The series would follow “a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack,” according to the site.
The show is from Universal Cable Prods and BermanBraun, who produce the network’s newest scripted success Alphas. Marks wrote the pilot and will executive produce with Tom Spezialy (Chaos), Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun and Gene Stein.
“Justin Marks has created a time-travel series with an exciting innovative approach that really exemplifies Syfy’s commitment to bring compelling storytelling to life,” said Mark Stern, Syfy’s president of original content.
A time travel series has lots of room for potential, but Rewind will need to distinguish itself from similar fare of the past, including Quantum Leap and especially Seven Days, which had a premise very similar to the one described above.
Syfy has been focusing more heavily on the development of new reality-based series than ever before, with a small handful of scripted dramas currently in the pipe. Once pitched as a half-hour comedy, Three Inches was retooled as an action-adventure hour starring James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). It has apparently not been picked up to series, with the 2-hour pilot burned off in a single broadcast on Syfy between Christmas and New Year’s last month.
The Battlestar Galactica spin-off Blood & Chrome reportedly finished the heavy post-production on its pilot in November, and Syfy is expected to make a decision on its future in the coming weeks.
Three other scripted one-hour dramas are one step behind Rewind — in development but not yet with a pilot order (story). They include supernatural-themed Seeing Things and Ghost Projekt, and an untitled, space-based show from Andromeda showrunner Robert Hewitt Wolfe.
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Interesting, have to keep an eye out for that.
Thanks for all your hard work. Still reading the site. Love the updates on all the old SG folks and what other projects they are involved with.
I think if Syfy want to get back in the game then they need something like a Sci-fi/Space version of American Horror Story/True Blood.
With the recent bouts of 2 season shows, it kinda proves people want something a bit gritty.
I know these don't exactly screen Sci-fi as such, but Game of Thrones & Downton Abbey have set a huge bar, they bring in audiences of old and new. This is the direction that needs to be pushed.
If an American Horror Story/Game of Thrones version of lets say Stargate or Star Trek came out, then maybe that'll work.
Sounds like a total strap off of Seven 7 days
oh they mention that haha i really need to start fully reading things before i talk
Uh, I don't know which is the typo, but James MARSTERS was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. James MARSDEN was Cyclops in X-men :P
I agree with tomaso88.
This show sounds like a total Seven Days clone.
They had me right up until "avoid a devastating terrorist attack". Now I'm turned off entirely.
"Seven Days", or "Odyssey 5" (without the alien conspiracy, of course).
Too bad I don't watch Syfail anymore.
Blood and Chrome will either be a superlative action show that could appeal to a wider audience than BSC or Caprica, or it will be naff green screen city like Sanctuary.