Earlier today, reported on the news that Syfy would be adapting Stephen King’s The Eyes of the Dragon. Syfy has officially announced that project as part of their new development slate, which includes 28 new scripted and reality projects:
“New York – April 24, 2012 – Coming off Syfy’s most watched First Quarter ever in total viewers, Adults 18-34 and key women demos, Syfy and Chiller President Dave Howe today ignited the imagination of the advertising community by unveiling the next phase of the channel’s largest original programming slate in history. This will feature Syfy’s most original primetime hours ever, a record 28 scripted and reality development projects and the 2013 premiere of the highly-anticipated Defiance, the visionary transmedia experience that will unite television and Massive Multiplayer Online (Mmo) gaming for the very first time.
Said Howe: “Syfy’s Upfront celebrates the power of Igniters, our influential audience who has the highly coveted...
“New York – April 24, 2012 – Coming off Syfy’s most watched First Quarter ever in total viewers, Adults 18-34 and key women demos, Syfy and Chiller President Dave Howe today ignited the imagination of the advertising community by unveiling the next phase of the channel’s largest original programming slate in history. This will feature Syfy’s most original primetime hours ever, a record 28 scripted and reality development projects and the 2013 premiere of the highly-anticipated Defiance, the visionary transmedia experience that will unite television and Massive Multiplayer Online (Mmo) gaming for the very first time.
Said Howe: “Syfy’s Upfront celebrates the power of Igniters, our influential audience who has the highly coveted...
- 4/24/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Breaking News: Syfy Announces New Scripted and Reality Programming Including Stephen King Adaptation
Syfy is having its Upfront tonight, during which they present their schedule and slate of projects in development to potential advertisers, and the announcements are flowing. An adaptation of a Stephen King novel into a miniseries, a new Charlaine Harris weekly series, a great movie being adapted into a weekly series, and a whole load of new reality shows may be in our future. Where to begin? We’ll break this down into manageable bites, but have included the entire press release below for your study.
First up, new series! We’ve already told you about some of these, but now we’re getting official word. For scripted series, Syfy is now confirming that Defiance, the series that will affect and be affected by the game of the same name, will be coming in 2013.
All other new series on or soon to be on the schedule are unscripted/reality shows – eight of em!
First up, new series! We’ve already told you about some of these, but now we’re getting official word. For scripted series, Syfy is now confirming that Defiance, the series that will affect and be affected by the game of the same name, will be coming in 2013.
All other new series on or soon to be on the schedule are unscripted/reality shows – eight of em!
- 4/24/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
So what's next for the channel that has given us plenty of things that have gone bump in the night along with more CG monsters than anyone could possibly keep up with? Read on for details of Syfy's "upfront" presentation.
As you'd expect from a network named Syfy, several of these projects are more sci-fi than horror, but we thought we'd pass on all the news anyway:
From the Press Release:
Coming off Syfy’s most watched first quarter ever in total viewers, Adults 18-34 and key women demos, Syfy and Chiller President Dave Howe today ignited the imagination of the advertising community by unveiling the next phase of the channel’s largest original programming slate in history. This will feature Syfy’s most original primetime hours ever, a record 28 scripted and reality development projects and the 2013 premiere of the highly-anticipated Defiance, the visionary transmedia experience that will unite...
As you'd expect from a network named Syfy, several of these projects are more sci-fi than horror, but we thought we'd pass on all the news anyway:
From the Press Release:
Coming off Syfy’s most watched first quarter ever in total viewers, Adults 18-34 and key women demos, Syfy and Chiller President Dave Howe today ignited the imagination of the advertising community by unveiling the next phase of the channel’s largest original programming slate in history. This will feature Syfy’s most original primetime hours ever, a record 28 scripted and reality development projects and the 2013 premiere of the highly-anticipated Defiance, the visionary transmedia experience that will unite...
- 4/24/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Marking its first international format sale, Buena Vista International Television has licensed ABC's The Family to Britain's Channel 4, which will produce its own version of the show, it was announced Monday by Tom Toumazis, senior vp and managing director BVITV, and Nav Raman, Editor Factual Entertainment, Channel 4. The Family recently went out as a nine-part series on ABC, hosted by George Hamilton and produced by Buena Vista Productions. 'The Family' is a reality format in which tough choices have to be made when members of an extended family compete with one another for a large family fortune. The agreement was negotiated for BVITV by Haydn Arndt, head of sales U.K. and Ireland. Toumazis commented: "To license the format of 'The Family' for the first time, to Channel 4, is fantastic news for us. It will be exciting to see how the Channel 4 series develops with a British family competing for the fortune. We at BVITV are very committed to the development of our formats and have recently established a dedicated team to oversee this expansion, headed by our vp of portfolio development, Philippe Maigret."...
- 12/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fox was hot on Wednesday with Paradise Hotel but CBS was hotter with Big Brother 4. Fox won the night in the adults 18-49 demographic (3.3 rating/11 share) thanks to 9 p.m. reality series Paradise (6.8 million viewers and 3.5/11 in adults 18-49) and 8-9 p.m. repeats of That '70s Show (6.3 million, 3.2/12) and The Simpsons (6 million, 3.0/10). CBS led the primetime pack in total viewers (9.2 million) and ranked No. 2 in the demo (3.0/10) with a steady performance throughout the night from 60 Minutes II (9 million, 2.4/9), Big Brother 4 (9.8 million, 3.9/12) and 48 Hours Investigates (8.7 million, 2.8/9). NBC got off to a slow start at 8 p.m. with Race to the Altar (4.7 million, 1.8/7) and the 9 p.m. West Wing rerun (5.2 million, 1.7/5) but things perked up with the 10 p.m. rerun of Law & Order (8.7 million, 3.1/9). ABC's highlight of the night was the spunk showed by the 8:30 p.m. repeat of George Lopez (7.5 million, 3.0/11) which has showed signs of blossoming into a significant player for ABC in its extensive rerun exposure this summer. ABC's lowlights were the second episode of The Real Roseanne Show (4.2 million, 1.8/5) and 10 p.m. reality series The Family (4 million, 1.8/6), which kept the network in last place for the night (5.1 million, 2.1/7).
- 8/14/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
USA Network rode tall in the saddle Wednesday with the premiere of its forensic Western Peacemakers, which ranked as basic cable's most-watched series debut of the year to date and the second-highest original series premiere in basic cable history. Peacemakers, starring Tom Berenger as a federal marshal tasked with patrolling a fictional Western frontier town in the late 1880s, wrangled an average of 5.2 million viewers in its 10 p.m. debut. That was strong enough to make it basic cable's second best-ever original series debut, behind only USA's The Dead Zone, which opened last year with 6.4 million viewers. Peacemakers even outrated the return of the ABC reality series The Family, which averaged 4.7 million viewers in its 9-11 p.m. slot and nearly caught up with NBC's The West Wing rerun (5.5 million).
Comedy is king on ABC's new fall lineup, while reality shows are more akin to knights called up to do battle in particularly treacherous time slots. ABC chairman Lloyd Braun and entertainment president Susan Lyne admitted Tuesday that the network went overboard in the second half of this season by serving up a slew of unscripted series -- Are You Hot? All-American Girl, The Family, I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! etc. -- most of which tanked in the ratings. The 2003-04 season scheduled unveiled by Braun and Lyne at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday afternoon is chockablock with sitcoms, including four newcomers and the return of the TGIF mantle for Friday nights. "We've devoted enormous resources to our comedy development the past two years," Braun said during the presentation, noting that it was the highest number of comedies the network has programmed in four years. He added that the network hoped to expand further to 12 by the end of the 2003-04 campaign.
- 5/14/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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