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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 11:35 am 
Defiance is actually a Canadian show filmed not to far from where I live. The teasers look really good. It will be airing here at the same time. It will be nice to be able to join the discussions! I hate having to avoid threads when a series doesn't begin here at the same time.
I really couldn't get in to Continuum when it aired here. I tried again when they re-aired the entire season one weekend. Still I found my mind wandered as well. I didn't really like any of the main characters enough to care if they made it to the next episode.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 12:10 pm
My interest in Continuum has waned a little too, although hubby is still into it. I think it might devolve into a basic detective show with the odd tech twist here and there... hope it stays more though.
I meant the Defiance trailer I linked to might not play, because if was a Syfy channel one and they have blocked other stuff. They seem to be a lot better at showing programmes in more than one country at the same time these days, but those little online vids still seem to be region encoded!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, February 09, 2013 - 9:22 pm
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is on Syfy tomorrow at 8pm. It's the BSG prequel that was shown in pieces online, but apparently there are extra scenes in this (it's two hours long).
(from Syfy's press release, February 2013) As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, gifted fighter pilot, William Adama (Luke Pasqualino, The Borgias), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and hungry for action, Adama quickly finds himself at odds with his co-pilot, the battle-weary officer Coker (Ben Cotton, Alcatraz). With only 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle as much as Adama craves its onset.
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Pam2uall
Member
10-25-2006
| Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 5:45 pm
Thank you for the alert, Kitt! I was crazy about the series, and am looking forward to this. Unfortunately, it conflicts with other things I have scheduled to record tonight. Fortunately, it is repeating tomorrow, Monday, at 5 P.M. EST. I don't know what is happening with the show on Monday because it is scheduled to record for 3 hours: 5 to 8. I bet it either really starts an hour later, or it stops an hour early. Either way, my DVR is set for the full 3 hours.
Also, the information supplied on the menu indicates that this episode is the Pilot. So, does that mean a new series is beginning?
And again, thank you, Kitt. 
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 8:03 pm
It was very good, I certainly hope B&C does extend into a series.They always so mysterious about the BSG series--they come, they go, etc. I loved Caprica and was very sorry it didn't last longer than a season.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 8:18 pm
ETA From what I've read it was a one-off complied from the web series. Why SyFy has never done right by the Battlestar Universe, I'll never understand. Awesome concept, not fully developed since the first BSG series five years ago.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 10:56 pm
You're welcome, Pam.
I enjoyed it, and the whole BSgey style (although didn't like the washed out lights thing). It could have moved along a bit faster in places and it didn't tell much of the story, but for what it was I liked it. I can't see them making it into a series, mostly because they hardly promoted it so I don't even know if all those who would have wanted to watch it would have seen it, let alone newbies.
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 10:08 pm
I'm still loving Continuum. I'm a time-travel show fanatic, I've always liked Rachel Nichols(even when others have not), I liked Victor Webster in Mutant-X, I really dig Lexa Doig from Stargate and Andromeda, Tony Amendola from Stargate, and Roger Cross from First Wave. So I'm inclined to like the players very much as well as the concept. I hope they fix her suit, soon, because that's a cool thing to have.
I liked Blood & Chrome a lot. I thought it would be a pilot for a series, too, something much more compelling than Caprica, but I understand that is probably not the case.
Really can't wait for Defiance, and the returns of Grimm and Revolution.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Monday, February 25, 2013 - 6:37 pm
I seem to be stuck watching Continuum a LOT, lol, sort of like I was stuck watching Lost Girl last year. Can't say I'm really a fan, but it's grown on me a little. I like Warehouse 13, liked Eureka,and Being Human, but always seem to tune in when the less appealing shows are on. (Can't be bothered to change the channel, I guess, lol)
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Saturday, March 09, 2013 - 9:24 am
There is a new show starting on Space March 30 called Orphan Black. I think it will be on right after Dr Who so I'll give it a whirl.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 9:21 pm
I wasn't expecting the latest Continuum to be the season finale! Lots of curious things set up for the future, and it looks like in the present she's more or less given up, at least temporarily.
Season 2 starts in Canada on April 21st, but I don't know if Syfy will show it then or not. It would be nice to be able to discuss it together.
Orphan Black might be interesting, I'm definitely going to give that a try.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 9:42 pm
Orphan Black looks interesting to me as well. It's starting in a week. 
http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-21-2003
| Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 6:51 am
Orphan Black looks very interesting....I wonder if it will air in CAnada?
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 9:23 am
It'll be on a channel called Space, at the same time as it's on BBCA. It's one of their same time everywhere offerings.
If you haven't seen a trailer yet it looks like this will play in Canada:
http://www.theloop.ca/showbiz/tv-guide/article/-/a/1444813/-Orphan-Black-gets-Canadian-debut-date-new-promo
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-21-2003
| Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 11:57 am
Thanks Kitt...ya I checked out the clip from Nyheat's link, looks very interesting. I do have 'Space' channel so I will definitely mark it in my PVR to record.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 10:30 am
Syfy have announced their season two date for Continuum: June 7th (a move to Fridays at 10pm). So a few months after the Canadian start...
Merlin fans, the last five episodes start May 3rd in the same time spot as above.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 8:45 pm
I wasn't sure about Orphan Black but I think it has enough potential to try a couple more weeks.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 10:40 pm
It was pretty good, but not great. A slow starter. I will try it for a few more weeks.
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Rieann
Member
08-26-2006
| Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 10:35 am
I liked Orphan Black. It's an interesting premise. I'm in for a few more weeks to see where it goes.
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Spunky
Member
10-07-2001
| Friday, April 05, 2013 - 8:07 am
Continuum is coming back soon!!! It was a good show thanks to the Canadian channel for airing it. Another show a Canadian channel (the same one actually) is airing is Beauty and the Beast, wow, what a good show (it's more sci-fi this one).
So hats off to Canadian tv for airing these two shows the Americans are missing out.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 05, 2013 - 9:00 am
Um, Continuum is on in the US and the next season starts in June.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, April 05, 2013 - 10:15 am
Is Beauty and the Beast the one with Kristen Kreuk and the hot Aussie? That's a CW show, we get it too.
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, April 07, 2013 - 1:35 pm
I'm giving up on Orphan Black--not holding my interest. Shame, it looked like a good one.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-21-2003
| Sunday, April 07, 2013 - 4:14 pm
Karuuna I was at the movies and there was a clip advertising Continuums return in Canada on April 21M
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Sunday, April 07, 2013 - 5:54 pm
They advertised Granite Flats as being a period show with a sci-fi bent. I wasn't wowed by the premiere but to be fair I wasn't able to pay too much attention to the second part/epi. The acting was, um, iffy - the mom nurse (who looked like a grown up version of the lead girl from American Dreams, another retro show) was probably the best (that I noticed), some of the other performances were, well, oh boy. Writing was a bit didactic & derivative too.
I realize since this is from BYUTV it's going to be pretty squeaky clean but did they have to have the tough guy say "keister"?
This show just started but based on initial impressions, I think The Iron Giant & Matinee covered similar territory in much more interesting & accomplished ways. But I'll give this show another chance. There have been a number of these mid-century North America-set shows (another example is Bomb Girls, which I've seen a few times) but Mad Men remains the best, imo.
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