SCI FI Bags CBS Paramount Titles

NEW YORK, August 3: SCI FI
Channel has acquired the rights to a package of TV movies, mini-series and
series from CBS Paramount Domestic Television, including Star Trek:
Enterprise and last season’s
cancelled Threshold.

Enterprise, which ran for four seasons from 2001 to 2005 on
UPN, will premiere in early fall on the SCI FI Channel. The popular anthology
series The Twilight Zone,
created by Rod Serling, was renewed and will continue its exclusive run on the
channel. The NBC Universal-owned network also acquired Tales from the
Darkside for launch later this
year.

The package includes three
mini-series, including two based on Stephen King stories. The Langoliers, originally one of four short stories in the King
collection Four Past Midnight,
is about passengers on a cross-country flight who awake to find that they and a
small group of others are the only people left on earth. The Stand, from the King novel of the same name, stars Gary
Sinise and Molly Ringwald. The third mini-series from CBS Paramount is Invaders, which stars Scott Bakula as a man who discovers
an alien conspiracy and attempts to foil their plot by warning the earth of
imminent danger.

The five made-for-television
movies in the deal are Inferno,
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle, Primal
Force, Sightings: Heartland
Ghost and Trilogy of Terror II.

Additionally, eight
television series will premiere exclusively during the 2006-07 season. These
include Haunted, which follows
Matthew Fox as a detective haunted by lost souls from beyond the grave. Threshold stars Carla Gugino as part of a team of experts
who are assembled when the U.S. Navy discovers an extraterrestrial craft has
landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The suspense thriller Wolf Lake, set in the Pacific Northwest, explores what
happens when werewolves overtake a small Seattle suburb. Christopher Gorham is Jake
2.0, a computer technician who is
involved in a freak accident and gains superhuman strength, lightning-fast
speed, heightened hearing, magnified vision and the ability to communicate
telepathically with computers. Kindred, the Embraced is a series based on the White Wolf role-playing
game. Level 9 follows a
top-secret government unit that serves as the nation's last-and-only line of
defense against high-tech criminal plots. 


Detectives Nick O'Malley
(Michael Landes) and Kate Benson (Alexondra Lee) work in Special Unit 2, a
secret precinct of the Chicago Police Department whose sole charge is to
protect the city's citizens from Links, a malicious paranormal species that is
the missing link between man and beast.