When Syfy’s four-hour event, The Phantom [Sunday, 7/6], airs this weekend, there will be some who hate it because of its deviation from the way the character has always been done. A female Guran? Gasp! A worldwide multi-national information gathering force? Never! [The Phantom is the lone wolf of lone wolves!] A new, high-tech suit??? […]
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Syfy’s The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks Speaks!
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 […]
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: SCI FI and RHI Entertainment Agree To Do Three Four-Hour Movie Events: Riverworld, The Phantom and Alice!
The SCI FI Channel announced today that they have, along with long-time creative partners RHI Entertainment, begun work on a series of three four-hour movie events: Philip Jose Farmer’s renowned Riverworld; Lee Falk’s The Phantom [the first costumed avenger, created a full year before Superman], and Lewis Carroll’s Alice. Riverworld is a two-night, four-hour movie […]