With Battlestar Galactica dormant until that prequel movie Blood & Chrome arrives sometime next year and Stargate in deep freeze for the foreseeable future, Eureka is now the veteran franchise of SyFy's scripted series line-up. Heading into the second half of Season 4 (the first 10 episodes aired last summer), the show has steadily morphed into the channel's version of comfort food, offering light-hearted episodic misadventures in science (fiction), which generally involve some technical doodad malfunctioning, thus forcing the cast to spend the rest of the hour trying to fix it. (It's like a version of House starring Bill Nye, the Science Guy.) And despite the world-ending nature of some of these calamities, the stakes never feel all that high. That's because we've become trained to expect one our intrepid heroes -- usually Jack Carter (the always-charming Colin Ferguson), the sheriff of the titular small Pacific Northwest town where science is the sole industry -- to jerryrig some solution before everything goes kablooey. It's a routine, but engaging formula that's kept the show going for over 50 episodes now, so the writers have little reason to change it.

Tags: Eureka, SyFy

The Event has been thrown a life raft of sorts...

Tags: Albie Manzo, Andrea Anders, Boys to Manzo, Burn Notice, Caroline Manzo, Chris Manzo, Gavin Rossdale, Josh Lucas, Lee DeWyze, Necessary Roughness, Real Housewives of New Jersey, Real Housewives of Vancouver, Scotty McCreery, syfy, The Firm

Are you the kind of person who likes to put your wildest imaginings into practice? Do you not just want to watch TV, but interact with it? If so, you might just be an igniter and therefore precisely the kind of person that the Syfy network wants amongst its audience. "Igniter" was the buzzword at Syfy's upfront presentation, which unfolded Tuesday night at New York's famed American Museum of Natural History, where the famous Hall of Ocean Life (you know, the one with that giant whale suspended from the ceiling) was bathed in the network's signature purple while DJ Spooky spun records and guests feasted on dishes created by celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson. But the evening wasn't all fun and food -- Syfy also revealed its plans for the 2012-2013 season and those plans include a lot more reality, a lot fewer scripted series and a whole lot of igniter-driven interactivity between viewer and show.

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This weekend is the 200th Syfy original Saturday-night movie, Scream of the Banshee, and while the monster in it looks to live up to the standards set by Megashark, the star of the movie has a pedigree all his own. He's Lance Henriksen, star of dozens of science-fiction and horror movies, including a few bona fide classics and the TV series Millennium, and we got to sit in on a conference call with him to talk about the movie, his love of Westerns, and what he'd be doing if he wasn't acting.

Tags: interview, Lance Henriksen, Scream of the Banshee, Syfy

Today's TV news has a a pretty fair distribution of the bad (Paula Abdul and Star Search) and the good (every other piece of news). It's a balancing act, really.

Tags: Boardwalk Empire, Hard Times, Jason Segel, Paula Abdul, Star Search, Syfy, the muppets, Three Inches

Last night Syfy invited the press and advertisers to learn about their new shows, and see a private performance of the Broadway debacle Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (that will be getting its own entirely separate review, because I can't even begin to squish all my thoughts on that in here). Anyway, there was the usual hobnobbing, and then Syfy President Dave Howe took to the stage, along with a flipping costumed Spider-Man to unveil their multitude of new shows. We saw clips of a lot of them, and there's some potential... of course, there are more shows about ghosts (because, of course) and also even more cheesy original films coming our way in the next year.

Tags: Alphas, Battlestar: Blood and Chrome, syfy, Three Inches, tommy lee, upfront

Oprah gets even more money? Happy Friday, Oprah! Is Oprah's wealth ever news though?

Tags: Amanda Peet, Miley Cyrus, OWN, Saturday Night Live, Syfy

It is a Syfy-apalooza at DVD stores today, with two big shows releasing their latest seasons. Also, a '50s TV classic, a '90s TV hit and an '00s Internet sensation.

Tags: Eureka, Leave it to Beaver, Mad About You, Red vs. Blue, Syfy, The Closer, Warehouse 13