The 100 (TV series): Difference between revisions

'''''The 100''''' (pronounced '''''The Hundred'''''{{hsp}}<ref name="Ellis">{{cite news|url=http://decoy.tvpassport.com/news/dangerous-planet-earth-cws-new-sci-fi-drama-100-premieres|title=Dangerous planet Earth: The CW's new sci-fi drama 'The 100' premieres|work=TV Passport|last=Ellis|first=Kate|access-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426201128/http://decoy.tvpassport.com/news/dangerous-planet-earth-cws-new-sci-fi-drama-100-premieres|archive-date=April 26, 2014}}</ref>) is an American [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] [[science fiction]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on [[The CW]], and ended on September 30, 2020. Developed by [[Jason Rothenberg (television producer)|Jason Rothenberg]], the series is loosely based on the [[Young adult fiction|young adult]] [[The 100 (novel series)|novel series of the same name]] by [[Kass Morgan]].<ref name="thefutoncritic">{{cite web|title=100, The (CW)|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/100/|access-date=May 10, 2013|website=[[The Futon Critic]]}}</ref> ''The 100'' follows post-apocalyptic survivors from a [[space habitat]], the ''Ark'', who return to Earth nearly a century after a devastating [[Nuclear holocaust|nuclear apocalypse]]. The first people sent to Earth are a group of juvenile delinquents who encounter descendants of survivors of the nuclear disaster on the ground.