Sci-Fi Storm

In tomorrow night’s Merlin, three soothsayers cast a dark curse upon the King of Camelot in the black depths of an ancient pool. Don’t forget to tune in to Syfy at 10/9c to catch “The Disir”. And check out the second video below as Colin Morgan recaps last week’s episode, “Another’s Sorrow”!
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The Mark Gatiss-led docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, about the creation of Doctor Who in the 1960s, will be co-produced by BBC America and air in the U.S. as well as BBC Two in the U.K.

In addition actor David Bradley, best known for playing the cantankerous caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the Harry Potter franchise and also guest starred as Solomon in the Doctor Who episode “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”, has been announced to fill the role of the very first Doctor, William Hartnell. This has interestingly led to speculation that he might also play the role in the upcoming 50th anniversary episode. Hartnell passed away in 1975.

Gatiss mentioned the role to Bradley while watching the Diamond Jubilee flotilla.

“When he asked if I would interested, I almost bit his hand off! Mark has written such a wonderful script not only about the birth of a cultural phenomenon, but a moment in television’s history. William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time and as a fan I want to make sure that I do him justice. I’m so looking forward to getting started.”

Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) will play producer Verity Lambert and Brian Cox (The Straits, X2) will play Sydney Newman, the head of BBC Drama. Sacha Dhawan (After Earth) will play Waris Hussein, who directed the very first episode.

Apparently I missed the official announcement, but the same day that the BBC announced the return of Doctor Who on March 30th, BBC America also make the same announcement.

The exact time wasn’t specified, but it is to be part of the “Supernatural Saturday” block, and imply it will be between Orphan Black and The Nerdist.

In the next new Continuum, Carlos and Kiera investigate murders where victims are drained of their endocrine fluid. Tune in at 9/7c on Syfy!
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In the next new Lost Girl on Syfy, Bo’s houseguest Vex unwittingly brings greetings from a vengeful Morrigan. Tune in at 10/9c!
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We have another preview for the upcoming episode of Being Human, and some bloopers from last week’s episode – and another message from our favorite vampire, Aidan:
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Syfy has finally settled on an air date for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome: February 10th, at 9/8c. Blood & Chrome is the Cylon War prequel to their hit series, which started as a web series, then considered for a full blown series, then back to a web series (and denied it was meant to be on TV) – and likely a lame-duck series at that. But who knows…if the ratings are really good – plus sales of the [sfs=1272]Blu-ray[/sfs] and [sfs=1273]DVD[/sfs] on the 19th, maybe they just might consider at least doing more webisodes.

The CW has given the greenlight to The Hundred from Jason Rothenberg (Body Politic) and WB TV/Alloy Entertainment. Based on some upcoming books by Kass Morgan, The Hundred is set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet.

A variation of Lord of the Flies maybe?

Almost forgot to post this! On tonight’s Merlin, Merlin tries to persuade Arthur to have mercy on one of his foes. Tune in at 10/9c on Syfy! Also catch Colin Morgan’s recap of last week’s episode, “The Death Song of Uther Pendragon”
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Amazon appears to be working deals right now for several pilots to turn into series for its streaming video service, but there is apparently one series they are talking about going straight to series – Zombieland, which was a movie in 2009.

What is interesting is that it was originally envisioned as a TV series as early as 2005, developed for CBS. CBS passed on it as did Syfy, so it was redeveloped into a movie starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse “I’m not Zuckerberg” Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin and is known for providing all the rules you need for surviving the Zombie Apocalypse (remember, Double Tap!) Most recently, Fox was interested in it as a half-hour comedy.

Sony Picture TV is the studio, and original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are on board to write and co-executive produce, and original producer Gavin Polone would executive produce.