Sci Fi Channel unveils its new projects

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HJERMSTED

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 9:47 PM

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-04/01/13.15.sfc

Some of these shows sound potentially expensive. Most of them sound potentially cheesy.

Makes me wonder why Sci Fi really turned down Firefly. Too good?

mattro

SLOWSMURF

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 9:55 PM

Oh yeah...they all sound great...

Anyone catch this in the stargate one:

Quote:
...new team travels to a distant universe...

SARAHETC

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 10:06 PM

Suture Girl?! No, seriously. Suture Girl?

Lame, lame, lame, lame all kinds of lame.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

AONEALL

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 10:14 PM

Since when has demonic posesion, coming back from the dead or selling your soul to the devil had anything to do with science fiction?

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 10:30 PM

Don't forget Dead Lawyers.

"...Jimmy Quinn, who is run over by a bus and finds himself in a law firm composed of unscrupulous lawyers who must return from the dead..."

Yeah, cause I'm sure a lot of people can relate to working with lawyer zombies then having to go through the hassle of coming back to life. Why didn't I think of that?

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

LOSTANGEL

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 10:42 PM

Let's go through them:

•Dead Lawyers. one-hour series, about hotshot defense attorney Jimmy Quinn, who is run over by a bus and finds himself in a law firm composed of unscrupulous lawyers who must return from the dead to redeem themselves by defending everyone they screwed when they were alive—pro bono!

I can understand why this is on Sci-Fi, lawyers would consider this their worst nightmares! Sounds like that sci-fi made for tv movie where all the cowboys who went to purgatory went. I think it had markie marks' brother in it. that was a good movie, everyone was named after plants. I don't have as much faith for this, unless it's a comedy.

•The Divide. This mystery series centers on a bogus radio psychic who discovers that his abilities are real when he is visited by the ghost of his twin sister. With the aid of a coroner, the team solves crimes.

Sounds like Crossing Jordan meets Madam Cloe.

•Legion. about a young man who sells his soul to the devil to save his daughter's life and finds out that he must leave his family and wander the world with the ability to recognize other demonically possessed souls.

then what? Do they get together and go bar hopping? Maybe a little demonic kareoke?

•Stargate: Atlantis. a new team in the Stargate SG-1 universe. A secret base left by the originators of the Stargate is found in the most unlikely of places: on Earth, buried within the ruins of the legendary civilization of Atlantis. A new team travels to a distant universe, where they find a primitive human civilization threatened by a sinister new enemy.

Soon to be followed with Stargate: Miami.

•Painkiller Jane. Based on the Event Comics series, this superhero series focus on a young marine officer, Jane Browning, who is exposed to a biochemical weapon that changes her genetically, endowing her with incredible self-healing powers. She becomes an ultra-covert agent fighting crime while struggling to remain free from those who would now use her gifts for sinister purposes.

Sounds like Dark Angel, and I never watched Dark Angel! But seriously, this also sounds like the Bionic Woman, the 6 Million Dollar Man, and any psychic to come onto a science fiction show. The originality of this network just leaves me speechless.

•Clive Barker's The Evil One. told from the perspective of an evil demon, in which the forces of good and evil do battle each week.

This actually sounds like something I would watch. You never see the bad guy's POV. This is actually something with promise. I'm now going to check to see if anyone's seen any flying pigs, or if anyone know's Hell's temperature.

•Total Eclipse. This series centers on Jeremy Cross, a new teacher at Greylock College, who discovers that the school is a nexus of the supernatural, where the faculty's IQ increases annually, intelligent wolves roam the forests and research deals with time travel, ESP and anything else on the edge of science.

Buffy goes to college. oh yeah, she went to college. This could be the college that Willow would have gone to if she didn't follow Oz and the Scoobies.

•Suture Girl. Developed from the Gretchen Culver character in the Spawn comic-book series, this series centers on a former advertising executive who was murdered by a serial killer and finds herself stitched back to life and imbued with special powers by a mysterious gypsy woman. Suture becomes a voice for the oppressed and a court of last resort as she fights evil with the help of a handsome crusading lawyer.

OK, they're not even trying anymore.

Tried to be nice, but then the meds wore off and the sarcasm gene kicked in.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

LJC

Tuesday, April 1, 2003 11:32 PM

um, guys?

I'm pretty sure it's April 1st today.

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

KAYTHRYN

Wednesday, April 2, 2003 12:05 AM

Please lord let it all be a prank.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, April 2, 2003 12:47 AM

Gawd, lets hope its a prank, I'm 30 secs from pitching out my T.V.

And I was gonna get me an ear!!!

GINOBIFFARONI

Wednesday, April 2, 2003 12:47 AM

Gawd, lets hope its a prank, I'm 30 secs from pitching out my T.V.

And I was gonna get me an ear!!!

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