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

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

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

In case you’ve been off planet for the last 24 hours, may I be the one to tell you that Comedy Central has picked up the scifi cartoon Futurama ordering 26 (or possibly 13) new episodes.
Collider.com broke the news as a “rumor” a few days ago but since then Ausiello and other outlets have jumped on the band wagon so the rumor appears to be true.

It’s going to be an all-star scifi summer on SCI FI Channel when some of your favorite stars pop up on the new dramedy adventure Warehouse 13.
Top of the list, Stargate Atlantis’ Joe Flanigan, Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica, and one of my personal faves, James Naughton who starred in the Planet of the Apes TV series, but is more commonly known for his role on Gossip Girl.
Warehouse 13 is the story of two Secret Service agents who are assigned to guard a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object …read more

If you think your roommates are bad, try living with a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf! It’s the BBC series Being Human and it’s coming to America on July 25.
Being Human is a quirky mix of daily living comedy with the angst of the paranormal drama.
Here’s the lowdown:
George (Russell Tovey) and Mitchell (Aidan Turner) work in anonymous drudgery as hospital porters. They lead lives of quiet desperation under the burden of a terrible secret—Mitchell’s a vampire and George a werewolf. Deciding to start life afresh and leave behind the dark side, they move into a house, only to …read more

“I promised you an eternity of misery. I’m just keeping my word.”
I wasn’t too pulled in by this teaser trailer for the new CW show Vampire Diaries. . . until they got to the brother stuff. Imagine the Winchesters as vampires – yeah, it could go down like this.
Enjoy a first look at Vampire Diaries coming to The CW this fall.