A couple of days ago Syfy announced that in top of renewing Being Human for a third season, they’re also renewing the special effects competition series, Face Off, for a third season also.
Again, TV ratings spoke oodles. The second season premiere of Face Off pulled in 2.5 million viewers, translating to 1.52M adults 18-49 and 1.31M adults 25-54. The first two episodes of the season pulled in the most viewers ever, during the run of this TV series.
To be honest, it is an amazing series to watch and you can learn a lot about what goes on behind the scenes of movies where your favorite monsters roam the Earth, looking for tender viddles of human morsels to devour!
This latest episode I watched, the artists transformed their models into animal plants… this wasn’t their best episode for results, and a few were things that looked like even I could have pulled them off. (Well, probably not, but from my couch, hey, anything seems possible.)
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That was quick! It’s been announced today that the Syfy network, an offshoot of Comcast owned NBC, has put in a renewal order for Being Human, the supernatural drama starring Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath and Sam Huntington as vampire Aidan, ghost Sally and werewolf Josh who share the creature comforts of home in a Boston brownstone.
The new season will also be a 13-episode season, like this present second season is.
These three unique roommates struggle in their day-to-day lives to keep their supernatural secrets and resist individual temptations as they strive to live lives that are as near to normal as possible.
The order comes on the heals of a large TV ratings increase after only 4 episodes of the second season of the show.
“To date, viewership for the second season has increased by an impressive +27% in Adults 18-49, +35% in Adults 25-54 and +15% in total viewers.”
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In the upcoming episodes of Merlin, Being Human and Lost Girl on Syfy, Merlin finds himself struck down in a conflict between some men and the King’s men. Sally, in Being Human, scares the boys because she’s looking so pale and in the sexy sci-fi series, Lost Girl, Bo has a chance to learn about her past when a Dark Fae with a problem comes calling.
Check out the sneak peeks below…
Merlin – Airs – Friday, February 10th @ 10/9c
‘A Servant of Two Masters’ – Sneak Peek
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This is the season of Hollywood awards shows. Some folks love the award shows and others seem to have tenuous, strained relationships with their televisions while the awards shows are on because sometimes, that’s all that’s on. No one wants to really compete with some of the various awards shows.
Que the Syfy channel to the rescue! Yes, I just said that because Syfy has scheduled some theatrical movie marathons for the award days.
If you’re dreading Sunday, February 12th, the Syfy Grammy programming schedule wil start at 10 AM and run through to 5:30 AM the following morning. This TV movie marathon will feature End of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If the Oscars aren’t your thing, Syfy will start it’s theatrical movie marathon at 10:30 AM and run through to 5 AM the next morning. Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse will be featured, starting at 7 PM.
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Has Sanctuary Been Canceled By Syfy? To be honest, fans have no hard evidence via press reports or Twitter slips by any of the cast or crew of Sanctuary. But fans are wondering and circumstantial evidence seems to be adding up.
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There is speculation out on the web that the Syfy series Sanctuary may not be coming back for a fifth season on the Comcast owned, NBC subsidiary network. And in the wake of how the much beloved Eureka TV series was canceled, making the upcoming fifth season in 2012 of Eureka its last, the speculations have me wondering.
This article was sparked around by a readers’ email I received today and I thought that they brought up some good points that I’d share with you, my readers. In addition, I slap out a few more tidbits that I dug up out on the web.
The reader points will be labeled ‘RP.’
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RP: The Syfy network has had nothing to say about another season for Sanctuary.
Yep… no news is usually good news and with the Syfy network, they tend to stall their announcements to as late as possible with any of their programming.
I’ve touched no this previously, surmising that when other other networks already know their lineups, Syfy usually waits to make their announcements. I think it’s a marketing game because I can’t imagine any business like a TV cable network not knowing their schedule so few months ahead of time.
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RP: The title of the season (series?) finale “Sanctuary for None” is the exact opposite of the series beginning “Sanctuary for All.” There was no cliffhanger ending.
Can’t disagree with the observation! I like it.
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Though I rally against most of the reality TV programming out there, I have to speak towards one of Syfy channel’s unscripted series, called Face Off.
Face Off is a reality competition for special-effects make-up artists who compete in various challenges against each other, testing their skills, in both detail, quality and expediently created products.
The contestants go through challenges that are not just for show, but give the viewers an incredible insight towards what goes into the details of creating the monsters and fairies of fantasy that grace our movie and TV screens. Like it’s been said, the devil is in the details. And sometimes, we even get to see the devil.
And many of their creations are amazing to behold when all is said and done.
And the judging of the challenges comes from talented artists at the top of their game today.
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I know you were curious, right? Well, for all 15 or 20 of you that might be interested, (I know you care!) the other weekend when Syfy channel aired “The Syfy Saturday Original Movie” Swamp Volcano, starring Rachel Hunter and Brad Dourif, pulled in just over the usual average number of viewers for a Saturday night original movie on Syfy…
Syfy averages around 2 million viewers on their Saturday night movie programming and Swamp Volcano pulled in just over that, with 2.17 million total viewers on its premiere night. That’s right, if you watched, you were part of a 2 million person party. 724k adults, ages 25-54 were part of that demographic.
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In Swamp Volcano, oil rig drillers in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally hit an underground lava flow, causing a massive volcano to form in Miami. A volcanologist and her sister attempt to blow the whistle on an illegal oil drilling scheme before it sets off the eruption that will destroy civilization. Swamp Volcano was a production of Bullet Films.
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This is a TV review of Swamp Volcano (AKA Miami Magma) Original Saturday Night movie on Syfy. It stars ex-model Rachel Hunter (Gravity), Melissa Ordway (In Time, Escapee), Cleavant Derricks (Sliders) and acting veteran Brad Dourif (Catch .44, Priest; on TV: Deadwood).
Swamp Volcano (AKA Miami Magma) was produced by Activity Film Services and directed by Todor Chapkanov (Monsterwolf). It was written by Declan O’Brien (Wrong Turn 3 & 4; Sharktopus). [I keep saying aka because it's referred to in IMDb as Miami Magma.]
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Swamp Volcano starts out on Syfy looking and sounding like an older TV show, my first thought was Miami Vice, but that opening was better. (I was starting to worry right away, but things settled down for me.) Then we switch to a dad video chatting with his daughter and wife on his smart phone. He’s on a Holter Energy drilling rig (called Trans Ocean Alpha) when a funky computer read out suggested they should stop drilling but of course, they argue about it until they try to shut down. But it’s too late and the rig runs into trouble. As in volcanic trouble and blows up… in a tiny CGI explosion.
(Oh dude, you’re supposed to put the life vest on, then dive in… not throw the life vest in and dive after it!)
The movie distinctly looks/feels like it was filmed on tape! It’s got that fuzzy, noisy sound.
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If you were hanging out here around Cinema Static on Brusimm.com Monday night or Tuesday morning, you might have caught my not-so-rosy season premiere review of Syfy’s Lost Girl. But like many others, we all tuned in to see what the show was all about.
The TV ratings for Lost Girl showed that 1.47 million viewers tuned in to catch the series premiere episode of this Canadian sci-fi hit, pulling in a 1.2 HH rating.
Airing before Lost Girl was the 2nd season premiere of Being Human, which pulled in 1.8M viewers, with a 1.3 HH.
For Syfy, those look like good numbers, especially in the market of VoD and online streaming… I fully expect Being Human to pull in solid numbers but I am going to wait and see what numbers we see for subsequent episodes of Lost Girl before committing, though I would not be surprised if the numbers take a dive.
Did you know that the executive producers of Being Human are Michael Prupas (The Kennedys), Jeremy Carver (Supernatural) and Anna Fricke (Men in Trees, Everwood) who are both writers/showrunners, Adam Kane (The Mentalist, Heroes), and Rob Pursey and Toby Whithouse.
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This is a quick TV review and recap of the series premiere (and season premiere) of Lost Girl on the Syfy channel
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In the first 25 minutes (that includes ad time) of the season premiere of Lost Girl, we learn that our main character does not know what she is, she kills by kissing, she coerces humans via touch, there are two groups of meta-humans or creatures that seem to control what these entities do in their neighborhoods or regions or what ever.
They are called Fay…
We also get an EYE-FULL of close-ups of legs, butt, more leg and more butt. Yea, this guy is hooked for the moment. I see why this show could be popular, even if it does spell everything out in the first 25 minutes.
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