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Syfy scripted development slate - actual space opera included!

Defender is the only one that interests me.

SyFy presented Farscape and Battlestar Galactica, two thirds of the worthwhile space operas other than Star Trek in decades (Firefly being the other). They were the outlet for the new Doctor Who here in the States for years; they even put money into Stargate year after year. Their track record is awesome compared to every other channel on the dial.
 
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Temis the Vorta said:
2. High Moon - Well, it's not very far out in space, but it's space! Good enough. And Bryan Fuller is EP. Very good enough.
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according to the Deadline source:
Based on the novel, The Lotus Caves, by John Christopher
Now The Lotus Caves wikipedia listing says:
Plot synopsis

Two teenage boys, Marty and Steve, live in a colony on the Moon, "The Bubble", in the year 2068.[2] Exploring outside the dome of "The Bubble" is strictly controlled. The boys grow bored and decide to explore outside the proscribed area in a stolen lunar vehicle, and crash through the moon's surface into a series of underground caverns containing alien life forms, controlled by a single intelligent alien life form. They also meet a man, a missing early lunar settler, who came to the caves years ago, who has become enthralled by the alien. The boys are torn between staying in the caves, within which the alien provides for their needs, and escaping. They eventually escape, but the man decides to stay, having lost any desire beyond communing with the alien.
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It sounds like Space: 1999 and Bio-Dome (1996) meet Moon (2009)
So we'll have moon base station sets and some green screen stuff or a big lunar set like in Moon.
even just based on the novel I'll take it.


9. The Adjustment Bureau - Didn't like the movie, and trying to make this premise work as an ongoing TV series seems very problematic.
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as I said in another thread:
jefferiestubes8 said:
There was a show development like this in 2010 pilot season:
“Murmurs” Sci-Fi time-travel drama by CBS in development
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looks like there was a niche needing filled if there was a few crime procedural pilots with similar synopsis.
 
Odd....I actually like the majority of the show ideas listed including Booster Gold!! This really never happens. Could it be a sci fi renaissance?

RAMA
 
The adjustment bureau could be good, assuming that it follows agents of the Buearu while they do cool shit instead of keeping the fighting fate plot of the movie. Perhaps give them an obvious enemy (if they work for God, what about the devil?) and make it a chessmaster competition show, where the two sides match wits by manipulating events in subtle yet dramatic ways.
 
Syfy development runs very slow. They take forever considering concepts.
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Yeah - I was surprised to realize that only one of the dramas has actually been greenlit, and that's for 2013! Broadcast and some other cable channels are working on their new shows for this coming fall.
They get very picky about the pilots they shoot, and it seems that only a third of those ever make it to series.
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That's fairly normal for a pilot-to-series ratio, at least on broadcast. With cable, a lot of times they never announce everything they're considering. Fortunately, there seems to be a fair amount of pretty decent sounding sf/f in development across broadcast and cable.
 
Into the toilet? :rommie:

Yesterday's news is hopeful, but that's all it is. It'll be a while still before we know whether it represents an actual turnaround.
 
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