Syfy Orders The Ark, Dean Devlin Series About Derailed Planetary Colonization
Syfy has ordered the launch of The Ark, a series about planetary colonization gone wrong, from Dean Devlin and Stargate SG-1‘s Jonathan Glassner.
Ordered straight to series for 12 episodes, with Glassner and Devlin serving as co-showrunners, The Ark is set The 100 years in the future, when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions, on a spacecraft known as Ark One, encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life.
“With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, Ark One’s remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive,” the synopsis tells us.
“I’m so excited to have the opportunity to partner with Syfy again,” Devlin, who in 2005 penned The Triangle for Sci-Fi Channel, said in a statement, “and can’t think of a better collaborator than Jonathan Glassner to bring this series to life.”
Casting will commence shortly, with an eye on a March production start in Belgrade, Serbia (and a premiere date TBD).
“The Ark is a perfect fit for Syfy audiences, ” Lisa Katz, NBCU’s scripted content chief, said in a statement, “and we know fans will gravitate to this heart-racing story from Dean Devlin, one of the most accomplished and respected sci-fi writers working today.
“With the recent success of both Resident Alien and Chucky,” Katz added, “the network is home to several of the most creative storytellers working in all of television.”
Interesting. Looking forward to it.
will be canceled
Like Resident Alien?
It’s on SyFy, not NBC.
Sounds like the old 70’s series The Starlost.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069638/
It sounds like a remake – I think their ship was called “Ark”
I remember Starlost, and it wasn’t the greatest, though the pilot episode was pretty good. It was a low-low budget show with minimal special effects and the acting was fairly wooden. Harlan Ellison was the creator and writer, but he ended up disavowing the series and had his name replaced in the credits with the pseudonym Cordwainer Bird, which was a name he used to express disapproval with scripts. And yes, the ship was called “The Ark” and the concept seems very similar to this new series. I wonder if they will give any credit to the original series?
“Dean Devlin, one of the most accomplished and respected sci-fi writers working
todaytwenty years ago.”He certainly gets points for creating Stargate, and I have a soft spot for The Librarians, but if this is going to be another show on the quality level of The Outpost, I’m not overly excited.
Well, The Outpost did improve its look and over-all quality by Season 2 onwards when they moved production to Serbia.
Yup,I thought it ended really well and had some decent effects. Although I still don’t know where all those bodyguard monsters went.
They still get a passing mention here and there but their last appearance was in Season 2. I guess they became irrelevant once the calipsum (drug) trade was dismantled and the show focused on other plots goong forward.
Fair enough. I suppose they did get four seasons, so there must have been some merit to it.
To be honest, I watched a few minutes of the pilot and immediately jumped ship, and nobody I know ever pressured me to reconsider.
I guess my real point is that the last sci-fi scripts Devlin actually wrote were Geostorm and the Independence Day sequel, which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
I guess I actually liked The Outpost. It was one of the few shows that I watched live on TV.
I’m surprised, given how Devlin and Emmerich felt about Stargate SG1, that either would work with one of the SG1 producers.
so a prequel to The 100 :)
Why would anybody watch an ongoing series on Syfy?
When was the last time any of them concluded on the showrunners terms rather than being cancelled?
Such is the case in just about every television network and streaming service where more shows get canceled than they are renewed.
Killjoys I believe?Or 12 Monkeys.
Wynonna Earp and The Magicians also both ended at just about the right time.
Van Helsing had a surprisingly long run too – not sure how they wrapped up, narratively.
Van Helsing ended when the writers wanted it to end, and the series finale, while bittersweet stuck the landing and ended well. Same with Wynonna Earp and The Magicians, altho I would happily take many more years of Magicians, that was a great show
No worries they will cancel it when it get interesting!
Not interested. Has been done so many times and why are they going to another planet? To destroy that one as well?
Meh
Ark sounds like The 100 but less violent.
Lost in Space meets Battlestar Galactica meets Star Trek Voyager
Oh no, another 100. I think you need better story. Lost in space, 100 have done it already. Try another stargate the same as startrek
I would have been interested in this as some good sci-fi but the Syfy channel has been so woke the last several years that I couldn’t stand watching the channel anymore. I haven’t watched Chucky yet but I was skeptical because it was on Syfy. I watched the first episode of Resident Alien and it didn’t seem too bad but I didn’t trust Syfy enough to keep it up. I figured it would eventually be a bait and switch to more woke or they would just cancel it around the 3rd season. I never have enough time to watch the few shows I do watch anyway to waste my time. Even Syfy movies are super woke. I used to watch all their low budget stuff, I liked the stuff from the 90’s and early 2000’s better but I liked all the stuff up to about 2017 then it was just low budget, green screen woke. Horrendously lame. It would be nice if they are going back to their roots but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Syfy, TBS and Comedy central are all pointless networks now, besides a show or two, that used to be great networks that you could leave on for hours. Now I think they should just be gotten rid of because they are just taking up space at this point.