Sci Fi TV Highlights: Premiere for Primal Season 3, Update on Mike Flanagan’s Dark Tower Series, and More

Sci Fi TV Highlights: Weekly post looking at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.  The dates and times shown below can change with little to no notice.

Sci Fi TV Premieres:

Primal (Adult Swim): The third season opens with a shocking twist that resurrects Spear in a new form—stripped of memory and humanity—and forces him to roam a brutal, untamed world as a shadow of his former self. As Spear battles savage landscapes and deadly foes, faint echoes of his past begin to stir, leading him toward an emotional and explosive reunion that will test the limits of survival. Premieres Sunday at 11:30 PM EST.

Schedule Notes:

Ghosts is on its Winter hiatus and will be returning with new episodes February 26th. Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for January 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 Jan 5 – Jan 11

Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: TVGuide.com

Highlights for the Week of Jan 12 – Jan 18

Starfleet Academy (Paramount+): NEW SERIES Premieres Wed Jan 15
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO): NEW SERIES Premieres Sun Jan 18

Sci Fi TV News of Note:

Mike Flanagan has indicated that things are moving forward on his television adaptation of Stephen Kings’s The Dark Tower. In an interview with Empire Magazine he said: “It’s moving. We’ve got a lot of scripts done for it. It’s the first priority.” This is something he started on prior to his development deal with Amazon, and it may end up on a different venue, but progress is being made on the series.

Stranger Things actor Randy Haven has insisted that there is not a secret “Snyder Cut” of the fifth season of the show. Apparently, a rumor started to circulate that scenes had been cut after many fans were disappointed with the final season, and an online petition was created demanding the full release of the series. That has since garnered over 350K signatures, but it may all be for naught if there is not any substantial additional footage that was left out of the Season 5 release.

Syfy’s supernatural dramedy SurrealEstate appears to be done for now as co-star Elena Juatco has put up an Instagram post indicating that a fourth season will not happen. That show was previously cancelled after its first season, but the decision was reversed, and it came back for two more years. Whether fans can convince another venue to pick it up remains to be seen. More on that at this link.

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Sci Fi TV Trailers:

The Beauty (FX): When international supermodels begin dying in gruesome and mysterious ways, FBI Agents “Cooper Madsen” (Evan Peters) and “Jordan Bennett” (Rebecca Hall) uncover a conspiracy that threatens the future of humanity. The investigation leads them directly into the crosshairs of “The Corporation” (Ashton Kutcher), who will stop at nothing to protect his trillion-dollar empire. Premieres January 21st.

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