Guess they’ve got to have something to replace Eureka….
SyFy has announced three new series that will begin airing on the network next year. Here’s details from the press release.
SYFY ANNOUNCES NEW SCRIPTED PROJECTS FROM UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS, FOX TELEVISION STUDIOS AND CBS TV STUDIOSNEW YORK – November 9, 2011 – Marking another phase of its record expansion of original programming, Syfy today announced three new scripted projects in development from Universal Cable Productions, CBS TV Studios and Fox Television Studios.
In making the announcement, Mark Stern, President, Original Content, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions, said: “This broad-based slate, from top-notch talent in the creative community, will enable us to build upon the strong foundation of our current hit scripted series to provide Syfy viewers with the next generation of imaginative entertainment.”
Syfy’s quartet of popular scripted series—Warehouse 13, Alphas, Eureka and Haven—powered the channel to its most watched Third Quarter ever, drawing 1.45 million total viewers.
On Monday, January 16 at 9PM (ET/PT), Being Human will return for its second season, followed by the premiere of Lost Girl at 10PM.
Syfy Scripted Development SlateUNT. ROBERT H. WOLFE PROJECT
Universal Cable Productions
Robert H. Wolfe — Executive Producer/WriterAfter decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring law and order.
SEEING THINGS (working title)
Fox Television Studios
David Slack — Executive Producer
Scott Rosenberg and Robert Cort — Co-Executive Producers
David Slack and Gabrielle Stanton — WritersA cop becomes a ghost after his violent death and the only person who can help close his last case is a socially awkward man who realizes that the hallucinations he’s had all his life may not be a figment of his imagination.
GHOST PROJEKT
Oni Press
CBS TV Studios
Brett Matthews — Executive Producer/Writer
Andy Bourne, Eric Gitter — Executive ProducerBased on the popular comic series, a female KGB agent and male American weapons inspector form an unlikely partnership when a deadly force is unwittingly unleashed from a Siberian research facility.
The 1st and 3rd sound interesting, will not hold my breath yet.
huh? law & order: the space files; the ghost cop, ‘ghost’ busting agents? these sooo don’t sound better than what was canceled.
They could have kept going with Eureka, a known winner.
Grr.
SEEING THINGS (working title)
No, not again, it’s just “Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
aka My Partner the Ghost” again.
No Battlestar Blood and Gore or whatever it was called
That’s just the development slate – it doesn’t mean they’ll actually get produced and aired next year.
The only one that sounds interesting to me doesn’t even have a name yet. I shall hold out no hope.
Hmmm…. first one has echoes of Andromeda. Not interested in more cop shows.
Last one could be ok but then someone came up with Tera nova.
So, two more “ghost” related shows to keep the ghost hunter crowd tuned in, and one attempt at a space based show to “try” and bring back some other sci-fi fans. siffy, prove us skeptics wrong and surprise us for once….
The first one sounds like it “might” have a chance as long as it has more than 11 shows per season. A 22 show per season like Stargate and Stargate Atlantis were, so the show has time to develop and grow an audience. But I am sure this new SyFy company will only allow 11 shows and demand SG-1 type audience numbers or they will cancel it like they did with “Firefly”.
The first sounds like Robert H. Wolfe being given a second chance at Andromeda. If his luck holds to pattern, the show will be good and either cancelled quickly, or taken away from Mr. Wolfe and given to someone else to dumb down.
Syfy’s quartet of scripted shows draws 1.45 million total viewers in the third quarter of this year. The annoying orange often has more than that on YouTube with a single episode. But I guess that I am comparing apples with oranges.
The first one seems interesting, but im getting soooo tired of all these “ghost” and “spirits” crap that is on TV lately…
the robert wolfe project sounds way too much like a rehash of Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda that he produced in 2000-2002.
this is good and bad for me.. I kind of liked Andromeda… but am leery of reboots.
At least there is one potential space opera show there. I really miss having a space opera show on TV.