The Sci Fi Channel was reborn today as SyFy. To help say hello to Imagine Greater network they are premiering Warehouse 13 at 9p! And then on Friday at 9p Eureka is back with people from the smartest town in American doing stupid things! I just love that show.
I am not sure what changes exactly will be happening to the re-branded network, but I just hope they don’t change their Saturday movies because I just love them!
SyFy (formerly Sc iFi) is updating the cult movie and it spinoff TV series, Alien Nation for the new millennium according to Variety. Tim Minear, who worked on Angel and Firefly, is developing the newest version of the franchise that will take place 20 years after the Aliens landed in the Pacific Northwest.
By the time the show begins, some time in the 2020s, the alien population has multiplied from a few thousand to 3.5 million. And much of the “newcomers” live their own segregated existence, in what Minear compares to the North African ghettos in France.
“You can take (the original ‘Alien Nation’) a step forward and really do a show that encompasses the clash of civilizations, and the idea of a ghettoized minority,” he said. “You can touch on racism, terrorism, assimilation, immigration. And there’s room for satire.”
If the new show is anything like the one that aired for Fox, I really hope Tim Minear creates a show that SyFy winds up picking up because I loved that show so much! Plus I like that they are not remaking it, but updating it. I am so sick of remakes and thankfully that is not the road that they are going down!
In one of the dumbest moves since New Coke, the Sci Fi Channel is rebranding itself as Syfy starting on July 7th.
By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider and more diverse range of imagination-based entertainment including fantasy, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure, as well as science fiction. It also positions the brand for future growth by creating an ownable trademark that can travel easily with consumers across new media and non-linear digital platforms, new international channels and extend into new business ventures.
Imagine Greater will become the new brand message and tagline, inviting both consumers and advertisers into a new era of unlimited imagination, exceptional experiences and greater entertainment. Syfy more clearly captures the mainstream appeal of the world’s biggest entertainment category, and reflects the network’s ongoing strategy to create programming that’s more accessible and relatable to new audiences. Syfy will continue to celebrate the traditional roots of the genre, while opening the brand aperture to accommodate a broader range of imagination-based entertainment.
Seriously that idea is as dumb as some of the premises for network’s Saturday movies and there are some pretty dumb ones. I know because I watch the Sci Fi Channel almost all those movies.
I think Syfy will be dead quicker than someone in those movies…and in most of those movies some one dies before the first commercial break.
Starting on August 18th NBC.com and SciFi.com will begin airing 50 webisodes daily of Gemini Division starring the incredibly well-built Justin Hartley. Joining Hartley (who is returning to Smallville also) is Rosario Dawson and these webisodes look like they are going to be so full of action, that we be exhausted after watching them.
I can’t wait to see how Gemini Division starting on August 18th turns out because by the looks of that trailer it looks like it is going to be better than most of the shows of on TV!
MediaWeek is reporting that production has been shut down on NBC's Bionic Woman weeks before it was suppose to be completed and Battlstar Gallacta will end production at the end of this week. Even though both shows tape in Toronto they are being affected by the strike. Although part of me thinks that the week to week declines of Bionic Woman might also have influenced their decision.
