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  Syfy’s fun-looking new game show Total Blackout, based on a hit international format, pits contestants against not only each other, but against their own fears, as they face a series of challenges that are played out in complete darkness. At a press conference promoting the show a few months back, we watched via night-vision cameras (which is how the action of the series will be shown to viewers) as some fellow critics and assorted TV personalities underwent what contestants likely would experience on the show. In this case, they were in a pitch-black room, and were asked to place […]

Oh, my! George Takei will make an appearance on the series premiere of Syfy’s Fangasm, a reality series that follows seven fanboys and fangirls. Which makes sense, since Takei — an original Star Trek cast member (Sulu) who also appeared in several Trek films — is a sci-fi fan icon, and currently has a legion of followers on his website and social media outlets, where he often passes along funny Internet memes. In the series premiere of Fangasm, George Takei makes a surprise visit that becomes a life-changing moment for the gang of fanboys and -girls. According to Syfy, Takei shares with the group some laughs […]

“I kind of think of this show as a mashup of The Andromeda Strain, John Carpenter’s The Thing and The Walking Dead,” Billy Campbell tells me of his new Syfy series Helix, premiering Jan. 10. Prior to the interview, watching the pilot, that is almost exactly what I thought about this 13-episode thriller (except, for me, parts of the show called to mind 28 Days Later more so than The Walking Dead). Helix does indeed combine classic sci-fi elements from those titles — a disease outbreak, a group of people at a fairly claustrophobic, remote Arctic outpost, and, eventually, at […]