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Game of Thrones Season Two: Watch the Teaser!

Game of Thrones - Season 2

Are you ready to return to Westeros? HBO has released a brand new full-length teaser for Season Two of the acclaimed fantasy series Game of Thrones, packed with over a minute of new footage. Watch it here after the jump.

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Touch pilot preview grabs 12 million viewers

Touch (101) - Pilot

FOX’s new series with Kiefer Sutherland (24) is also the network’s newest hit.  The early preview airing of Touch drew 12 million viewers and a 3.9 rating in the important 18-49 demographic on Wednesday.

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WATCH: Touch ‘Pilot’ (S01E01)

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Mid-Season Sci-Fi: Alcatraz and Touch Start In January!

Touch

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: Watch the New Season Two ‘Cold Winds’ Teaser

Game of Thrones (108) - The Pointy End

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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In Time Hits Theaters This Week

In Time (Movie Poster)

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 orders third season of Haven

Haven (101) - Welcome to Haven

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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October’s State-of-the-Stream: Thoughts on science fiction’s new fall season

Terra Nova (102) - Genesis, Part 2

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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HBO confirms Game of Thrones Season Two for April

Game of Thrones (103) - Lord Snow

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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FOX orders Kiefer Sutherland’s Touch to series

Kiefer Sutherland ("Touch")

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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Eureka cancelled, Warehouse renewed … What is Syfy doing?

The now-altered Season Four timeline has resulted in some substantial job changes for both Fargo and Jo Lupo (Erica Cerra).

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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Welcome to the new Stream!

SciFi Stream 2011

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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