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If you thought fantasy / sci-fi newcomers like Once Upon A Time, Grimm, and Terra Nova are fun additions to your weekly genre line-up, just wait for mid-season. FOX is ready to debut two major new dramas next month.

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Game of Thrones was one of 2011′s most important events in the world of fantasy. Now Season Two is quickly approaching, and HBO has released a new teaser! Watch it after the jump.

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And now for a little sci-fi movie news to interrupt your TV-watching week! Someone pointed me to the trailer for In Time, a new genre film that opens this week (October 28). Check it out after the jump.

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Syfy Channel has gone 3-4 in renewing its original summer dramas, renewing Haven for a third season earlier this month.  The show aired Friday nights in the coveted post-wrestling time slot, and averaged about 2.5 million viewers (including DVR viewers).

Only Eureka got the axe this summer, though it will return with a fifth and final season (already filmed) next summer.

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After a long summer of waiting (and enjoying some great summer shows), the new fall season has finally arrived. While some of the new and returning shows haven’t hit the small screen quite yet, there are some newbies that are worth talking about.  So here is the first in what may become a regular series, if anyone out there is interested: The State-of-the-Stream, a.k.a. some thoughts on the sci-fi season so far!

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I’ve just finished off my backlog of Game of Thrones, which aired as a 10-episode first season from April to June of this year. This week HBO confirms that Season Two will start in April of 2012 (with another 10 hours), following the events of George R.R. Martin’s second novel in the series: A Clash of Kings.

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Here’s some fantastic (if totally expected) news for fans of science fiction, or just good drama: FOX has sent Touch to series, ordering 13 episodes of the show created by Tim Kring (Heroes).

Kiefer Sutherland (24) will headline the show, which is sure to become a flagship for the network’s promo department. He’ll play Martin Bohm, a widower and single father who is unable to connect with his mute, 11-year-old son Jake (played by David Mazouz).  Danny Glover co-stars.

How is this show sci-fi?  As the story goes on, Martin realizes that his son has the genius ability to see patterns others cannot see, and perhaps even use his insight to predict the future.

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This week the Internet has been abuzz over Syfy Channel’s surprise news that it will end Eureka next summer, after five seasons. (Season 4.5 is currently airing; 13 episodes for Season Five are nearing completion.) Warehouse 13, meanwhile, has been renewed for a fourth season.

Eureka‘s ratings are good, at over 2 million viewers (Live + Same Day) Mondays at 8 p.m.  But costs tend to rise the older a show gets.  And since revenue is tied to ratings (viz. the ad rates the network can charge), the profit margin shrinks from both sides.  Syfy cited this as the reason for ending Eureka (which reps suggested was a decision ultimately forced upon them by Comcast, now majority owner of parent company NBC Universal).

As we saw a week ago, Syfy was thinking about a limited, 6-episode sixth season to wrap up the show … but even that idea fell by the wayside.  After fan backlash at the cancellation, however, they did give the writers one additional episode for Season Five to give the show a proper conclusion.

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Thanks for visiting SciFi Stream. You may have noticed a new look to the site this week, and there are a few other changes to go with it.

But first, a little background.  For the last few years this site has served two purposes: 1) to provide quick-reference episode guides to all my favorite science fiction and fantasy series, and 2) to aggregate top news headlines from some of my favorite genre news sites, including Airlock Alpha, Blastr (formerly SCI FI Wire), TrekMovie, and the Stargate site that I also run, GateWorld.  From time to time we’d also publish some original news items and interviews, but for the most part the headlines that came streaming onto the home page were links to other sites.

I’ve had so much fun covering the Stargate franchise over the past decade that I’ve always loved the idea of writing news, doing reviews, and cast and crew interviews for the many other shows that I love.  But since GateWorld keeps me plenty busy, and I also have a family and am working to finish a PhD thesis by 2012, that’s never been realistic. Great volunteer writers are harder to come by than you might think, and the site just doesn’t make enough to pay its bills and hire some freelancers.  So, I went with aggregated headlines, instead.

Starting this week, I’m reinventing what SciFi Stream is.

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Not every show can live forever … but is Eureka‘s time drawing near?

Deadline reported this week that Syfy Channel is planning to wrap up the show with a very brief, 6-episode sixth season. Season Five is currently filming 13 episodes, while Season 4.5 airs new episodes on Monday nights.

If the network keeps up its summer scheduling for the show, that would put the final run of episodes in the summer of 2013. It’s a long way off — but, still, it’s hard for fans of any show to know that it’s all coming to an end.  On the upside, however, it means that the network is giving the writers plenty of time to bring the story to a fitting conclusion and not cut it off mid-sentence — the fate suffered most recently by Stargate Universe and Caprica.

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For one reason or another, Caprica is one of those shows I never got around to watching when it was on. I enjoyed the pilot movie when it was released on DVD long ago, and thought it had potential for an interesting character drama set in a futuristic city. But the first couple of episodes past that really didn’t catch my interest, so I set the show aside and figured I’d come back later. After the show was cancelled after just one season, I figured there was no pressure to catch up on the story any time soon.

I don’t currently live in the States but picked up the first half of the season while home for Christmas, and last month I finally decided to give it a go.

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Syfy Channel is taking U.S. viewers back to Camelot.  The cable network has picked up Season Four of Merlin, which was commissioned last fall by the BBC, according to TV Guide.

Merlin Season Four will reportedly first make its U.K. premiere this fall, with 13 episodes. Based on previous seasons, Syfy is likely to air the show next spring.

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