sp; align="center" width="105" height="20"> Cinescape reports that The Sci-Fi Channel has unveiled its upcoming slate of new programming including series, mini-series, movies and specials that will carry the network through 2004 and into 2005. Amongst the list aside from the "Farscape" and "Earthsea" news yesterday:
"History of the Devil" From executive producer Clive Barket comes a six-hour limited series about the Devil trying to use the courts of law as a way to return back into Heaven. The series is based on Barker's play and will be adapted by Peter Filardi (writer of TNT's upcoming "Salem's Lot" mini-series).
"Ringworld" Based on Larry Niven's series of novels, a four-hour mini-series is in development. In the future four explorers crash on an artificial structure in deep space, a mammoth ring that circles a distant star. Exploring this strange place, the humans discover that there is life here and secrets that could change the universe forever.
"Species III" Continuing the storyline begun in the two earlier movies, a new and more deadly female alien (played by Sunny Mabrey) is created and set loose in a small college town. Natasha Henstridge, who played Eve in the original "Species", will also star in the movie.
"The Man with the Screaming Brain" When a upscale banker suffers a traumatic head injury, part of his brain is replaced with that of a street hustler. The movie will be written, directed and stars Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell. Shooting begins this spring.
"Alien Apocalypse" Another Bruce Campbell action fest, this time with Campbell playing a deep space explorer who returns to Earth years after leaving it, only to find the planet has been invaded by an alien race and mankind reduced to slaves. Campbell and his fellow astronauts try and mobilize a rebellion.
"Untitled Joel Schumacher Project" Described as "Sex and the City" meets "V", this ongoing series in development follows a group of aliens that have assumed human form in order to gather intelligence for their species, to be used for an eventual invasion of the Earth. Each of the undercover aliens are investigating a specific aspect of what it means to be human, experiencing and sometimes being caught unaware by the wide range of emotions. One of the aliens, a female, falls in love with a man.
Other projects include several reality shows, two animated series, and quirky dramas like "Eureka" about a 'think tank' populated town in the Pacific Northwest and "Motel Man" about a detective who finds strangely powerful objects.
Thanks to 'Stef'.
