By Jamie Ruby

Syfy Digital Press Tour 2012 - Day Two

Part Two - Defiance Q&A
October 15, 2012

In October I, along with other journalists, were invited to Toronto, Canada for the Syfy Digital Press Tour, where Defiance was one of the series highlighted. Having never received a transcript, I finally decided to sit down and transcribe the full interview in anticipation for the premiere on Monday. Without further adeu...

As part of the Syfy Digital Press Tour, journalists were taken on a tour of the Defiance set.

After arriving in the Need/Want bar at the end of the tour, everyone sat down for presentations. First we heard from Gary Hutzel who gave a VFX presentation, and then we heard from David J. Peterson on the creation of three of the alien languages in Defiance, including Irathient, Castithan, and Indogene.

The main presentation was a Q&A panel with the cast of Defiance, including Grant Bowler, who plays Nolan, Stephanie Leonidas, who portrays the Irathient, Irisa, Julie Benz who plays Amanda Rosewater, Jaime Murray and Tony Curran, who play Castithans Stahma and Datak Tarr, respectively, and Graham Greene, who portrays Rafe McCawley. They were joined by the executive producer of the series, Kevin Murphy, and President of Original Content at Syfy, Mark Stern.

By Jamie Ruby

Syfy Digital Press Tour 2012 - Day Two

Part One - Defiance Set Tour
October 15, 2012

This year the Syfy Digital Press Tour was held in Toronto, Canada. On the second day, after meeting in the lobby the group of us were picked up by the bus to head to the Defiance set. When we got there we stopped in the lunchroom to grab some breakfast before the tour. Even this room had something to offer as there was concept art on the walls.

By Jamie Ruby

This year the Syfy Digital Press Tour was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The night started with dinner in C5 Restaurant, inside the Royal Ontario Museum, where the press got some time to hang out with some of the Syfy stars. In attendance were Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath, and Kristen Hager from Being Human, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour, and Adam "Edge" Copeland from Haven, and Jesse Rath (Meaghan's brother) from Defiance.

This year SciFi Vision once again attended the Syfy Digital Press Tour, this time in Toronto, Ontairo, Canada. We not only hung out with the stars of Haven and Being Human, but we also got to visit the sets of the upcoming series Defiance, as well as Warehouse 13.

In the coming days, look for full coverage of the event, including reviews and tons of photos. You can also find a lot of the photos I took at Twitter via @scifivision, which will eventually all go in the gallery on this site.

For now, you can check out the stream below of what the press (including myself) was saying during the event, including all the photos and videos that were posted.

By Jamie Ruby

Powerful Mondays are returning to Syfy, first with Being Human, and then with the premiere of the sexy supernatural drama Lost Girl. The series, which originally aired in Canada, was recently acquired by Syfy and has been optioned for at least the two seasons that have been filmed at the time of the press tour.

The series follows the character of Bo, played by Anna Silk, who discovers that she is not human, but a fae - a succubus to be exact, who lives by feeding off sexual energy by draining humans. She is helped by human doctor Laura Lewis, played by Zoie Palmer, who tries helps Bo control her hunger. Bo is also helped by Detective Dyson, played by Kris Holden-Ried, who is a shape-shifter fae on the side of the light. The three form quite a love triangle.

Bo fights to not choose a side between light and dark which causes friction among the factions as she also tries to learn more about her past and her potential.

Silk and Palmer sat down in Orlando, Florida at the Syfy Digital Press Tour and discussed their supernatural series.

By Jamie Ruby

Syfy's breakout reality competition Face Off returns for a second season on Wednesday night with fourteen all new contestants. The competition centers around practical makeup effects and tasks contestants with challenges where this season the expectations are even higher.

The series is hosted by McKenzie Westmore (Passions). There are three judges that remain the same throughout the competition, including multiple academy-award winner Ve Neill (Pirates of the Carribean, The Hunger Games), as well as Glenn Hetrick (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Heroes) and Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day, Underworld).

Westmore and Neill appeared at the Syfy Digital Press Tour in October in Orlando, Florida, where they talked about the upcoming season.

By Jamie Ruby

Syfy will be launching its countdown to Christmas week, starting with the all new original four-hour miniseries, Neverland. The show is a origin story about how the characters we all know and love from J.M. Barrie's classic become those characters.

Written and directed by Nick Willing, who directed the miniseries Tin Man, as well as Alice, which he also wrote, Neverland will air over two consecutive nights, begining on December 4th.

The miniseries stars Charlie Rowe of Pirate Radio as Peter Pan, Rhys Ifans, who many fans will know from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, as James Hook, and Anna Friel of Pushing Daisies as Captain Elizabeth Bonnie.

The three stars recently joined the press at the Syfy Digital Press Tour in Orlando, Florida to talk about the epic adventure.

By Jamie Ruby

Last Christmas Syfy brought us two Christmas specials. This year three scripted shows will be airing special episodes in December for the holiday season, during the Countdown to Christmas week. The three standalone episodes will air December 6th, starting at 8pm.

A member of the casts of each of the series, including Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter on Eureka), Emily Rose (Audrey Parker on Haven), and Eddie McClintock (Pete Lattimer on Warehouse 13), attended the Syfy Digital Press Tour in Orland, Florida last month. The three talked to the press about the special episodes.

By Jamie Ruby

Syfy's Being Human originally premiered the beginning of 2011 and immediately did great in the ratings. It also caught the largest female audience. As the summer series ends, Powerful Mondays will continue into the new year with this scripted series.

The Being Human cast, including Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, and Sam Huntington, recently attended the Syfy Digital Press Tour in Orlando, Florida and talked to the press about the upcoming season.