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SyFy Will Bring Canadian Sci-Fi Series Continuum To The US

Date: Aug 27, 2012 | Author: Rudie Obias | Category: Sci-Fi

One of Canada’s most-popular TV dramas is coming to the US. SyFy has picked up the rights to air episodes of the Canadian time-travel drama Continuum. It was only a matter of time (no pun intended).

SyFy was in talks with Reunion Pictures, the Canadian studio behind Continuum, to potentially bring the series to American cable television after SyFy UK picked up the time-bending series for British audiences. The deal will bring Continuum’s 10-episode first season to SyFy as part of their Fall 2012 lineup or, most likely, as a mid-season replacement in 2013 after the network’s hit TV drama Alphas signs off later this year.

Continuum premiered on Canadian’s Showcase Channel in May 2012. Its premiere episode brought in 900,000 total viewers and quickly became the channel’s highest-rated episodic TV drama.

The sci-fi series is set in the year 2072, when all the governments of the world have collapsed and numerous corporations have taken over the planet to install a high-surveillance police state and to take away social freedoms. When a convicted terrorist group called the “Liber8,” led by Edouard Kagame (Tony Amendola), escape execution and time travel to the year 2012, a Vancouver law enforcement officer called “Protector,” Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), also travels back to stop them from changing the future.

This premise sounds interesting. Continuum just aired its season finale on August 5th, and the Showcase Channel has ordered a 13-episode season two for 2013. Continuum is not the only Canadian TV drama on SyFy either. The network picked up the Canadian TV series Lost Girl in 2012 after it first premiered on the Showcase Channel in 2010. The North American remake of the British TV series Being Human is also a co-production between American and Canadian television.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/shazbollah Shannon Legg

    The picture used for this post is from the other Canadian sci-fi series also called Continuum. Confusing, I know. So far there are only webisodes for this series but it has potential:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/continuumtheseries?feature=results_main

    • Krig_the_Viking

      This is true — the photo is from a different show.

    • uther

      No, the picture above IS Kiera Cameron from the TV series, not the web show of the same name.

  • Krig_the_Viking

    I heard about the show and, as a Canadian, felt obligated to watch it. I was pleasantly surprised at how compelling a show it was, and how it avoided most of the usual cliches. Very fascinating. I hope this deal means they get renewed for a second season!

  • http://www.facebook.com/iain.parkes Iain Stuart Parkes

    Ah! I was wondering why such a great show wasn’t getting loads of attention from the media and websites, it is because it is Canadian! Hopefully it will get a second series and much more attention. The world needs great SF like this! :)

  • InvertXnY

    Not sure the US audiences will follow this. Good shows with complicated plot lines seem to get cancelled (Ahem: Dollhouse, Sarah Connor Chronicles). I just hope this great show gets it’s fair innings and an ending of some sort.

  • http://www.continuumpodcast.com/ Continuum Podcast

    I know this is an old thread, but just wanted to mention, in case people haven’t heard, that a Season 2 is in the works – they start filming in January. The US (Syfy) and Australia (SFTV) will start Season 1 also in January.