Current Sci-Fi / Fantasy Shows
By Mark Wilson, About.com Guide to Sci-Fi / Fantasy
What's going on with your favorite sci-fi / fantasy shows? Who are these characters, and what are they about? What's going on behind the scenes? You'll find answers here. (For times and networks, see What's On When.)
Battlestar Galactica
The last survivors of humanity, escaping the destruction of the twelve colonies by the artificially created Cylons, battle internal friction and enemy infiltration on a quest to find the home of the lost thirteenth colony -- Earth.
- Essential information
- What it's about and why it's different
- Characters and cast
- Image gallery
- Quiz yourself: Kara Thrace, callsign: Starbuck
Chuck
Chuck Bartowski is an ordinary computer techie helping shoppers at a big-box electronics store when an old college buddy sends him an email that downloads millions of government secrets from a destroyed supercomputer straight into Chuck's head. Now shadowed by secret agents, including the beautiful Sarah, Chuck reluctantly uses insights from the database in his brain to foil bad guys.
Doctor Who
The Doctor -- 900 years old and the last of the Time Lords -- travels the universe in a space-time machine called the TARDIS, fighting injustice and evil wherever he finds it.
- Essential information
- Characters and cast
- Review: Season 3
- Review: Doctor Who New Beginnings
- Quiz: How well do you know regeneration?
Heroes
Ordinary people discover that they have extraordinary abilities, and that they're not alone -- not only are there others like them scattered around the world, but there are those who seek to use their abilities for destruction and domination, and others who want to rid humanity of those with special powers.
Pushing Daisies
Ned can touch dead things and bring them back to life. But if he touches them again, they go back to being dead, forever. So he can never touch the girl he loves, a woman named Chuck whom he accidentally brought back to life. Meanwhile Ned works with a private detective named Emerson to solve murders by momentarily bringing the victims back to life and asking them who killed them.
Reaper
Sam's stress-free life as a college dropout working at a home supply store is suddenly complicated by the news that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born -- and the devil has shown up to make good on the deal. Now Sam must work as the devil's bounty hunter, tracking down hell's escaped souls with the help of his friends Sock and Ben; but he can't share his secret with the girl he likes, a co-worker named Andi.
Sarah Connor Chronicles
A sci-fi drama based on the Terminator movies, following the fugitive Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) and her son John (Thomas Dekker) on the run from cyborgs sent from the future.
Stargate Atlantis
Having discovered a means of traveling to the Pegasus Galaxy by means of the stargate technology created by the race of humans known as the Ancients, Stargate Command sent an expedition to the Ancients' long-abandoned base there, Atlantis. Only after arriving does the expedition discover that the Pegasus Galaxy is infested with the life-sucking race that defeated the Ancients -- the Wraith.
- Essential information
- Characters and cast
- Whither Atlantis?
- Killing Off Carson Beckett
- Review: Season 3 DVD
Supernatural
Sam and Dean Winchester are demon-hunters trained by their father. With hundreds of evil souls having recently been released from hell, the brothers find themselves facing a war, while Sam must deal with Dean's bargain to be sent to hell in a year in exchange for saving Sam's life.
Torchwood
In this spin-off of Doctor Who, Jack Harkness heads a secret task force to protect the Earth from alien threats called Torchwood. He's unusually well qualified for the job -- not only is he a friend and occasional traveling companion of the Time Lord known as The Doctor, he also -- thanks to a strange accident in the far future -- has become a "fact in time" who cannot die.
Canceled Shows
Recently canceled shows appear here. For older shows, see Classic Sci-Fi.
