Story submitted by: Julio Aldana (SoSF Guest Reporter)
In a press release the SCI FI Channel has stated that in order to increase their presence and influence on the Web, they will be issuing some fully immersive, multi-platform programming only available from their SCI FI Pulse broadband channel.
SCI FI Pulse launched back in April 2006 and has seen a steady climb in popularity boasting of over 34 million streams since then.
The best news about this new Net push by SCI FI is the announcement that “Farscape” is returning as a Web Series with all new webisodes!
FARSCAPE WEB SERIES
It’s the return everyone’s been frelling waiting for! SCIFI.COM has ordered a 10-part webisode series based on the multi-award-winning Farscape, the fan and critical darling that has been widely recognized as one of the greatest sci-fi series in television history. Executive produced by Brian Henson and Robert Halmi, Jr., and produced by The Jim Henson Company, in association with RHI Entertainment, the series will revive and expand the beloved “Farscape” universe.
Some other Web programming from SCI FI will be the following:
SCI FI TECH
This hosted show is a companion to SCIFI.COM’s successful technology blog, the ultimate online destination for updates and reviews on all the hottest new gadgets. SCI FI Tech, a live-action, weekly series will capture the edgy, unique tone of the blog and take it to the next level as the show’s host tests these new gadgets in real-life and often extreme scenarios. SCI FI Tech is produced by Peacock Productions.
INVENT THIS!
In this informative yet lighthearted weekly original series, SCIFI.COM will set out to find the world’s quirkiest inventions and reveal the secrets behind what brings these wacky contraptions to life. Invent This will also get into the minds of each of the brilliant and eccentric inventors behind each creation, and gets to the bottom of what makes them tick as well. The series is produced by Peacock Productions.
About SCI FI:
SCIFI.COM is the world’s largest sci-fi entertainment Web site with more than 3 million unique visitors each month. Its award-winning original content ranges from a renowned technology blog and a daily entertainment news service to the SCI FI Pulse broadband network, which serves millions of streams of original video each month. Its tie-ins to SCI FI Channel shows include the hit webisode series Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, which has been seen nearly 7 million times, and the first ever TV network podcast.
SCI FI Channel is a television network where “what if” is what’s on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com ) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 89 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies.
I think I’m going to faint. No… I’m going to jump up and down!!!
*GIRLIE SQUEAL!!!!*
I HOPE this Web series will be avaliable to everyone (Worldwide) and not just the U.S. crowd (Remember the Battlestar Galactica webseries?)
Wonder how many of the cast they can get together for this? And will it before or after the peacekeeper wars?
Wahoo! Take Pilot’s head out of that box!
I have to admit, I’ve never seen a single episode of Farscape but have always heard it was great. Where does it fall in comparison to, say, Firefly, BSG or Trek (any of them)?
Right up there in that Top 5 with Trek, BSG, Firefly & The 4400 dingo. Farscape is truly one of the best SF series ever broadcast on TV.
SCI FI didn’t go into detail however, about which form this new online Farscape would take, live-action, animation, Henson puppets only or, as in the actual TV series with Browder and Black, real live-action/Henson’s puppet magic and CGI. I am hoping for the latter as in the original series. Browder and Black are both free now that the weekly grind of pumping out SG-1 shows is over. Although, currently Browder and Black are shooting the 2nd Stargate DVD film and is busy on the new SCI FI miniseries “Going Homer.” But, wouldn’t it be nice to have them back on that frelling ship with its motely crew?
I’ll, of course, second what Sam said!
If you’re thinking about giving Farscape a try you might want to first listen to this brief (10 minute) newbie friendly introduction podcast that we created at ‘The ScapeCast’…
http://www.scapecast.org/forum/index.php?topic=388.0
There are even some character photos at that link to help out. 😉
yeps yeps what sam said!! this is wicked. That one guy probally wont come back because he’s on that other show?
maybe he will. I hope that blue lady comes back, me and dad met her once. she was really nice.
Darcy
For me, it is personally the best sci-fi show that has come out in the last 20 years. I can’t help but watch it in its entirety every few months.
As one of the people involved with bringing about The Peacekeeper Wars (and I’m eternally grateful to TPTB for bringing a conclusion to that storyline) I can’t frelling wait to see this!
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I hope it is available for everyone, not only for the US customers.