Terra Nova
Monday, 8 p.m. on Fox

I'm not usually much for futuristic stories or dinosaurs, so "Terra Nova" is exactly the kind of show I shouldn't like, even if it is executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.

But. This has Jason O'Mara ("Life on Mars") who is irresistible, and the show's two-hour pilot is pretty exciting.

"Terra Nova" begins at the dawn of the 22nd century when the world is on the verge of environmental collapse. It's a grim, gray, totalitarian existence. No sunlight, no vegetation, no fresh food. The air is dirty and depleted of oxygen. The only hope for a future is the discovery of a time fracture which allows people to travel 85 million years into the past, to the Terra Nova Project.

The first glitch is our family, the Shannons, have violated strict population control laws by having a third child, and this lands Jim Shannon in prison. His prison-to-Terra-Nova path is the weakest part of the pilot. Luckily, that doesn't take up much time, so don't give up if the beginning drags for you.

If you were alive during the summer of 1975, you developed a new fear. Of sharks.

That was the summer of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," the classic film, arguably the first blockbuster of the modern era, that film that made everyone afraid to go into the water.

Tonight at 9 the Bio channel premieres "Jaws: The Inside Story," a terrific two-hour, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.

No one does misty-eyed reverence for the bravery and sacrifices of American soldiers in World War II like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

The Academy Award-winning actor and director teamed up in 1998 to make "Saving Private Ryan", the story of a group of U.S. soldiers who go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper (Matt Damon) whose brothers have been killed in action. Three years later, they collaborated as co-executive producers with Gary Goetzman to make "Band of Brothers," the HBO miniseries about a U.S. Army company of paratroopers and its WWII mission in Europe.

Tonight marks the premiere of their latest World War II project: "The Pacific," an HBO miniseries tracking the real-life journeys of three Marines across the Pacific Theater (9 p.m. Sunday, March 14, HBO). While the 10-part series mirrors the previous films in its depictions of battlefield heroism and the physical toll of war, it also goes one step further.