and a suicide attempt. Inappropriate language has included the misuse of Christ’s name, while a “g–d–n” or two pop up weekly. And though rare, one-night stands have shown lots of skin, as when Jordan beds a female rock star.

Moral sensibilities haven’t been abducted entirely. It’s good to see characters holding friends accountable for crossing a line. Also, it’s implied that a benevolent source gave The 4400 special powers for the greater good, not for selfish gain. Potent stuff with spiritual parallels. One of the best episodes to date found a school teacher unlocking her students’ potential and Shawn befriending the homeless. Still, if the sex, violence and profanity are signs of where this show is headed, it’s pointless to beam aboard.

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Throughout the last century, 4,400 people from marginalized groups vanished. On the same night in 2021, they all reappear.

So begins this reboot of USA’s 2004–07 drama, 4400 — told from a Black perspective, which, co-showrunner Ariana Jackson says, addresses “our country’s inability to reckon with its history of white supremacy.”

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Handling the detained time-refugees — ’50s civil rights figure Claudette (Jaye Ladymore) and ’90s reverend Isaiah Johnston (Derrick A. King) among them — are parole officer Keisha (Ireon Roach) and social worker Jharrel (Joseph David-Jones).

“Keisha is rigorously by the book, whereas Jharrel is rigorously by the heart,” says co-showrunner Sunil Nayar. As they get to know their charges, so do we, often through flashbacks.

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And as with the original, these 4,400 discover they now have powers. Teases Nayar, “With them comes both the fun and the consequences.”

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Tv/streaming, collections, great movies, chaz's journal, contributors, the cw's 4400 mixes earnest ideas with corny execution.

Premiering on the CW today, “4400” aggressively tries to win over the people who obsess over shows like “Lost” or “The Leftovers,” but with less tact (this series is a remake of a USA Network show that came out in 2004, the same year as "Lost"). Shanice (Brittany Adebumola) has just left her kids and husband for the day, the opening credits haven’t even started yet, and suddenly a green light sucks her out of the car. The screen cuts to black. She finds herself in a park in Detroit, where other people have been landing as well.  

Shanice is one of 4,400 Americans who were considered missing from their different periods, and landed in 2021, now quarantined. They range from different eras, like Claudette (Jaye Ladymore), a civil rights protestor from Mississippi in the 1960s; Isaiah Johnson (Derrick A. King), a smooth-talking reverend from the ‘90s; a mid-2000s reality star named LaDonna (Khailah Johnson); a hippie girl named Mildred (Autumn Best). The most out-of-their-element person is a WWI surgeon named Andre (TL Thompson), whose properness is bracing among this group. 

At least with the pilot episode, these characters are as curious as the mystery that has brought them together. But the storytelling is all about keeping them in the same room or so, sitting and talking to each other. It’s a dull visual approach, and brings out the corniness of the premise that needs to be distanced from for this to work. It also takes far too long for everyone to realize they're in a different time period, a goofy beat that could have been more impactful if the show had more faith in its characters. 

This strange phenomenon inspires crises across the board, and the tensions that don’t have to do with the actual time-zapping premise prove to be its most compelling. Shanice’s yearning to be back with the family she suddenly disappeared from is a unique way to focus on regret, and the types of things we can’t change. I'm also curious to see how the series will play out its work tension between social worker Jharrel (Joseph David Jones ) and the lead agent Keisha ( Ireon Roach ), as the set-up does try question about who is better serving these people and their needs, regardless of how extreme the scenario is.  

But in spite of its earnest ideas however tacky execution, “4400” is not about grace or subtlety when it comes to these its history or drama. That’s not a bad thing itself, but more that the show is constantly trying to force its air of importance, whether it’s the big twists that come every five minutes, or the whole big question that the series uses as the reason to keep watching. There’s little room for characters from other eras to introduce themselves as more than figures who seem to have picked from a history museum’s reenactment cast. 

“4400” unfolds like the kind of show that’s more often written with flashy twists first—what if Mildred also had super powers to control objects?—without a lot of natural room for story. I imagine that overly big, busy nature be the case with the larger reveals that truly give the show its shape and character. We know that there’s a certain grandiose reason for all of this, and that there are ideas about history and race in between the lines, but this first episode doesn’t give us hope that the answers are going to be all that subtle.

First episode screened for review. "4400" premieres on the CW on October 25th.

Nick Allen is the former Senior Editor at RogerEbert.com and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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Starting life as an X -Files- inspired mini-series, The 4400 transformed into a super powered soap with some strong episodes and a cracking storyline when it went into full production.

The premise

4400 people are abducted by mysterious beings. They’re snatched from different places and at different times throughout the 20th and 21st century. Then, one balmy evening, a glowing ball of light disgorges the kidnapped folks at the side of a deserted lake. Every single one of them. Soon after, the returnees begin to manifest special powers…

Agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris of NTAC (the Department of Homeland Security in season one) are tasked with finding out why the 4400 were taken and, more importantly, why they were brought back.

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Main characters

Coming on like a cross between Fox Mulder and Dirty Harry, Tom Baldwin is an act first, ask stupid questions after kind of guy. If he was a real NTAC agent, he’d have been ‘retired’ in episode three – but as this is fiction, he’s inexplicably allowed to keep his job despite having a son who’s a murderer, a wife who aids members of a terrorist cell and who habitually throttles a series of his superiors.

Diana Skouris and the X-Files ‘ Dana Scully share more than similar names. They also have the same dress sense, a dry sense of humour, endemic scepticism and a medical background. And like Dana, Diana is very much the second fiddle to the male lead.

Slimy Christ figure Jordan Collier is a former property tycoon who gains fame as an advocate for the 4400 returnees. 

Shawn Farrell, nephew of Tom Baldwin, is blessed with the power to heal any affliction (except, it transpires, those affected by the mystical substance that gives the 4400 their abilities). Shawn is the show’s unlikely moral centre. With an unswerving desire to do good, he is frequently the programme’s most slappable character.

Kyle Baldwin is Tom’s inconsistently portrayed, banana-faced son. He spends most of season one in a coma – and seasons two to four would have been better if he’d stayed there.

Chimp-eyed child freak Maia Skouris is both the oldest and youngest of the 4400 – taken in 1946 aged 8. She sees the future in visions that are murky, unreliable and inconsistent enough to push the narrative forward while keeping her adoptive mother, Diana, largely in the dark.

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Alongside his wife Lily, Richard Tyler is a key returnee whose story we follow closely in early seasons. At some point the actors playing them asked for too much money and were written out – but worry not – their story is pleasingly wrapped up. Isabelle Tyler is their daughter, boasting a mixed bag of 4400 abilities – and a tendency to cause trouble.

Why we like it

At its best, T he 4400 channels classic sci-fi shows like The X-Files and The Twilight Zone , within a soapy serial structure. It feels curiously old fashioned and slow for a program cancelled a mere two years ago, but the seasons are short, internal characterisation is consistent and – though there are occasional good ideas – it’s undemanding on the brain. Early on, fans will enjoy spotting cult character actors popping up in supporting roles: Summer Glau, Sherilyn Fenn, Jeffrey Combs and Lexa Doig all get a chance to chew some scenery.

Why it sucks

There’s a tendency towards the kind of expositional sci-fi dialogue that went out of fashion with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Not surprising when you consider that The 4400 was developed by Trek alumni. Also, when the show strays from the main story arc (which it does for several episodes in the middle of every season), it stinks.

Best episodes

The opening 90 minute episode appears to blow the special effects budget for four full seasons. Telling the story of the 4400’s abduction and return, it can be enjoyed as a cheesy chunk of B-movie sci-fi thriller.

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Episode 2 is so close to early X-Files that you fully expect it to cut to Mulder’s basement rather than NTAC’s hi-tech hub. Introducing the idea that the 4400 have supernatural abilities, it does so while telling a poignant story of an ordinary man made extraordinary.

Life Interrupted

In a second season episode reminiscent of TNG ‘s Th e Inner Light , Tom Baldwin wakes up in a world without the 4400 and with a new wife…

Tom and Diana have to make peace with ghosts from their past. Literally.

The Great Leap Forward

The 4400’s season finale is a master class in how to successfully wrap up a cult TV show.

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One of many victims of the 2007 writer’s strike, The 4400 couldn’t recover from a rating’s slump and was cancelled after four seasons. But never fear if you want to catch up on DVD – many loose ends are wrapped up in the season finale.

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Most central characters are positive role models,

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Some social drinking. Medicinal drugs are a centra

Parents need to know that this sci-fi drama series centers around the idea of being abducted and then returned to earth many years later. Younger viewers, if they're not bored by the adult-oriented material, may need reassurance that the concept is fictional. Some violence occurs, like when a criminal is wounded…

Positive Messages

Most central characters are positive role models, but some other characters lie, manipulate, and engage in violence. The cast is moderately diverse, with both men and women in central roles.

Violence & Scariness

Moderate -- some gunfire, a little blood, fistfights, explosions, an attempted suicide.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Very little -- some flirting, tame kissing, implied non-sexual nudity.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

Some social drinking. Medicinal drugs are a central theme, with hypodermic needles often seen.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this sci-fi drama series centers around the idea of being abducted and then returned to earth many years later. Younger viewers, if they're not bored by the adult-oriented material, may need reassurance that the concept is fictional. Some violence occurs, like when a criminal is wounded by gunshot or a fistfight results in near death. In one episode, a main character attempts suicide, though she's quickly revived. Several characters have special powers, some of which are creepy or scary -- like the pulsing gills on one character's torso.

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Same basic tale as tv serial now on netflix except cast featured mostly white people this time while 4400 was mostly african americans.that is ok with me ,after all, i am a fan of the outstanding tv writer s, what's the story.

When 4,400 dazed people arrive near Seattle in a big ball of light from the sky, they don't know where they've been or how long they've been gone. Turns out, they've been abducted by humans from the future, and, viewers find out later, they're supposed to help save the world. But in the meantime, they struggle to sort out their lives, which have been cruelly disrupted. None of them have aged at all while they've been missing. As a consequence, for some, like Maia (Conchita Campbell) -- who was abducted as a child in 1946 -- returning to their families isn't an option. Others have been gone for only a few months or years, but making the transition back to normal life is still difficult.

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Complicating the abductees' reintroduction to normal life is the special powers some have returned with. For young Maia, it's the ability to know the future. For earnest 19-year-old Shawn Farrell (Patrick Flueger), it's the ability to heal and hurt with just the touch of his hands. As these abilities become known to the public, fears arise that the abductees will use their powers for evil. Taking a page from The X-Men , "The 4400" join together to protect themselves against an antagonistic and sometimes-violent public.

Quarantines, secret government plans, splinter groups, and the arrival of a potential messiah figure combine to make this dramatic series rich with sci-fi mystery and plenty of surprises. The acting is generally very fine, but occasionally the drama seems overwrought. Most teens will be able to handle the occasional violence and spooky overtones, but the general feeling of a planet in crisis may tap into anxieties about the real world.

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Families can talk about what special powers they'd want to have -- and which they wouldn't. What's the burden of mind-reading or being able to foresee the future? What kind of similarities do teens see between the issues the show brings up and what's happening in today's post-9/11 world? What does fear of a specific group of people do to society as a whole?

• Premiere date : July 11, 2004
• Cast : Jacqueline McKenzie , Joel Gretsch , Patrick Flueger
• Network : USA
• Genre : Science Fiction
• TV rating : TV-PG
• Last updated : March 1, 2022

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Created by Anna Fricke and Ariana Jackson, ‘4400’ is a sci-fi mystery show that revolves around a group of people who mysteriously return after disappearing for about a hundred years, without having aged a day. It serves as an ambitious reboot of ‘The 4400,’ which ran from July 11, 2004, to September 16, 2007, on USA Network. As one of the minds behind Syfy’s ‘Being Human’ and a fan of the original show, respectively, these two women are well aware of the intricacies of such a production.

The fact that we see several rising stars take center stage since the story focuses more on their characters also makes this CW original worth the watch. So, in case you’re planning on watching it, here’s everything you need to know!

What is 4400 About?

‘4400’ is fueled by an enigmatic narrative that revolves around the 4400 overlooked and otherwise marginalized individuals who simply disappeared without a trace left behind over the last century. Every single one of them returns at the exact moment, all together, in the present day, but surprisingly, they haven’t aged. Furthermore, none of them can recall what happened to them while they were gone.

All of the aforementioned factors mean the individuals have to cope with uncertainty and change. After all, time ensures they can’t pick up right from where they left off. It’s soon unveiled that each person arrived back with a special ability of sorts, which only gives rise to more questions than ever before.

Is 4400 on Netflix?

‘4400’ is unfortunately unavailable on Netflix. However, you can watch all four seasons of the original series, ‘ The 4400 ,’ on the streaming giant right now. If you want other sci-fi options on the platform, you can even go for ‘ The 100 ‘ and ‘ 3% .’

Is 4400 on Amazon Prime?

No, ‘4400’ is not available to stream on Amazon Prime either. But if you’re a fan of such a genre and are looking for a couple of alternatives, you can check out ‘ Fringe ‘ and ‘ Lost .’

Is 4400 on Hulu?

‘4400’ is not included in Hulu’s massive roster of shows and movies at the moment. Yet, viewers can stream ‘ Timeless ‘ and ‘ The Leftovers ‘ if they’re searching for something just as intriguing on the platform.

Where to Watch 4400 Online?

As ‘4400’ is a CW original, apart from the cable channel, the most feasible way to stream the show is on The CW App, especially as every installment will be made available on the website the day after it airs on the network. Moreover, you can watch the series as and when it releases on platforms like Hulu+ LiveTV , YouTube TV , and FuboTV . DirecTV also has ‘4400’ in its catalog, so you have a minimum of four additional options. As of writing, VOD places like Google Play don’t have the production, but that may change once it’s on the air for good.

Where to Stream 4400 for Free?

While Hulu+ LiveTV, FuboTV, and DirecTV offer a 7-day free trial, YouTube TV gives a 14-day trial. Therefore, you can stream this incredible show on these platforms without paying a penny, provided you are a first-time subscriber and can view all the episodes within the specified days. However, we encourage our readers to always pay for the content they wish to consume online to show their support for the cinematic arts.

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4400: Premiere Date, Cast, And Other Quick Things We Know About The CW Reboot

In an instant, without reason or warning, four thousand and four hundred lost souls are brought back to Earth. They're not a single day older than they were when they left and they don't have a single memory of where they went or how they got back. That's the premise of The CW's 4400 , and it should sound familiar to TV fans. Based on the Sky One/USA Network series The 4400 from the mid-'00s, this new take on a not-so-old favorite will provide a thoughtful retelling of this sci-fi story for the modern-day, and we have some key bits of information about this brand new show as we near closer to its approaching fall premiere date. Here's what we know (so far) about this 4400 reboot.

*The CW’s 4400 Will Premiere On October 25, 2021 *

Mark your calendars. The CW's 4400 is coming sooner than you might think. If you're curious to see this new take on this sci-fi series, you'll want to tune in on October 25th at 9:00 p.m.. More specifically, this pilot will air right after the season premiere of All American , which should help the TV show find a wide audience during its Monday slot.

It’s A Reboot Of USA Network/Sky One’s The 4400

Airing from 2004 through 2007 on USA Network in the United States and Sky One in the U.K., The 4400 grew into a dependable cable favorite , spawning four seasons, several novels, and a loyal fanbase who were intrigued by this unique premise. At the moment, it's unclear how much this 4400 reboot will be influenced by its predecessor. It's most likely that they'll take the core premise and do their own thing with it, but we'll soon see!

4400 Will Star Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, Brittany Adebumola, Khailah Johnson And More

At the forefront of The CW's 4400 are Joseph David-Jones and Ireon Roach as Jharrel and Keisha, respectively. The former was seen in Arrow while the latter appeared in 2021's Candyman . Additionally, the cast includes Brittany Adebumola ( Grand Army ) as Shanice, newcomer Khailah Johnson as LaDonna, Jaye Ladymore ( Chicago P.D. ) as Claudette, T.L. Thompson (Broadway's Straight White Men ) as Dr. Andre, Cory Jeacoma ( Power Book II: Ghost ) as Logan, Derrick A. King ( Call Your Mother ) as Rev Johnson, Amarr Wooten ( American Housewife ) as Hayden, and newbie Autumn Best as Mildred.

The Show Follows 4400 People Who Vanish Inexplicably Over The Last Century, Only To Suddenly Return, Without Aging A Day

Not unlike the original series, The CW's 4400 will follow -- you guessed it -- four thousand and four hundred people who vanished over the last century, only to inexplicably return in Detroit, MI. These wayward souls, who are described as "overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized" in the press release, haven't aged a day since their departure. They have no memories of where they went or what happened to them when they left.

As the government races to understand this bizarre phenomenon and contain this story from the press and the public, a social worker (Joseph David-Jones) and a community corrections officer (Ireon Roach) are called upon to deal with these returning refugees. Their ideologies don't match, but these two have a similarly minded pursuit to discover the truth, and they'll quickly find that they have a bit more in common than they thought.

4400 Is Created By Ariana Jackson, Who Wrote The Pilot, And Anna Fricke

Ariana Jackson and Anna Fricke aren't names that you might instantly recognize, but you've probably seen some of their work over the years. Namely, Jackson, who wrote 4400 's pilot, was a writer and producer on Lifetime's UnREAL and The CW's Riverdale . Additionally, Fricke, who serves as an executive producer, is a developer on The CW's Walker and she worked on shows like Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Men in Trees , and Being Human . Hopefully, their proven experience helps this new show find its footing.

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The Showrunners Wanted The CW Series To Take Place During ‘A Very Pivotal Time In Our Nation’s History’

When you make a reboot, especially one that is coming out shortly after the previous series, you want to make sure that there's a dramatic purpose for telling this story once more in order to justify the retelling and to make audiences inclined to go back. With The CW's 4400 , it's clear that the goal here is timeliness. When detailing their upcoming show, showrunners Ariana Jackson and Sunil Nayar told EW that they really wanted 4400 to take place in present-day 2021, during "a very pivotal time in our nation's history," to explore "how we got here through all these people from different eras." Through this perspective, they'll hopefully make a series that befits the original while also saying something vital about the here and now.

Here's what Ariana Jackson said:

It's about time travel but setting it in 2021. Where we are now feels like a very pivotal time in our nation's history — it was really interesting to examine how we got here through all these people from different eras. It feels like a really interesting time to set it in to really examine how we came to be here and now, a time where we're really seeing a lot of the cracks in our society and in what we built. We look at how those things might have been built wrong to lead us here to today. There's a reason why we're in the moment we're in.

4400’s Pilot Is Directed By Erica Watson

Starting her filmmaking career with a number of short films, Erica Watson became a television director when she called the shots on a 2017 episode of BET's Tales. From there, Watson went on to work on Krypton, Snowpiercer , L.A.'s Finest, Claws, The L Word: Generation Q, All American, All Rise, Power Book II: Ghost , and David Makes Man . Now, as Variety reported , she's at the helm of The CW's series premiere of 4400 . It's unclear if she'll continue to direct episodes throughout the show's run, or if she'll only make the opening episode. But this pilot could be a big calling card project if the series does well.

The Teasers Give Us An Eerie New Look At This Reboot

We're still left with a lot of questions about this upcoming series, but we got our first exclusive look at the show through a couple of new teasers , which don't give us any simple answers but provide an intriguing look at this television reboot. Certainly, The CW's 4400 is going to explore some new and, as mentioned before, timely material, and that's certainly seen in these brief promos. You can check out 4400 's first trailer below:

The CW's 4400 premieres on October 25th at 9:00 p.m. EST.

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The CW is developing a reboot of USA's cult sci-fi series The 4400, but fans of the original are first owed a resolution to its cliffhanger ending. Sadly, The 4400 is one of many TV shows to end without a proper resolution, as TV networks really don't seem to consider pleasing a small but devoted fanbase when deciding how and when to cancel a struggling series. From Quantum Leap, to Sliders, to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the list of shows to sign off without wrapping up loose plot threads is a long and sad one indeed.

For those in need of a refresher, The 4400 aired for four seasons on USA Network, and was one of their first high-profile original dramas alongside Stephen King adaptation The Dead Zone. The initial premise was simple enough, as 4400 missing people from different eras all reappeared inside a big ball of light near Mount Rainer, Washington. The "returnees" as they were dubbed, came back different, sporting superhuman powers of various types. The returnees were overseen by the National Threat Assessment Command (NTAC). Needless to say, things got pretty complicated as the series progressed, with the eventual reveal that the arrival of the 4400 was connected to an attempt to avert a disastrous future, and time travel was involved in both their disappearance and return.

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It was announced last month that The CW is working on a reboot of The 4400,  and from the sound of things, it won't have any involvement from the original creators or cast. While the idea of the show certainly has potential for a new take, that still unfairly leaves fans of the first 4400 series out to dry, with no answers to the cliffhanger ending found in unplanned series finale "The Great Leap Forward." The series ended with charismatic cult leader Jordan Collier having commandeered the city of Seattle (renaming it Promise City), and injections of the 4400's neurotransmitter promicin awakening new abilities for a large percentage of the population. A new age looked to be at hand, and season 5 promised countless possibilities for the future. Instead, USA canceled The 4400.

While lots of TV shows have been rebooted in recent years, few of them are in this type of situation, where the original show ended without resolution. Naturally, most shows that get reboots were long-running, successful properties, and ended with planned series finales or final seasons. By contrast, The 4400 was never a ratings hit, and barely survived as long as it did. The 4400's advantage was that the fans it did have were very devoted, and if the show had been canceled during the era of streaming, it's not hard to imagine Netflix or Hulu picking it up.

The only logical reason to reboot The 4400 instead of creating a new series is the hope that its old fans will come back based on its name value, so why not do those fans a solid and somehow provide some closure for the original? Why not make the new one a loosely-connected sequel series instead of a reboot, and offer updates on where various popular characters ended up? While two books attempting to follow-up on "The Great Leap Forward" were released in the years since the cancellation, that's hardly equivalent to a proper onscreen resolution. If The CW expects to profit off of fans' attachment to The 4400 name, the least they could do is throw them a narrative bone or two.

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Here's Where You Can Watch Every Season Of The 4400

Many sci-fi fans were enthralled with the mystery-driven show "The 4400" ( pronounced "the forty-four hundred" ) when it ran on the USA Network from 2004-2007, and they were equally as devastated when it came to an abrupt end after four seasons.

According to IMDb , "The 4400" was written by René Echevarria and Scott Peters, and it follows the fictional investigation into what happened to 4,400 people who mysteriously went missing sometime in a 50-year time period that began in 1946 after they reappeared together, untouched by age and confused about what happened. The series stars Joel Gretsch as Tom Baldwin and Jacqueline McKenzie as Diana Skouris, two government employees who are investigating what happened to the men, women, and children who have been missing for some time, as well as the supernatural abilities — such as telepathy, telekinesis, among others — that some of the 4,400 people start exhibiting.

"The 4400" was a hit with fans and critics alike, with Rotten Tomatoes  giving the show a Tomatometer score of 90% and an Audience score of 100%. However, since the show stopped airing new episodes, fans who haven't bought hard copies for themselves need to know how they can see all of "The 4400" if they want to watch the full series from start to finish. If you fall into that category, have no fear, as we've got you covered on which platform you can add the show to your watch list. 

You can watch every season of The 4400 on Netflix

At the time of this writing, you can watch every season of "The 4400" on Netflix , and it's the only way to watch the show online right now. If you don't have a subscription with that particular streaming service, you can't rent or purchase digital copies of each episode/season from other platforms like Amazon Prime or YouTube. The quality and popularity of the sci-fi show may be part of why "The 4400" is only available on one streaming platform at the moment 

As IGN wrote of the popular show, "With its focus on a male and female duo investigating strange phenomena for the government, it might be easy to first dismiss 'The 4400' as an 'X-Files' knock off, but that clearly wasn't the case at all. ... The strong cast did a great job conveying the confusion and heightened emotions that came with it. ... Sadly, 'The 4400' was cancelled after its fourth season, which was completed with the cast and crew unsure of the show's fate. It's very frustrating, because some incredible stuff is set up for a potential Season 5, as the show really changes things in a dramatic way."

While we wait for more details about the reboot ordered by The CW  (per The Hollywood Reporter ), we think it's a great time to head over to Netflix and start bingeing "The 4400" for some top-notch drama, mystery, and cutting-edge science fiction storytelling.