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*****NBC Universal Press Release*****
SCI FI CHANNEL CLOSES MAJOR DEAL WITH CBS PARAMOUNT TO ACQUIRE RIGHTS FOR TELEFILMS AND SERIES INCLUDING STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE
NEW YORK, NY-August 2, 2006— SCI FI Channel has acquired the rights to multiple made-for-television movies and series from CBS Paramount Domestic Television, including Star Trek: Enterprise, the Star Trek prequel series starring Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock, it was announced today by Thomas Vitale, SVP, Programming and Original Movies, SCI FI Channel. The deal also includes exclusive cable rights to the classic series The Twilight Zone; the series Tales from the Darkside; several Stephen King miniseries; made-for-TV movies, including Primal Force and Trilogy of Terror II; and series such as Haunted, Jake 2.0 and last fall’s Threshold.
“We are delighted to be able to deliver so many successful programs to our audience,” said Mr. Vitale in making the announcement. “Our deal with CBS Paramount enables us to bring a great deal of fresh and extremely popular genre programming to our schedule.”
Enterprise, which ran for four seasons between 2001-2005 on UPN, will premiere in early fall on the SCI FI Channel. The popular anthology series, The Twilight Zone, created by Rod Serling, was renewed and will continue its exclusive run on the Channel. Tales from the Darkside, the syndicated horror with a twist series, will premiere later this year.
Three highly acclaimed miniseries, including two from Stephen King, will also premiere exclusively this fall. Invaders stars Scott Bakula as a man who discovers an alien conspiracy and attempts to foil their plot by warning the earth of imminent danger. The Langoliers, originally one of four short stories in the Stephen King novel Four Past Midnight, stars Dean Stockwell and Patricia Wettig as passengers on a cross-country flight who awake to find that they and a small
group of others are the only people left on earth. Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Stand, starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald, takes place in a world decimated by a man-made plague, where a battle of epic proportions ensues between the survivors,.
The deal also includes five made-for-television movies. Inferno, directed by Dusty Nelson, stars Jeff Fahey and Janet Gunn; Lost in the Bermuda Triangle stars Tom Verica and Charlotte d’Amboise; Primal Force features Ron Perlman as a rescuer trying to reach plane crash victims trapped on an island with mutant baboons; Sightings: Heartland Ghost, with Beau Bridges and Nia Long, revolves around the crew of a reality TV show about the paranormal, who visit a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted; and Trilogy of Terror II, which begins where the first trilogy left off, featuring three spooky stories and starring Lysette Anthony.
Additionally, eight television series will premiere exclusively during the 2006-07 season.
But where is the confirmation of Dr Who’s series 2 being on in October?!?
Good to see SciFi pick up several cancelled shows. Woopdedoo. Great..how about continuing Threshold to it’s conclusion?
Don’t make it sound like bad news. The Sci-Fi Channel picking up these shows brings them one step closer to coming back.
Sorry, gotta make a correction: C. Thomas Howell did *not* play Julian Luna on “Kindred” — the late Mark Frankel did. Howell plays a police detective investigating Luna, whom he thinks is just a mobster.
I digg this; do you?
http://digg.com/television/Sci_FI_aqquires_several_series_from_CBS_including_Star_Trek_Enterprise
I’m so happy to see that Kindred is going to be aired.
I absolutely loved that show. So much that not only did I record the episodes Back In The Day…I still have the tapes. I’ll be buying a new set of tapes and record the show again. This time set on SP.
(Don’t laugh. I taped Firefly and kept the tapes till I got the DVDs. I still have the complete Twin Peaks, commercials and all.)
: )
Haven’t The Langoliers and The Stand already been aired on the Sci-Fi Channel? Did they buy the rights twice?
special unit II should be on Sci-Fi…..and I’ll admit it…I am taken by the lovely,talented actress Alexondra Lee…boots and all…aka SHE’S HOT! ( boots & all )
Alenondra Lee….S.U.2 = great show!
SHE’D BE PREFECT FOR THE KNIGHTRIDER MOVIE AS
Dr.Bonnie Barstow
Hello SCI-FI,
You guys are the best… How about investing little money to finish the “Threshold Series” since NBC & UPN are Cheap ass network’s that start a good series on then leave them on-finished… I guess if you have to you can compare NBC & UPN like the Democrats… Ha.Ha.Ha.
Yours truly.
I agree with you guys….
if the cast needs cinematic sex appeal for the babe….
Alexondra lee wold fit the boots/lab coat just fine
A LOGICAL CHOICE FOR AN ACTRESS TO FT INTO THAT ROLE
THO Ms. McPherson is quite a good sight even still,today.
I am sure the body of work done by the very lovely Ms. Alexondra lee is ample to the task,along with her talent & assetts,beauty….
I watched the Wolf Lake series that never ended–Will UPN be showing all the shows listed in their entirety, or just that which was shown on the other channels? I would like to rewatch, but not to have them end randomly with out closure! If yes, then does anyone know how to get any of these shows in their entirety?
SAVE TAPS……GHOST HUNTERS…. FROM CANCELLATION….!
write to sci-fi…demand they keep it on.