Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis) will play a charming, wealthy potential suspect in one of Pete and Myka’s investigations.

Tricia Helfer (Number Six from Battlestar Galactica) will play an FBI agent who finds herself at odds with Pete and Myka over control of an investigation.

Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh from Battlestar Galactica) will play Myka’s father.

Joe Morton (Henry Deacon from Eureka) will play a prisoner who also happens to be a religious extremist.

Other guest stars will include Mark Sheppard (Romo Lampkin from Battlestar Galactica), Erica Cerra (Jo Lupo from Eureka) and Niall Matter (Zane Donovan from Eureka).

basically this is a revamped version of Friday the 13th tv series, no?

I want SyFy to deliver some hard science fiction rather than comedies for nerds once in a while.

LOL, good luck with that. Haven't you heard? Hard Core Sci-Fi programming doesn't meet their target demographics wants/needs. Its all being replaced by schlock.

and calling it syfy already? <shivers up my spine> i would rather eat a bowl of cereal drowned in diarrhea in stead of milk than stroke the bloated ego of hinman by using that ridiculous name.

What was worse: rebranding, or canceling Stargate Atlantis?

Canceling Farscape. Which, by the way, I had nothing to do with. That was my first day at the job and all of a sudden it was, "Mark's cancelled Farscape." No, I didn't. I love Farscape!

The fans are loyal.

I love all that, and I'm one of those people, so I get it. I take ownership of all that stuff too. I think the difference with the brand is, there's a fear that they're not going to do the programming. I think as soon as people realize that because we now have a brand that is broader, and not as niche, it allows us to be a little more scifi-specific and it allows to put shows on...I think our big frustration with a show like Battlestar Galactica has been, it's a great show. Because it's on the science fiction channel it's kept people away, that we felt like would come in and love that show. So it's made us a little more hesitant about going too hard scifi. Because hard scifi on the scifi channel is almost like this double whammy. Now that we have a brand that is a little broader and we're embracing a lot of things we're already doing. I think it also gives us a lot of freedom to do more hard scifi.

The next thing that I really want to do is find the next great space opera it's been a long time. And we have Stargate, but that's really not that show. And Caprica isn't really that show. So where's the next Star Trek or Farscape? Let's find one of those.

So what are you looking at to replace the channel's missing space opera?

You know it's so early days, I don't have anything really specific. We're talking to a lot of people that we already work with, about ideas. We don't want to do something that is the same old. You don't want it to feel recycled. So that's the challenge of doing that. I'm a huge fan of Firefly, and shows that take that idea and take that part of the genre and reinvent it in a whole new way. I'd love to find our version of, not specifically Firefly, but similar to what Joss [Whedon] tried to do with that in terms of, "lets recast the Western in space." Love that idea, and I love that show. What's another way to approach that? We're talking to a number of people about that, but at this point honestly it's about getting Warehouse 13 on its feet, getting Caprica on its feet, getting Stargate Universe going. This is a really big time for us, we haven't really had time to think about next year.

Well, I think BSG "was" a great show.
I really liked it for a long while, though it ended poorly, and the fanbase changed dramatically over its run.

Even at that, I don't "really like" W13, even though I want all of SyFy's shows to be good.

Hell, I wanted Painkiller Jane to be good, because it was based on some good comics.

But the same brush stroke of badness splatters all of these shows that seem to be aiming at an audience other than me.

I do not think there is a strong connection between executives with a clue and great programming.

Thus, I don't care if those guys get fired or not.
Though they might make excellent Torgo's Executive Powder.

I want the shows to be good so I will have good entertainment.

LOL, good luck with that. Haven't you heard? Hard Core Sci-Fi programming doesn't meet their target demographics wants/needs. Its all being replaced by schlock.

and calling it syfy already? <shivers up my spine> i would rather eat a bowl of cereal drowned in diarrhea in stead of milk than stroke the bloated ego of hinman by using that ridiculous name.

SyFy has picked up WH13 for a Season 2 of 13 episodes:

http://scifiwire.com/2009/08/syfys-warehouse-13-renewe.php

We will be sure to cover it on our blogtalk show this coming Tuesday night along with news on the BSG movie!
KR

Can I just say that I couldn't even finished the pilot for this series.