This site is dedicated to the ABC series Defying Gravity. A mere 8 episodes have aired, and there is unconfirmed speculation that the series may be cancelled. But for those of us who experienced the Defying Gravity phenomenon, the crew of the Antares will live on in our thoughts, and soon, in our DVD collections!
Defying Gravity is a sexy, provocative thriller set in the very near future against the backdrop of our solar system, in which eight astronauts from five countries undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission on the spaceship Antares.
As spaceship commander Ted Shaw on ABC's Sunday science-fiction series "Defying Gravity," Malik Yoba is on a tour of the solar system. But for the 41-year-old actor, doing the series was more like time travel than space travel. "I think every little boy thought about going into space," Yoba says. "As a kid, definitely, I was trying to be Captain Kirk.