Fall 2003 Highlights: Space

Highlights of the 2003-2004 season.

Ismé Bennie, Director of Programming and Acquisitions, announced today SPACE: The Imagination Station’s fall 2003 line-up. “SPACE continues to expand its schedule. We are delighted to introduce the Monday-to-Friday strip runs of Canadian sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 and PSI-Factor, and the terrific daily double strip of Angel paired with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. New season episodes of Angel and Enterprise will continue weekly, and contemporary classics such as V have been added into the mix.”

The new additions to SPACE’s fall line-up also include the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, a remake of the classic series; James Cameron’s Dark Angel; the “sci-fi western” Firefly; Sci-fi Network’s The Chronicle; and Tekwar, a series based on books by William Shatner. Add these to our returning series – Enterprise, Angel, The Dead Zone, Alienated and Starhunter – and you need not look further for your fix of the paranormal, edgy, scary, creepy and fun! SPACE is truly the boutique station for all those who dare to challenge their imagination.

NEW PROGRAMS:
* Dates and times are tentative

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – THE MINISERIES
Canadian Television Premieres
Coming in January
The beloved 1980s TV series returns in this four-hour miniseries. Fleeing the aliens responsible for the slaughter of their homeworld, the Battlestar Galactica survivors must meet a whole new set of challenges. Filmed in Vancouver, this intriguing twist on a classic includes a female Starbuck played by Katee Sackoff.

STARGATE SG-1
Coming in September
Colonel Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and his SG-1 team set out to explore the mysteries of the Stargate. Each mission through the gate takes the SG-1 team to new worlds in a seemingly boundless universe.

PSI FACTOR
Coming in November
Hosted by Dan Ackroyd, this television series chronicles selected case studies of the fictional Office of Scientific Investigation and Research. Topics studied include telemetry, ufology, nanotechnology, agronomy and more.

FIREFLY
Coming in September
Set 500 years in the future in the wake of a universal civil war, Firefly tells the tale of Serenity, a small transport spaceship without a homeport. Lead by renegade Captain Malcolm Reynolds, the Serenity crew must fly to the border planets to keep away from the Alliance and below it’s radar. Stars Canadian-born Nathan Fillion.

DARK ANGEL
Coming in September
In the year 2019 the U.S. has become a third world country in the wake of the Pulse – an electromagnetic shockwave unleashed by nuclear terrorists in 2009. This is Max’s world, an unforgiving place even for a genetically engineered soldier like her. On the run from her creators and constantly in search of her past, Max joins forces with the idealistic cyber-journalist “Eyes Only.” She’s a revved-up girl trying to make a run-down world a better place. Stars Jessica Alba.

THE CHRONICLE
Coming in September
Tucker Burns is a recent graduate of Columbia’s School of Journalism. Problem is, after a key lapse in judgment, his credibility and career are in the gutter. To pay the bills, Tucker is forced to take a job at a tabloid newspaper, The Chronicle. Having always believed the stories in The Chronicle to be fabricated, Tucker discovers, to his disbelief, that reports in the Chronicle are all true. Stars Chad Willett, Rena Sofer, Reno Wilson, Jon Polito and Curtis Armstrong.

TEKWAR
Every Saturday @ 6pm ET
Beginning August 9
In the year 2045 the world is very different: virtual reality has been perfected, the weather can be completely controlled, and organized crime is causing destruction via the trafficking of a highly addictive brain stimulant called “tek.” Tekwar is based on books by William Shatner, who also appears in the series.

V
Every Sunday @ 7pm ET
Beginning in September
Visitors from a faraway planet invade Earth and appear disguised as humans, offering their friendship and advanced technology to those on Earth. Mike Donovan (Marc Singer) and Dr. Julie Parrish (Faye Grant) lead a small resistance of rebels who are determined to uncover their secrets.

RETURNING PROGRAMS:

ENTERPRISE
All-new season 3 – Sunday nights @ 8pm ET
Premieres this September/October
Set in the 22nd century, nearly 150 years before James T. Kirk, Enterprise takes place during the early pioneering days of deep space exploration, when interstellar travel is in its infancy and the United Federation of Planets is still decades away. Stars Scott Bakula.

ANGEL
All-new season 5 – Thursday nights @ 9pm ET
Premieres this September/October
Academy and Emmy Award-nominated writer Joss Whedon and executive producer David Greenwalt continue to humorously explore the twists and turns of young adulthood set against a backdrop of supernatural adventure in the fifth season of Angel. Stars David Boreanaz.

And beginning in September, fans can get a double dose of Joss Whedon’s hit series Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel with back-to-back episodes every weeknight on SPACE.

THE DEAD ZONE
All-new Season 2
Premieres this September
A unique psychological thriller based on the characters and story from the best-selling Stephen King novel The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith has been leading an idyllic small-town existence… until the day his life is interrupted by a near fatal car crash that leaves him in a deep coma. Six years later, Johnny regains consciousness and discovers that life as he once knew it has completely changed.

ALIENATED
All-new Season 1 – Premieres July 8
All-new Season 2 – Premieres Winter 2004
Abduction meets dysfunction when the Blundell family has to deal with the bizarre effects of alien experimentation. An offbeat, half-hour, sci-fi comedy series produced by Brightlight Pictures, and funded in part by CHUM Television.

STARHUNTER
All-new Season 2
Premieres this August
The year is 2300. Human beings have abandoned Earth in droves and have spread throughout the solar system and nearby stars. Starhunter tells the evolving story of Travis Montana and his band of misfit bounty hunters who relentlessly pursue the most ruthless criminals in the solar system.

SPACE ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS:

HYPASPACE WEEKLY
Saturdays @ 9am ET / Sundays at 5pm ET
A SPACE Original Production
Hypaspace Weekly is a weekly entertainment news program, hosted by John Llyr, that focuses on the world of science fiction and fantasy. Insightful features on movies, television, books, comics and community events are served in a casual, friendly and sometimes irreverent style. Stay in the loop with daily reports on new releases and the latest rumours and gossip. Hypaspace news segments also air interstitially between SPACE programs.