To celebrate (if that’s the right word) the upcoming premiere of Syfy’s Sharknado 2: The Second One, the network has planned Sharknado Week. Between July 26th and August 2nd, Syfy will unleash three, count ‘em, three original movies featuring the world’s most perfect predator – and a light-hearted look at the fifteen best shark movie […]
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Syfy IS Spartacus!
Syfy has acquired the U.S. basic cable rights to all thirty-nine episodes of Starz Entertainment’s Spartacus. The series will premiere on Syfy on Thursday, June 26th (10/9C) – following the second season premiere of Defiance (8/7C) and series premiere of Dominion (9/8C) – and it will be interesting to see how the very R-rated series […]
Busy Syfy Developing Tons of Cool Novels, Graphic Novels for TV–Plus, Sharknado 3!
Syfy has been snatching up all kinds of cool stuff to adapt for television: Frank Miller’s sci-fi miniseries, Ronin; Jonathan Hickman’s military SF/time travel graphic novel, Pax Roman; Robert Kirkman’s clone/conspiracy thriller, Clone; and Lev Grossman’s fantasy novels series, The Magicians. Also, the previously mentioned Letter 44. Plus (under the category of retread/WHY?) Sharknado 3. […]
Syfy Greenlights Space Bounty Hunter Series From Lost Girl Creator!
Killjoys, a 10-episode series built around three fun-loving interstellar bounty hunters, has been greenlit by Syfy to premiere in 2015. The series was created by Michelle Lovretta (Lost Girl) and is produced by Temple Street Productions (Orphan Black). With that pedigree it should be quite a ride. For further details, follow the jump to the press […]
Syfy Adapting Oni Press Sci-Fi Thriller Letter 44!
Combine the politics of a new President of the United States with the possibility of a threat from outer space, and you have the premise of Oni Press’ critically acclaimed Letter 44 – a premise, and a hit comics series that has found a potential television home. Letter 44 is being developed as a series […]
Tricia Helfer to Star in Syfy’s Ascension!
Syfy’s event series Ascension has signed Tricia Helfer to star the ‘not-so-secret power broker aboard the titular starship. As wife of the ship’s Captain, Viondra Denniger, her character is described as ‘beautiful, manipulative and dangerous.’ Ascension takes place aboard the starship nearly fifty years into its century-long journey to populate a new world. As the […]
Earlier Start For Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge!
Syfy Bumps Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge up an hour to 9/8C beginning April 29th with an especially difficult challenge. See press release following the jump for details.
Face Off Done in April, Back in July!
The season six finale of Syfy’s makeup effects competition series Face Off may be on April 27th (9/8C), but fear not! Season seven is but a paltry three months away – with a new judge, Academy Award®-winning makeup artist Lois Burwell (Lincoln, Braveheart). The challenge for the season six finale is to create a pair […]
Warehouse 13 Roars Out of the Gate For Final Season!
When Warehouse 13 (Syfy, Mondays, 9/8C) returns tonight, it marks the beginning of the end for what has been Syfy’s highest-rated show for much of the last four seasons. When the show concluded last season, Artie, Myka, Pete and Steve had been expelled from the Warehouse and Claudia was left to try to stop Paracelsus. […]
Syfy Gives Straight-To-Series Order for The Expanse!
Syfy has ordered space opera The Expanse straight to series. The series follows “the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective who and a rogue ship’s captain in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.’ The Expanse is based on a bestselling book series […]
Linda Hamilton To Recur on Defiance!
Fan favorite Linda Hamilton is joining Syfy’s Defiance (Thursdays, 8/7C) in a key recurring role as Pilar McCawley. Wife to Rafe McCawley and mother of their three children, Pilar is returning home after several years in a mental institution. Her motive for returning is unclear. Defiance returns Thursday, June 19th. For more details, check out […]