Premières: 2015, ABC Steven Spielberg remains at the very top run of cinematic dominance, his family-friendly nostalgic sc-fi fare having made him one of the most bankable directors working in Hollywood for decades. On TV he's much less of a sure thing, with each success (Band Of Brothers) followed by a handful of failures (seaQuest DSV, Falling Skies, Terra Nova). So approach this one with trepidation. Well, a little, anyway. The Whispers has a lot going for it besides Spielberg's name attached as executive producer, what with it being based on the classic 1951 Ray Bradbury short story "Zero Hour" from his masterpiece The Illustrated Man. The original story saw kids wrapped up in a game called Invasion, which turns out to be far more real. The series throws out any pretence of mystery and is explicitly about an alien invasion of Earth being carried out in secret, by using the most unlikely and unsuspecting inhabitants on the planet the children. It's a spooky start, and if it can deliver on that premise...
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