T.I.M.E. SHARE, INC.
Television Series Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
Created by: Rita Schiano and Paul A. Gemme
WGAe Reg: 131105
LOGLINE: A psychiatrist teams up with a scientist and uses time travel as an
advanced form of psychotherapy.
When physicist Dr. Gerhardt Rhineholdt invented GENNY—the temporal stasis
electromagnetic field generator–the means for time travel, his good friend
and colleague, psychiatrist Dr. Lillian Meyer, raised this question:
“What if we could use time travel as a therapeutic method for people
suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, childhood trauma, severe anxiety or
depression? People for whom traditional therapy has failed, who can’t get
past the “If only I had done otherwise...” or the “What if...” moments of their
lives?”
T.I.M.E. Share, Inc. (TSI) is a time travel company that enables a person to
actually experience, on a parallel timeline, the outcome of choosing another
course of action, without changing history.
At TSI, clients engage in a “share” of T.I.M.E. — a Temporal Intervention
Manipulated Experience. The client travels back to a pre-determined, critical
juncture in life whereby the “What if...” event may be manipulated and re-
created, by the patient’s own choice and actions, to exist on a parallel
timeline. Patients return with a conscious memory of the relived event and
the psychiatrist can “tap and use” in the healing process.
The “sci-fi” theory that drives the show is a small leap from the actual
scientific theories of electromagnetism and electrodynamics.
The show’s objectives:
1) To examine how societal pressures can dictate the decisions we make regarding those moral dilemmas.
2) To put forth a convincing argument for both sides of an issue and forces
the viewer to see the many shades of gray in between.
3) To explore the concepts of destiny, fate, providence, and dumb luck and
how they play a part in our lives.
4) To learn to live with the decisions and choices we’ve made in our lives
and to accept the responsibility for those courses of action.
5) That no matter what the past holds, there’s no time like the present to
works towards a better future.
6) Always leave viewers wondering about their own “What if’s...”