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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Chris Regina, Senior Vice President, Programming, Syfy, said: “Z Nation is a unique new journey into the long established zombie genre. Instead of existential despair, the series offers hope that somehow, some way, humanity will not only survive, but triumph. In producing their first ever weekly series, our long-time partners The Asylum have created a different way of telling an iconic story.”

From The Asylum (Sharknado), Z Nation takes place in a world where the zombie virus has gutted the human population for three years. A team of everyday heroes is tasked with transporting the only known survivor of the plague across the country to a lab where his blood would be studied and a cure would be sought. However, what the team handling him doesn’t know is that he has a secret that threatens each and every one of them. No casting has been announced as of yet.

It’s been a busy time for Syfy, as the network has quickly been replenishing its ranks following the conclusion of Being Human. The network has recently picked up a second season of Ron Moore’s Helix, as well as ordered mythology drama Olympus, space opera event series Ascension, and an adaptation of Bruce Willis feature 12 Monkeys to series. The next new scripted series the network will debut is Dominion, an adaptation of 2010 feature Legion, on Thursday, June 19th.

Z Nation will premiere sometime this fall on Syfy.

Will you be watching Z Nation? Do you think all the recent series orders mean bad things for Bitten and Lost Girl? Are you excited about Syfy going back to harder science fiction in the vein of Battlestar Galactica?

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