Sci-Fi TV

Checking in on a strong 'Fringe' season

It took the "Fringe" creative team a very long time to figure their own show out, but they have - by embracing what the show is rather than what they wish it could be. When "Fringe" was introduced two and a half years ago, its producers seemed afraid of the fact that they were making a science fiction show with an ongoing storyline. They wanted the series to be accessible to a wide audience, and both sci-fi and serialization have become a network TV kiss of death, particularly on FOX. So they told some stories that only kinda-sorta dealt with the kind of freaky fringe science that heroine Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) was assigned to investigate. And they presented a lot of flat standalone episodes that were only watchable because of the kooky, compelling performance by John Noble as cracked scientist Walter Bishop.

Sci Fi Ready To Launch 'Stargate' Telefilms

Sci Fi will keep the Stargate TV franchise soaring with the premieres of two films on back-to-back Fridays.

Stargate:The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, both of which have taken their runs in the DVD market, will make their U.S TV premieres on March 27 and April 3, respectively. Both movies will bow at 9 p.m. (ET).

Battlestar Galactica heads for the finish line on Sci-Fi Network

"Battlestar Galactica" cast member Kate Vernon says she gets a strange feeling as she watches the final episodes of the popular Sci-Fi Network series tick off.

She plays Ellen Tigh, a recurring character who was killed in season three but returned for this season to be revealed as the fifth Cylon, which for the fans was a huge twist.

"Over the years, they would call me, I called them, and I'd go shoot all of these episodes, and now it's over," Vernon told the Daily News. "There's sort of a ghost memory - my phone should ring and I should be going back."

But she's not, nor is anyone else on the show.

SCI FI PRESENTS U.S. TELEVISION PREMIERE OF TWO 'STARGATE' FILMS THIS SPRING

Fans of the hit Stargate television franchise will rejoice this spring when SCI FI presents the U.S. premiere of the two highly successful films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. Beginning on Friday, March 27 at 9 PM/ET, get set for The Ark of Truth and then tune in on Friday, April 3 at 9 PM/ET for Continuum.

ABC greenlights sci-fi pilot

The visitors are back. ABC has officially greenlit a pilot for its reworking of "V," the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards coming down to Earth (Daily Variety, Oct. 10).

New adaptation of the franchise was written by "The 4400" co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters. Peters is aboard to exec produce along with HDFilms principal Jason Hall. Warner Bros. TV, which was behind the original longform, is producing.

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