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.
Schedule Notes:
Wrapping up this week is HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms which has its finale on Sunday. That show has already been renewed for a second season. Also, the horror series The Unknowable: Darkland premiered on ScreamBox on February 3rd with little promotion. Four episodes of that one have been released so far, with four more on the way. Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for February 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 Feb 16 – Feb 22
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: TVGuide.com
| Monday February 16 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Tuesday February 17 |
| The Unknowable: Darkland (ScreamBox) Streaming |
| Wednesday February 18 |
| The Beauty (FX) 9:00-10:00 |
| School Spirits (Paramount+) Streaming |
| Thursday February 19 |
| Ghosts (CBS) 8:30-9:00 On Hiatus |
| Starfleet Academy (Paramount+) Streaming |
| Friday February 20 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Saturday February 21 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday February 22 |
| A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO) 9:00-10:00 Season Finale |
| Primal (ADSW) 11:30-12:00 |
Highlights for the Week of Feb 23 – Mar 1
Paradise (Hulu): Season 2 Premiere Mon Feb 23
Ghosts (CBS): Season 5 Returns from Hiatus Thu Feb 26
In the Blink of an Eye (Hulu): Movie Premiere Fri Feb 27
monarch:-legacy-of-monsters (Apple TV): Season 2 Premiere Fri Feb 27
Sci Fi TV News of Note:
A Battlestar: Galactica remake/reboot/revival has been in the works for a while, and according to the Tachyon Pulse Podcast, Universal has once again turned their attention to that. Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) was working on something that was supposed to be in the same universe as the 2003 Syfy reboot, though that appears to have been scrapped during the strikes. But sources say that Universal is currently looking for showrunners and pitches for a new series. There is no indication what direction they want to take with the new series at this point, but a full reboot seems like a definite possibility. You can listen to the full podcast episode at this link.
Also from Tachyon Pulse, Michael Sussman is meeting with Paramount+ execs, and the assumption is that he is pitching Star Trek: United. That is an idea for a series he has championed that would focus on Captain Jonathan Archer in his days as President of the Federation. This could potentially be a mini-series, and the current assumption is that Alex Kurtzman–who has been helming Nu Trek thus far–would not be involved. You can listen to the full episode at this link.
Apple TV has acquired Severance–its most-watched original–and will be bringing it in as an in-house production. This will give the streamer more control over the property, and they are allegedly looking at the show going for around four seasons with possible spin-offs. This will also help them better control the production costs (which skyrocketed in the second season) and hopefully reduce the hiatuses between seasons.
Production has begun on The Mandalorian Season 4 and Skeleton Crew Season 2 even though neither of those shows has received an official renewal from Disney+. The former will likely be contingent on how well The Mandalorian and Grogu performs at the theaters this May. You can read more about these and other shows ramping up in our latest Production Weekly Report post.
I previously reported that Netflix has quietly cancelled its Anime series Terminator: Zero, and the show’s creator Mattson Tomlin has now confirmed that. He had more seasons planned, but viewership was too low, and the streamer decided not to continue the show. They did give Tomlin the option to wrap it up with a few more episodes, but he did not believe that would provide a satisfying resolution.
In scheduling news, the long-awaited series finale for Prime Video’s Good Omens has received a premiere date of May 13th. A six-episode third season was originally planned, but that was condensed into a 90-minute final episode. Also, the premiere of Spider-Noir has been set for May 27th on Prime Video, and you can see the teaser for that below.
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:
Spider-Noir (Prime Video): Set in 1930s New York, Spider-Noir centers on an aging private investigator who is forced to reckon with his former life as the city’s only superhero. The series will be released in both black-and-white and color, leaning into the genre’s classic noir influences. The trailer shows Cage swinging through the city, jumping from cars, beating up crooks in a bar and getting “plastered” afterwards. Premieres May 27th.
You can see more recent sci fi TV trailers r/SciFiTV.
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