SCI FI Channel Unveils Development Slate

BEVERLY HILLS, July 16: The SCI FI Channel has unveiled a
new development slate for the 2007-2008 season that includes an eight week
prime-time series of exclusive new 2-to-3-minute Battlestar Galactica shorts, and has announced plans for an on-air horror
film stunt for this October, as well as a host of new online programming, such
as a Farscape web series.

In the run-up to the premiere of the two-hour extended
episode Battlestar Galactica: Razor on
November 24, the channel will premiere a series of new 2-to-3-minute
promotional shorts that will be filmed as part of the extended episode and
included in the unrated Universal Home Video release of Razor. Written by Michael Taylor, and directed by Wayne
Rose and Felix Alcala, these shorts will provide a sneak peek into the original
Cylon War, when a young pilot named William Adama (Nico Cortez) discovers a
dangerous Cylon weapon that will come back to haunt him and his crew 40 years
later. This series of shorts will lead into Razor, which will provide a backdrop to events that will
take place in the rest of the fourth and final season of Battlestar
Galactica.

The new animated workplace comedy The Awesomes, from Lorne Michael’s Broadway Video Television in
association with Universal Media Studios, is also on the channel’s development
slate. The series is about a team of past-their-prime superheroes looking to
get back onto the justice enforcement A-List. Saturday Night Live’s Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker are executive
producers/writers. Lorne Michaels is executive producer, while Andrew Singer is
producer.

The SCI FI Channel slate also includes an as-yet untitled
mini-series from actor Thomas Jane (The Punisher, Killshot) and world-renowned
comic/graphic novel author Steve Niles (30 Days of Night). Set 30 years in the future, the series is about a
private shuttle that takes a three-year journey to a newly discovered planet
filled with exotic and dangerous creatures. Other mini-series include the
six-part Going Homer, from Ben
Browder (Stargate SG-1 and Farscape) and Andrew Prowse (Farscape).

SCI FI is also working on an expanded half-hour version of
the popular short web series God, Inc., shot
by filmmaker Francis Stokes, which imagines a scenario in which all of the
world’s problems were caused by office politics in God’s corporate
headquarters. The channel has also signed on Stokes to develop an original
scripted project that will be a fresh take on the one-hour time travel drama.

On the alternative development slate, the SCI FI channel is
working on Run For Money, a reality
competition show based on a successful Japanese format from Fuji Television
that pits contestants striving to earn cash and prizes against a group of
relentless "Hunters." The show is executive produced by Scott Messick
and Mess Media for Buena Vista Productions and Fujisankei Communications
International. Other series on the roster include What Can’t It Do?, produced by Tiger Aspect USA, Extra Credit
Productions and Nicole Perry, which puts everyday products to the ultimate
tests in extreme scenarios; and UFO Hunters, a series which investigates claims of UFO sightings
and otherworldly experiences. UFO Hunters is from the creators of SCI FI Channel’s Ghost Hunters.

In other news, SCIFI.COM has
announced a slate of online programming exclusive to SCI FI Pulse, its popular
broadband channel. This includes a ten-part Farscape webisode series executive produced by Brian Henson
and Robert Halmi, Jr., and produced by The Jim Henson Company, in association
with RHI Entertainment. The series will revive and expand the beloved Farscape universe.

Sci Fi Tech is a companion to SCIFI.COM's successful technology
blog. The live-action weekly series is produced by Peacock Productions. And Invent
This! is a weekly original series on the
world's quirkiest inventions.

Lastly, SCI FI will partner with Lionsgate and AfterDark
Films to broadcast, co-brand and promote AfterDark's Horrorfest—8 Films
to Die For. Horrorfest is a collection of theatrical horror flicks AfterDark
released last year over one weekend. SCI FI serves as the first window
broadcast television partner for the Horrorfest franchise, acquiring the rights to the existing roster of theatrical
features, and for next year's titles as well. These films are slated to make
their broadcast debut on SCI FI during the 13 Days of Halloween programming
stunt. The featured films will include Reincarnation, a suspenseful, psychological horror flick from the
director of The Grudge films
(Takashi Shimizu); Dark Ride
starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) and Penny Dreadful.

Additionally, SCI FI will serve as a promotional partner,
supporting the theatrical roll-out of 2007's new Horrorfest features, 8 More
Films To Die For, slated to premiere November 9 to 12 in major cities across
the country. The 2007 After Dark Horrorfest theatrical releases will make their
exclusive television debut on SCI FI in 2008.

The Horrorfest boxed set sold over a million units in its
April 2007 DVD release by Lionsgate's home entertainment division.