SyFy has given the green light to a fourth season of “Sanctuary.”
Here’s details from the SyFy press release.
SYFY RENEWS SANCTUARY FOR SEASON FOURNEW YORK – January 18, 2011 – Syfy has greenlit production on a fourth season of Sanctuary, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President, Original Programming, Syfy & Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. Sanctuary season 4 is slated to commence production on a 13-episode season in spring 2011 in Vancouver, BC with an eye towards a fall 2011 premiere on Syfy.
Sanctuary follows brilliant scientist Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping) and her team, who use their unique combination of instinct, medicine and cutting-edge science to find and aid a clandestine population of beings that the world refuses to believe exists. The series also stars Robin Dunne as forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, Agam Darshi as the quick-witted Kate Freelander, Ryan Robbins as tech wiz Henry Foss and Christopher Heyerdahl as the sinister John Druitt.
One of television’s most groundbreaking series, shooting almost entirely on green screen, Sanctuary was the first television series in North America to use the RED camera exclusively. Its stunning visual effects were nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award.
Created by Damian Kindler (Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis), Sanctuary is produced in association with Syfy and is distributed by Tricon Films and Television. Season three of the series is executive produced by Damian Kindler, Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood, Keith Beedie and Tricon Films.
At the beginning of this season I wouldn’t have cared. The last 6 episodes sat on the DVR forever. We didn’t watch them until all our other shows went away for the holidays.
After watching those 6 episodes I am very happy to see this news. The show really picked up in the second half of the season.
I think you mean the first half of the season. The second half won’t air until the spring.
But, anyway, this is great news. So far, Season 3 is my favorite season of the series. I hope that continues into Season 4 as well.
This shows you how ****** Up SYFY is. Here is another creature of the week show that is good but no where near great and it gets renewed but SGU gets the shaft. I stopped caring about this show although I agree it has gotten better and I am hoping I can change my mind if it keeps going but will not cry if it leaves either at this point in time.
I have always been a tremendous fan of this show. This is awesome news and was posted to my Facebook feed.
@Kyle: My bad. There’s so much time between showings that it’s hard to keep track of. Maybe the slump I was thinking of was actually the second half of the *prior* season.
@K9: Agreed. Sanctuary is enjoyable but it’s no SGU.