Good news for folks living in the US who have heard us talk about Charlie Jade over the years, but never got a chance to see the entire series because it was pulled from the Scifi/Syfy schedule after just a few episodes.
Charlie Jade is now available on Hulu!
Show synopsis on Hulu:
Charlie Jade is a character-oriented, live-action, sci-fi television series. The series is created by Robert Wertheimer (Gemini winning series producer of Due South And Robocop: the Series) and Christopher Roland, produced by Fred Fuchs (The Godfather III, Bram Stokers Dracula, The Rainmaker, Virgin Suicides) and written by best-selling novelist Robert J Sawyer (winner of the 1995 Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americas Nebula Award for Best Novel).
From the comments, it looks like it’s been available for about 2-3 weeks or so, and as usual, streaming visitors from outside the US are blocked.
There is a Charlie Jade DVD set available at Amazon UK, scouted out and approved by Kevin Bachelder of Tuning Into Scifi Television (he also did the Charlie Jade Verse podcast with Richard Porter and myself).
Check out the show on Hulu, then go over and check out Robert Wertheimer’s creator commentaries and particularly Richard’s episode synopses at Charlie Jade Verse, and enjoy once more a little scifi noir that was underappreciated in it’s time.
shout out for Kevin for finding out about the show being on Hulu while he was attending Dragon*Con!
Sweet! I had a heck of a time remembering to record and watch this when SciFi decided to air it at 3 in the morning. I’ll have to go back and rewatch it now to make sure I get to see everything. And maybe actually follow the entire plot this time around. 🙂
I guess I can’t speak for anyone else, but this is actually one of my least favorite shows that I’ve ever watched. It was too slow, too boring, and I didn’t really care about what was happening. It made “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” look super exciting by comparison.
Oh come on! This show is easily better than the “Flash Gordon” or “Painkiller Jane” Syfy series, and a few others I could dig up. I will say this: I’ve noticed that the show seems to appeal more to fans of mysteries than action-scifi, and I can understand why.
full disclosure: Robert Wertheimer is a friend, but I do love the show, too.