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  • Hallmark goes down the sci-fi route with ‘ReGenisis’

    MUMBAI: English General Entertainment Channel Hallmark has started airing a science fiction series ReGenisis.

    The future is here. Bioterrorism. Designer babies. Franken Foods. Suddenly humanity posses the ability to play God. But is its progress or madness? Will cutting-edge science be our salvation? Or our demise? ReGenisis is a 13-part one-hour, dramatic series about NorBAC, an organisation formed to investigate questionable advances in biotechnology.

    The first episode is called Baby Bomb. This ish is a race against time to identify the cause of a deadly virus, spreading rapidly and headed straight for the city. It’s up to NorBAC to identify patient zero and stop it from contaminating the city. As if this wasn’t enough David Sandstrom the Chief Scientist of NorBAC has to deal with family troubles with the unexpected arrival of his belligerent teenage daughter, Lilith. Worsening it more he is involved in a scuffle for one of his team members who happens to be his top virologist who is under a security clearance issue.

  • AXN goes down the sci-fi route with ‘The 4400’

    MUMBAI: With its tight fist focus on action, AXN will now try contemplate the sci-fi genre to gauge if it can help the channel to generate edge over competition. The broadcaster will air the show The 4400 every Tuesday at 10 pm from 1 February.

    The title refers to the number of missing people who suddenly resurface. Some have been missing for 60 years, yet they are not a day older when they disappeared.

    The 4400 seem to be completely unaware what has happened to them in the intervening years. The US government tries its level best to figure it out.

    The rest of humanity is less amazed by the strange phenomena and more deeply worried by this bizarre reappearance. When it turns out that some of the 4400 have also developed unusual gifts, tabloid journalists see in the 4400 convenient scapegoats.

    When they are released from quarantine, the anonymity they have been granted now seems paper thin when many already bear a seething hatred for them.

    It may be recalled that a couple of years ago Star Movies had aired the science fiction show Taken. That show had woven together the stories of three families over multiple generations and their crucial role in the history of alien abductions. While Taken fared well in Taiwan it however drew a lukewarm response in India despite a multimedia campaign.

    It remains to be seen as to the kind of response AXN’s new initiative receives.