Is science fiction sentence on television ? Hell no ! Here are 18 telly series in the line that could recharge your love of the fantastic , including alien invasion , dinosaur , superheroes , time locomotion , super - spy , government conspiracies , zombies and changeling . Minor spoilers onwards .
There ’s no doubt thing are tough . Most SF / fantasy shows are in peril of cancellation this time around . And in the wake of several mellow - profile unsuccessful person , networks are n’t giving skill fiction / fantasy shows much of a luck any more . Phoebe had its first batch of episodes shorten to just four episodes , with a string of hiatuses and changes of showrunner behind the scenes — even though it twist out to be a hit . NBC preemptively slash Day One from a serial publication to a miniseries to a TV movie , and Fox did the same with Virtuality .
It seems a fair bet that Fringe will be back on Fox , V will probably return on ABC , CW will still have Supernatural , Vampire Diaries and probably Smallville , and NBC will have Chuck . On cable , there are still dead on target pedigree , mixed Syfy shows , Batman : B&B and Clone Wars , plus Futurama is come back . Beyond that , what is there to reckon onward to ?
Here are ten shows in the word of mouth that we think could bring science fable and fantasy back to their place of distinction on your boob tube set .
Steven Spielberg ’s untitled exotic encroachment serial , star Noah Wylie . We ca n’t waitress until this show get a title that ’s less of a mouthful . Besides Wylie , this also boast Moon Bloodgood , of Journeyman and Terminator Salvation renown . TNT has already greenlit 10 installment up front . foreigner have already wiped out most of the human slipstream , and they ’re round out up the survivors . But Wylie , a college professor , rally a radical of survivor to oppose back , include his two Son , and Karen ( Jessy Schram ) , one of the radical ’s “ bike pathfinder . ”
No average Family Michael Chiklis ( The Shield ) wizard in this ABC dramatic event about a family break that it has superpowers . And it sound like Chiklis ’ married woman on the show ( who ’s not throw away yet ) is some kind of unbalanced scientist . The showjust cast Autumn Reeser(Entourage ) as the wife ’s laboratory assistant . David Semel , who direct the airplane pilot for Heroes , is directing this one .
La Femme Nikita . The CWjust announce that Maggie Q is in lineto take on the function played by Anne Parrilaud in the original Luc Besson film , Bridget Fonda in the U.S. remaking , and Peta Wilson in the 1997 cable TV serial publication . In the new serial , the CIA trains a new Nikita to replace the master , who has proceed rogue . Creator Craig Silverstein enunciate he wrote the new Nikita as “ beautiful and exotic , ” and he wants to utilize the Asian actress to bout stereotypes ( despite that “ alien ” matter . ) The Hollywood newsman notes that Q ’s casting would be “ the mellow - profile serial publication role for an Asian actress on a broadcast drama serial publication . ”
Betwixt Another CW series , this one is based on the novel by Tara Bray Smith about three Portland , OR teenagers :
During a surrealistic , drug - fill up summer , the three must come to terms with an unbelievable revealing : they ’re all supernatural entities known as changelings . The futures of artistic Ondine Mason , disorder Alaskan runaway Nix Saint - Michael and beautiful , challenging Morgan D’Amici become irrevocably intertwined during a secret rave in the Ellen Price Wood around Mt. Hood . They think they ’ve total to a political party , but a terrific arcane ritual called the Ring of Fire reveals their unfeigned natures as well as their decisive roles in a looming and potentially deadly other - worldy conflict .
I love the fact that they go to a rave and discover their supernatural portion . The TV pilot , just greenlit , is being written by Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants ’ Elizabeth Chandler . So , you sleep with , guilty joy .
Tower Prep and/or Unnatural History . I figure at least one ofthese two alive - natural action showsonthe Cartoon Networkwill turn out to have science fabrication / phantasy elements . Tower Prep is about a rebellious teenager who wake up up to incur himself trap at a inscrutable boarding school that ’s full of arcane secrets , and he has to compute out the school ’s mysteries and escape valve . Paul Dini is producing , plus it sounds like a adolescent The Prisoner , so it should be pretty awesome . abnormal History is about a adolescent , the boy of anthropologists , who moves to Washington , D.C. and explores weird mysteries at the Museum of Natural History .
Riverworld . This Syfy miniseriesfilmed ages ago — weinterviewed star Tahmoh Penikett about itlast summertime — but Syfyjust declare an airdatefor the first episode : Sunday April 18 . Syfy is hoping the miniseries will engender a new on-going series , not unlike Penikett ’s last Syfy serial publication , Battlestar Galactica . Sure , Syfy already made a stab at doing a Riverworld adapatation a few old age ago , but this time Robert Hewitt Wolfe ( Star Trek : Deep Space Nine and Andromeda ) is writing . Also co - starring in the miniseries : Laura Vandervoort ( Smallville , V ) . If this is even remotely as great as Philip Jose Farmer ’s books , then we hope it does become a serial .
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Undercovers . J.J. Abrams is create another new TV series , this time about two married undercover agent . Is it skill fiction ? We do n’t have it off . Given his rail phonograph recording of inclose science fabrication elements into most of his shows , include the spy - focused Alias and even the grievous bodily harm - opera house Felicity , we ’re betting it ’ll be at least somewhat in the “ spy - fi ” music genre . Undercovers is a funniness about a husband - and - married woman undercover agent dyad , Steven ( Boris Kodjoe ) and Samantha ( Gugu Mbatha - Raw ) , who are recalled out of retirement by the CIA , and rekindle their relationship as they investigate different suit every week . Carter MacIntyrejust joined this show ’s cast , as a CIA agent with a boozing problem , who goes absent on assignment . ( There are also a few other new undercover agent / conspiracy show coming on this fall , include NBC ’s The Event , which is about the biggest regime cover - up in U.S. history , involving a “ secret installation in Alaska . ”andRidley Scott ’s Nomads , for the CW . )
Terra Nova . Another Spielberg show , this time for Fox . It ’s about a crime syndicate from 100 age in the hereafter , who travel back in sentence 150 million old age to the sentence of the dinosaurs . Spielberg may in reality aim some of it , and reports intimate that the special effects will be so expensive and awesome , the show may get greenlit as a serial publication decent by , to quash the disbursement of film a pilot , shutting down , and then starting up for the unconstipated serial . dinosaur ! Dude!And as we reported the other day , Spielberg is also reviving his old TV series pitch , Nine Lives , about people who have near - death experience to reconnect with their drained have sex ones .
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Being Human ( U.S. remake ) . For those of you who ’ve been living under a stone , this is a remaking of the acute British drama about a vampire , a loup-garou and a ghost sharing a theatre . Syfy ’s Craig Englertweeted about this remakea mess yesterday , sound out that body of work is work up , and he expect to see a book “ soon - ish . ” Various chirrup followers need the same question we ’ve all been require — why redo the show instead of just show the British version ? Engler replied , “ 1 . We do n’t have the rights 2 . The Brit edition would only get a modest rating on us 3 . The creator need to do an American version . ” In any case , if original creator Toby Whithouse really does stay involved , we ’re all for more Being Human on our screen .
Torchwood ( the U.S. remake ) . Another American revamp of a British show , another original creator in the admixture — since Russell T. Davies displace to Los Angeles , this is reportedly going to be one of his pet projects . We ’d been assuming that this is a remake , starting over from scratch , butthe Guardian seems to believethat Davies might just pick up the tale where it result off at the end of “ Children Of Earth , ” the five - 60 minutes miniseries that aired last year . With the Hub destruct in Cardiff , there ’s no reason for alien - fighting organization Torchwood to be tied to that location any more . So maybe Captain Jack ( and his new young man Alonso ) will just come back to Earth and travel the globe fight goliath ? Will Fox actually let RTD make this show the way he wants to ? We ca n’t wait to discover out .
The Cape . Another superhero show — this NBC show ask a pig who ’s charge of a offence he did n’t put , who turns himself into a superhero to prove his pureness . Simon West , who aim the Human Target original , is on board to direct this one . allot to the Hollywood Reporter , this show will have a “ comic ledger aesthesia . ” No info yet on who ’s starring .
The Walking Dead . Frank Darabontwrites , directs and producesthis adaptation of Robert Kirkman ’s consummate zombie apocalypse comic , in which policeman Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in hunt of a young home . Gale Ann Hurd ( Terminator ) is also producing . In the TV interlingual rendition , Grimes is seriously injured in a police force incident in south Georgia , going into a coma . When he waken , he finds that shit has gotten real while he was out . He goes in search of his family , only to find his neighborhood junk . He finds two subsister , who order him the government was set up a “ refuge zone ” in Atlanta . So he head there alone , to try and see his family .
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A Game Of Thrones . HBO ’s version of George R.R. Martin ’s acclaimed novel series . HBO hasalready greenlit a pilot , starring Sean Bean and Jennifer Ehle , and skip to do seven seasons — one for each novel in the serial . Producer D.B. Weiss articulate it wo n’t be a huge , flamboyant serial with thousands of orcs stampeding across the screen door . Instead , it ’ll delay lawful to the books , and most of the struggle will take blank space offstage .
Gates . This ABC seriesinvolves a big - city bull ( Frank Grillo ) who becomes the tribal chief of police in a “ sleepy plan biotic community ” and discovers there is more to the residents than get together the centre . Luke Mably plays a heart specialist who ’s on the QT a “ vampire - like puppet . ”
Haven . Another rule book adjustment , this Syfy serial is base on the Stephen King novelette about a nervous townspeople in ( where else ? ) Maine , where “ cursed folk ” experience normal lives in exile . The curses start amount back , so FBI agent Audrey Parker is bring in to help rein them in again , while untangling the mysteries of Haven . The yield team all work on The Dead Zone , so this spooky King territory is 2d nature for them .
Star war : The Live - Action Series . Who cognize when we ’ll actually see this ? Plus , of trend , George Lucas ’ previousattemptsat doing live - action Star Wars TV actually made The Phantom Menace front like Citizen Kane . Still , we ca n’t help being excited by the idea of this show — mayhap it ’s the fact that it ’s think to be more noir , focussing on the underbelly of bountifulness hunters and smugglers after the raise of the Empire . Any show that sport a heavy role for Boba Fett ca n’t be all bad . Not to mention , we hope Lucas finds a way to include Jedi - go - rascal Quinlan Vos . Plus there areall those whispersthat Lucas was levy some of Britain ’s good dramatic play writer to pitch in . So have ’s hope it happens .
Plus there are also those rumbles that Joss Whedonis having lunch with the folks at FX , and mayhap pitching them a show . ( And perhaps that miss “ O ” in the connection ’s name will make a vast difference of opinion . ) And Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzmanjust signed a development dealwith Fox , meaning there ’ll be shows coming down the pike from them . So do n’t give up yet ! Television has n’t abandoned you .
Thanks to Nightsurf for suggest a few we ’d overleap originally .
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