ABC, CTV and its A stations will line up early next month for the premiere of Defying Gravity — launching the sci-fi series with a simulcast on Aug. 2.

The Sunday 9 p.m. slot will see the two-hour premiere air on all three networks, before moving to its regular simulcast slot the following week at 10 p.m.

The scheduling comes just a week after the Vancouver-shot series was picked up by the U.S. network. Defying Gravity shot its first, 13 x 60 run earlier this year in B.C., a co-venture of locals Omni Film Productions and Fox Television Studios.

The series is also expected to run on CTVgm-owned Space, though that date and slot has not yet been announced.

Creator and executive producer James Parriott was inspired by the BBC docudrama Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, for which they acquired the rights from British producer Impossible Pictures.

‘Defying Gravity has been a labour of love from the very beginning,’ said Parriott in a release. ‘Part of what made it so was the wonderful collaboration with our partners in Vancouver.’