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Syfy Announces Fall Schedule

Syfy Announces Fall Schedule

August 24, 2011 By Mike Hickerson 26 Comments

Curious to know when the seasons end for Eureka, Warehouse 13, Alphas and Haven?  Or do you want to see what Syfy has planned for the fall?  The network announced their plans yesterday.

We’ve got the full press release below.

SYFY’S FALL PROGRAMMING FEATURES PREMIERE OF PARANORMAL WITNESS

GHOST HUNTERS HALLOWEEN LIVE AND 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

RETURN OF FACT OR FAKED: PARANORMAL FILES, SANCTUARY AND SCARE TACTICS

4-HOUR MOVIE EVENT NEVERLAND STARRING RHYS IFANS, ANNA FRIEL AND OSCAR NOMINEE KEIRA KNIGHTLEY AS TINKER BELL

NEW YORK – August 23, 2011 – Syfy will take the chill out of the air with a robust fall programming lineup featuring the series premiere of Paranormal Witness, the annual spook-a-thon 31 Days of Halloween culminating with Ghost Hunters Halloween Live telecast, and the 4-hour movie event Neverland, an original prequel to Peter Pan featuring Oscar nominee Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.

Syfy’s fall primetime schedule will also include the return of hit series Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, Sanctuary, Scare Tactics, and the Saturday Original Movie Zombie Apocalypse, as well as the season finales of the hit scripted series Eureka, Alphas, Haven and Warehouse 13.

Highlights of Syfy 2011 Fall Programming (All Times ET/PT)

SEPTEMBER

PARANORMAL WITNESS (NEW ORIGINAL SERIES)

Wednesday, September 7 at 10PM – Paranormal Witness teams with 9PM lead-in Ghost Hunters to anchor the fall’s Wednesday prime paranormal programming block. This tense, filmic and high-octane drama-documentary series brings to life the real stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences that defy explanation. Using a mixture of intimate first-hand testimony, actual home video and gritty realistic drama, Paranormal Witness transports viewers into a world turned upside-down by extraordinary, terrifying and sometimes life-threatening paranormal events.

The season premiere episode showcases two stories with spine-tingling, first-person narration. The episode begins with “Emily the Imaginary Friend,” a story about a young Baltimore family whose life is turned to chaos when they move into a new home and their 5-year-old daughter makes friends with an invisible girl named Emily. At first, Emily appears as a harmless playmate. Then, signs of mischievous behavior and household items moving or breaking start to occur in the house. The parents initially assume this could be uncharacteristically naughty behavior from their daughter, until the mischief turns increasingly more sinister and threatening towards the family members. The second story is “The Lost Girl,” where a mother and daughter relive an unexplainable encounter along a rural dirt road in Florida with a mysterious girl who carries a shocking secret.

SCRIPTED SERIES SEASON FINALES

Eureka Season 4.5 finale — Monday, September 19, 8-9PM
Alphas Season One finale — Monday, September 26, 10-11PM
Haven Season Two finale — Friday, September 30, 10-11PM
Warehouse 13 Season Three two-hour finale — Monday, October 3, 9-11PM

To accompany the season finales, Syfy will air the following marathons:

Alphas Season One — Monday. September 26, 11:30AM-10PM
Haven Season Two — Friday, September 30, 8AM-6PM
Warehouse 13 Season Three — Monday, October 3, 11AM-9PM
OCTOBER

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN and GHOST HUNTERS HALLOWEEN LIVE

Saturday, October 1, through Monday, October 31 — 31 Days of Halloween will unleash nearly 600 hours of bloodcurdling programming with original series, Saturday Original Movies and theatricals as well as ghoulish celebrations on Chiller and Syfy.com.

The month-long fright fest culminates with the annual six-hour Ghost Hunters Halloween Live telecast on Monday, October 31 at 7PM (ET/PT).

This year Syfy will partner with NYC & Company, New York City’s official tourism, marketing and partnership organization for 31 Days of HalloweeNYC. The joint venture will bring the popular 31 Days of Halloween to the streets of New York City.

SANCTUARY (SEASON 4 PREMIERE)

Friday, October 7 at 10PM (ET/PT) — The 13 all-new episodes of Season 4 change everything. With the arrival of the Hollow Earth refugees, the balance between Abnormals and humans is severely upset. In order to keep the peace, Magnus and team must throw out the rulebook. But forging their own way means they’re not just dodging dangerous Abnormals anymore, now they’ve got world governments and new villains nipping at their heels. Sanctuary stars Amanda Tapping as the brilliant Dr. Helen Magnus, Robin Dunne as forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman, Agam Darshi as Kate Freelander, Ryan Robbins as Henry Foss and Christopher Heyerdahl as John Druitt. 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 four of the series is executive produced by Damian Kindler, Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood, Keith Beedie and Tricon Films.

SCARE TACTICS (SEASON 4.5)

Monday, October 10 at 9 pm (ET/PT) — Hosted and executive produced by actor/comedian Tracy Morgan, Scare Tactics is a hidden camera show with a sci-fi twist. The show conspires with friends and family members to lure those close to them into outrageous scenarios. Unsuspecting victims find themselves in shocking situations from alien abductions to brushes with the living dead, taking advantage of the age-old practice of friends playing practical jokes on each other. In the premiere episode, “Tracy the Tour Guide,” Tracy Morgan is on hand when one of his ancestors comes back to life in the form of a bloodthirsty mummy.

FACT OR FAKED: PARANORMAL FILES (SEASON 2.5)

Wednesday, October 19 at 10 pm (ET/PT) – Fact or Faked continues its red hot second season with six all-new episodes featuring former FBI agent Ben Hansen, lead scientist Bill Murphy, journalist Jael de Pardo, tech specialist Devin Marble, stunt expert Austin Porter and photographer Lanisha Cole. To date, new episodes this year have averaged more than 1.5 million viewers, up 57% from its first season.

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files uncovers the truth behind supernatural and unexplained occurrences that have been caught on camera. In each episode, the team searches for the most intriguing images, videos and unnatural phenomenon found online and around the world. After selecting the most compelling cases, they head into the field, attempting to recreate the video, carrying out key experiments and questioning eyewitnesses. The team investigates all the clues and evidence with the most advanced techniques and tools at their disposal, and their objective is to answer the question, “Is this real?”

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (SATURDAY ORIGINAL MOVIE)

Saturday, October 29 at 9PM (ET/PT) — Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina. Stars Ving Rhames. A production of The Asylum.

DECEMBER

NEVERLAND (ORIGINAL 4-HOUR MOVIE EVENT)
Sunday, December 4 at 9PM & Monday, December 5 at 9PM (ET/PT) — Neverland, an original prequel to author J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan, sweeps in time from the turbulent seas of the pirates of the Caribbean and the back alleys of Dickensian London to a world of pure imagination. The film stars Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man) as James Hook, Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell, Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Oscar nominee Bob Hoskins as Smee (who previously played the character in Steven Spielberg’s feature Hook), Raoul Trujillo (Tin Man) and Charlie Rowe (Pirate Radio) as one of literature’s most cherished characters, Peter Pan. Neverland is produced by Dublin-based Parallel Films on behalf of MNG Films, in association with Syfy and Sky Movies HD, and will be distributed by RHI Entertainment.

Filed Under: TV News Tagged With: Sanctuary, Syfy Channel

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Comments

  1. Jarik says

    August 24, 2011 at 7:27 am

    Not watching. Moving on.

    Reply
  2. musicmole says

    August 24, 2011 at 7:54 am

    Crap!!!

    Reply
  3. Mike H says

    August 24, 2011 at 7:57 am

    So after the Summer shows end, the ONLY scripted show on Syfy, a SCIENCE FICTION NETWORK is Sanctuary? Does ANYONE see how sad that is? Sanctuary is a GREAT show. I love it, but the ONLY SCRIPTED SHOW???? I’m sad, pissed, & perplexed all at the same time.

    Reply
  4. Jass P says

    August 24, 2011 at 8:34 am

    Pretty underwhelming.

    Reply
  5. NotMe says

    August 24, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Wait, isn’t wrastlin’ scripted?

    Boo-yah!!!

    Reply
  6. Skiznot says

    August 24, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Syfy sucks. Downgraded my cable so they don’t have to dirty up my channel line up.

    Reply
  7. Boter says

    August 24, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    I’ve stepped in better things at the dog park…Neverland – Meh – “Oscar nominee Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell”. Yeah voice, because she didn’t want her face associated with yet another horrible syfy original movie. And yes it is very sad the only scripted scifi tale on the syfy channel is sanctuary. And yet Eureka is getting the boot due to cost?? I think your accountants suck.

    Thank god Star trek is on netflix and I can get the other scripted shows on demand. This has allowed me to stop watching your train wreck of a network and I can even fast forward through the stupid commercials.

    Here’s a hint; advertising the show I went out of my way to put on my TV (e.g. I’m already willing to watch) does not make me want to watch it more.

    Reply
  8. startrekmom says

    August 24, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    summer is cable watching, the rest of the year – major networks, it’s sad because the best shows are usually on cable, but other than Sanctuary,there isn’t much to speak of. Syfy should have changed their name to scifidont

    Reply
  9. Mich67 says

    August 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Eureka and Haven are the only shows I watch…and with them wrapping up(Eureka permanently) I guess I wont be viewing SyFy for a while…Syfy has been making a lot of stupid moves with it’s programming over the last few years anyway…other networks have been moving in on the SciFi territory and doing a better job.

    Reply
  10. babylonlurker says

    August 25, 2011 at 4:54 am

    Move Along ! Move Along . . .
    Nothing to see here

    Reply
  11. Anachronite says

    August 25, 2011 at 8:36 am

    LOL Wrestling, Ghost Hunters, Legend Quest, Fake or Faked, and all of the other so-called reality shows on this channel are 100% scripted. How stupid are the idiots watching these shows? SYFY CHANNEL YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!! Bring Back Science Fiction!!!!!

    Reply
    • Chris Momsen says

      August 6, 2012 at 9:59 am

      Syfy “imagine greater”. What a laugh. No-one at this channel knows what scifi is. Hey, I got an idea, send someone to comic-con to get some clue in what scifi is. two or three years ago i watched syfyatleast 4 nights a week. Now,i dont even remember when the last time it was tuned to that channel!FIRE the lot of them and start over!!!!

      Reply
  12. Valentine says

    August 25, 2011 at 8:56 am

    Come on everyone, this is good news! With nothing to watch on SyFy, we’ll all have have plenty of room on our DVRs! 🙂

    Reply
    • bocoe says

      August 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm

      Yeaaaaaa!! I agree!!

      Reply
  13. bocoe says

    August 26, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    What happened to Merlin?

    Reply
  14. Sam says

    August 27, 2011 at 8:17 am

    No Merlin? WTF! Only Sanctuary worth my time & I can catch that online, so I guess I can remove SyFy from my DVR listings.

    Reply
    • Summer Brooks says

      August 28, 2011 at 10:13 pm

      My guess is that since it’ll be airing on BBC in the fall, it may not start airing on Syfy until winter or spring.
      http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2011/07/18/syfy-picks-up-merlin-season-4/

      Syfy did commit to the 4th season, but not as yet to the 5th season that BBC has committed to. If they change their minds on S4, that’s not gonna look good.

      Reply
      • Sam says

        August 29, 2011 at 5:56 am

        I remembered our article saying that SyFy had picked it up but when I didn’t see it in the fall lineup I got all paranoid. My fear and trepidation is well placed considering we are talking about SyFy. I hope you are correct about them waiting until sometime after the BBC release. If that is true then I will catch it on BBC and forego watching it on SyFy after it has been further sliced & diced to get more commercials added in.

        Reply
  15. oldandintheway says

    August 28, 2011 at 8:41 am

    Does ANYONE watch The “GHOST HUNTER” shows? I don’t, and , frankly i can’t believe and ( intelligent) people do. So, ergo, the only reason these shows are aired is to please the advertising dept at SYFY??

    Reply
  16. H.F.Washington says

    September 5, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    Forgot the name of the show with the girl ghost, werewolf, and vampire, where is that show? Been waiting all summer for its return.

    Reply
    • Summer Brooks says

      September 6, 2011 at 3:39 am

      Being Human. I’m waiting on that one, too.

      Reply
  17. ribbie149 says

    September 10, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    This is a pretty sad collection of programs from a network that I had come to depend upon for science fiction programming. Where is “Being Human?” I will not watch their stupid pseudo-reality shows such as “Ghost Hunters”. That stuff is beyond dogcrap. When is this network going to understand that people who watch and read science fiction are pretty intelligent and WILL NOT WATCH THE KIND OF GARBAGE THAT THEY ARE PUTTING OUT THIS FALL?

    Reply
  18. VyseN1 says

    September 11, 2011 at 5:34 am

    Wow, after the season finale of Warehouse 13, I will be literally watching nothing on SyFy.

    Reply
  19. LeeAnn says

    October 1, 2011 at 6:47 am

    Is there going to be a re-run of Haven’s season finale’.Because for some reason my DVR didn’t record it as it was setup to do. I am really hopeing that you say it will show again cuz I really want to see how the season ended. Thank you so much, because I watch this program without fail and wait for the next season to start with anticipationas I did for this last season to begin this year.

    Reply
  20. Summer Brooks says

    October 1, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Alas, it looks like last night’s 2 airings are all there will be.

    Good news, Haven has already been picked up for a 3rd season. I saw that confirmed on Twitter last night, while cast members were responding to messages about the finale (which they watched while also hanging out with Colin Ferguson!)

    I would check Hulu today or over the next couple days, or maybe iTunes, to see if it would be available there for a while.

    Reply
  21. Sam says

    October 2, 2011 at 6:24 am

    Haven episodes available online at Hulu Plus or SyFy.com.

    Reply

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