Highlights from this past week at The Sci Fi TV Site.
Sci Fi TV News
Showtime has decided not to go forward with the television adaptation of Gattaca which was being helmed by Homeland co-creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. That property will be shopped around to other venues . . . Roland Emmerich is working on a new space opera franchise to be named Space Nation. It will start with an MMORPG and will be followed by a television series and animated shorts.
Read about these and more in the latest Sci Fi TV Week in Review post.
And keep up with the latest news during the week at r/SciFiTV.
Schedule Notes:
There are no premieres for sci fi and fantasy shows this week, but things will start to pick up during the second half of the month, starting with Foundation Season 2 and What We Do in the Shadows Season 5 next week.
See the full listings for the sci fi and fantasy TV shows from the week at this link and you can see all the premieres for July and beyond at this link.
Sci Fi TV Trailers Week
Futurama (Hulu): While delivering pizza on New Year’s Eve 1999, Philip J. Fry is accidentally cryonically frozen and thawed out one thousand years into the future. Season 8 premieres July 24th.
You can see more recent sci fi TV trailers at this link.
CancelledSciFi.com: Keep up with the status updates of all the airing, returning, and upcoming sci fi and fantasy shows for the current season with our Cancellation Watch posts. And be sure to follow the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site for breaking news and updates.
Thank goodness. They really need to stop turning perfectly good films into terrible padded out series.