Sci-Fi

Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

Is the SciFi Channel about to call it a day and finally admit that it’s giving up the sci fi label? That’s the rumor going about these here internets after a fairly revealing question in what seemed like a rote online survey from the channel. Is the home of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica and, um, Extreme…

Television Graeme McMillan Sep 23

So Want We All

There are many, many reasons to wish that you’d worked on Sci Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica: -the critical kudos, the security of being involved in one of television’s best SF shows ever, the possibility of being in the same room as Grace Park at some point – but the wrap party’s special limited edition yearbook…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 21

BSG’s Cylons Were Originally Daleks With Legs

What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica this week than by disillusioning fans? We’ll do that by letting you know just how unoriginal the show’s robotic bad guys really were. It’s not enough that they looked like Darth Vader’s cheaper, silver cousins – now we find out that they were originally…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 19

Has CBS Saved Us From The Worst SF Show Ever?

News broke today that production company Benderspink – the people behind Charlie Jane favorite Kyle XY – have signed a new development deal with CBS, ending their previous partnership with Fox… and hopefully leaving all their Fox shows in development hell. There’s one planned series in particular that we’re hoping will sink without a trace:…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 10

Everyone Loves SciFi

The SciFi Channel had their most successful summer ever, according to a press release issued yesterday. The key shows responsible were, apparently Ghost Hunters International, Scare Tactics, their goofy Saturday night original movies and Eureka, which apparently rules the ratings for anyone between 25 and 54 on a Tuesday night. Weirdly not mentioned at all…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 4

Stimuli 3.0 Lamp Is Perfect for Home, Work, Spaceship

Honestly, we’d have posted the Stimuli 3.0 lamp even if it did nothing special. Just look at it, sitting there all science fiction-y, like some huge alien computer’s vulnerable data core. But it just so happens that the spherical shape and surrounding panels have a specific function, to constantly adjust the lamp’s light levels to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 4

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

I admit it; I didn’t believe it at first, but it’s beginning to look like a hologram is just a hologram, and certain changes made in SciFi Channel’s Eureka recently are really going to stick. Creators of the show have been talking about the permanence of said changes over on the Eureka Unscripted blog, as…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 31

A Trip Down Cheesy Memory Lane with the Sci-Fi Channel

If you like to giggle at Sci-Fi Channel original movies (like the new Ricky Schroeder hellhound saga), you’ll want to take a trip down memory lane and check out the kinds of stuff you could have been laughing at on Sci-Fi back in 1992. (There was the original series “Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion,”…

Television Annalee Newitz Aug 29

Eureka To Get Quieter, But Keep Changing

Think that the end of last week’s Eureka was a shock? That’s just the start, promise the people behind the show – but don’t expect any big special effects until the second half of the season, apparently. The latest from the SciFi Channel’s big brain little town show under the jump – Including spoilers for…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 27

NBC’s Gemini Divison Debuts Windows Mobile 100

I think NBC’s web-only Sci Fi series The Gemini Division is about an alien, or a robot, or an alien robot that somehow got Rosario Dawson to be its girlfriend. I like that. I also like the Rosario somehow got her deliciously moisturized hands on what looks like a “Windows Mobile” phone, which Screen Junkies…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 18

When Are Vampire Stories Science Fiction?

Click to viewBy all rights, vampires should make terrible subjects for science fiction. Your classic Bram Stoker-inspired nosferatu is a rather mystical affair – dead, cursed, and in spiritual exile from the Christian God, achieving immortality through a parody of a sacred sacrament. And yet, writers and filmmakers seem determined to wedge their favorite bloodsuckers…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 17

Retro-Future Poster Punches Retro-Futurism In the Face

As seen on boingboing: this retro-futuristic poster combines everything we knew about the year 2000 back in the 1950s with everything we know about the year 2000 right now. Essential equipment for the “nerd room” in any gadget/tech/science fiction fan’s house. $15 and ships August 15. [Topatoco via Boing Boing]

Gadgets Jason Chen Aug 7

Lifesize Scopedog Mecha Towers Over Iron and Steel Celebration

As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation got ironsmithing genius Kogoro Kurata to display his insane 1:1 scale model of the Scopedog mecha from the 80s anime series VOTOMS. Weighing in at two tons and standing a full four meters tall, it dwarfed everything else at the exhibition. The…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 2

Doctor Who Finale Made Us Miss Last Year’s Tinkerbell Jesus

The Sci Fi Channel aired the season finale of Doctor Who last night, and we wrote a recap of it after it aired in England, which you can read here. I didn’t like it quite as much as last year’s awesome season finale, which was over the top and yet well crafted. This year’s finale,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 2

Images of Terminator Caught In Hi-Res Trailer

So you’ve seen John Connor and you’ve met Marcus Wright, but where are the stills of the robots? Lucky for us, one intrepid Gizmodo reader searched through the Hi-res trailer to find us a good picture of what humanity’s up against. Check out the color corrected version! Is that bot wearing… cargo pants? [Terminator: Salvation…

Movies Elaine Chow Aug 2

SciFi Channel Sells Out Eureka

We’ve already told you that SARAH, the smart house from SciFi Channel’s Eureka, is on Twitter responding to questions and giving out hints about what’s to come in the show’s third season. But that’s nothing compared with the other cross-promotional push that SciFi has in store for the smartest – and now potentially sweetest smelling…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 2

Eureka’s Sheriff Carter Is Codependent Alex Keaton, Star Tells io9

Mad-science-ville show Eureka is back on Sci Fi tonight, and we had a chance to talk to star Colin Ferguson and producer Jaime Paglia the other night. Ferguson shared some insights about why straight-and-narrow sheriff Carter might have so many bohemian relatives. Click through to find out what’s going to be new and different in…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29

Battlestar Galactica Ends With Bullets, Secrets

The one mysterious ingredient in the second half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica? Ass-kicking. In the trailer for the final ten episodes of the show shown at the start of Saturday’s BSG panel at Comic-Con, what stood out most was the artillery displayed by a surprising number of cast members as the show…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 26

Sci Fi Channel To Take Over The World

It seems that Sci Fi isn’t just for television anymore, if the recent move by the Sci Fi Channel to “reach beyond the television screen to become a total global lifestyle brand” is anything to go by. The people behind the Sci Fi Channel have announced the formation of Sci Fi Ventures, a new business…

Television Graeme McMillan Jul 22

Trailer Proves Caprica Shouldn’t Be Tied To BSG

The Sci Fi Channel just released its first trailer for Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica that shows the origins of the Cylons. The trailer shows glimpses of some of the issues the show will raise: about cyber consciousness versus “real” consciousness, and faith versus the randomness of the universe. But watching the trailer, I…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 21

Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

So Want We All

BSG’s Cylons Were Originally Daleks With Legs

Has CBS Saved Us From The Worst SF Show Ever?

Everyone Loves SciFi

Stimuli 3.0 Lamp Is Perfect for Home, Work, Spaceship

Eureka Looks To The Future With New Roles And A Possible ARG

A Trip Down Cheesy Memory Lane with the Sci-Fi Channel

Eureka To Get Quieter, But Keep Changing

NBC’s Gemini Divison Debuts Windows Mobile 100

When Are Vampire Stories Science Fiction?

Retro-Future Poster Punches Retro-Futurism In the Face

Lifesize Scopedog Mecha Towers Over Iron and Steel Celebration

Doctor Who Finale Made Us Miss Last Year’s Tinkerbell Jesus

Images of Terminator Caught In Hi-Res Trailer

SciFi Channel Sells Out Eureka

Eureka’s Sheriff Carter Is Codependent Alex Keaton, Star Tells io9

Battlestar Galactica Ends With Bullets, Secrets

Sci Fi Channel To Take Over The World

Trailer Proves Caprica Shouldn’t Be Tied To BSG

The First Trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Takes Terror Stateside

The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

Samsung’s Micro RGB TVs Provide So Much Color It May Be Too Much

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