From Philip Levens (Smallville), Ascension takes place on a self-sustaining generation ship that was launched in a Cold War panic. Initially populated by 600 men, women, and children, the Ascension’s journey is to last for 100 years, with the goal being populating a new world, thereby assuring the survival of the human race. However, halfway into the covert mission, the murder of a young woman causes those aboard to doubt the validity of what their lives have been dedicated to and question the real reason they’re on board the ship in the first place. Could there be an ulterior motive to the Ascension mission that goes beyond population salvation?

Ascension stars Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town) as William Denninger, Captain of the Ascension; Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as Viondra Denninger, William’s dangerous power broker wife who uses her position as leverage in matters on the ship; Andrea Roth (Rescue Me) as Dr. Juliet Bryce, the head doctor on the Ascension and someone whose relationship with their daughter worsens after word of the murder breaks; Brandon P. Bell (Hollywood Heights) as First Officer Oren Gault, tasked with investigating the murder; and Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption) as Harris Enzman, son of the founder of the Ascension mission.

Ascension is set to premiere Monday, November 24th at 9:00 on Syfy.

Will you be watching Ascension? Is this the type of programming that you’d like to see more of from Syfy? Could this miniseries feasibly be transitioned into a weekly series?

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Developed by Rockne S. O’Bannon (Revolution), Kevin Murphy (Caprica), and Michael Taylor (Battlestar Galactica), Defiance centers on the town formerly known as St. Louis, Missouri as it deals with tension between humans and several extraterrestrial races. The series stars Grant Bowler (Ugly Betty), Julie Benz (Dexter), Stephanie Leonidas (MirrorMask), Tony Curran (Gladiator), and Jaime Murray (Warehouse 13).

From Vaun Wilmott (Sons of Anarchy), Dominion takes place in a world 25 years removed from a war between archangels Gabriel (Carl Beukes) and Michael (Tom Wisdom), with the latter having sided with the humans while the former leads a band of lower angels in the battle for supremacy. Resulting from the battle were fortified cities protecting the humans from the angels until the day the prophesied savior of mankind grows into his power. In addition to Beukes and Wisdom, Dominion stars Christopher Egan (Kings), Roxanne McKee (Game of Thrones), Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias), Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Alan Dale (Lost).

Defiance and Dominion are a part of Syfy’s growing scripted slate that will be geared toward harder, more serious pieces of science fiction. The network currently has conspiracy drama The Expanse, alien terrorism drama Hunters, time travel drama 12 Monkeys, adventure drama Killjoys, and mythology drama Olympus all ordered to series and slated to premiere over the next couple of years.

Both Defiance and Dominion will return for their 13-episode new seasons sometime next summer on Syfy.

Will you be watching the next seasons of Defiance and Dominion? Would you like to see the two paired together again next summer? Are you liking this new creative direction that Syfy has been going over the past year or so?

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“We were so impressed by the pilot script from this outstanding and accomplished creative team led by Gale Anne Hurd and Natalie Chaidez that we bypassed the traditional process and greenlit Hunters directly to series,” said Syfy president Dave Howe. This fast-paced and innovative program takes viewers inside a chilling yet all too familiar world.”

Based on Whitley Strieber’s novel Alien Hunter and adapted for television by Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys), Hunters follows a Philadelphia cop as he searches for his missing wife. Along the way, though, he discovers a terrorist cell featuring those who may not be from this world. No casting has been revealed as of yet, though word of who’ll be starring in the project should leak in the coming months.

Hunters joins a growing scripted slate for Syfy, as the network looks to rebrand with harder, more serious-minded science fiction. Among the projects the network has recently ordered to series are futuristic conspiracy drama The Expanse, time travel drama 12 Monkeys, adventure drama Killjoys, and mythology drama Olympus. Syfy has also premiered two original dramas in 2014 with post-apocalyptic angel saga Dominion and zombie drama Z Nation.

Hunters is slated to premiere on Syfy in 2016.

Will you be watching Hunters? Do you think the show will fit in with the rest of Syfy’s scripted programs? Are you a fan of the network’s attempted rebrand?

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The second season takes the series away from Arctic Biosystems, which was destroyed in the first season finale, and places the focus on an outbreak aboard a Windjammer cruise ship. Once the ship crashes following a struggle, the surviving CDC team discovers an island cult that believes they can create a utopian society. The team must then find ways to protect itself from the dangers of the island and from falling into the traps set by the cult, who want nothing more than to recruit new members that they deem worth of their idealized society.

Joining the cast of Helix this season are Steven Weber (Chasing Life) as charismatic cult leader Brother Michael and Matt Long (Lucky 7) as world-class toxicologist Dr. Kyle Sommer. More casting should be announced in the coming months.

The second season of Helix is slated to premiere January 2015. A concrete premiere date will be revealed later this year.

Will you be watching the second season of Helix? How do you think the show will adapt to being out of the Arctic? Where would you like to see the show going during its upcoming second season?

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Syfy has been attempting to claim Thursdays as its new home for scripted programming, with the last scripted series to air on Mondays, the network’s former go-to night, being Warehouse 13 and Metal Hurlant Chronicles this past spring. During the summer, the network aired Defiance and newcomer Dominion on Thursdays, along with recently acquired Starz series Spartacus. Now, the second season of Spartacus (Gods of the Arena) will air at 9:00 and 10:00 on Thursdays following Haven; with Z Nation slated for Fridays, there won’t be a scripted series on Mondays again until limited series Ascension premieres in November.

You can check out two teasers for the fifth season of Haven below.

Will you be watching the fifth season of Haven? Do you think that the switch from 10:00 to 8:00 will help the show in the ratings? Should Syfy be making Thursdays the new home for its scripted programming?

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Lost Girl tells the story of Bo (Silk), a Succubus who feeds off of sexual energy. Since realizing that she’s apart of the Fae, she’s done everything she can to protect those she loves and keep herself unaligned in the on-going war between the Light and the Dark. In addition to Silk, Lost Girl stars Kris Holden-Ried (The Tudors), Ksenia Solo (Black Swan), Zoie Palmer (The Guard), and Rick Howland (Bon Cop, Bad Cop).

The fifth season of Lost Girl is set to premiere December 7th on Showcase in Canada, with its status on Syfy as yet undetermined. While the network picked up fellow Canadian drama Bitten for a second season, no announcement has been made regarding whether the fifth season of Lost Girl will air on American television. You can check out a recap of the fourth season finale of Lost Girl here.

Will you be watching the final season of Lost Girl? Are you disappointed that the show will be ending so soon? How would you like to see Lost Girl conclude Bo’s journey and the journey of those in her inner circle?

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Created by Cameron Porsandeh and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (Outlander), the first season of Helix followed a CDC investigation into an outbreak at an arctic research base. The series stars the likes of Billy Campbell (The Killing), Kyra Zagorsky (Soldiers of the Apocalypse), and Neil Napier (Bullet in the Face).

In addition to his time on the ABC Family drama, Weber has appeared on the likes of Wings, Parenthood, and Murder in the First. He’s the second new addition to Helix this season following the inclusion of Matt Long (Lucky 7) as Dr. Kyle Sommer, a world-class toxicologist and the newest member of the CDC team.

The second season of Helix premieres in early 2015.

Will you be watching the second season of Helix? Do you think the premise for the second season sounds promising? Who else would you like to see join the cast?

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Kicking things off will be the fifth season premiere of Haven Thursday, September 11th at 10:00. It’s a new night for the series, which has been renewed for a 26-episode fifth season, and one that finds Duke fighting to contain the Troubles within him and Nathan facing the possibility that Audrey is gone forever. Replacing Haven on Fridays this fall is zombie drama Z Nation, which showcases a world three years removed from the outbreak of the zombie virus. In the series, which stars the likes of DJ Qualls and Harold Perrineau, a team of unlikely heroes transports the first known case of someone surviving a zombie bite from New York to California, with hope that a cure is on the horizon.

The network will premiere new unscripted series Town of the Living Dead on Tuesday, October 7th at 10:00. The series follows the goings-on in Jasper, Alabama as a group of town residents are determined to complete the zombie movie they’ve been working on for the past six years. Also in the unscripted realm is the 10th season return of Ghost Hunters on Wednesday, October 8th; the team is set to travel to Brunswick, Georgia’s Old City Hall and Elizabeth V. Edwards Elementary School in Barnegat, New Jersey, as well as return to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, over the course of the season.

Highly anticipated miniseries Ascension will be the final fall premiere for Syfy, bowing Monday, November 24th at 9:00. The series tells the story of a space mission launched in the 1960’s that sent hundreds on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension and how, halfway into the mission, a murder could change everything.

Finally, two Syfy movies will be premiering during October – Dark Haul, about a team of guardians tasked with transporting a deadly creature and its human half-sister to a secure location; and Finders Keepers, which stars Jaime Pressly and focuses on a child who becomes obsessed with an evil doll left by the previous occupants of her home.

Thursday, September 11th
10:00 Haven

Friday, September 12th
10:00 Z Nation

Tuesday, October 7th
10:00 Town of the Living Dead

Wednesday, October 8th
9:00 Ghost Hunters

Monday, November 24th
9:00 Ascension

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Based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam feature film and adapted for television by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Nikita), 12 Monkeys tells the story of a time traveler (Aaron Stanford) from the post-apocalyptic future who travels back to present day to locate and destroy the source of a devastating plague. Once he arrives, though, he learns that his mission will be more difficult than he anticipated and could possibly cost numerous innocent lives in order to be completed.

In addition to Stanford, 12 Monkeys stars Amanda Schull (Suits), Kirk Acevedo (Oz), and Noah Bean (Damages). The series is the latest piece in Syfy’s plan to re-embrace harder science fiction, an agenda that began this year with the premieres of Helix and Dominion. Once home to lighter fare like Eureka and Warehouse 13, the network has a six-episode miniseries set aboard a space craft coming this November, with adaptations of The Expanse and The Magicians already in the works.

12 Monkeys is set to premiere January 2015 on Syfy. A concrete premiere date should be released later this year.

Will you be watching 12 Monkeys? Do you think the show will be able to find an audience on Syfy? Are you looking forward to Syfy continuing to re-embrace darker, harder science fiction?

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However, it’s not as if Defiance is in such great shape, not after the E-Rep takeover that has taken the freedom that the town formerly known as St. Louis once enjoyed. With the appointment of calculating, ambitious mayor Niles Pottinger, Earth Republic has the perfect face for their cause leading the way for Defiance, a man who will toe the company line while being strong and savvy enough to handle any potential coup that comes his way. Part of the appeal of Defiance is that anyone and everyone can come to try and make a life for themselves, but in order to get the town back from E-Rep, the citizens of Defiance are going to have to forget the (sometimes) vast difference between them and band together in support of a common cause.

The second season of Defiance premieres tonight at 8:00 on Syfy.

Will you be watching the second season of Defiance? How long will it take Nolan to locate Irisa and bring her back to Defiance? Can the residents of Defiance band together and successfully bring down the E-Rep?

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