Syfy Channel won’t send its time-travel pilot Rewind to series, the network officially confirmed today via Twitter.
It’s no surprise, seeing as the pilot shot in the spring of 2012 and the network has been conspicuously silent on the project since its completion. What is surprising is that Syfy has already burned off the pilot as a 2-hour movie. It aired Monday, August 26, with little fanfare and next to no advertising. (I, for one, was looking forward to seeing the show and had no idea it was going to be on.)
Rewind stars Shane McRae as an ex-Special Forces operative who joins a secret government division that uses experimental time travel technology to attempt to undo major world catastrophes — an idea not far off from Seven Days, which ran for three seasons on UPN (1998-2001).
The pilot burn-off is becoming common practice for Syfy, which has done the same with the pilot for Three Inches and Battlestar Galactica‘s spin-off Blood & Chrome.
In fact, Syfy doesn’t have all that great a track record with the pilot process itself. Most of the cable channel’s successful original scripted series started with a script and a full season order, including the forthcoming Helix, Defiance, and all three Stargate series.
Two other scripted series are currently at the pilot production stage for Syfy: Dominion, based on the angel warrior movie Legion; and High Moon, based on the 1969 John Christopher novel The Lotus Caves.
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I stoped watching the study channel when they changed there name and all the bad movies
It’s not a sci-fi channel anymore. It’s a bunch of B-movies about monsters and bull that nobody wants to watch. I for one would have loved to see Rewind as a series.
I’ve watched rewind and found it very engaging the storyline is great as
a sci-fi t v series, the pilot episode was great, the producers and actors
should not give-up hope on this time travel project, remember back in the
60s era the late gene Roddenberry had submitted his pilot episode ‘star trek ‘the cage’ and it was rejected, until he submitted another pilot titled
‘where no man has gone before’ as you know the rest is history.
Syfy please bring Rewind back to tv. Either restart airing it and producing it on tv, or cut a deal with Netflix. I just watched the pilot and it really made me want to keep watching. I was disappointed to hear that you had put a stop to it and would really urge you to reconsider putting it on the air. I can guarantee that you will get many viewers interested in the show if you just give it at least a one season probationary contract. I would love to see you follow through with this. I can really see myself anxious week to week to see the next episode.
I finally watched this pilot and was amazed. It should be a series. There is so many story lines to pursue.
I agree Syfy is a garbage channel with a bunch on B-movies. Rewind would have been an awesome tv series. It’s all garbage now. The last awesome series was Stargate!
Wish they would make it a series
Looked like the “Pilot” had some teeth. Why would they cancel it after the Pilot? Looking for the next big thing that could last at least three years, I think the Exec’s need to be replaced, BAD CALL to scrap it after the pilot. I’m not a huge fan of SyFi movies, but this got my attention. I’m sorry for the actors, actresses and writers who spent there time on this, this could have been a great show. To the Exec’s and decesion makers who pulled this show, VERY, VERY BAD JOB ON YOUR PART. If you don’t know how to promote a series, get a new job. I’ve worked in advertising…NYC and major accounts. “Stargate”, was nowhere close to this potential. Shame on you.
Excellent pilot, entertaining and engaging, such a pity not progressed to series. Just watched on YouTube tonight.
syfy what’s the point in making a good pilot that can be easily turned into a great series? I thought the pilot was great so did a lot of other people, look at youtube. I mean you waste all this time, money and effort and for what? you must really like wasting money. if you’re going to do foolish things like that you might as well close shop and let somebody else who is more competent and not scared to go that extra mile. sorry but, that’s what I feel, you had a great concept. that was weak in what you did
Just watched rewind. It was an excellent show, I was thoroughly engaged throughout and most certainly would watch it as a series please reconsider going the distance with this one.
Thanks
I watched rewind and it kept my attention from start to finish. A awesome movie. They need to rethink the series.
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Sounds like the plot was too real for some folks in gov’t and they got scared so a great show was canceled because the powers that be made it so.
The reason they yanked it was because it hits too close to home, or should I say, what’s about to happen come September 2015 !
God bless and be vigilant 😉
I don’t know if you ppl realize but this is about the Cern project….it will go full speed come September 2015 ( CERN ) . Look it up….
Cannot believe that a good show like rewind was not continued this show had tremendous amounts of potential all wasted because whoever was in charge had no forsight.
SyFy why would you cancel such a good show
This series would have been big
Put it on Netflix or something
I was searching for episodes I know I wouldn’t find so bring it back
This would have been a fantastic show. It mixes Sliders, Stargate, WH13 and many others to create what was a really fun and engaging show. The set up was great and it had so many levels of complexity that you could find a hook no matter what you taste in Sc-Fi. It is a real shame they didn’t see the potential in this.
Rewind was amazing show… Please bring it back and run a 4 or 5 season series with it.
If you look at all if the reviews on it, people loved it!
And besides, you can’t just leave everyone hanging with that big cliff hanger at the end… It’s just not right.
It may have been pulled because there is a similar government operation secretly sending people through time. Thoroughly enjoyed watching the show and hope there were more episodes made than just the pilot.
I watched the Pilot of Rewind loved it!! I watched Dominion boooorrring…battles between good angels is so over.. I thought this was a science fiction channel.
I have just watched it via YouTube and loved it and wanted to watch more especially seeing the ending leading into the next episode….it did remind me of Quatum Leap in which I loved watching many years ago
Just watched the pilot on youtube and thought it was excellent. I cant believe they scrapped it! Great cast and very compelling plot. Id love to see netflix or Amazon pick this up.
I just watched the pilot movie. Two observations: 1) Anyone old enough to remember the series “Time Tunnel”? 2) As others have stated, The Scifi (pronounced sigh fie, of course) Channel was great but the SyFy (pronounced See [crap for a] Fee) has nothing whatsoever to do with science fiction and is merely cruddy grade Z movies produced by people who neither know nor care what even mediocre scifi actually is, much less GOOD scifi.