This week sees the launch of The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Virgin 1. When the show launched in the US earlier this year, it achieved a ratings smash of over 18m viewers, giving its network Fox the strongest debut on any US network this season-to-date, beating 24’s performance in the same slot last year and trouncing the recently launched Bionic Woman on NBC by over 4 million viewers!

In fact the Sarah Connor Chronicles was the biggest drama to launch on Fox in three years, so needless to say I am expecting great things from this show.

The series begins a year after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor (Thomas Dekker and Lena Headey) hiding from the government and preparing for a possible future war against the rise of the machines.

After two years of in the same place Sarah decides that she and John need to move on, however in doing this she makes them known to FBI Agent James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) and Skynet’s army of Terminators including Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) a reprogrammed Terminator sent to protect John.

Cameron makes contact and inform the pair that Judgment Day was not stopped as they believed, but will now take place in 2011. John convinces Sarah fight so Cameron takes them to a time machine the resistance has set up to take them to the year Skynet was created 2007.

You can catch the show’s first episode this Thursday (the 21st February) at 10PM on Virgin 1. I have to say it….Hasta la vista, I’ll Be back right after the show airs to let you know what I thought.