TV Tidbits: Ray Bradbury Developing Six-Hour Miniseries, SyFy Launching Comedy Series Outer Space Astronauts, Current TV Gets Dumbed Down

Posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 by Devindra Hardawar

Even though legendary sci-fi author Ray Bradbury is ready to say “To hell with the Internet!”, it appears he’s willing to give television a bit more leeway. The author has signed on to develop a six-hour miniseries which will feature six of his short stories, each by a different director. The adapted stories aren’t known yet since each director will get to choose their favorite. The project is currently being shopped around to different networks—though if SyFy doesn’t snap this up, ima have to choke an Ewok.

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SyFy Looking For the Next Great Space Opera

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 by Russ Fischer

It’s going to take me a while to get used to SyFy, the terrible new name for the SciFi Channel, but while I’m wrangling with that very small adjustment the heads of the network are up to a bigger task: looking for the replacement for Battlestar Galactica and Farscape. Quite a task, since Farscape was the core geek magnet, while Battlestar broke out into the mainstream. The network wants another large-scale ’space opera’ to anchor its lineup, basically one science fiction ring to rule them all, and (thankfully) doesn’t see Caprica as the thing. io9 talked to Mark Stern, creative director of original programming at SyFy, to get some insight. Read More »