The events in the mini-series take place Monday, 7 June 2004 through Friday, 11 June 2004. The show premiered on the SciFi Channel (USA) on Monday, 7 June 2004 and consecutive episodes were shown each night through Friday, 11 June 2004 roughly following a real-time schedule. The fourth episode (with events ending at or slightly past 3.55am according to the script) was actually first shown at 9.00pm on Thursday, 10 June 2004, so the series did get ahead a bit. Additional date-specific product placements (for instance, a poster for La batalla de Riddick (2004), playing in theaters at the time, as seen on a slow pan at the university outside Neumeyer's office) and current popular culture references (for example, a reference to the popular show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), airing at the time on network TV) in conversation help reinforce this setup.
Barbara Tyson plays a character who "cheats" death but ultimately dies soon after in an accident. Four years prior, she played a main character's mother in Destino final (2000), a film with the identical premise.
Timothy Hutton and Kari Matchett, who play a couple here, would later star together as ex-husband and ex-wife in four episodes of the TV series Leverage.
The DVD release of the mini series contains brief female nudity in the fourth episode "Day Four". During a visit to the Buck Naked, the camera pans across the stage (where JT is supposed to be killed), revealing a topless dancer. Breasts are briefly shown. The trailer for the DVD release contains a scene not shown in either the broadcasted version or the DVD release, a love scene between JT and Claudia.