SCI FI Greenlights Female Superhero Action Series

NEW YORK, July 17: SCI FI has greenlit production on Painkiller
Jane, from Vancouver's Insight Film Studios
and Kickstart Comics, for launch on the cable network in January followed by a
U.S. weekly syndication window next fall.

Production on 22 one-hour episodes will begin next month at
Insight Film Studios in Vancouver. The series, based on a comic book, tells the
story of Jane Vasko, a young researcher turned DEA informant who is
accidentally exposed to an experimental "cure" that renders her
impervious to sickness and injury—but not pain. Unfortunately, she has
less than a month left to live before the cure's unstable nature overtakes her.

Other new productions for the cable network include the
mini-series Outpost, which centers on a
group of private explorers in the near future that takes over an abandoned NASA
research base. On the scripted series end there is Devil’s Advocate, a conspiracy thriller from Mark Burnett, DreamWorks
Television and NBC Universal Television Studios. Other new series include Witch
Doctor and Stoner.

SCI FI is also expanding its late-night programming options
with George Noory, whose Coast
to Coast AM radio show is heard by millions
of listeners on approximately 500 stations in the U.S. and Canada. Also for the
late-night slate is the CGI comedy Alien Invasion and the panel discussion series Prove It.