Syfy Renews Defiance and Dominion For 2015
The post-apocalyptic shows will be back next summer
Syfy Channel’s summer scripted series are coming back next year. The cable channel announced today that it has renewed both Defiance and Dominion, which aired together on Thursday nights.
Both shows will get 13 episodes for the new season, airing next summer.
It will be the third for Defiance, a high-profile (and high-cost) show for the network. The series is set in a frontier town where humans and the Votans live together after the aliens’ arrival terraformed the earth’s surface.
Dominion will get a second season, longer than this year’s 8-episode outing. Based on the feature film Legion, the show is set 25 years after an angelic war decimated earth. Now a new savior is found in Alex Lannen (Christopher Egan) — but it may be too late for the city of Vega, which has just lost its protector, the arch-angel Michael (Tom Wisdom).
Syfy said that the shows are the top two cable programs in the Thursday time period among viewers age 25 to 54. Including DVR-delayed numbers (Live+7), both series are averaging 2.7 million total viewers, and 1.2 million in the important 18 to 49 demographic.
Defiance and Dominion are both produced by Universal Cable Productions.
I wish they’d stop calling 10/13 episodes a “season”… it’s a half season at most. I long for the days of full 20 or 26 episode seasons again, not this 10 weeks on, 42 weeks off approach that has you forgetting all about the show and characters during those 42 weeks (assuming they still follow the yearly cycle, like Game of Thrones does).