By Mike Reynolds & Mary McNamara Canceled by Sci Fi, Show May Go Digital Much has been made over the past year about the proliferation of streaming video and digital downloads and other alternative media fans ...
Sci Fi is planning to unveil Anonymous Rex, a project from Alliance Atlantis about dinosaurs who've morphed into people, in late-2001. Sci Fi awaits the fate of Matthew ... Sci Fi is planning to unveil Anonymous Rex, a project from Alliance Atlantis about dinosaurs...
NEW YORK -- A sequel to Taken may not be in Sci Fi Channel's future, but the network will take on a new venture with Steven Spielberg and the production team behind last December's hit maxiseries. Spielberg, DreamWorks Television and Taken wri...
By R. Thomas Umstead Network to Launch Broadband Site Rich in Original Programs New York -- Sci Fi Channel will begin creating a broadband pulse next month. That's when the NBC...
NEW YORK -- Bonnie Hammer has been promoted to the newly created position of general manager of Sci Fi Channel, officials said last week. Hammer, most recently senior vice president of Sci Fi programming and USA Original Productions, will also ...
NOTED: Universal and Sci Fi will jointly promote the third-season DVD of Quantum Leap, which streets on May ... NOTED: Universal and Sci Fi will jointly promote the third-season DVD of Quantum Leap, which streets on May 10. Sci Fi will broadcast 15-second ads...
By R. Thomas Umstead Sci Fi Orders Nine More Hours of Space-Battle Saga New York-- Adm. William Adama will command Battlestar Galactica for a full fourth season. Sci Fi Channel said...
Sci Fi Channel's new alien saga is spawning promotional efforts that are out of this world. Touting individual television programs on a grand scale has been alien to Time Warner Cable's New York City system. "Except maybe for The Soprano ...
Brian Henson's creative heritage goes back more than 40 years, when his father, the late Jim Henson, developed one of the most successful programming franchises by playing with puppets on television. The whimsy of Kermit the Frog evolved into the m Brian Henson's creative...
Cable nets are drawing audiences while minimizing their risks with science fiction. What television programmer wouldn't love to create another Star Trek franchise? That's why cable, looking at the huge success that science fiction has enjoyed Cable nets...
NEWARK, N.J. & LOS ANGELES -- The ABC Television Network has picked up IDT Entertainment's drama series MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION, which will feature works from some of the most well known authors of science fiction. Negotiations are underway to include works from Isaac Asimov (author of "I Robot" and...
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel will air a Farscape marathon June 27 and 28, officials said last week. Sci Fi is trying to give viewers a chance to catch up on the ... NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel will air a Farscape marathon...
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars won several ratings battles, but fell well short of the network's performance with other miniseries. The two-night, four-hour presentation boosted Sci Fi to No. 1 on Oct. 17 ...
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel has acquired the rights to the Emmy-winning science fiction series Babylon 5, officials said last week. The series will be added to Sci Fi's lineup starting this September, with its 112 one -hour episodes to be ... NEW...
ABC's breakout hit, Lost, features a character cursed by numbers, polar bears on a tropical island, a group of supernatural-type people called "The Others" and some sort of monster. But the network's marketing people still insist it isn't ABC's breakout hit, Lost, features a...
The science-fiction and fantasy genre has nearly vanished from the lowest channel positions. The WB's (and later UPN's) Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Fox's The X-Files capped a generation and, in spite of a committed rescue effort, UPN's moribund En The science-fiction and fantasy...
NEW YORK -- A science fiction net may be in Viacom Inc.'s future in 2001, chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone said last week. Viacom's non-compete agreement with USA Networks-owned Sci-Fi Channel expires ... NEW YORK -- A science fiction net may be in Viacom...
NEW YORK -- Sci Fi Channel will telecast episodes of sister service USA Network's Dead Zone beginning July 12, according to sources. The quasi-repurposing deal -- through which Sci Fi will not show Dead Zone episodes days after their premiere ...