{"id":33209,"date":"2013-04-16T09:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/classic-scifi-on-syfy.html"},"modified":"2013-04-17T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:09:15","slug":"classic-scifi-on-syfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/classic-scifi-on-syfy.html","title":{"rendered":"Classic SciFi on Syfy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the one hand, these announcements make me caper with glee to think of such interesting and seminal SF works being adapted to mini-series for TV.<\/p>\n

Then I consider that it's Syfy, and that for Ringworld<\/i> they are talking about only a 4 hour miniseries, which seems insanely short. \u00a0We'll see.<\/div>\n

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Syfy announces Childhood’s End and Ringworld miniseries<\/a>
\n Two new miniseries are on the way to Syfy, and they should sound familiar to fans of classic sci-fi literature.\n <\/p>\n

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On the one hand, these announcements make me caper with glee to think of such interesting and seminal SF works being adapted to mini-series for TV. Then I consider that it's Syfy, and that for Ringworld they are talking about only a 4 hour miniseries, which seems insanely short. \u00a0We'll see. Syfy announces Childhood’s End … Continue reading “Classic SciFi on Syfy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133455,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/this-is-syfy.html","url_meta":{"origin":33209,"position":0},"title":"This Is Syfy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-May-17 2:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There was a time, several years ago, when the Sci Fi Channel seemed determine to run from science fiction as a theme as well as by changing its name (reaching its nadir as a host for professional wrestling, which may seem like a clever take on fantasy, but really wasn't).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44149,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/syfy-to-bring-old-mans-war-tales-to-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":33209,"position":1},"title":"Syfy to bring Old Man's War tales to TV","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Aug-14 1:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, if +John Scalzi\u00a0is happy about it, I'm happy about it! 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