Highlights from this past week at The Sci Fi TV Site.
Sci Fi/Fantasy TV Shows Premiering This Week
The Ark (Syfy): This series takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive. Premieres 10 PM EST on Wednesday.
Also This Week:
La Brea Returns from hiatus with back-to-back eps Tuesday on NBC.
See the full listings for the sci fi and fantasy TV shows from the week of January 30th at this link and you can see all the premieres for February and beyond at this link.
Sci Fi TV News
Amazon has a television series in the works based on the Tomb Raider video games and plans on expanding it into a shared universe with movies. A Hulu exec has said that they “don’t have anything to share right now” concerning a possible fourth season of The Orville keeping that show very much in limbo. Peacock has cancelled development on Julie Plec’s supernatural drama Dead Day, but the property is getting shopped around.
Read about these and more in the latest Sci Fi TV Week in Review post.
And keep up with the latest news during the week at r/SciFiTV.
New Trailers
Harley Quinn (HBO Max): As Harley goes to obsessive lengths to ensure that her first Valentine’s Day with Ivy is the best ever, Bane’s efforts to impress an unexpected date go horribly awry. Meanwhile, after an unfortunate online dating encounter, Clayface engages in some self-love. The Valentine’s Day Special premieres February 9.
See more trailers from this past week at this link.
CancelledSciFi.com: Keep up with the status updates of all the airing, returning, and upcoming sci fi and fantasy shows for the current season with our Cancellation Watch posts. And be sure to follow the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site for breaking news and updates.
The Ark has the sort of top quality acting and production value of a show that makes CW productions look like premiere quality prestige television. Somebody pull the plug on ‘SyFy’ already – this won’t last to a second season.