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Twilight Zone New Years Marathon 2012 episode guide

December 26, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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It’s time once again to enter that dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, as Syfy presents its annual favorite — the Twilight Zone New Years marathon. The Twilight Zone New Years Marathon 2012 begins at 8am ET on Dec. 31 and continues to 5am on Jan. 2 — offering 45 hours of classic episodes from Rod Serling’s legendary series. Included are all the memorable ones you love — such as “To Serve Man,” “Time Enough at Last” (pictured below), “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and more — as well as many you may have never seen before, [...]

NBCUniversal networks to air a benefit telethon for Hurricane Sandy relief

November 1, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Updated Nov. 2, 2012, 3:48pm CT In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy, the networks of NBCUniversal — including NBC, Bravo, CNBC, E!, G4, MSNBC, Style, Syfy and USA Network — will join forces to air a one-hour live benefit telethon called Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together this Friday, Nov. 2, from 8-9pm ET. Today anchor Matt Lauer will host the event, which will be broadcast from the New York studios of NBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The telethon airs live across the East Coast and will be tape-delayed on the West. Additional networks may join the broadcast [...]

Robert Englund dives into “Lake Placid The Final Chapter”

September 29, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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When I was a kid, my grandpa used to tease me by talking about “crocogators,” some sort of fictional creatures he made up, an obvious amalgam of a crocodile and an alligator. Seeing how lucrative the crocodilian species has become for Syfy and its Saturday night original movie franchise, maybe I shouldn’t have forgotten those stories so easily. Perhaps I should yet whip out a screenplay and turn Crocogator into the next hit Syfy movie franchise (by the way, Syfy, don’t get any ideas). As it is, the network is continuing its most successful crocodile horror franchise tonight, with Lake Placid The Final [...]

Syfy’s “Paranormal Witness” scares up Season 2 tonight

August 8, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Fans of paranormal reality shows may have gotten a little bummed in the last week, with the season ends of Syfy’s School Spirits on Aug. 1, and Haunted Highway last night. But don’t give up the ghost! Syfy has all your creepy needs ready to be fulfilled some more starting tonight with the return of its hit series Paranormal Witness, which airs its second season Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT starting tonight. Season 2 of Paranormal Witness will feature 12 episodes — twice as many as in its inaugural season, when it ranked as one of the Top 10 new original [...]

“Alphas” returns for Season 2 on Syfy tonight

July 23, 2012 | By Stacey Harrison
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Syfy’s runaway hit Alphas returns for its second season tonight, showing what the world is like now that the existence of the Alphas team has been revealed and its members scattered. But throughout the course of the season, new threats will emerge that bring Dr. Rosen’s (David Strathairn) team of otherwise ordinary humans with extraordinary abilities back together. “Wake Up Call,” which airs tonight at 10, kicks off an action-packed season that will also include a bevy of guest stars, including Sean Astin, C. Thomas Howell, Lauren Holly, Kandyse McClure and — in a return from last season — Summer [...]

Season 2 of Syfy’s “Alphas” to feature new and returning notable guest stars

July 6, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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Syfy’s Alphas returns for its second season July 23 at 10pm ET/PT, coming off of its hit first season last summer, when it averaged 3.3 million total viewers. The series follows a clandestine group of ordinary people with superhuman mental and physical abilities. Led by neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Lee Rosen (David Strathairn), the team takes on cases the CIA, FBI and Pentagon are unwilling or unable to solve, going head-to-head with many of the criminal Alphas hiding among the normal population. The rest of the cast includes returning stars Malik Yoba, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Ryan Cartwright and Laura [...]

Barry Williams and Danny Bonaduce battle “Bigfoot” — and each other — in a Syfy original

June 29, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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It’s been kind of a ’70s flashback week here at Channel Guide. One of my compatriots, Lori, got to finally interview her teenage crush Leif Garrett, while I got to screen Syfy’s latest original movie, Bigfoot, which casts Barry Williams of The Brady Bunch and Danny Bonaduce of The Partridge Family. And in a way, the film somewhat resembles, in plot, anyway, one of those ’70s “nature strikes back” movies that had an environmental message. Of course, it’s filled with the usual Syfy cheese, too. Bigfoot takes place in Deadwood, South Dakota, where Bonaduce plays an obnoxious radio host (not [...]

Episode lineup for Syfy’s 2012 “Twilight Zone” Fourth of July Marathon

June 28, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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The Twilight Zone may remain famous for its often-surprise endings, but at this point there is nothing surprising about the fact that Syfy’s annual 4th of July marathon airing of the classic series’ episodes has done well for the network. The popular programming event will return this Fourth of July, with 21 hours of Zone airing from 8am July 4 through 5am July 5 (times Eastern). Here is a rundown of the episodes airing during Syfy’s marathon: July 4 8am: “Probe 7 Over and Out” 8:30am: “Caesar and Me” 9am: “The Old Man in the Cave” 9:30am: “Mr. Dingle, the [...]

Fracking spiders! Syfy unleashes “Arachnoquake”

June 21, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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If you remember the 1990 movie Arachnophobia, you might recall that it was (somewhat awkwardly) marketed as a “thrill-omedy,” trying to play up its effective combination of scares and laughs as it told the tale of a spider invasion of a small town. Syfy’s original movie Arachnoquake could be similarly billed as such, as it features thrills but less outright horror than most Saturday night movie titles the network has aired, and a lot more fun and humor, even down to the peppy, bouncy, and almost comic musical score that propels the action. The plot, of course, is ridiculous. A [...]

Syfy’s got “School Spirits” — yes, they do!

June 20, 2012 | By Jeff Pfeiffer
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The “paranormal” genre of programming — particularly, the type dealing with ghosts — has become crowded of late. Syfy’s Wednesday night programming in particular is haunted by this type of show. When Ghost Hunters is not on, as now, there are, in its place, shows like Haunted Collector, the upcoming Haunted Highway and, premiering tonight, School Spirits. School Spirits, however, tends to set itself apart from the pack in its effectiveness at setting scenes and delivering creepiness. It comes from producer Mark Burnett, the ubiquitous mind behind everything from Survivor to The Voice, and Seth Jarrett and Julie Insogna Jarrett, [...]