If you watched the premiere of Defiance on Monday night, and if you posted about that on a social networking site, you were not alone. Not only did one of Syfy's biggest and most ambitious undertakings to date bring in [...]
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Two TV Spots Take Us UNDER THE DOME
This summer is really shaping up to be a great one for Our Kind of TV. We'll be seeing the return of, amongst others, Teen Wolf, Falling Skies, Zero Hour, and True Blood, plus new shows Primeval New World and [...]
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First Trailer Released for Ronald D. Moore’s Syfy Series HELIX
Last night during the excellent premiere of Defiance, Syfy launched the first trailer for upcoming Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) series Helix. We've been telling you about Helix, and Syfy mentioned it last week during their upfronts; it was given [...]
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Weird Creepy Excellent New TEEN WOLF TV Spot is Here
It's time for the first Season 3 Teen Wolf TV spot, so that means it's also time for me to click PLAY on the loop that says, over and over again, "Teen Wolf the series IS NOT Teen Wolf the [...]
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Programming Update – REVOLUTION Pre-empted
Revolution fans, please note that NBC will be airing a news special about the Boston incident at 10/9c tonight, pre-empting the originally-scheduled new episode of Revolution. If the pre-empted episode is moved to any date other than next Monday, we'll [...]
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SciFi Mafia Talks With the Stars of DEFIANCE, Premiering Tonight
Excellent, it's finally premiere day for Syfy's enormously ambitious new series Defiance. We've been waiting for this for nearly two years. Make sure to check out our review published earlier here at SciFiMafia.com, but in short, it was worth the [...]
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Featurette, Clip, and TV Spot Reveal REVOLUTION Past and Future
I hope you're not one of those people who watched the first half of the first season of Revolution and never came back, because it has REALLY picked up. Answers and action abound! If you don't have time to watch [...]
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TV Review: Defiance, Episodes 1-3
Genre: Sci-Fi | Adventure | Drama Air Date/Time: April 15 at 9/8c Network: Syfy Director: Scott Stewart, Michael Nankin Writers: Rockne O'Bannon, Michael Taylor, Kevin Murphy Summary: On Monday, April 15 at 9/8c, Syfy will present the series premiere of the highly-anticipated transmedia event, Defiance. Defiance is an epic drama [...]
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New GAME OF THRONES Characters Featurette and More to Help Prep for the New Episode
"We're still casting more than we're killing," says Game of Thrones co-showrunner D.B. Weiss, and we have the featurette that makes a good case. It's a wee bit spoilery, if you're sensitive to such things, as it includes some storylines [...]
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Featurette, Clip and TV Spot Keep Us Warm for the DOCTOR WHO Cold War to Come
We've had our first Doctor Who "regular" Clara episode now, meaning a Clara episode that wasn't a first appearance or a special or a midseason premiere; what did you think? Are we thinking that little "not a ghost" bit was [...]
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New ORPHAN BLACK Featurettes, Clip and TV Spot Prep Us for the Excellent New Episode
Hopefully you've seen the first two episodes of excellent new series Orphan Black on BBC America. If you felt that the second episode was slightly less twisty or fast-paced than the first, don't worry, because Saturday's new episode definitely moves [...]
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Miniseries Adaptations of RINGWORLD and CHILDHOOD’S END Coming to Syfy
Here's more news from Syfy's Upfront presentation Wednesday night. Syfy is the source of some of my favorite miniseries, so it's always great news to learn that more are coming. This press release announces book-to-miniseries adaptations of Larry Niven's Ringworld [...]
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