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Complete Comic-Con 2011 TV Panel Schedule [Updated]

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:51:53 +0000

Check your calendar, because Comic-Con 2011 will soon be upon us. With over 70 different TV panels confirmed for this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, finding out when and where you’re favorite television series will be appearing is definitely easier said than done.

On top of that, some of Comic-Con’s fan-favorite TV series have been upgraded from the hallowed Ballroom 20, and will now be gracing the 5,000-seat Hall H. So, this year you won’t be able to simply sit in one room all day to catch many of the major television events has to offer at Comic-Con.

Fortunately, we’ve attempted to take some of the confusion out of your Comic-Con experience with a complete schedule of all the TV panels. While some series have yet to announce specific details, the ...

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Syfy Spring Lineup: SGU Ends, ‘Sanctuary’ Returns & Terminator Reruns

Michael Crider — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:11:41 +0000

SyFy released their spring programming lineup on to the press today. Highlights include the last half-season of Stargate: Universe, new episodes of Sanctuary, and a complete rerun of both seasons of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Stargate: Universe will air its last ten episodes starting March 7th. The second spin-off of Stargate: SG1, Syfy declined to renew SGU for a third season last December. At the end of the half-season in the fall, the show was down to a mere 1 million views an episode. Much to the dismay of its fans, the end of SGU will leave television without new Stargate franchise episodes for the first time in fourteen years.

Sanctuary will begin the second half of its third season on April 15th. The monster-of-the-week show headed by SG1‘s Amanda ...

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SyFy Digital Press Tour 2010: LIVE!

Anthony Ocasio — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:36:46 +0000

This Sunday and Monday, SyFy will be holding their annual Digital Press Tour in beautiful Orlando, Florida. During which, the network will discuss some of their new and returning series with the help of the show’s casts, hosts and executive producers. Fortunately, Screen Rant will not only be in attendance, but we’ll also be providing live coverage of the entire event.

Of the many series in SyFy’s television line-up, Caprica, Being Human, Desination Truth, Eureka, Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, Hollywood Treasure, Sanctuary, Warehouse 13 and WWE Friday Night Smackdown will be represented. In addition to those new and returning series, there will also be a discussion about SyFy’s future programming ventures. Hopefully, that will include Michael Rosenbaum’s new series Three Inches as there hasn’t been much information released ...

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Comic-Con 2010 Saturday Schedule: Our TV Panel Picks

Anthony Ocasio — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:04:03 +0000

Saturday’s Comic-Con schedule has been released and while the buzz around the con that day may be about Green Lantern, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Thor, make no mistake that TV is stepping up to the plate and bringing the thunder as well.

Some of the panels included in Saturday’s schedule are heavy-hitters Chuck, MythBusters, Sanctuary, Vampire Diaries and Community. If that’s not enough, you can hit-up panels for Warehouse 13, Eureka, Fringe, V and ABC’s new fall drama, No Ordinary Family (I’ve seen it. It’s amazing!)

As with our previous Comic-Con schedules, we’ve jumped into the geek pool, filtered out all the nerdy binary code and selected our picks for Saturday’s television panels.

Chuck Screening and Q&A

10:15am-11:15am – Ballroom 20
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Sanctuary Renewed for a 3rd Season

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:53:43 +0000

Despite offing Ashey (Emilie Ullerup) in the beginning of the 2nd season, the Syfy Channel has renewed Sanctuary for a 3rd season. Syfy has ordered 20 episodes. Cool beans, gang!

Despite the core fan base being pretty upset about Ashley’s death in Sanctuary, not enough folks tuned out. The show averaged around 2.2 million viewers in the 7-day DVR viewing ratings. That was enough to get the show its third season.

Right now they’re filming Sanctuary in Vancouver, and I think it’s time to hold the creative forces accountable.

When they offed Ashley, the fan backlash was pretty volatile. At one point the idea of possibly bringing Ashley back was broached, though it didn’t sound too serious.

As it stands, Emilie Ullerup has already landed a role in a web series called Riese The Series as Aliza. So if somehow the creative ...

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Sanctuary: Ashley Is Dead

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:44:31 +0000

After watching the first few episodes of the 2nd season of Sanctuary, we all started to wonder if Ashley was dead, as in “dead dead”, or dead as in, “for dramatic ratings and she’ll be back dead.”

Yet the clues were obvious – even before our confirmation.

Though they drew out Ashley’s (Emilie Ullerup) death out for 2 episodes, she is dead. And she’s been replaced by one of the most dead-pan characterizations of a character I’ve ever seen, in the form of Kate Freelander (Agam Darshi).

In an interview with ÜberSciFiGeek, Emilie confirmed that she was let go due to a network decision and was not expecting her character’s death. As far as that network decision is concerned, Damian Kindler, the executive producer of Sanctuary, said that,

“… it was a decision ...

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Syfy Has Historic Month Of October Ratings

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:07:32 +0000

Syfy had themselves a record-setting month in October.

The 5th season of Ghost Hunters is averaging 3 million viewers.

The much debated Stargate Universe is averaging 2.85 million viewers, and doing much better than the last season of Stargate Atlantis. SGU is currently bringing in 36% more total viewers than SGA, but then again, it’s early in the season, so I’m not holding my breath on any numbers holding up for the entire season.

Destination Truth’s 3rd season is averaging 2.2 million viewers.

Scare Tactics, though only averaging 1.56 million viewers in the Fall 2009 season, it’s up 42% from the 2008 season.

And finally, the surprise statistic for me is that Sanctuary is pulling in an average of 2.4 million viewers.

All of these numbers have added up to Syfy’s most-watched October prime in the history of the network.

“Syfy jumped to ...

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TV News & Notes: 2009 Fall Schedule, The Office & More

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:15 +0000

Just a brief update on this Monday: Plan your prime time with the 2009 TV Fall Schedule; Smallville is getting another new guest star; A certain “Foxy” lady might be kicking off SNL this year; Learn how to catch up on all the NBC shows you missed last year (for free!); and speaking of NBC, how about a first-look photo of Jim and Pam getting married on The Office?

And as a bonus (because I love you) I let you know about the government’s “Cash for TV Clunkers” program.

Let’s get to it!

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The Office

So we recently let you Office fans know when you can expect Jim and Pam to walk down the aisle – four episodes into the news season. And now we have the first official wedding photo!

The scene was ...

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Sanctuary Comic-Con 2009 Panel

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:24:18 +0000

On hand for Syfy’s Sanctuary panel were executive producers Martin Wood & Damian Kindler along with actors Robin Dunne (Dr. Will Zimmerman) & Amanda Tapping (Dr. Helen Magnus).

Some of the highlights pointed out in the panel were:

Two years ago, this was just an internet series, and now it’s a TV series heading for season 2. No internet project has ever made it into a second season on TV.

We’ll be seeing new characters in season 2 and we’re going to discover that there are sanctuaries all over the world.

Martin Wood said that if you liked the first season, you will enjoy season 2. The effects will be improved.

The show is branching out to using real props, like using Damian’s car. When you see the scene where Amanda Tapping is driving and Dunne is screaming – He’s not acting, ...

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Syfy Announces Premiere Dates For Stargate Universe & Others

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:27:42 +0000

We’ve all been wondering when some of the newest shows will be starting up on Syfy, and now they’ve us a little bit of info on the following upcoming programming:

Stargate Universe

Sanctuary

Scare Tactics

Destination Truth

Stargate Universe will be debuting with a 2-hour premiere on Friday, October 2nd. The series will air on regularly on Fridays, starting October 9th.

The green screen-based show, Sanctuary, will premiere on Friday, October 9th.

Scare Tactics is a show that I really like the premise of, but doesn’t really hit the mark as well as it can, in my opinion. But if you like the show, Scare Tactics will kick it back in gear on Tuesday, October 6th.

Destination Truth will be premiering for the curious of mind on Wednesday, September 9th.

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Weekly TV Wrap Up – April 9th, 2009

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:39:04 +0000

It’s Thursday. That means another round of news from the TV landscape. This week, I’ve got some conjecture and observations with the occasional possible SPOILER in place.

There are some new shows coming up this weekend, some Dollhouse noise, Law and Order cast updates, Dr. Who tidbits and observations or questions about Life On Mars, ER and other shows. And FYI, my ratings aren’t missing: I’ve moved the ratings section down towards the bottom of the post, right before my zany entries of the week!

Primeval

Primeval is starting up this Friday night on the Sci-Fi Channel. The ads look interesting enough. Anybody seen it? Anything you want to say about it? Without spoilers of course!

Sanctuary

For the Sanctuary fan, season 2 of Sanctuary has started filming, according to the Sci-Fi press ...

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SR’s Inaugural Weekly TV Wrap Up

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:21:15 +0000

Welcome! This is the first rendition of Screen Rants Weekly TV Wrap Up. This is where we pass on some of the TV news we come across, keeping you on the edge of news and updates. Our regularly scheduled day will be Thursday mornings, so be sure to check in every week with us.

When there’s TV news, it will be here!

1. Sci-Fi’s Eureka has a new character coming on board in the form of Tess Fontana (Jamie Ray Newman), who’s joining Global Dynamics. The 2nd half season will debut later this year. Source: SCI FI Wire

2. Sci-Fi Channel has ordered a second season of Ghost Hunters International and a sixth season for Ghost Hunters. Additionally, their new college based series, Ghost Hunters: Next Generation is headed at us with a 2010 premiere. Source: Sci-Fi Wire

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Sanctuary & Ghost Hunters News

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:28 +0000

The green-screen based sci-fi show Sanctuary has done well enough in the ratings department for Sci-Fi to pick up a 2nd season with 13 episodes.

Sci-Fi must be happy with it, as apparently are the fans of the show.

The first few episodes tested my patience… but that’s because they tried to fit so much developmental detail into those first few hours that it was blatantly obvious and painful. I personally wanted to find sanctuary from the show.

As the show progressed I felt that it found its footing and is showing a nice pace with the character developments through the episodes. I now find it isn’t a bad show to kill time with. (I did not say superb. I said wasn’t bad.)

Sanctuary was Sci-Fi’s highest rated debut episode since Eureka premiered back in July of ’06. (
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Sci-Fi’s Sanctuary Needs To Pick Up The Pace

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:15:52 +0000

There will be outline/story spoilers in this review, so be aware!

Bruce’s First impression: If you’re more action-centric, Sanctuary will drive you crazy waiting for it. If you are story driven and enjoy detailed development, you’ll be fine. In the premiere, detailed story development seemed favored over action but if you’re looking for full time continuity in the story line, you might also be disappointed.

Sanctuary‘s big claim to fame is that it is filmed mostly in front of a green screen. Sometimes you don’t notice it and sometimes it’s rather apparent. In the first 30 minutes we meet most of the different characters of the show, in one form or another.

We first meet Alexi (Cainan Wiebe) when police respond to a noise complaint. The police find him under a bed next to ...

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2008 Fall TV Schedule Preview

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:15 +0000

The new 2008 Fall TV season is almost upon us, with the first new show of the season premiering on September 1st. Screen Rant has put together an extensive list of new and returning programs along with their premiere dates, along with descriptions and recommendations.

So what’s up this fall? What are we anticipating, what are we, well… not anticipating?

I know some of you have given up on network television. At times I don’t blame you. For those of you who still have a wee bit of faith, anticipation, or hope in network programming – or even plan on patiently waiting for shows to hit DVD, then this endeavor is for you. I gave a brief overview of the upcoming TV season a couple of months ago, but this right here is ...

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Comic-Con ’08: Stargate Atlantis Panel

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:30:55 +0000

The panel for Stargate: Atlantis was lighthearted and fun to watch. The actors in the panel were Joe Flanigan, Jewel Staite, Robert Picardo and show scribe Brad Wright and Chris Sanagustin, the VP of Original Programming from the Sci-Fi Channel.

The crowd was pretty animated with the introductions and when Jewel Staite was introduced the energy of the crowd easily tripled. The Firefly demographic was well represented.

From the question and answer session I picked up the following snippets:

Atlantis will be hitting it’s 100th episode this, their fifth season.

Joe Flanigan is the only castmember on the panel that has been on the show for the full five seasons.

Robert Picardo’s humorous observation on the change of Atlantis commanders, to go from the nice-to-look-at Col. Carter (Amanda Tapping) to the bald, ...

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Sanctuary Comes To The Sci Fi Channel

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:42:21 +0000

“There are monsters loose in the world. And they are the key to the future of our race.”

That’s the tag line for Sanctuary over on IMDb.

Sanctuary is about one Dr. Helen Magnus who is on a quest with her protege, Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne), to track down, aid and protect strange creatures that walk the earth (I’m resisting a smart aleck remark here).

Sci Fi is picking up this seasoned show and it will be the first TV series to use live actors against virtual sets, in much the same way 300 and Sin CIty were done.

If you’re wondering where this show comes from, it has eight webisodes under its belt and has been playing on a computer near you!

Sanctuary launched on the internet last year using a subscription model and the ...

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