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Remember when wrestling used to be filled with "Supermen"? Many of wrestling's craziest gimmicks have had a fantasy/scifi theme. From a Mortal Kombat rip-off to a man from the future, here are ten of wrestling's most way-out scifi characters. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5634117&view=rss&microfeed=true http://noneinc.com/Y3K/Back in 1999, the SciFi Channel (as it was called back then) did a series of funny viral videos for Y2K which purported to be messages from Y3K that our descendants had sent us from the future. You can find them on a seemingly forgotten part of the Syfy website. Some of the messages from the future include: More »
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With the SciFi Channel's rebranding as SyFy just two weeks away, the network is preparing to convince everyone that the name isn't that bad... even if they have to bribe New York City to do it. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5300094&view=rss&microfeed=true Those excited by the cliffhanger ending of UK time-travel series Primeval's third season may want to prepare themselves before reading the next sentence: ITV have announced that the show won't be returning for a fourth season on the network. More »
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We may have made fun of it at the time, but KFC's sponsorship of the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica was successful enough to convince a lot of you that Colonel Sanders wasn't as bad as you thought. Frakking mind-control. More »
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A faithful adaptation of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels would be nigh impossible, but the Syfy Channel's upcoming Riverworld miniseries plans to veer off into such uncharted waters that readers may not recognize it. More »
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Fans of time-travel drama Primeval are waiting to find out if British network ITV will order a fourth season of the show - which may end up premiering on the British SciFi Channel, because of the cost of production. More »
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Everyone probably occasionally (or often) thinks, You know what would make this Battlestar episode better? A lot of alcohol. So here, for your drinking — and viewing — pleasure, are a dozen science-fiction drinking games. More »
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The SciFi Channel have released a glimpse at how they're going to turn classic comic strip The Phantom into a sci-fi series, and their idea seems to be to... drop everything recognizable about the character? More »
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Who needed a name change? The SciFi Channel has just announced that the last three months were the tenth consecutive quarter of growth for women viewers, adding 10% to their number of women aged 18-34. More »
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The president of the newly renamed Syfy Channel took the time, in a conference call, to address our concerns about the change - and answer the question: what would Asimov think of the new name? More »
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The Syfy Channel announced more of its post-Battlestar Galactica lineup, and it includes a possible ongoing series based on Philip José Farmer's Riverworld novels. This could be amazing, if done even half right. More »
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You people never let me down. I suggested 28* different names for the SciFi Channel to use instead of "SyFy," and you managed to come up with even better ones. Here're some of my favorites. More »
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A German mini-series with American stars about the international danger when the moon gets pushed onto a collision course with Earth... Sound weird? If ABC has its way, it may be your favorite summer show. More »
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New stills from Battlestar Galactica's prequel give a closer look at the daughters of the men who tried to play god, and their fancy futuristic accessories. But can Caprica separate itself from RDM's BSG storyline? More »
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Neal McDonough, star of Sci Fi's Wizard Of Oz reboot mini-series Tin Man revealed that we've not seen the last of the kinky-gothy show. Talks are apparently happening to bring it back long-term. More »
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You guys are all Earth-centric humanists, and that's why the Sci Fi Channel has to school you in what it's like to see alien invasion and mutant menace from the other side. More »
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Can't wait to see Caprica, the prequel series showing the tawdry origins of the robotic Cylons? Now you won't have to: the show's pilot is going direct to DVD on April 26. More »
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Missing Eureka? Well, here's a chance to get an extra dose. The first issue of Boom! Studios' comic version hits stores this week, co-written by the show's creator. We've got an exclusive preview for you. More »
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SciFi Channel sent out screeners of tonight's Battlestar Galactica premiere to critics, minus the episode's most important scene. Needless to say, reviewers were not pleased. Has anti-spoiler mania gone too far? More »
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The new recipe for ratings success at SciFi Channel? Final episodes, apparently, as last Friday's season/series conclusions of both Stargate Atlantis and Sanctuary brought in higher-than-usual audiences. Why do we love to watch things end? More »
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You might have heard Sci Fi Wire spun off from the Sci Fi Channel, but what does it really mean for the longstanding news source? We asked the man in charge. More »
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America is, apparently, continuing to come around to the charms of a steady diet of Ghost Hunters, Amanda Tapping and Enterprise marathons as the Sci Fi Channel has its most successful year yet. More »
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Upcoming Battlestar Galactica TV movie The Plan may just repeat plots that we've already seen, but they'll do it in a way that makes you want to revisit the series, according to writer Jane Espenson. More »
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Is the fate of the SciFi Channel more Battlestar Galactica and less "another SciFi Channel Original Movie"? The channel's president, David Howe, is suggesting that the answer is somewhere in between... and that we should look to Amanda Tapping and the internet for the shape of things to come. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5103542&view=rss&microfeed=true Okay, so Jamie Bamber isn't about to completely spoil the end of the greatest show on television, but he's perfectly happy to tease when talking to the LA Times: "I'll tell you it does end and it ends well. I think it's fantastic. It's at its best. And they had us all crying at the read-through. I haven't seen it, how it turns up on screen. I think it's powerful stuff and completely character-driven. And contemplative. And very right. You can anticipate all you like!" Oh, don't worry, Jamie. We will. [LA Times] More »
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We'll get to discover the tangled family traumas behind the creation of the Cylons after all. The Sci Fi Channel finally gave the greenlight to Caprica, the 1950s-style Battlestar Galactica prequel. And the Sci Fi Channel hopes the show will get a broader audience than BSG, because it doesn't have spaceships. More »
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As the water levels rise and threaten to cover the Earth, the Catholic Church contracts a father-and-son salvage team to retrieve an ancient, world-saving artifact before it falls into the hands of an evil tycoon. It sounds like the setup for an awesomely bad adventure pulp, but sadly it’s just Lost City Raiders, the latest Sci Fi Original Movie to be inflicted on the television watching public. Sci Fi hopes you’ll tune in tomorrow night because it looks like a rousing adventure with an important message. Unfortunately, it’s neither. Mild spoilers ahead. More »
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The Sci Fi Channel is gearing up to produce another 11 hours of its fledgling spooky-warehouse series, Warehouse 13, in addition to the previously shot pilot. Which still begs the question: now that the pilot for the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, has been in the can for months, when will Sci Fi make a decision on greenlighting a Caprica series? The longer Sci Fi's radio silence on Caprica goes on, the less optimistic we're feeling. But on the plus side, Warehouse sounds intriguing, and it's just hired some seasoned genre veterans to write the show. More »
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I kind of love this new two-minute short film promoting the British Sci Fi Channel, featuring comedian Jared Christmas. It's a great example of heightened realism — obviously in real life, if you invented a teleportation system to help you get to work on time, you'd be rich and famous, and would no longer need to go to work. But by skipping over that fact, Christmas' bedraggled businessman character shows us a higher reality — a teleportation system would just end up having its own screw-ups and hang-ups. Awesome. [Guardian] More »
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After losing his love to Nathan Stark - who showed his gratitude by promptly dying on his wedding day - and losing his job, Eureka's Sheriff Carter was due a break. It looks like he's going to get one, too; the series is about to add a new love interest for Colin Ferguson's lead character, and she's smarter, more imaginative and just plain hotter than anyone else on the show. More »
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This week's Sanctuary followed up the premiere episode by murdering the skeletons of the Super Mario Bros. We're not sure who these crypt-soldiers are working for - our best guess would be Shredder - but the slaughter can be laid on the hands of Amanda Tapping's 157 year old (and spry) cryptozoologist and her mercenary daughter. This prompts us to ask the writers of the show: if you're going to steal, why not steal from the best? More »
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Sanctuary, the new series from Stargate producers Damian Kindler and Martin Wood premieres tonight at 9 p.m. the SciFi Channel. Starring Amanda Tapping, the show concerns itself with all the creatures you were afraid to see in your bedroom when you opened those cute little eyes of yours. We got a sneak peak at the two-hour premiere last night at the Paley Center, and after the jump, we hash out what you can expect from the two-hour premiere of the show, which is shot almost entirely without physical sets of any kind. Plus a clip of Amanda Tapping talking about the show. More »
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Last week, we told you that the Sci Fi Channel may be considering a name change to reflect its increasingly non-scifi programming. As if to further confirm its abandonment of the genre that (currently) bears its name, Sci Fi is adding three reality shows to its original programming slate. So, instead of new science fiction, we can look forward to cash-hunt game shows and even more paranormal investigation. More »
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If you've ever watched a TV show and thought, "Wow, they're making it up as they go along," there's probably a voice in the back of your head that reminds you that TV shows are scripted well in advance so that the actors can learn lines, prop- and costume-people can get prepared and directors can start blocking out shots. Unless you work on Eureka, where network directives forced the season finale to be rewritten from scratch during shooting. And that's after three entirely different earlier drafts of the episode were written, submitted for network approval and then dismissed in the week prior to shooting. What went wrong? More »
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Now that the first half of Eureka's third season has come to a close, it's time to look back at the sponsorship deal that put the show firmly on everyone's radar... for maybe the wrong reasons. Degree For Men may not only save us from unseemly sweat stains, but also from an artificial second sun going supernova. How did the SciFi Channel show's creators feel about having to sell out so publicly? More »
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Is the SciFi Channel about to call it a day and finally admit that it's giving up the sci fi label? That's the rumor going about these here internets after a fairly revealing question in what seemed like a rote online survey from the channel. Is the home of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica and, um, Extreme Championship Wrestling about to go one step Beyond? More »
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There are many, many reasons to wish that you'd worked on Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica: -the critical kudos, the security of being involved in one of television's best SF shows ever, the possibility of being in the same room as Grace Park at some point - but the wrap party's special limited edition yearbook may be the prettiest reason of them all. Is it too much to ask that this tribute to the cast and crew of the show gets some kind of modified general release when the series reaches its conclusion next year? More »
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What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica this week than by disillusioning fans? We'll do that by letting you know just how unoriginal the show's robotic bad guys really were. It's not enough that they looked like Darth Vader's cheaper, silver cousins - now we find out that they were originally intended to have been very similar to Doctor Who's favorite alien cyborgs, as well. More »
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News broke today that production company Benderspink - the people behind Charlie Jane favorite Kyle XY - have signed a new development deal with CBS, ending their previous partnership with Fox... and hopefully leaving all their Fox shows in development hell. There's one planned series in particular that we're hoping will sink without a trace: A TV spin-off of Ashton Kutcher vehicle The Butterfly Effect. More »
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