Sci Fi Channel is teaming with Will Smith for “Unfinished Business”, a new crime procedural/drama about an ex-cop who starts seeing flashes of memories from the recently deceased, and then, compelled by them, begins helping lost and wronged souls take care of unfinished business.
Sci Fi/Syfy plans to initially air “Business” as a 2-hour movie, that also will serve as a series pilot.
It isbeing produced through Overbrook Entertainment, with Smith, James Lassiter and Ken Stovitz executive producing. Sally Robinson (”Iron Jawed Angels”) is writing the pilot, and Mikael Salomon (”Band of Brothers”) is attached to direct. Both Robinson and Salomon are also attached as executive producers.
No release date is [...]

From the creator of “Arrested Development” and the producers of “Two and a Half Men,” comes the new Sony Pictures Television half-hour animated comedy series, “Sit Down, Shut Up” for FOX. The series premieres Sunday, April 19 at 8:30 PM (ET/PT) as part of FOX’s Animation Domination Sunday night lineup.
Based on the hit live-action Australian series, “Sit Down, Shut Up” revolves around the lives of high school faculty members in a small Florida fishing town who are so preoccupied with their own personal needs and agendas that the students ALWAYS come second. At Knob Haven High the teachers are essentially the students and their insecurities, prejudices, [...]

Multiple sources, according to Entertainment Weekly, are reporting that Fox will not be renewing “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” for a third season, though a studio representative insists that the show isn’t cancelled and that no decisions about the show have been made yet.
The show, which picks up after “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” and follows a teenage John Connor, Sarah Connor, and the converted female Terminator Cameron as they take the fight to Skynet, was the highest-rated new scripted series of the 2007-08 television season and was renewed for a second season that began September 8, 2008 and just ended April 10, 2009. Creatd by Josh Friedman (”Chain Reaction,” [...]

Sci Fi Wire has some exclusive concept art for the Sci Fi/Syfy Channel’s “The Phantom” mini-series scheduled for 2010, which you can check out below.
Ryan Carnes has been cast as the Phantom in the TV original, written by father-son team Daniel and Charles Knauf and intended to be a backdoor pilot for launching a new live-action Phantom TV series.
“The Phantom” is a comic strip created by Lee Falk, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating out of the African jungle, the latest in a line of avengers stemming back hundreds of years. The series began with a daily newspaper strip on February 17, 1936 and the character, credited with bringing the [...]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Ryan Carnes (”Desperate Housewives”) has been cast in “The Phantom”, the cable channel’s adaptation of the classic comic news strip about the purple-clad ghostlike avenger.
Isabella Rossellini will guest star in the mini-series as the villainous Lithia, bent on succeeding with her mind-control power experiments. Cameron Goodman and Sandrine Holt are also starring.
“The Phantom” begins production on Monday, and will air next year on Syfyas a four-hour movie/mini-series. The character was created by Lee Faulk in 1936, and is the latest in a line of vigilante avengers dating back to the first Phantom ages ago, who battled pirates. The character [...]

CBS and the hit series “Ghost Whisperer” are offering a haunted trip for two on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, two passes to “Dining with the Spirits”, two tickets to the Aquarium of the Pacific and a super cool set tour visit on the set of Ghost Whisperer where you can meet and greet some of the cast! The prize includes airfare.
Click Here to visit CBS and sign up. Hurry! The contest ends on April 30, 2009.
“Ghost Whisperer” stars Jennifer Love Hewitt (Delgo), Jamie Kennedy and David Conrad (Wedding Crashers).
Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from “Ghost Whisperer” and CBS.

Freddie Prinze Jr. will star in the pilot episode for ABC’s comedy “No Heroics,” which revolves around four friends who also happen to be B-list superheros.
So far three of the roles have been filled, and will be played by Eliza Coupe (”Scrubs”), Arielle Kebbel (”The Uninvited”) and Paul Campbell (”Battlestar Galactica”). Prinze Jr. will play Bradley, aka Ultimatum, an egotistical, arrogant, and famous superhero with fame, good looks, women, wealth, and endorsement deals, everything that the rest of the heroes in the series don’t.
“No Heroics” first premiered on TV in the United Kingdom in 2008 about a world not unlike ours except for the existence of superpowered heroes [...]

Sci Fi has announced it is changing it’s programming and its name to Syfy staring July 7th:
Building upon sixteen years of water cooler programming and soaring ratings growth following its most-watched year ever, SCI FI Channel is evolving into Syfy on air and on-line beginning July 7th, it was announced today by Dave Howe, President, SCI FI.
By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider and more diverse range of imagination-based entertainment including fantasy, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure, as well as science fiction. It also positions the brand for future growth by creating an ownable trademark that can [...]

TV star and funnyman Stephen Colbert is trying to expand his celebrity on an intergalactic level by asking his fans to write in his name for an online NASA election that will name a new room in the international space station.
Voters are given the option to name the room one of four things: Earthrise, Legacy, Serenity and Venture as the poll says the name “should reflect the spirit of exploration and cooperation embodied by the space station.” These options don’t include write-in responses.
Colbert, who felt his name applies to the situation, could gain enough votes to win, but NASA could overrule the decision since its voting rules state “the results [...]

Eliza Coupe (”Scrubs”) has been tapped to join the cast of the “No Heroics” pilot for ABC, based on the hit British TV series of the same name about the personal lives of a group of friends, who just happen to be superheroes.
Taking place in a world that’s the same as ours except for the existence of superheroes, called “capes” in the series, “capes” are shown performing a variety of functions from standard superheroics to paying superhero taxes to using their powers in mundane ways, such as fixing the heating in a home. The show details the lives of a group of friends, the heroes The Hotness, who controls [...]