Sci Fi just rebranded itself as SyFy on Tuesday and one of the big changes is that Eureka moves to a new night tonight. Having Eureka on Friday nights is going to be a great way to end the week because it is just such an enjoyable show. You would think a show that is all about superior brain cells would be too much for your Friday brain cells, but it actually tickles them! This show is just so darn likable and fun to watch as a town full of geniuses make some big stupid mistakes!
Tonight’s season premiere picks up where it left off with Jack Carter just being fired from his job as Sheriff from this hush hush town and looking for a new job. He doesn’t want to leave and he doesn’t want to uproot his daughter Zoe who has made her own niche in the town, but there is no other work for him there. Eureka is rapidly expanding because Jack’s sister is pregnant with twins and Allison is pregnant with her dead (an experiment gone bad on their wedding day) husband’s baby. Jo is settling in to her new position of sheriff at least she thinks she is hers to take, but it isn’t…not in this town. Wait until you see who they hire to replace Jack.
Besides all the changes for the show, things remain the same for this show when it comes to creativity and chemistry between the cast. It is just as zany as these brilliant people try to help make the world a better place by destroying the town they live in. So will Jack be able to stay in this town or will he be gone? And what errors will Allison, Jack, Jo, the new sheriff and Henry try to clean up before their damage goes too far find out tonight and every Friday at 9p on the new and improved SyFy!!!
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!
