Sci-Fi Storm

The remaining five episodes of Caprica, which was canceled last month and pulled from the schedule, will air as a single block on Syfy on Tuesday, January 4th, starting at 6PM ET.

Syfy has just announced a second season order for Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, a third season for Ghost Hunters International, and 12 more episodes to attach to the current season of Hollywood Treasure.

Read on for the full press release.
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An aircraft that seems to be the Destiny’s shuttle appears out of nowhere next to the ship. Colonel Young tries to make contact with the voice coming from the shuttle, and it sounds like Caine. The voice confirms that he is Robert Caine, but neither Young or Caine knows how they got there. The shuttle was supposed to be in another galaxy light years away. You’ll have to watch the clip and tune in on Tuesday at 9/8c on Syfy to find out how the shuttle mysteriously returned to the Destiny.
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BBC America will air this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, “A Christmas Carol”, on Christmas night this year, so it will only be hours after the U.K. viewers get to see it. Along with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, the special will also feature Arthur Darvill (Rory), along with Michael Gambon (Professor Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films) and Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins. “A Christmas Carol” will air at 9PM EST.

Now if only I got BBC America in HD…

In a quick followup to our previous article about Daniel Radcliffe saying he did not want to see more Harry Potter, Radcliffe told MTV News at the NYC premiere for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 he received a text from J.K. Rowling that told him that she would not make any more Harry Potter films, “as a reward”. I’ll note that this does not say that she won’t write any more Harry Potter books, and certainly does not preclude more stories in the Wizarding World…

Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) and David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) are creating a new TV series for The Hulk for Marvel TV and ABC Studios. It is del Toro’s first TV project (he previously had a first look deal with 20th TV, which apparently didn’t pan out), for which he will share story and created by credits with Eick, who will write the screenplay. Both will exec produce, with del Toro also directing if his schedule permits. Launch of the series is slated to occur after The Avengers (which features the Hulk) is released in theaters in July 2012, although it does not seem as if there will be a direct tie in, especially since they are aiming for a younger Bruce Banner. This Hulk will also not be 100% CGI, but a combination of CGI, prosthetics, and puppetry.

Doctor Who releases have shunned the High Definition format until David Tennant’s last “movie” episodes – mainly because they weren’t recorded in HD. [sfs=1038]Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series[/sfs], released last week ([sfs=1039]on DVD as well[/sfs]), is the first full series released on Blu-ray. So how does the video – and the new Doctor – fare?
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Henry is put under the lamp as he’s connected to probes and being thrown through a series of questions. He appears calm as the first few questions are simple and direct, but will he stay calm and collected when asked about a question related to a werewolf sighting?

“Animus” airs Friday, November 19th, at 10pm ET.
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Robert Carlyle took home the lone genre award in Saturday’s 25th Annual Gemini Awards, winning for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role as Dr. Rush in Stargate Universe. SGU received 9 total nominations, with another 3 belonging to Sanctuary. Louis Ferreira (Colonel Young) was also nominated for the Lead Actor award.

Sanctuary started out as a web-based series of short episodes featuring some great talent that proved to be so popular Syfy picked it up as a regular series. Syfy thinks that could happen again – taking the independently produced steampunk web series Riese: Kingdom Falling, with 5 never-before-seen episodes comprising a second chapter and featuring it on their web site.

New episodes of Riese: Kingdom Falling appear on Tuesdays and Thursdays generally before noon ET, with 4 new episodes remaining. Each episode is less than 10 minutes, so you can get caught up pretty fast.
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