The Messengers Trailer - 7/10/15
1.11 - "Harvest"

Below is a trailer from the episode of The Messengers, "Harvest." The Messengers airs Fridays at 9/8c. Check it out below.

Episodic photo from the first season episode of Dark Matter, "Episode Four," airing 7/03/15, after the jump.

Episodic photos from the first season episode of Killjoys, "The Harvest," airing 7/03/15, after the jump.

Tonight, Syfy airs an all-new episode of its new series, Dark Matter. The series follows the crew of a derelict space craft, who awaken from stasis with no memories to their identities or what they are doing on the ship, the Raza. The series is based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name. Both the comic series and the television series were created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.

Mallozzi recently talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about the new space opera.

The producer talked about how the concept of Dark Matter started. "I actually started developing the show way back, I want to say, almost eight years ago, when I was working on Stargate Atlantis, with the idea that once Stargate ended, we would roll right into Dark Matter, except [there was], I hesitate to say, the classic problem, but Stargate kept getting picked up. Every year I'd have to shelve Dark Matter. But the great thing is, you know, because I would have to put it off, I was able to just keep creating the backstories and the detail."

In November, SciFI Vision was able to take visit the set of Killjoys. Three of the actors did roundtable interviews with Jamie Ruby and Karen Moul of SciFi Vision and two other journalists.

One actor was Aaron Ashmore, who plays the character of John Jaqobis.

The series follows a group of intergalactic bounty hunters called Killjoys, who are hired by the Company as independent contractors for the RAC (Reclamation Apprehension Coalition) who hold no allegiance to any government. They abide by only one law: The Warrant is All.

Ashmore explained a bit to journalists about how the Killjoys work within the system of the law. "We work for the system, and it's sort of set up that it's the Company that we basically get our warrants through. So it is kind of interesting; there is sort of an element to things where we do what we want. We go about fulfilling these bounties for the most part however we want. If we have to break the rules and all that, we do, but there is still sometimes a structure where we are forced to do things by this Company, based on all sorts of different things. And you can't really say no; you work for them, and they sort of have at the end of the day total control. So there are elements where we're left to our own devices, and we can do whatever we want, and we do sort of break the rules, but at the end of the day we do work for somebody. We do have bosses, and we are accountable to them."

Early in November, SciFi Vision was lucky enough to get a visit to the Syfy set of the upcoming series Killjoys.

Before touring the set, myself and another member of the staff, along with two other journalists, sat in a production office and had roundtable interviews with the series three stars: Aaron Ashmore, Hannah John-Kamen, and Luke Macfarlane (coming soon), and learned a bit more about the show.

In the future, in a galaxy on the verge of interplanetary war, bounty hunters called Killjoys are hired by the Company as independent and non-bias mercenaries to pursue warrants across the Quad, which consists of the planet Qresh and its colonized moons: Westerley, Leith, and Arkyn. Killjoys hold no allegiance and follow only one code, "The Warrant is All."

Westerley, which is where the main characters, a trio of Killjoys, dock their ship, Lucy (voiced by Tamsen McDonough), is more industrial and lower class, whereas Leith is more developed and more of a middle class society.

Last week, Syfy premiered season three of its hit series, Defiance, and within it were quite a few big shocks, including the death of Christie McCawley, played by the talented actress, Nicole Muñoz, who recently talked to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview.

In the season premiere, after hiding her baby in the closet, Christie watched tragedy unfold as she witnessed both her brother, Quentin (Justin Rain), and her father, Rafe (Graham Greene), get murdered right in front of her. Soon after, her stepmother, Stahma Tarr (Jaime Murray), slit her throat.

The actress found out about her character’s death months in advance, and she understood it. "It was a couple months prior. I don't remember exactly when, but I had a lot of notice. Kevin Murphy called me and was really nice about it. He related the message really clearly and talked about why and what Christie's storyline is, and how she's dying for the baby, and that it's a very important story to tell, and it helps propel Stahma's story forward.

Another episodic photo from the third season episode of Defiance, "The World We Seize," which aired 6/12/15, after the jump.

Friday Syfy premieres its new highly-anticipated series, Killjoys. The series takes place in the future and follows three bounty hunters called Killjoys. Killjoys, hired by the Company, hold no allegiance to any government, and abide by one code: the warrant is all.

Stars Aaron Ashmore, who plays John, Luke Macfarlane, who plays his brother D'Avin, and Hannah John-Kamen who plays Dutch, recently talked to the media about their new series and what fans can expect.

The cast talked to SciFi Vision about their chemistry when first working together. Macfarlane credits a lot to the casting, but also to their senses of humor. "So much of it is credit due to the casting process; we had a really great casting director that took the time to really do mix and matches. So as we're slowly assembling this group, we auditioned with various people, and that's always terribly nerve racking as an actor, but I think ultimately it's really a useful thing to do. Because, yes, we got along from the beginning almost immediately, a very similar sense of humor."

Ashmore agreed. "I think that as far as chemistry and stuff like that, you either have it or you don't. That is something that obviously [is] due to the casting process, and when they're doing a show like this that obviously revolves around the characters having dynamic chemistry, it's really important. But sometimes you just really luck out, and I think the three of us have become really good friends, and we got along so, so well, and it's kind of rare. So I think it's special, and I think that we all appreciate it, and it's lucky too that you get three people that just get along so well."

John-Kamen added, "And I think it's a great – but it's important to have the chemistry on the screen and off. And I think that we all have the same sense of humor which really helps."