Former Stargate Universe cast member Louis Ferreira is back on television, with the new drama Motive making its U.S. debut tonight on ABC (10/9c). The new series from Canada’s CTV puts a new spin on the police procedural formula by revealing the identity of the killer to the audience at the beginning of the show, …

ABC gave viewers a 30-second peek at the new Marvel television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Sunday night, but it pales in comparison to the first full-length trailer released today. The new show has been green-lit for the upcoming fall season, and co-stars Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and Stargate Universe‘s Ming-Na Wen as Melinda …

No surprises here: Syfy Channel announced today that it has given its new scripted sci-fi drama Defiance a second season. The series has performed well in its four episodes aired so far, opening with 2.73 million viewers (Live + Same Day) for the 2-hour pilot last month. Normal post-hype erosion has brought the series down …

Ming-Na Wen is Melinda May! ABC has just announced its official pick-up of the highly anticipated Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., set in the Marvel cinematic universe and developed by Joss Whedon (Firefly). The series will co-star the former SGU actress, who played Camille Wray for two years on the Syfy Channel series.  Wen plays Agent …

ABC has just picked up its family fantasy hit Once Upon A Time for a third season, Deadline reports. The show co-stars Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold, everyone’s favorite sympathetic villain.  Carlyle played Dr. Nicholas Rush for two seasons on Stargate Universe. Also frequently seen in a recurring role is Stargate SG-1‘s Tony …

Stargate SG-1′s Teryl Rothery is headed back to series television, joining the cast of the new Hallmark Channel original series Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove. It’s the cable network’s first primetime original scripted series, based on the Cedar Cove series of novels by best-selling author Debbie Macomber.  The television series stars Andie MacDowell (Jane By Design, …

A Johnny Mnemonic television series is in the works, with some Stargate writing talent attached. That’s the announcement today from Seven Arts Entertainment, an independent production company that will produce and distribute the series as a joint venture with Prodigy Pictures.  Prodigy is the studio behind Lost Girl, which airs on Syfy Channel in the …

While many actors may call Los Angeles home, the city of Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia has become almost a second home for many of them — and you can count Stargate SG-1 veteran Tony Amendola, who played “Bra’tac” on the series in a recurring fashion for the entirety of its run, among them. After …

Syfy Channel’s long-awaited “trans-media event” made a big splash with its 2-hour series premiere yesterday. Defiance brought the cable network its biggest premiere since 2009, and the biggest audience in a couple of key demographics since 2006. The premiere drew 2.7 million total viewers, according to a Syfy press release.  That’s the network’s biggest audience …

Two years after the door closed on Stargate: Extinction, Joseph Mallozzi has revealed more about the story that the Atlantis movie (and possible sixth season opener) would have told. When it became clear in 2011 that the movie wouldn’t be produced, the former SGA writer and executive producer gave a description of the opening scenes …