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Syfy Spring Schedule Smackdown

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cylkoth

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Syfy has issued a press release announcing their spring scheduling moves, with SGU leading the charge, set for a March 7 return, Mondays following Being Human, for it's final(?) 10 episodes. Reality shows will dominate as the new norm, and the 200th original movie will be unleashed upon us soon.

Sanctuary will resume season 3 Friday April 15th.

Movie titles include Battle for Los Angeles-wow ripping Battle LA off this quickly? :wtf: Ferocious Planet stars Stargate Atlantis' Joe Flaningan, it's original title changed from The Other Side. It bows April 9.


Irate aliens, crazy cooks, screaming banshees, who could ask for anything more. :rolleyes:

Syfy Announces Spring Premiere Dates
 
Whole lotta nothin'...

And for the future, all they have ordered to pilot so far is Blood & Chrome (if they frakked up casting Adama, that could screw the whole show) and Three Inches (sounds idiotic). There are several interesting sounding sf/f shows being ordered to pilot, but skiffy isn't doing them.
 
Reality shows are still as big as ever and the 200th original movie is arriving shortly.

Talk about a one-two punch to my brain.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
And for the future, all they have ordered to pilot so far is Blood & Chrome (if they frakked up casting Adama, that could screw the whole show) and Three Inches (sounds idiotic). There are several interesting sounding sf/f shows being ordered to pilot, but skiffy isn't doing them.
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They've also ordered Alphas to pilot.
 
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
Temis the Vorta said:
And for the future, all they have ordered to pilot so far is Blood & Chrome (if they frakked up casting Adama, that could screw the whole show) and Three Inches (sounds idiotic). There are several interesting sounding sf/f shows being ordered to pilot, but skiffy isn't doing them.
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They've also ordered Alphas to pilot.
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That one is interesting because of David Straitharn, but if it's just another of their fluffy episodic type shows, I won't be sticking around.
 
Also joining the lineup, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Syfy has acquired the reruns and will show them in a 4 episode block every Thursday evening, starting April 7.

WithTerminator 3 as the lead-in, the series will join theSyfy line-up on Thursday, April 7 with two episodes from 9-11PM (ET/PT). The regular time slot will be Thursdays from 7-11PM (ET/PT).
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TSCC on Syfy

The Cape on NBC, Firefly reruns on Science Channel, and now TSCC. Can we just get a Summer Glau channel already? :D
 
Actually they've not just ordered Alphas to pilot, but to series. As a result, Three Inches either won't be picked up or may be retooled as a half-hour comedy.
 
Temis the Vorta said:
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
Temis the Vorta said:
And for the future, all they have ordered to pilot so far is Blood & Chrome (if they frakked up casting Adama, that could screw the whole show) and Three Inches (sounds idiotic). There are several interesting sounding sf/f shows being ordered to pilot, but skiffy isn't doing them.
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They've also ordered Alphas to pilot.
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That one is interesting because of David Straitharn, but if it's just another of their fluffy episodic type shows, I won't be sticking around.
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Ira Steven Behr is the show runner, so the odds against it being light 'n fluffy hopefully are low. :)
 
I'm looking forward to another ten episodes of SGU. Flawed though it may be it's set in space, has had some big ideas, doesn't just settle for the forehead-of-the-week (or village-of-the-week). Yeah, it's canceled, but if they show it a week at a time there's two-plus months worth of stuff there. And we finally get a date for Joe Flanigan's walk of shame where many of his alumni have paid their dues.

Has no business on the schedule but the Top Chef-viewer in me is looking forward to Marcel's trainwreck of a cooking show if for all the wrong reasons.
 
cylkoth said:
Also joining the lineup, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Syfy has acquired the reruns and will show them in a 4 episode block every Thursday evening, starting April 7.

WithTerminator 3 as the lead-in, the series will join theSyfy line-up on Thursday, April 7 with two episodes from 9-11PM (ET/PT). The regular time slot will be Thursdays from 7-11PM (ET/PT).
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TSCC on Syfy
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Wouldn't T2 be better as a leadin though?
 
Hartzilla2007 said:
cylkoth said:
Also joining the lineup, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Syfy has acquired the reruns and will show them in a 4 episode block every Thursday evening, starting April 7.

WithTerminator 3 as the lead-in, the series will join theSyfy line-up on Thursday, April 7 with two episodes from 9-11PM (ET/PT). The regular time slot will be Thursdays from 7-11PM (ET/PT).
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TSCC on Syfy
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Wouldn't T2 be better as a leadin though?
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Why do they do this though? Does anyone watch these 4-hour blocks? I mean, I suppose you might have the DVR space but I've never understood these big blocks especially with shows you'd want to watch in order.
 
cylkoth said:
Movie titles include Battle for Los Angeles-wow ripping Battle LA off this quickly? :wtf:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ctuary-marcels-quantum-kitchen-and-more/83365
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This is how The Asylum operates. Get the cheap knockoff out there at the same time to ride the coattails of the studio movie. When it's already based on existing material like The Day the Earth Stood Still, Sherlock Holmes or Thor, it's really easy for them to do. As is something like Battle: Los Angeles, where they don't have to rip off the plot as long as they have aliens, soldiers and L.A. in their knockoff.
 
Aragorn said:
cylkoth said:
Movie titles include Battle for Los Angeles-wow ripping Battle LA off this quickly? :wtf:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ctuary-marcels-quantum-kitchen-and-more/83365
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This is how The Asylum operates. Get the cheap knockoff out there at the same time to ride the coattails of the studio movie. When it's already based on existing material like The Day the Earth Stood Still, Sherlock Holmes or Thor, it's really easy for them to do. As is something like Battle: Los Angeles, where they don't have to rip off the plot as long as they have aliens, soldiers and L.A. in their knockoff.
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I think Syfy/Asylum have really stepped their game up though, on Syfy on opening weekend with a title close enough I had to IMDB to see the differenece.
 
I can't wait for SGU to start showing again. I know it is cancelled, but I love that show! :) I enjoy SyFy's original movies, especially when its a creature film, so I'll continue to check in for those.
 
cylkoth said:
Temis the Vorta said:
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
They've also ordered Alphas to pilot.
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That one is interesting because of David Straitharn, but if it's just another of their fluffy episodic type shows, I won't be sticking around.
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Ira Steven Behr is the show runner, so the odds against it being light 'n fluffy hopefully are low. :)
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He might be pressured to hew to the Skiffy style. I always check everything out but the only thing I've found watchable recently on Skiffy is Caprica, and that was only because the premise and actors were good enough to make me slog through to the end. Mostly, I find their style is increasingly lightweight, cutesy and annoying or in the case of Being Human, whiny and overly emo. I'm getting the feeling that my tastes and Skiffy's are just diverging too widely.
 
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