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  • NBC’s Sci Fi channel inks multimedia deal with Virgin Comics

    NBC’s Sci Fi channel inks multimedia deal with Virgin Comics

    MUMBAI: Sci Fi Channel, an NBC Universal network, is teaming up with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Comics to create a co-branded multimedia partnership called Sci Fi/Virgin Comics.

    With five new comic book titles serving as a jumping off point, Sci Fi/Virgin Comics will develop fresh properties that integrate the spirit and vitality of both brands. Delivering innovative, multi-platform projects, original concepts will be considered across all mediums from publishing, film and television to digital and gaming.

    The announcement was made today by, Sci Fi Executive Vice President and general manager Dave Howe and Virgin Comics CEO and publisher Sharad Devarajan at New York Comic Con, the season’s pop culture and comic book event.

    The first Sci Fi/Virgin titles, distributed by Diamond Comics, can be expected to hit shelves later this year, informs an official release.

    “Virgin Comics and I are delighted to collaborate with Sci Fi and the rest of the NBC Universal family,” said Sir Richard Branson, “to create stories that will inspire a new generation of thinkers and dreamers throughout the world.”

    “Sci Fi/Virgin Comics marks an important step in our strategy to extend the Sci Fi brand into new cross-media platforms. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Virgin Comics to create exciting new titles, characters and stories that can live beyond the pages of the comic book,” added Howe. “Virgin is the perfect brand to help us connect with the youth audience around the world.”

    “With Sci Fi we are changing the face of the comic book industry – seamlessly developing characters and stories for books, television, online and other media,” said Devarajan. “Together we are creating stories as innovative as the ways consumers will get to experience them.”

    Utilizing the global creative and synergistic resources that exist both at Sci Fi Channel and Virgin Comics, the partnership will aim to attract some of the biggest names and talent from the worlds of comic books, television and movies. Sci Fi and Virgin Comics will bring together a multimedia, creative editorial board with members representing comic books, television, movies, digital, gaming, licensing and merchandising.

  • Mark Burnett plays ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for Sci Fi Channel

    Mark Burnett plays ‘Devil’s Advocate’ for Sci Fi Channel

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster Sci Fi Channel has unveiled a slate of original series and miniseries. Reality TV guru Mark Burnett The Apprentice and Dreamworks Television will make Devil’s Advocate.

    This is a one-hour conspiracy thriller about a theology professor who is thrust into the world of secret societies, religious espionage and genetic research.

    Hired by a global corporation, but motivated by his own personal search for the truth, the professor forms an eclectic team of ‘devil’s advocates’ who are charged with deciding whether bizarre cases can be explained naturally, or whether there are larger, more supernatural forces at work.

    The channel will also unveil a miniseries Outpost. It centers on a group of private explorers in the near future, that takes over an abandoned Nasa research base after the government has abandoned space exploration as too expensive. The intrepid explorers travel to a distant planet in our solar system to establish a potentially lucrative off-world colony. But, the real adventure begins when they discover an ancient artifact buried deep beneath the planet’s surface.

  • WWE to bring ECW brand to Sci Fi Channel in the US

    WWE to bring ECW brand to Sci Fi Channel in the US

    MUMBAI: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has signed a deal with US broadcaster Sci Fi Channel.

    World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has signed a deal with US broadcaster Sci Fi Channel.

    The WWE will debut a summer series on 13 June 2006. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) will be an alternative brand of wrestling suited to fit the SCI FI Channel’s commitment to fuel the imagination. Raw airs on Sci Fi Channel’s sister USA Network. In India viewers can catch WWE on Ten Spotrs.

    USA Network and Sci Fi Channel president Bonnie Hammer says, “Research tells us that there’s a healthy appetite for wrestling among SCI FI viewers. With ECW, we are able to deliver to those fans unique action with a twist that’s perfect for Sci Fi.”

  • SCI FI UK signs first scripted drama deal

    SCI FI UK signs first scripted drama deal

    MUMBAI: The SCI FI channel in the U.K. has signed its first scripted drama production agreement, inking a deal with CHUM International and SpaceWorks for the 22-episode adventure series Ice Planet.

    The show was created by SpaceWorks and will be filmed on location in London and Canada.

    Set to debut this October, the series stars Michael Ironside as the head of a crew of scientists and soldiers on the maiden voyage of the spaceship Magellan after a vicious alien attack on Earth.

    SCI FI programming director Jon Farrar noted, “Epic in scope and inventive in storytelling, Ice Planet promises an original look and feel to sci-fi scripted drama and we’re really excited to be involved. This production deal furthers SCI FI’s commitment to providing viewers with the best the genre has to offer and allows us to play an integral role in the development of what we hope will be a hit franchise in the UK and around the world.”

    The production deal was arranged by Jon Helmrich of IBC representing CHUM International, which holds the exclusive worldwide distribution rights for the series.

    There are plans to create an Ice Planet video game that will be linked in character, story and action to the show. A mobile game will also roll out in time for the television premiere. Also, SCI FI has appointed former Sky One head of drama Sara Johnson to consult as executive producer on the show.