Sci Fi TV Highlights: A look at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.
Sci Fi TV Premieres This Week:
The Spiderwick Chronicles (The Roku Channel): Upon leaving New York and moving to Michigan and into their run-down ancestral home—The Spiderwick Estate—with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate, fantastical world. All episodes will be available for viewing on Friday.
Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for April and beyond at this link. The two-week view of the schedule is available here.
Prime Time Sci Fi TV Listings for the Week of Apr 15 – Apr 21
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday April 15 |
| Star Trek Discovery (Showtime) 8:00-9:00 Encore Run |
| Tuesday April 16 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Wednesday April 17 |
| Not Dead Yet (ABC) 8:30-9:00 |
| Chucky (Syfy/USA) 9:00-10:00 |
| American Horror Story (FX) 10:00-11:00 |
| Star Wars The Bad Batch (Disney+) Streaming |
| X-Men 97 (Disney+) Streaming |
| Thursday April 18 |
| Ghosts (CBS) 8:30-9:00 |
| Star Trek Discovery (Paramount+) Streaming |
| Friday April 19 |
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (Roku) Streaming Series Premiere |
| Saturday April 20 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday April 21 |
| Krapopolis (FOX) 8:30-9:00 |
| Beacon 23 (MGM+) Streaming |
Sci Fi TV News of Note:
Kit Harington has announced that the Game of Thrones spin-off series that would have focused on Jon Snow will not be going forward at HBO. He would have starred in and executive produced the show, but the decision was made to put the project on hold for now:
In development, you look at every angle, and you see whether it’s worth it. And currently, it’s not. Currently, it’s off the table, because we all couldn’t find the right story to tell that we were all excited about enough. So, we decided to lay down tools with it for the time being. There may be a time in the future where we return to it, but at the moment, no. It’s firmly on the shelf.
HBO currently has the prequel series House of the Dragon heading into its second season and the Dunk and Egg series The Hedge Knight: A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms in the works.
Another revival of the 2006 series Heroes is in the works and the show’s original creator is onboard again. To be titled Heroes: Eclipse, this one will take place years after the events of the original series as a new group of people discover they have extraordinary powers. There is no word at this point on whether characters from the original series will make an appearance in the revival. There is also no indication on whether this will be pegged as an “event series” like 2015’s Heroes Reborn (though that ended on a cliffhanger) or if it will be approached as an ongoing series. A network has not been announced, but expect the show to be attached to NBC or Peacock.
In renewal and cancellation news, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has been picked up for a second season by Apple TV+ and more MonsterVerse spin-offs could be in the works. Paramount+ has renewed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds through its fourth season ahead of its third-year premiere, and Lower Decks will be ending with it upcoming fifth season.
In production news, James Gunn has announced that the second season of Peacemaker has started filming and that could put it on target for a late-2024 or early-2025 premiere.
Keep up with the latest sci fi TV news and discuss current and past shows at r/SciFiTV and stay up to date on the status of all the current sci fi and fantasy shows with our Cancellation Watch posts.
Sci Fi TV Trailers
Dark Matter (Apple TV+): The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself. Premieres May 8th.
You can see more recent sci fi TV trailers at this link.
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