SyFy Sets Caprica Premiere

SyFy PR must be racking up the overtime this weekend. They're all over San Diego Comic-Con with street teams, a faux-Cafe Diem and lot's of swag. They also announced a fourth season of Eureka and the premiere date for Battlestar Galactica-kin Caprica.

If you're a sci-fi or TV geek, you've probably already seen the two hour premiere of Caprica, which has already been released on DVD (way back in April). The full series is set to kick off with a showing of that two hour special on January 22, 2010 at 9pm. The show will then take up it's predeccessor's 10pm time slot on Friday evenings.

Maybe now that Battlestar related television is returning, everyone will shut up about SyFy airing "mindless" sci-fi shows. DVR Life does not find Warehouse 13 or Eureka mindless; we find them awesome and fun and get sick of people expecting mock-U.N. meetings out of every series on the network.

Here's some video clips:





(Take note: The second video is supposed to be the Comic-Con trailer but the embed code on the SyFy player seems to be a bit off. If the second video is the same as the first, click here for the Comic-Con trailer)

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Eureka Renewed For A Fourth Season

NBC Universal announced on Friday that they've picked up Eureka for another 22 episodes for sister cabler SyFy. That's pretty awesome news in our book. We dig Eureka. It's no secret as we've gushed a time or two in anticipation of this current season's return.

The quirky sci-fi series is three episodes into the second half of season 3. With the announcement of 22 new episodes, we can only assume that the plan is to split the season in two parts again, therefore guaranteeing atleast two more summers worth of new Eureka.

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Preview: ABC's Defying Gravity

We have to admit, this show kind of snuck up on us here at DVR Life. With all the talk of the summer television season in late spring and how cable would be ruling the season we have to admit that we didn't hear anything about this show until just a week or so ago.

Our ears first perked up at the mention of Ron Livingston. Then we heard it was from the producers of Grey's Anatomy and also starring Laura Harris of Dead Like Me. All good, if not consistent (Grey's crew doing sci-fi?), things to hear.


Both clips are rather similar but there's some different footage in each. The trailers don't tell you much about the plot, only that there's zero gravity sex, someone yelling "Zoe!" and Ron Livingston is billed as a hot American hero, so we'll fill you in:

In the near future an international crew of astronauts (four men, four women: imagine that!) take off on a six year space mission covering the eight billion miles to Venus. The reasons for the mission, though, are being billed as "mysterious".

The series will be a mix of flashbacks, spot lighting the astronaut's path to being chosen for the flight, and the present.

Defying Gravity premieres with a two hour episode on August 2nd before taking it's usual Sunday 10pm time slot.

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Welcome Back, Eureka!

DVR Life really wanted to get this up yesterday, you know, before the show came back, but we were having nicotine fits or something. It's never too late to welcome back an old friend, though.

Things may have shifted a bit on the show, what with Carter not being Sheriff anymore, and even in the real world surrounding the show, with SyFy being the new official name of the Sci...well, what was the Sci-Fi network, but the show is back and quirky as ever.

The series' easy breezy story lines and grin-inducing verbal patter tends to get a lot of flack in the science fiction world as being mindless or labeled the kind of show you zone out on. We think that's a load of bull, though.

While the premise and story lines may not lead to mock UN sessions like Battlestar Galactica, the production values are of a decent level and feature some fantastic visual effects, especially for a show of it's size. It's also fun and witty and one of the few science fiction shows we could watch with our mothers (and that's a good thing - we love our moms).

The basic idea is this: not every show needs to explore the greater intricacies of the human condition or blah blah. It's good to have some sci-fi that elicits a giggle or two, wows us with non-killer robots and oddball experiments gone wrong. We heart Eureka for giving us a laugh, an escape and good science fiction all at the same time.

If you missed the return of of Eureka last night, fear not. Set your DVR's as the first episode of season 4 is being replayed on SyFy Tuesday at 8pm and then again Friday at 8pm.

The next new episode of Eureka airs on SyFy Friday at 9pm.

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Sneek Peak: NBC's Day One

Post-apoc blog Quiet Earth managed to get a hold of the Day One trailer NBC used for upfronts last May.

The trailer, apparently consisting of temporary visual effects and music, was a bit surprising in the fact that the series seems to be more than just the post-apocalyptic tale DVR Life had been expecting. A female character in the trailer seems to have not only been through this already (I just want to save these people from suffering the way we did."), but has the power to choose who she wants to surround herself with on her second go-round ("I choose each and everyone of you.". An alien come to save planet earth from what-or-whoever destroyed her planet, perhaps?

Day One is set to premiere sometime after the Winter Olympics in early 2010 on NBC.

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Eureka Marathon This Weekend

What could possibly be better than relaxing in a hammock overlooking a beautiful landscape from the wrap around porch of your Victorian-style farmhouse on a sunny Sunday afternoon?

You don't have a Victorian-style farmhouse? And you live in Florida where it's so disgustingly humid that you can't even fathom stepping foot on the 4 foot by 4 foot platform you call a front porch? You don't even own a hammock?

Well, I guess a second runner up to all that could be watching the Sci-Fi Channel's Eureka marathon. If, like me, your DVR inexplicably removed Eureka from your Series Manager and it took you nearly 3 weeks to notice due to working graveyard shift, then you're in luck.

The Sci-Fi Channel chopped Eureka's third season in half, deciding to air 8 last year and 8 this year. Cheap, I know, but what are you going to do? New episodes begin airing Friday July 10th with the return episode, "Welcome Back Carter".

To catch up or review, set your DVR for Sunday. Starting at 9:30am, Sci-Fi will air the first 8 episodes of season 3 back to back. I like that they're not waiting until the last minute to do this so you have one day between the marathon and the premiere. It gives you a chance to watch them leisurely before starting up with the new episodes.

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Preview: V

The more I'm hearing and seeing about V, the more excited I am. The show originally ran as a miniseries in 1983 and this remake is being dubbed a "limited run series". I'm assuming that means it'll be more than just a four hour movie split into two parts like most miniseries.

The cast is looking rather great, too. From the clips I've seen and imdb.com we can expect Scott Wolf of Party of Five, Smallville's Laura Vandervoort, Firefly/Serenity's Morena Baccarin, Joel Gretsch who's had two great sci-fi roles in the past with Steven Spielberg's Taken miniseries and USA network's hit The 4400, Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, Alan Tudyk who's also a Firefly alum, Lourdes Benedicto from 24's second season and a host of others.

V Trailer


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