The SciFi Channel has announced its summer line-up of series. Included in the news is a returning favorite and several new series.
First up, the returning favorite. SciFi has announced that “Eureka” will return on July 10th at 10 p.m. EST. For those of you checking your calendars, yes, that is a Friday evening. The series, which has aired on Tuesday for its first two and a half seasons, will inherit the time slot held by “Battlestar Galactica.”
Taking over the old “Eureka” time slot is the new “Warehouse 13.” That series will debut on Tuesday, July 7 with a two-hour premiere episode.
Also returning this summer are “Ghost Hunters International” and the original “Ghost Hunters.”
And just to ensure Mike and the Bots don’t ever have to file for unemployment, SciFi also has a slate of new films for this SciFi Saturday features. They are:
“Malibu Shark Attack”, starring Peta Wilson – An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu and brings a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
“High Plains Invaders”, starring James Marsters – In the early 20th century, a small western mining town is invaded by giant insectoid alien creatures whose only mission is to mine uranium to fuel their spaceship – but they’ll kill anyone or anything that gets in their way. After they devastate the town, it’s up to a retired outlaw to lead a small group of survivors in fighting the “bugs.”
“Hellhounds”, directed by Rick Schroeder – After his bride is poisoned at their wedding, a young Greek warrior risks a journey to Hades to rescue her from the God of the Underworld and bring her back to life. What he doesn’t know is that the best friend who accompanies him is the man who killed her in a jealous rage.
“Sand Serpents”, starring Jason Gedrick – At an isolated Taliban outpost in Afghanistan, a small platoon of US soldiers faces a danger far greater than fanatical rebels – giant worm-like creatures that come up through the sand and devour everything in their path. Their inexperienced lieutenant has to lead them across the treacherous desert to a rendezvous point where an army helicopter will pick them up – but not all of them are going to make it.
BOYCOTT GHOST HUNTERS! It’s fake and not sci-fi!
I wish Sc-Fi would do away with those B movies on Saturday night. Don’t they there’s better sf on BBC America? In the coming weeks I’ll be watching Primeval and Torchwood.
This is ridiculous. Ghost Hunters is Crap, the same thing every week. As to the movies it is amazing that they are so popular. If you look at Directv info SCI-Fi moveies are almost always in the Top 5. This sucks as they could be making good Sci-Fi instead of schluck
Let’s see, except for Fridays, I think I can skyp SyFy this Symmer.
It’s been such a long time since Eureka had new episodes that I almost forgot about it!
SciFi programming.
Here’s what the SciFi stands for:
Such Crap It’s F****** Incredible.
I wouldn’t do away with the Saturday Night movies. I’d rename then “Saturday Night Sci Fi Matinees” and have all of them done tongue-in-cheeky style, akin to Robert Rodriguez’s PLANET TERROR. That would be a lotta fun.
I was hoping for the Second Season of Sarah Jane Adventures…
I actually like Trekscribblers idea.
Yay, Eureka! I’ve been missing that weird little town. Pity they’ve put it in such a poor timeslot, though. Oh, well. Off to program my DVR. 🙂
“And just to ensure Mike and the Bots don’t ever have to file for unemployment”
Damn, I was hoping the article was going to say SciFi was going to do more MST3K 🙂
Why did the Sci-Fi Channel think that it was a good idea to give “Eureka” a TEN MONTH mid-season break? Yes, that’s right. MID-season. I’m getting tired of this. First, it’s “Stargate Atlantis”, then it’s “Battlestar Galactica”. These impossibly long mid-season breaks have to stop.
I would like to address all of the programming that involves such topics as Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, Wrestling or as they say in the South Wraslin, and those SO-CALLED REALITY SERIES, the SciFi channel is not where they belong, in truth I haven’t a clue where they do belong but you are ruining the following of many of us who love SciFi and despise these shows. Get with it programmers of SciFi channel, if you don’t know the difference between idiots with flashlights scaring the crap out of themselves and mentally deficient people who wear idiotic tights and jump around with huge belts in a ring and call it SciFi then I think perhaps you need to be in the unemployment line, Now, I would also like to address the Star Trekathons, Twilight Zones, Outer Limits, and all of the antique shows that you foster on us when you cannot think of what would in actuality be “entertaining”, get a grip, we’re sooooo over those old shows, they weren’t even worth watching when they were on the tube in their day, what in the world makes you think they’re worth rehashing now? I won’t evengo so far as to call them SciFi programs, they are now and always were junk, time fillers, I just watch something else or read, you are loosing a huge following when you show this garbage. There are many “good” series that are worth watching without going to the “archives” and trying to resurrect the dead.
Time to wake up and smell what you’re shoveling, you have a good channel, if you want a SciFi Reality Channel, then get one, otherwise dump the crap in the toilet where it rightfully belongs and start being what you were intended to be a Science Fiction Channel and stop waiting for months and months to bring back decent shows, if you think it keeps us in suspense while waiting you’re sadly mistaken, it merely annoys us to the point that we go elsewhere.
Do what you were hired to do, decent programming that keeps your viewers happy and your ratings up.
I like Ghost Hunters and GHI. However, I don’t think wrestling belongs anywhere on any station on TV. It isn’t sci fi. It is theatrical crap. Anyone who watches wrestling on TV is a sub standard human. I like Eureka, but why so long between new seasons? I don’t understand Sci Fi channel’s programming at all and it is hard to keep up with the inconsistencys of timing.
not to defend the scifi channel, simply because i do not get the channel in canada we have “space” but just to say its people like the ones bitching why so long a wait.
1. tv shows take time to make, just because its 42 minutes to air it does not take 42 minutes to film. it can take a full week or more to film 1 episode. then there is post production. and dont forget the long bsg break was mainly because the writers strike. some shows had scripts pre-written so they used those up and after the many months rewrites where needed
2. most tv series these days like eureka, 4400, deadzone are short seasons compared to the old 26 episode seasons meaning 26 weeks inseason compared to 10-13 weeks reality series are not prefilmed they are realtime or atleast semi daily so they dont need no special effects or cgi and only need basic post production, on the spot
3 i agree wrestling should not be on scifi or as its now syfy the exects heard you and now changed the name to syfy to add more to the channel than science fiction. its all bout the $$$ not the fans.
V ,V ,V, V .V ,V ,V ,V ,V ,V ,V ,V , Enough is enough.