Editing Snowpiercer (TV Series) (section)

==Trivia==
*The series launched on Sunday May 17, 2020 at 9p m. It was previously planned to launch on Sunday, May 31.
*The network was responding to the growing appetite for content as the majority of Americans are in lockdown.
*It took a journey of five years across three networks and multiple showrunners before Tomorrow Studios was able to shepherd “Snowpiercer” to its May 17 debut on [[TNT]].
*The second season of the show, halted production due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
*The show has had a long gestation.
*TNT ordered the Snowpiercer pilot back in November 2016 and picked it up to series over two years ago.
*The show was given an early Season 2 renewal in May and moved from [[TNT]] to sister channel TBS.
**Five months later, and Snowpiercer was returned to its [[TNT|original network]].
*The show debuted to 3.3 million total viewers across TNT and TBS.<ref name="Variety1">[https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2020/tv/news/snowpiercer-premiere-tv-ratings-1234610053/amp/ "TV Ratings: ‘Snowpiercer’ Series Premiere Ploughs Its Way to 3.3 Million Viewers" - Variety1]</ref>
**Among them 607,000 tuned in to the 9 p.m. telecast who were in the key 18-49 demographic.<ref name="Variety1"/>
**The total viewers represents the largest debut for a TNT show since “The Alienist” in 2018.<ref name="Variety1"/>
**The series premiere tallied almost exactly 1 million viewers in the demo.<ref name="Variety1"/>
*Across the Atlantic, the show is not airing on Netflix
**The first two episodes dropped on Monday 25 May on Netflix, with one coming every Monday from then on.
*Though in the story Snowpiercer is 10 miles long, with 1,001 cars. <ref name="Variety2">[https://variety.com/2020/artisans/production/vfx-design-teams-snowpiercer-train-1234612720/ "How the ‘Snowpiercer’ VFX and Design Teams Collaborated to Create the TNT Show’s Centerpiece Train" - Variety2]</ref>
**Production designer Barry Robison and his art department built 18 cars on four stages.<ref name="Variety2"/>
***Including the engine; a hydroponic gardening car; first- , second- and third-class dining cars; a sushi restaurant with an undersea element; and the “chains” car, which resembles an Asian night market.<ref name="Variety2"/>
*For the interiors, Robison looked to Japan and China for clues as to where locomotive design technology is headed.<ref name="Variety2"/>
**He and art director Tom Wilkins also contacted Canadian railway companies, which offered insights and solutions for the problems of a vehicle moving through hostile environments like the one [[Snowpiercer]] travels through — notably information about snowplows, debris diverters and warming elements to keep the train moving.<ref name="Variety2"/>
*The ''Snowpiercer'' [[Season 2]] trailer was released on October 8, 2020 as part of the show’s appearance at New York Comic-Con, alongside the news that the TNT series will return for its second season on January 25th at 9pm ET/PT.