Sci Fi TV Highlights: A look at the upcoming schedule of sci fi and fantasy shows as well as recent news and/or trailers of note.
Sci Fi TV News:
It has been almost two years since the corporate dystopia series Severance had its premiere on Apple TV+, and fans of the show are still awaiting word on when the second season will arrive. Production began on that in October 2022, but the show was impacted by the writers’ and actors’ strikes from last year. Apple TV+ has recently been teasing the show’s return and executive producer Ben Stiller just put out a tweet that should be encouraging.
We are working on it. 🫡 https://t.co/tZg2XYeLTr
— Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) January 3, 2024
No specifics are available beyond the one comment, but this suggests that the second season could be arriving at some point in 2024.
The Mandalorian TV series along with the baby Yoda character Grogu have been a big hit for Disney+ since first arriving in November 2019, and now they are headed to bigger adventures. On the big screen that is. The film The Mandalorian & Grogu has officially been greenlighted for production to start in 2024 with Jon Favreau as director and Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni producing. No details about the film have been revealed at this point, but more information should be available in the coming months.
In casting news, The Witcher has added fan-favorite actor Laurence Fishburne to the cast of the upcoming fourth season. He will be playing Regis who is described as “a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past who joins Geralt on his journey”.
In scheduling news, Syfy’s Resident Alien Season 3 has received a premiere date of February 14th. And NBC’s Quantum Leap will be moving to Tuesdays at 10 PM EST for the second half of its second season which will kick off January 30th.
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Schedule Notes:
The rest of January will be slow for sci fi TV with few shows putting out new episodes (only two this week) and no premieres. But Quantum Leap does return at the end of the month as mentioned above, and things will start to pick up in February. Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for January and beyond at this link. The two-week view of the schedule is available here.
Prime Time Sci Fi TV Listings for the Week of Jan 15 – Jan 21
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday January 15 |
| Halo (Showtime) 8:00-10:00 Encore Run |
| Tuesday January 16 |
| La Brea (NBC) 9:00-10:00 |
| Quantum Leap (NBC) 10:00-11:00 On Hiatus |
| Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Disney+) Streaming |
| Wednesday January 17 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Thursday January 18 |
| Ghosts (CBS) 9:00-10:00 Repeat |
| Friday January 19 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Saturday January 20 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday January 21 |
| Krapopolis (FOX) 8:30-9:00 Repeat |
Sci Fi TV Trailers
3 Body Problem (Netflix): A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history. Premieres March 21st.
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Follow our Sci Fi TV Schedule for all the currently airing and upcoming sci fi and fantasy television shows, and you can see the premieres for all the upcoming genre entries at this link.
