The Syfy Channel have been working on a new movie – it’s a remake of The Phantom. As far as superheroes go; he’s been around for a very long time. The comic strip first appeared in 1936. The original Phantom was created by Lee Falk (the same guy who created Mandrake the Magician) and was […]
Syfy’s Periodic Table of The Empire Strikes Back
Hard to believe that The Empire Strikes Back is 30. It is! 30! That’s older than many of the people visiting this blog. Over on SciFi Wire they’ve posted some clever linkbait. Periodic Tables seem to be all the rage – and with this one we’ve got the Periodic Table of The Empire Strike Back. […]
Was V the last program shown on Sci FI UK or the first of SyFy UK?
It might just be that V isn’t drawing in the audience numbers in America that it needs in order to survive. Nevertheless, V has a touch of immortality to it in the UK due to key role is played in SyFy’s rebranding. The date that Sci Fi UK became SyFy UK was Tuesday April the […]
The Ghost Who Walks: SyFy’s The Phantom
SyFy are bringing us a mini-series for a re-imagined The Phantom. Yup; that purple clad hero of old. Once again they’ve teamed up with RHI Entertainment for this modern retelling. RHI are the people who worked with SyFy on Tin Man, the Wizard of Oz re-telling that featured Zooey Deschanel and Alan Cumming. The new […]
Fringe’s Brown Betty pictures; the musical episode
Brown Betty is the musical episode of Fringe. Yep; they sing in Fringe. Thanks to Patrick Lee at SciFi Wire we get to peak at some of the pictures from this musical version. SciFi Wire is the blog for SyFy. I don’t know if it’ll become SyFy Wire but, so far, I’m glad it’s kept […]
Yup @doctorparadox interviews @feliciaday Gorgeous
Imagine fighting over a so-busy club in order to talk to someone. You’re using your elbow to defend your space. Everyone else is talking. Loudly. If you can cope with that then you must see Mashable’s interview with geek darling Felicia Day at the Streamys Awards. Mashable focuses on social media. I recommend the site. […]
Analytics experts say SyFy rebranding is a success
Here in the UK the Sci-Fi channel are running ads to let us know they’ll becoming the SyFy channel. Of course, that’s already happened in the US and we’ve already had news of branding experts calling the channel’s risky tactic a success. But what do branding experts know? Show me cold, hard stats or show […]
SyFy moves us Three Inches
The SyFy channel (still called SciFi here in the UK; for now) has commissioned a 90 minute pilot of a “super” hero show called Three Inches. Remember when people poked fun at series 1 of Heroes? People with un-super powers? Well. That’s Three Inches. The pilot focuses on Walter, a daydreamer who gets hit by […]
Felicia Day in SciFi’s Red promo picture
SciFi (aka SyFy in the US) have cast Felicia Day in their modern day Red Riding Hood re-imagination. It’s a great bit of casting. Day is from a family of Werewolf hunters who ends up trying to save her fiance.
Dragonlance gets new Diamond deal
Margaret Weis Productions – the people behind Dragonlance, the Serenity RPG (as based on Joss Whedon’s masterpiece), the Supernatural RPG (as based on the TV series) and the Battlestar Galactic RPG (SyFy’s heroic success story) – have signed Diamond Comic Distributors as global, English language, distributors. For books the deal is an exclusive one and […]
