Sci Fi Renewing BC-filmed Eureka network scores with original scripted TV series October 3rd 2006 05:57am | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor The Sci Fi Channel will renew a second season of their original scripted, Vancouver-filmed TV series Eureka. The show has averaged 2.76 million total viewers for the 11 weeks beginning with a two-hour premiere July 18. Sci Fi has also scored well in the ratings with other Vancouver-filmed science fiction-themed TV series including Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis and the final season of Stargate: SG-1. Bonnie Hammer, president of Sci Fi said her intention is to schedule two nights of scripted original series on Sci Fi in the next year or so, including upcoming 22-episode, comic book-to-film series Painkiller Jane, currently in pre-production, via Kirk Shaw's Insight Films. Other BC series bringing in numbers for the network include Psych, The 4400 and The Dead Zone. Starring Colin Ferguson and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Eureka is produced by Andrew Cosby, Jaime Paglia and Karl Schaefer, for NBC Universal TV Studios. Source: Sneak Peek In: TV News |Visit the HNR Forums

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