EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has given a series order to Vagrant Queen, a live-action adaptation of the star-spanning Vault Comics series that will be produced by Blue Ice Pictures and by an all-female team of writers and directors featuring Jem Garrard as creator and showrunner. Lance Samuels, President of Blue Ice Pictures of…

Tricia Helfer, the Canadian actress best known for portraying Number Six on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series (2004-2009), is returning to Syfy to join the Season 4 cast of the action-horror series Van Helsing  in the role of Dracula. Nomadic Pictures and Dynamic Television also just announced four other…

EXCLUSIVE: Death Is My Best Friend, based on Katarina Tonks’ hit Wattpad book series, is being adapted for television. The project, from writer Lindsey Rosin (Cruel Intentions), Greg Silverman’s Stampede and Sony Pictures TV, is in very early development at Syfy, Deadline has confirmed. Penned by Rosin, Death Is My BF…

SPOILER ALERT:  This post contains details of tonight's Deadly Class Season 1 finale. "You know, I always joke that if we don't get a Season 2 that this'll be like Freaks and Geeks," says Deadly Class executive producer Rick Remender as the Syfy series based on the acclaimed Reagan Era set comic he and Wes Craig…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago P.D. alum Elias Koteas is set as a series regular opposite Gabriel Bateman and Adrian Grenier in Syfy’s AI drama pilot Cipher from Allison Miller (Strange Angel) and Universal Content Productions. Rough House Pictures (Halloween) is executive producing. Written by Miller, in Cipher, following the…

Syfy has partnered with sister company Sky to launch its sci-fi VR experience Eleven Eleven in Europe. The NBCUniversal Networks-backed broadcaster is set to launch the story, designed for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. It will then roll the service out in Sky…

Justin Bartha (The Hangover) and Geoffrey Owens have joined the ensemble cast of Syfy's dark comedy pilot (Future) Cult Classic from Shay Hatten (Ballerina), Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video and Universal Content Productions. Written by Hatten, (Future) Cult Classic combines the genres of slasher films, high school…

Syfy has handed a series order to drama Resident Alien starring Alan Tudyk, based on the Dark Horse comics series by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, from Universal Content Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment and Amblin TV. Resident Alien is described as a dark, twisted and comedic fish-out-of-water story. Adapted…

One of Syfy’s series with most devoted following, Wynonna Earp, appears to be in danger despite the July announcement at Comic-Con that it has been renewed by the NBCU cable network for a fourth season. The series’ fandom was whipped into a frenzy over the last 24-hours after Melanie Scrofano, who plays the title…

Former Entourage star Adrian Grenier has been cast as the lead of Syfy pilot Cipher (working title), and Sydney Morton is set as a series regular in the AI drama from Allison Miller (Strange Angel) and Universal Content Productions. Rough House Pictures (Halloween) is executive producing. Written by Miller, in Cipher…

Syfy has opted not to renew Nightflyers for a second season. A rep for the network confirmed to Deadline that Syfy would not be picking up additional episodes of the high-profile space horror drama based on the novella by George R.R. Martin. Nighflyers, which went straight-to-series after Netflix came on board as…

Bingo, Fleegle, Drooper and Snorky, the zany collective better known as The Banana Splits, are coming back with a vengeance — and with a body count? As revivals go, this one may be as audacious as it is unexpected: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy are bringing back the Banana Splits, the trippy-dippy…