Christina Chong, who you may know as series regular La'an Noonien-Singh from the Paramount streaming series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, lends her voice acting talents to a different kind of sci-fi project, Audible Original, Impact Winter.

Chong, who recently spoke with SciFi Vision, joins Impact Winter for Season three playing Kexian, a vampire who is part of the high council family. She describes her character as an explorer who tends to leave for long periods of time on adventures. When Kexian is first introduced in the series she has just returned home from a personally traumatic adventure. Since she has been away for such a long amount of time, she comes across as an outsider. Kexian is starting to break from her family and seems to be hiding something. Kexian is mysterious but as season three progresses, she reveals something which helps to drive the rest of the season and has potential in carrying over to a season four.

The following contains slight spoilers for the premiere

Tonight, season two of The Ark premieres on Syfy. Set one hundred years in the future, the fate of the human race relies on planetary colonization. Space crafts called arks have been created to send people across the galaxy from Earth to other planets. In the second season, after Ark One reaches their destination only to find it uninhabitable, they must find a new home for themselves and all the other ships.

Recently, SciFi Vision spoke with stars Stacey Read, who plays Alicia Nevins, and Ryan Adams, who plays Angus Medford, about season two, including how they feel now that they have a season under their belt, what’s next for their characters’ relationship, how Alicia will deal with Kelly (Samantha Glassner) this season, and more.

The following contains slight spoilers for the premiere

Tonight, Syfy premieres season two of it’s series, The Ark. Set one hundred years in the future, in order to secure the survival of the human race, space crafts called arks have been created to transport people away from an uninhabitable Earth to other planets for colonization. In season two, after Ark One discovers their destination is inhospitable, they must find a new home for everyone.

Recently, SciFi Vision spoke with star, Christie Burke, who plays the captain of Ark One, Sharon Garnet, as well as creator and executive producer, Dean Devlin and executive producer Jonathan Glassner, who also directed again this season. During the interview, the three teased season two, including working with Samantha Glassner, Jonathan’s daughter, who plays Kelly on the series, how season two is different than season one, and much more.

Starz TCA Summer Press Tour

SciFI Vision attended the TCA Summer Press Tour for Starz in Pasadena, CA. Starz has been the home of many sci-fi projects and so much more. Check out what is currently airing or coming soon to the network below.

Starz highlighted The Serpent Queen and Three Women during the TCA Summer Press Tour.

The Serpent Queen

Creator, Showrunner, Executive Producer Justin Hayth, Executive Producer Erwin Stoff, along with Stars Samantha Morton and Minnie Driver, spoke about the recently released season two.

Samantha Morton plays Catherine de Medici and Minnie Driver is Queen Elizabeth I in the Starz series.

Descendants: The Rise of Red is a spinoff centered on the Queen of Hearts’ daughter, Red and Cinderella’s daughter, Chloe. The Rise of Red introduces new characters and includes familiar, beloved Descendants. The film mainly focuses on Red and Chloe traveling back in time to stop an event that has caused a negative effect in the future.

Kylie Cantrall plays Red, the daughter of Queen of Hearts. Red rebels against her mother’s dictatorship over Wonderland. Malia Baker plays Chloe, the teenage daughter of Cinderella and Prince Charming, who arrives for her first year of Auradon Prep. The first day at Auradon Prep begins with the introduction of the new principal. It wasn’t in the cards for the day to go as planned and Red and Chloe travel back in time and must work together for a better future.

SciFi Vision had the opportunity to get the inside scoop on Kylie Cantrall’s and Malia Baker’s filming experience during a roundtable where they reminisced about filming the “Fight of Our Lives” scene and recalled Malia’s professionalism in staying in character even when she tripped and fell but continued singing.

The Serpent Queen returns to Starz tonight for its highly anticipated second season. The hit historical drama promises plenty of action, with its protagonist Catherne de Medici (Samantha Morton) taking on the equally formidable Elizabeth I, Queen of England (Minnie Driver).

It’s no secret that season two opens with a time jump. About a decade has passed and the Queen Regent has her hands full with the usual political backstabbing, religious conflict and family drama. If that’s not enough, a series of powerful new women show up at court, ready to match wits with the Serpent Queen.  

SciFi Vision asked the show’s creative team – creator/showrunner/EP Justin Haythe and co-EP Erwin Stoff – what Catherine has on her plate this season. 

Descendants: The Rise of Red is a spinoff centered on the Queen of Hearts’ daughter, Red (Kylie Cantrall), and Cinderella’s daughter, Chloe (Malia Baker). The Rise of Red introduces new characters and includes familiar, beloved Descendants. SciFi Vision was able to interview a few of the new faces to the Descendants Universe: Dara Reneé, Ruby Rose Turner, and Morgan Dudley.
 
Dara Reneé plays Uliana, the little sister of Ursula and Uma’s Aunt. Uliana is a new addition to the Descendants universe. Uliana lives up to the villain status in Rise of Red as the main antagonist.

Ruby Rose Turner plays Bridget, the younger version of the Queen of Hearts, whom Chloe and Red meet when traveling back in time. Rita Ora stars as the easily angered Queen of Hearts in the present-day; her younger self Bridget is sugary sweet.

Morgan Dudley stars as Ella, the younger version of Cinderella. Chloe and Red interact with Ella to gain insight into how they can stop the event that makes the Queen of Hearts mean.

The Apple TV+ series, Me, which premieres today, follows twelve-year-old Ben (Lucian-River Chauhan), who is dealing with the ups and downs of middle school and adjusting to his new blended family when his mother (Dilshad Vadsaria) remarries and he gains not only a new parental figure (Kyle Howard), but a new stepsister (Abigail Pniowsky) as well. Things get even more difficult for Ben when he suddenly develops super powers. The new spin on a superhero origin story plays out over ten episodes as Ben goes on a journey of self-discovery of his powers as well as what it really means to be Ben.

Stars Chauhan and Pniowsky recently spoke with SciFi Vision about working on the series, including what attracted them to the roles, connecting with the characters, who their favorite super heroes are, who they’d love to be, and more.

The following contains spoilers for episode two.

An expansion of the original series, Orphan Black: Echoes takes place in the future and continues the exploitations of science. Krysten Ritter stars as Lucy in the sci-fi thriller, a woman who wakes up without a past and soon discovers that she was not born, but printed. Although she doesn’t know it yet, her creator is none other than Kira Manning (Keeley Hawes), Sarah (Tatiana Maslany)’s grown daughter from the original series. 

In episode two, which premiered last night, Lucy took the kidnapped Jules (Amanda Fix) to Settlement House, getting Craig (Jonathan Whittaker)’s help in an interrogation of the teenage girl, who she believes is the same as her, hoping to shed some light on what’s going on.

According to John Fawcett, who co-created the original series and serves as an executive producer and director of this news series, there was discussion even back at the end of the original series that they wanted to have some kind of continuation of the Orphan Black story. “[Graeme Manson and I] always made jokes about what the spin off could be,” Fawcett told SciFi Vision during a recent interview. “Ultimately, Boat Rocker and Anna [Fishko] came up with the concept for Echoes and brought me on to help develop it.” 

Directed by Jordan Scott, daughter of the famed Ridley Scott, who also serves as a producer on the film, A Sacrifice, which opened in theaters yesterday, follows American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Eric Bana) who is investigating a disturbing cult in Berlin when his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sadie Sink) comes to stay with him. She meets a local boy, Marting (Jonas Dassler), who introduces her to the underground party scene and she starts making questionable choices. As their two worlds are about to collide, Ben must race against time to save his daughter.

According to Scott, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, the book on which the film is based, Tokyo, by Nicholas Hoggs, was more about the relationships between characters than it was about the cult. “The original book was focused much more on this amazing father-daughter story and also the love story between Ben and [the character] who is now Nina (Sylvia Hoeks),” explained the director to SciFi Vision during a recent interview. “But there was this underlying hint of this nefarious cult throughout that sort of kept poking its head above the parapet, but we never really went into the cult or into their world. Then, right as the book ended, the cult kind of opened up…So, I really focused on creating the cult and Hilma (Sophie Rois)’s world and having those two stories intersect.”