SYFY’S FACE OFF, CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD-WINNER FOR BEST REALITY COMPETITION SERIES, RETURNS

SEASON 9 OF THE HIT SERIES PREMIERES TUESDAY, JULY 28 AT 9 PM ET/PT ON SYFY

NEW YORK – June 25, 2015 – Fresh off of being named the Best Reality Competition Series by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, Syfy’s hit reality competition series Face Off – the network’s most watched unscripted series – will return on Tuesday, July 28 at 9PM for an exciting ninth season consisting of fourteen all-new episodes. 

Season 9 begins with a cosmic bang as sixteen new talented artists work in teams of two to construct original alien animals that incorporate two models into one massive creation.  This difficult task of fashioning the largest creatures ever seen on Face Off proves to be eye opening and taxing for multiple contestants, and a surprise announcement from the judges keeps everyone on edge.

Dominion Season Two Promo - 7/09/15
2.01 - "Heirs of Salvation"

All will be judged. Below is a promo from season two of Dominion, which premieres Thursday July 9th at 10/9c. Check it out below.

More episodic photos from the first season episode of Killjoys, "The Sugar Point Run," airing 6/26/15, after the jump. You can still view part one here.

The Lazarus Effect follows medical researchers Frank Walton (Mark Duplass) and his fiancée Zoe McConnell (Olivia Wilde) who developed a serum, codenamed "Lazarus," originally intended to extend the time that people can safely be brought back from dying without brain damage. Instead, what they realize they have is a serum to return life to the dead.

Not only that, but after a trial with a dog, they discover it does much more than even they had thought, giving the animal increased brain activity and aggression.

After the company that funded their research is bought out and they seize everything for their unauthorized animal testing, the team decides they must recreate the experiment as proof of their creation, and break back into the lab.

However, before they can complete another resurrection, Zoe is fatally electrocuted during the experiment.

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.