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 by Darren Allan
Some good news in these days in which we're more accustomed to reporting about the premature closure of sci-fi shows rather than the arrival of fresh meat.
Syfy has just announced that it has three new scripted projects on the boil, under development by Universal Cable Productions, CBS TV Studios and Fox TV Studios respectively.
The new series are entitled Ghost Projekt from CBS (yeck for the name, anyway), Seeing Things from Fox and an untitled Robert H Wolfe project from Universal Cable.
The latter sounds the most interesting to us, being set in space where after a long conflict, an organisation called the Unity Democracy is formed. This bands together a diverse mix of humans and "trans-humans" aboard a starship which is sent to bring law and order to worlds afar.
Of course, the potential for inter-racial explosiveness is going to be one of the main thrusts of the story. It sounds intriguing, with a bit of Star Trek and Stargate Universe perhaps thrown into the mix.
Fox's Seeing Things is a tale about a cop who dies a violent death and becomes a ghost. He must close his last case, but can only do so with the help of a socially backward chap who realises that the hallucinations which have plagued his life might actually be real.
Not hugely original, no, but still we won't write it off just yet.
The final offering, Ghost Projekt, is drawn from a comic series, a supernatural thriller. It features a female KGB agent and a male US weapons inspector who are thrown together to face a "deadly force" which escapes from a research laboratory.
There could be some mileage there, although we admit, we've not read the comics.
Hopefully at least one of the new shows will be a corker, and will make it past a second series.

U nedelju u 21 je startovala serija Invazija Vanzemaljaca (Falling Skies) čiji je jedan od producenata S. Spilberg.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462059/

http://www.scifiuniversal.rs/shows/invazija-vanzemaljaca

večaras u sredu od 21 su reprize prve dve epizode

Ne mogu da zevnem dovoljno glasno. 

scalop potegao veze po Amerikama:

Larry Niven's Ringworld Coming to SyFy

Two works of hard SF are set to become miniseries on the SyFy channel. Both Larry Niven's Ringworld and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End will become TV projects in the near future.

Ringworld concerns deep-space exploration and advanced alien technology, while Childhood's End imagines a peaceful alien invasion and the transformation of the human race. Both books are considered science fiction classics and among the best works of each respective author. SyFy's adaptation will be a four-hour mini-series helmed by Michael Perry (The River, Paranormal Activity 2).

Hopefully, this news signals a coming renaissance of thoughtful science fiction on television. Could the era of Sharktopus be over?

A i ovobogami, samo neko mladji od scallopa

BLAKE'S 7 reboot greenlit

by Adam Whitehead |April 9, 2013


SyFy has greenlit the Blake's 7 reboot being helmed by former Heroes writer Joe Pokaski and James Bond director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale). A 13-episode first season will go into production later this year.



The reboot will be set in the year 2136 and will see seven criminals - six guilty and one not - being sent into exile on a prison colony. They escape and acquire a powerful alien spacecraft, with which they can begin a fight back against the totalitarian government that rules the human worlds.

FremantleMedia International today launches the eagerly anticipated remake of the cult drama

Blake's 7 to international buyers at MIPTV. In development with US cable network Syfy, the 13 x 1 hour series will be produced by Georgeville TV, the independent studio co-founded by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen. The science fiction classic will be written by Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) and directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye).

The year is 2136, Blake wakes up on one side of the bed.  He reaches for the other side. There's nobody there. As reality sets in,  this handsome ex-soldier sits up, and looks at a photo of his wife  Rachel. Beautiful. Deceased.

A revolutionary reinvention of the long-running BBC series made in  the late 1970s, Blake's 7 tells the story of seven criminals – 6 guilty  and 1 innocent – on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who  together wrestle freedom from imprisonment. They acquire an alien ship  which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely  heroes of their time.

David Ellender, CEO FremantleMedia International and Kids &  Family Entertainment said, "Blake's 7 was such a forward-thinking  concept that the show continues to have resonance with audiences today.  Its complex characters and gritty storylines, coupled with the highly talented team and modern production techniques are sure to appeal to both original fans of the show and new viewers."

Leon Clarance, co-founder of Georgeville Television and CEO of Motion  Picture Capital, the finance arm of Reliance Entertainment, said, "Joe  Pokaski and Martin Campbell have worked tirelessly with the Georgeville  TV team to create an amazeballs reboot of this classic space opera  which I watched with my father when I was a child. This reimagined  classic for a new generation of science fiction fans will enthrall  original and new fans alike. I couldn't be happier to have our beloved  show handled internationally by the passionate team at FremantleMedia"

Blake's 7 is one of several premium drama offerings in the FremantleMedia International scripted portfolio which includes Wentworth (10 x 1 hour), a FremantleMedia Australia production set to premiere on  Australia's Foxtel in May this year, and The Making of a Lady, a psychological event thriller produced by Runaway Fridge and which captivated UK audiences when it aired on ITV1 in December 2012.
This premise is similar to that the original Blake's 7 - which ran for 52 episodes and four seasons from 1978 to 1981 - although there are several key differences. The original Blake's 7 was set closer to a thousand years in the future and there were only ever five or six human (or humanoid) characters, with the remaining one or two places taken by AIs. This description implies there will be seven human characters and the setting will be much closer to that of the present day.

From the sound it, then, both Zen and ORAC will be missing (which will anger fans) and the show will be asking audiences that humanity has established an interstellar civilisation in just 120 years, rather than the 800+ years of the original, which seems rather implausible. In addition, the suggestion that Blake is a soldier will also annoy a lot of fans. Blake in the original series was an engineer, a fixer whose attitude towards being a freedom fighter mixed charisma with naivete. Not being a soldier, more of a problem-solver, was a key point of his characterisation. This new version sounds altogether more cliched.

No casting information has yet been announced, although it has been confirmed that Pokaski will be writing the first episode and Campbell will be directing. Pokaski may also be writing the majority (or all) of the season, but Campbell's involvement beyond the first episode is unclear. It is also unclear at this stage who will be the showrunner.

At this stage, I am unconvinced by the project, which seems too conservative and predictably dull. With some better writers (Pokaski's heavy involvement with the second through fourth seasons of Heroes, which were terrible, is not encouraging) and the right cast, it could still turn out okay though. Maybe.

Menije Falling Skies bila umereno dosadna do pred kraj prve sezone. Druga mi je bila već znatno bolja, tako da se radujem trećoj. No, otkad je BSG prestala da se emituje (Blood and Chrome ne računam), čini mi se da nema prave svemirske SF serije. Rebutovi mi idu na ganglije, tako da se uzdam da će Defiance biti nešto što može da se gleda.

Quote from: Nightflier on 11-04-2013, 14:00:47
Menije Falling Skies bila umereno dosadna do pred kraj prve sezone. Druga mi je bila već znatno bolja, tako da se radujem trećoj. No, otkad je BSG prestala da se emituje (Blood and Chrome ne računam), čini mi se da nema prave svemirske SF serije. Rebutovi mi idu na ganglije, tako da se uzdam da će Defiance biti nešto što može da se gleda.

Istina, Falling Skies su imali prejak "Prle i Tihi" vajb u prvoj sezoni, ali je i meni druga mnogo, mnogo bolja...

Sinoć sam odgledao Defiance 1x02. S obzirom na to da od serije ništa nisam očekivao, prilično sam zadovoljan onim što sam dobio. Da se razumemo, Defiance jeste pomalo trešasta, ali ne štede na šminci i maskama, iako CGI baš i nije na nivou "Avatara"

још увек нисам сасвим средио утиске око дефианце-a, али на прву лопту, ово је спаривање свега што смо гледали из сајфајеве продукције са трендовима које прати њихово гледалиште (од твајлајта до геј оф тронса а са свим гик-популарнијим филмским и тв изданицма између) . било би лепо да су аутори желели да дају омаж вољеним (и мање вољеним) серијама (филмовима), но дефианце одише вулгарном крађом најуспелијих (и најпопуларнијих) ликова својих ТВ (и филмских) претходника, који као да су направљени према листама за испитивање тржишта (који вам је најомиљенији лик у нашим серијама? и томе слично).
но, погледаћу сигурно још пар епизода или бар док се не покаже како ће ствар функционисати у комбинацији са игром.

Pa, ja gledam  jer nema ništa bolje. Ovo je u suštini trešasta serija, koja bi mi mnogo više prijala da sam 15 godina mlađi, ali pošto ničeg sličnog nema ni u najavi u dogledno vreme, a Revolution me je smorio već u prvoj epizodi, svakako ću je gledati i dalje.

сличним речима сам прокоментарисао серију мојој паметнијој половини. серија је прављена за тинејџере који се играју. штета што у бити нема ни дашка оригиналности.