Ming-Na with Robert Carlyle, Stargate Universe
When the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released its annual Network Responsibility Index, Syfy was among the networks receiving "Failing" grades for their depiction of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters.
While CBS, NBC, A&E and TBS declined to comment on their showing, Syfy's executive vice president of original content, Mark Stern, accepted TVGuide.com's invitation to react as well as discuss his network's plans for a more diverse future.
"We are disappointed, obviously," Stern said of the NRI grade. "The 'F' is hard because we are trying, it is something that is in our vocabulary. But we need to work harder."
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A GLAAD rep told TVGuide.com that Syfy's grade was based on the fact that there were only two gay characters appearing on the network's programming during the timetable of the study ...
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Joanne Kelly with Eddie McClintock, Warehouse 13
Among the myriad familiar elements of Syfy's Warehouse 13 (Tuesdays at 9/8 CT), there is the push-me-pull-you nature of Pete and Myka's working relationship. Could the special agents' bickering lead to a Bones/Booth or Scully/Mulder sort of romantic tension?
"There may be a few hints," Joanne Kelly teases in her TVGuide.com video Q&A. In the episodes ahead, she says, "There are a couple of those moments."
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Eddie McClintock
Syfy's Warehouse 13 (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET) has only scratched the surface of the very tippy-tip of the iceberg when it comes to the cavernous closet's far-out contents.
Series star Eddie McClintock says in his TVGuide.com video Q&A that in the weeks to come, special agents Pete Lassiter and Myka Bering (played by Vanished's Joanne Kelly) will behold the supernatural properties of such items as Studio 54's original disco ball, the mirror that inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and... well, you'll have to cue up the video to see which piece of famed facial hair has "a whole 'nother thing" going on.
Other topics covered in McClintock's on-camera sit-down include ...
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Salli Richardson-Whitfield with Colin Ferguson, on Syfy's Eureka
Syfy's Eureka (finally) welcomes viewers back to that crazy Pacific Northwestern town this Friday at 9 pm/ET, and to hear cast member Salli Richardson-Whitfield tell it, the new episodes are pregnant with possibilities.
Quite literally.
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In this TVGuide.com video Q&A, Richardson-Whitfield reveals which came first — her own real-life pregnancy, or the one written into Allison Blake's storyline. As for her alter ego's eventual childbirth, she teases, "It's a very big episode... and a real bonding experience between me and Carter."
In her on-camera sit-down, Richardson-Whitfield also ...
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Alaina Huffman, Stargate Universe
Smallville fans know her as Black Canary, but Alaina Huffman is ready to serve up another formidable femme, on Stargate Universe.
In a video profile promoting the new SyFy series, Huffman sums up her Stargate character, 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen, as a medic who is "quite skilled," yet not without her insecurities.
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Understandably, such insecurities are only magnified when ...
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"Syfy" logo
Sci Fi Channel has a new name, but it sounds the same: Syfy.
The official rebranding of the nearly 17-year-old channel took place Tuesday with a new moniker, a new tagline ("Imagine Greater"), a new site and a new series to go with it, Warehouse 13.
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The Syfy name was unveiled in March when network brass cited the need to ...
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James Caan and Mandy Patinkin in the original Alien Nation
Sci Fi Channel, which on July 6 will relaunch as SyFy, is developing a new take on the 1988 movie Alien Nation. Tim Minear (Angel, Firefly) will pen the series.
Previously adapted in 1989 as a short-lived Fox series (succeeded by five TV-movies), Alien Nation follows a human cop and his alien detective partner, against the backdrop of Earth's begrudging assimilation of ETs banished from their home world, where they served as slaves. The original film starred James Caan and Mandy Patinkin (sporting a prosthetic scalp).
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"It's genre mixed with procedural mixed with funny mixed with big, giant scary," Minear told ...
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