High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series created for Fox by Kelly Marcel, and Craig Silverstein, who served as executive producers alongside Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, and Jon Cassar. The series begins in the year 2149, a time when humanity is threatened with extinction. In an effort to save the human race, scientists use a time fracture allowing people to travel 85 million years back in time to prehistoric Earth in an alternate timeline. The Shannon family, father Jim (Jason O`Mara), his wife Elisabeth (Shelley Conn), and their three children Josh (Landon Liboiron), Maddy (Naomi Scott), and Zoe (Alana Mansour) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway.