Syfy has decided to try something really different – a half-hour comedy series called Outer Space Astronauts. The series is a combo of live-action and 3d Animation, so that alone makes this a pretty special treat.
Right now, it’s only 5 episodes and they’ll run on Tuesday nights starting on December 8.
Here’s what Syfy has to say about the series:
Series creator and executive producer, Russell Barrett took a complete do-it-yourself / hands-on approach to the creation of the show by developing, executing and editing the series right in his very home. He also enlisted childhood and hometown friends as series …read more

Scifi fans know Carol Barbee as the executive producer and a writer on the cult favorite series Jericho. But these days, she’s making the Moonlight fans happy because she cast Alex O’Loughlin to star in her new medical drama, Three Rivers.
I met up with Carol at a recent press screening of her new show and here’s what she had to say about casting everyone’s favorite vampire as a top transplant surgeon.
“Alex had a holding deal for CBS and I was under contract to CBS. He met with lots of people, we met with lots of people. He want to …read more

X-Files scribe Frank Spotnitz (seen here with his cohorts Gillian Anderson, Chris Carter and David Duchovny at the “The X Files: I Want To Believe” World Premiere.) is in development on two sci fi shows for HBO.

According to Variety, Spotnitz is working on a series called Humanitas which is a futuristic medical thriller.  Spotnitz wants to take a look at the moral and ethical issues that arise out of our ever increasing ability to manipulate genetics.
He is also working on a TV adaptation of Robert Silverberg’s novel The World Inside which deals with overpopulation.
The ever busy Spotnitz is also penning …read more

More and more, Twitter is becoming the place to pick up on celebrity news.
Today, Alyson Hannigan made a ripple in the pond with this tweet about husband Alexis Denisoff.
Alexis is shooting his first day of Dollhouse right now!
Sounds like a match made in Joss-heaven!
Here are a few other tidbits from the Twitter world.
–@TVGuideMagazine: Ostroff on #Supernatural: “we hope it will go on…Kripke has done a wonderful job.”
— @heybuzzsugar Don’t expect more than one season of Day One, though if it does well it could return. More of an event, says Bromstad. #TCA
— @Syfy  We announced our new superhero show Alphas …read more

According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has completed negotiations with the original voice actors on Futurama and all five of them will be returning to the booth for the new season. John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille have all signed on, agreeing to a much lower fee than they originally asked for.
This was only one area where the budget had to be slashed, Variety reports that there will also be cuts made to the writing staff and the turn-around time for each episode.
It’s a great leap forward, but don’t start checking your TV listings just …read more

ABC’s Defying Gravity premieres tonight with a two-hour episode beginning at 9:00. It’s been referred to as Grey’s Anatomy in space, but recent reviews aren’t all bad. The LA Times says it has a “shaky but promising start,” but Alan Sepinwall calls it “cheap, disposable, summer programming.” Check it out and let us know what you think of this new sci fi show.
The series boasts a large international cast of faces you’ve seen before but probably can’t name including Blood Ties’ Christina Cox, Andrew Airlie from Reaper, Zahf Paroo of Battlestar Galactica and Malik Yoba from New York Undercover. …read more

Syfy has announced their fall premiere dates including the start of the much-anticipated series Stargate Universe. The latest Stargate spin-off will launch on October 2 at 9:00 with a 2-hour event, then will continue to air Fridays at 9:00 beginning October 9.
Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty), Lou Diamond Phillips (Numb3rs), Ming-Na (ER, Vanished), Alaina Huffman (Smallville), and David Blue (Moonlight) star in this series about a group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. Instead of coming through on another planet, they find themselves on the starship Destiny …read more

Variety has a couple of interesting stories up today. First is the news that Fox might be looking for new voice actors for Futurama. Sounds like it’s all about the money, with the original actors, including Billy West and Katey Sagal, wanting more than Fox is willing to pay.
If they can’t get all of the originals back, should they even bother to make new episodes or is it more about the show than the actors?
Variety is also reporting that Warner Brothers and Leo DiCaprio’s production company are in development on a new Twlight Zone movie. Rand Ravich is set to …read more

In 1988, James Caan and Mandy Patinkin starred in the scifi version of Lethal Weapon, playing a human cop with an alien partner in the movie Alien Nation. But if you ask the average guy on the street, he probably won’t remember any of that, but he will remember Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint playing those same roles on the TV series.
Though the show was canceled after only one season, it spawned a popular series of TV movies and novels so it’s not surprising that Syfy is looking to the series as its next big reboot.
The original Alien Nation was …read more

Lots of things popping in the Supernatural world.
– New casting spoiler from TVGuide Magazine about yet another returning character in a shiny new package.
– Ausiello has the scoop on the actor who is making the jump from one mysterious TV show into the role of Lucifer on Supernatural.
– Christian Kane fans who showed up for the Leverage star’s gig in Portland got a huge surprise when Jensen Ackles hopped on stage to sing along.