Amanda Tapping’s hit sci-fi and fantasy series Sanctuary is coming back for more monster hunting next year! Syfy has renewed the show for a 13-episode fourth season.
Season Three is currently on its mid-season hiatus, and is the show’s first year with a 20-episode order — allowing for a longer and more gradually developed storyline this season. Syfy didn’t offer any explanation for why it is returning to the 13-episode format.
Sanctuary has aired in the 10 p.m. time slot on Friday nights, enjoying the lead-in audience of around 2.7 million viewers from the 2-hour block of WWE SmackDown and averaging 1.46 million viewers itself.
Sanctuary is a co-production of the SPACE network in Canada, which has also announced the renewal.
“We’re thrilled about the extraordinary support SPACE has provided since the beginning,” series creator and executive producer Damian Kindler said. “They were the first to recognize Sanctuary‘s potential and are the foundation upon which all of our success rests.”
Stargate Atlantis's Christopher Heyerdahl stars on Sanctuary as John Druitt
Sanctuary co-stars Robin Dunne, Ryan Robbins (Atlantis‘s Ladon Radim), Agam Darshi, and Christopher Heyerdahl (Atlantis‘s Halling and Todd the Wraith). The series was created and is executive produced by former SG-1 writer Damian Kindler, and executive produced and directed by former Stargate director Martin Wood. Tapping also serves as executive producer.
Syfy had originally planned to move the show to Tuesdays with Stargate Universe, but changed their minds just a few weeks before the season premiere — keeping the Sanctuary team on Friday nights and instead pairing SGU with Caprica. Both of those series found the Tuesday night competition rough-going, and were canceled by December.
The renewal puts Syfy’s success rate for its fall scripted series at a meager 33 percent: 100 percent success on Friday nights (1/1), and 100 percent failure on Tuesdays (0/2).
Season Four of Sanctuary will kick off next fall on Syfy Channel and SPACE. The second half of Season Three returns in the spring.
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heck yeah!
Sanctuary really found its feet this Season. I actually found myself looking forward to it more than SGU. I actually look forward to its return a little more as well... thought that may just be because SGU has already been cancelled.
Either way, it's another year with Amanda Tapping et al. on our screens. Hopefully they can keep the connected story lines going.
BYE
Well deserved
Good news for people who like this show obviously, but I'm not one of them. SyFy
have left a bad taste in my mouth over their
treatment of SGU.
13 episodes is only 3 months worth, things have certainly slowly gone downhill since shows used to have 26 episode seasons, and 29 in the sixties if I am correct.
Who wants To make a bet that whatever they put on Tuesday nights 2011 Autumn will also get cancelled?
Congrats to the entire Sanctuary team for being picked up for another season. I'm looking forward to the rest of Season 2 and Season 3 in the fall.
Sanctuary got much better this season. It found it's direction.
@Imperious: That's an unfair bet. Too bad if it's some really good new series and SyFy murders it too.
Great news, theres little SCiFi around to watch and its great to see quality stuff week in week out.
That's weird... this means SyFy is still airing the genre on which it was initially based.
"Syfy didn’t offer any explanation for why it is returning to the 13-episode format."
Lol, since when did SyFy need an explanation for screwing over fans? They still haven't given us anything outside of a twitter/tweet behind why they canceled SGU. I guess its a good thing this show didn't air on Tuesdays too or chances are it'd be gone too, though I think that it would have done better than SGU or Caprica, it would have worked better as a lead-in to SGU and Caprica should have been on Fridays, because we all know Caprica was going to get the can anyway whether or not it was on Tuesday.
And yes, while I'm glad it was renewed and have been enjoying it, 13 episodes IS an insult to fans, not quite as bad as how they handled SGU or Caprica, because this season they teased us with 20 episodes and now they're cutting it down to 13? Its one thing to have a show like Dr. Who or Merlin that's ALWAYS had a 13 episode season but another entirely to keep on switching back and forth, make up your mind already! Maybe they'll surprise us and pick up the back 7 like NBC always does with Chuck but I doubt it.
I guess one could say that they chose Monsters over Aliens.
With Primeval back, the monsters are winning the Sci-Fi game.
I like Sanctuary. It has the camaraderie of the best SG shows. Way to keep it going Amanda!