Syfy today announced premiere dates for two eagerly anticipated series, “The Expanse” and “Childhood’s End,” and unveiled other series in development.
“The Expanse” will premiere Dec. 14 on Syfy, continuing Dec. 15 before moving to a regular Tuesday timeslot for the remainder of its 10-episode first season. “The most ambitious series in Syfy history,” The Expanse is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective (Thomas Jane, “Hung”) and a rogue ship’s captain (Steven Strait, “Magic City”) come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Emmy® winner and Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (“House of Saddam,” “House of Sand and Fog”) also stars as Chrisjen Avasarala, a cunning politician.
“Childhood’s End,” a six-hour miniseries, will air over three consecutive nights starting Monday, Dec. 14, two hours per night through Dec. 16. Childhood’s End follows the peaceful invasion of Earth by the alien Overlords, who at first seem peaceful, later, not so much… The miniseries is adapted by Matthew Graham (creator of BBC’s “Life on Mars” and “Ashes to Ashes”).
Frederik Pohl’s novel “Gateway,” a “first contact story,” will be developed as a one-hour series with “Battlestar Galactica” alum David Eick as showrunner.
