On Sunday, Syfy presents its four-hour event, The Phantom [Sunday, 7/6C]. Based on the 74-year old comic strip, this new adventure of The Ghost Who Walks also features the newest in a long line of Phantoms that dates back to 1536. While respectful of the character and the strip’s traditions, Syfy’s The Phantom makes some […]
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TELEVISION: In Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations – Inspired by Syfy’s Smash Hit Series Warehouse 13 – Returns for Second Season!
Alien body parts…powerful religious artifacts…UFO wreckage…what exactly is hidden behind heavily guarded doors? Inspired by Syfy’s hit series, Warehouse 13, NBC News award-winning journalist Lester Holt goes on a global expedition to uncover the truth behind the world’s top secret, mysterious warehouses where super-classified objects are kept – inside secret government warehouses! In Inside Secret […]
SyFy July 4th Marathon – Greatest American Hero
Look what’s happening to me, I can’t believe it myself, suddenly I’m on top of the world….. SyFy is really early announcing their 4th of July marathon, but why not, it’s one of my favorite shows – The Greatest American Hero will play 20 hours straight. If you can’t wait until the 4th, it’s now […]
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Warehouse 13 Creator Jack Kenny Delves Into Season 2!
Warehouse 13 came out of nowhere last summer to become Syfy’s most successful series ever. Built around the concept of a warehouse for storing artifacts with unusual, even supernatural, abilities – and the Secret Service agents who are assigned to bag, tag and store those items, the show’s mix of buddy show, weird procedural and […]
TELLEVISION: Syfy Beats USA to the Punch: Primetime Series Eureka and Warehouse 13 Characters Crossover This Season!
If you enjoy the kind of quirky summer fare that basic cable does so well, you may have seen USA’s promo spots that feature crossovers between characters from, say, Burn Notice and White Collar. Syfy is going a step further thus summer – Eurkea’s brilliant but insecure scientist, Douglas Fargo [Neil Grayston], and Warehouse 13’s […]
TELEVISION: Woo-Hoo! Syfy Developing Classic British Supernatural Buddy-Cop Series Randall and Hopkirk [Deceased] for U.S.!
Syfy has obtained the rights to one of my favorite TV series of all time – the classic British detective series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) from ITV Studios, Inc. – for development as a pilot for a one-hour scripted series to be produced by ITV Studios. Josh Bycel (Scrubs) and Jonathan Fener (American Dad) will write and executive […]
TELEVISION: Mongolian Death Worm is Best Syfy TV-Movie of the Year!
Mongolian Death Worm is exactly the kind of smart/smartass B-movie that Roger Corman used to make. Its director/co-writer, Steven R. Monroe, got his start in television and worked some classic shows – like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Babylon 5 and Freaks and Geeks – so he knows how to work for the small screen. Its stars – […]
HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Sean Patrick Flanery On The Joys of Mongolian Death Worm and More!
Yesterday, I had occasion to take part in a teleconference Q&A session with Sean Patrick Flanery [The Dead Zone, The Boondock Saints I & II] in support of Syfy’s latest Saturday night B-movie, Mongolian Death Worm [9/8C]. Flanery made it clear that he was very enthusiastic about the movie pretty much from the get-go – […]
Beware The Mongolian Death Worm, iEEEEEE!!!!!
SyFy’s latest Saturday cheesefest, Mongolian Death Warm Premieres this weekend. In this one Treasure hunter Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints, Young Indiana Jones) and U.N. aide worker Victoria Pratt (Day Break) find themselves battling local bandits while searching for Genghis Khan’s secret tomb in central Mongolia. The crypt is guarded by man-eating Mongolian death […]
TELEVISION: Syfy Announces Airdate for Four-Hour Phantom Event!
Syfy’s re-working/updating of Lee Falk’s comics hero The Phantom is scheduled to air on Sunday, June 20, 2010, beginning at 7/6C. The four-hour epic takes more than a few liberties with the traditional Ghost Who Walks’ saga – including giving him a female advisor – though she is still named Guran – and more modern […]
TELEVISION: Haven – Syfy’s Excursion into Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid – Is In Production!
Syfy’s new series, Haven may have sprung from the mind of Stephen King, but its premiere episode [due to run at 9/8C, July 9, 2010] is being shepherded to the small screen by Adam Kane [The Mentalist, Heroes, Pushing Daisies]. Details from the press release follow the jump.