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 Premieres This Week:
Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+): The fifth and final season will find Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well… dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it. Season 5 premieres on Thursday
American Horror Story (FX): In American Horror Story: Delicate, after multiple failed attempts of IVF, actress Anna Victoria Alcott wants nothing more than to start a family. As the buzz around her recent film grows, she fears that something may be targeting her – and her pursuit of motherhood. Season 12, Part 2 premieres Wednesday at 10 PM EST.
Schedule Notes:
Also premièring this week is Season 2 of Beacon 23 on MGM+. The first episode will drop on Sunday. Wrapping up this week is Syfy’s Resident Alien which has its Season 3 finale on Wednesday. There has been no word of a fourth season of that show yet. Also wrapping up is Amazon’s Invincible which drops its Season 2 finale on Thursday. That one has been renewed for a third season. Constellation wrapped up its first season on Apple TV+ last week and there is no word on a second season at this point. Below are the full listings for the current week, and you can see all of the premieres for April 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 Apr 1 – Apr 7
Links are to the show pages on this site with additional series info, trailers, updates and more. Broadcast/Cable Listings Source: Zap2It.com
| Monday April 1 |
| Star Trek Discovery (Showtime) 9:00-11:00 Encore Run |
| Tuesday April 2 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Wednesday April 3 |
| Not Dead Yet (ABC) 8:30-9:00 Repeat |
| Resident Alien (Syfy) 9:00-10:00 Season Finale |
| American Horror Story (FX) 10:00-11:00 Season 12 Part 2 Premiere |
| Star Wars The Bad Batch (Disney+) Streaming |
| X-Men 97 (Disney+) Streaming |
| Thursday April 4 |
| Ghosts (CBS) 8:30-9:00 |
| Invincible (Amazon) Streaming Season Finale |
| Star Trek Discovery (Paramount+) Streaming Season 5 Premiere |
| Friday April 5 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Saturday April 6 |
| No Genre Entries |
| Sunday April 7 |
| Krapopolis (FOX) 8:30-9:00 |
| Beacon 23 (MGM+) Streaming Season 2 Premiere |
Sci Fi TV News of Note:
SciTrek has been talking to an anonymous source at MGM and they have confirmed that the new Stargate TV series which is in the works will not be a reboot of the property. Not much additional information is available at this point, but the show will exist in the same continuity as the other live-action entries in the franchise. You can see the full video from SciTrek covering the story at this link.
MGM+ has given the greenlight to a limited-series adaptation of of the sci fi novel Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. Deadline gives the following description for the project:
When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction.
Ish is a brilliant but solitary young geologist living a semi-isolated life who awakens from a coma only to find that there is no one left alive but him. A plague of unprecedented virulence has swept the globe, and yes, there are a few scattered survivors, but there are no rules.
Alexander Ludwig (Vikings, The Hunger Games) has been cast in the role of Ish, and filming will start in April with a targeted premiere date of late 2024.
Amazon MGM Studios is adapting several popular podcasts including The Prophecy and Daniel X: Genesis. The former is a a supernatural thriller and the latter follows a teenager who learns he has special abilities. Both will be adapted into one-hour live-action dramas.
In production news, Ben Stiller has said that filming on the long-delayed second season of Severance could wrap up next month and that “it will be coming out sometime after that soon”.
In scheduling news, AMC has announced June 23rd as the premiere date for Orphan Black: Echoes. You can see the trailer for that below. In addition, the second season of Amazon’s season-long horror anthology Them–subtitled The Scare–has received a premiere date of April 25th.
In casting news, troubled actor Ezra Miller has been replaced by Eric Bauza in the role of D.A. Sinclair in Amazon’s animated series Invincible. There was no advance announcement for this, but the character appeared in the latest episode of the series voiced by Bauza.
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Sci Fi TV Trailers
Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC): Follow a group of women as they weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal. Premieres June 23rd.
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Earth Abides, eh? I’m not sure what it is that’s driving this obsession with Post-Apocalyptic and Zombie scenarios these past 15 or so years….I wish there was more positive science fiction with upstanding ethical moral characters. Between Game of Thrones, Walking Dead and all the rest of this misery porn being so popular has me wondering about people in general.
“Resident Alien” is a bit of a curious one at this point. The viewership did drop off in the second half of Season 2, but the first two seasons have found quite a bit of viewership on Netflix since they released it there, drawing people to the series. I feel like it’s something of a toss-up at this point.
I do think that the Netflix viewership is helping the show. If not for that, I would have it On the Bubble
I can attest to that – I only recently started watching this show having vowed never to watch the sci-fi channel again after the cancellation of Dark Matter.
Beacon 23 premieres April 7, 2024, on MGM+.
Thanks for the heads up. They have done nothing to promote that.
The fact that season 2 is premiering about 4ish months after the end of season 1 also seems pretty strange.
Season 2 was already completed at the time that Season 1 premiered. It was originally supposed to run as a Spectrum original and on AMC, but they dropped it. MGM+ picked up the two completed seasons but has not committed to anything beyond that as far as I have heard.
Got it – even more reason to suspect this might be a burn-off run. Too bad. It’s not a great show but at least it’s space-based and seems to have the potential for some actually interesting scifi stories.