It's the Q&A you've all been waiting for! Actress Zoie Palmer (Dark Matter's Android) offers insight into her character, her process, and her love of soup! Now some of you may not be aware of it, but the Android character was originally envisioned as male. But, when it came time to cast "him", we cast…
January 21, 2016: Dark Matter! Behind the scenes on season 2! Episode #201 title revealed!
A sit-down with prison boss Arax Nero. Who IS this mystery man? An intriguing shot. Mysterious, no? What's HE looking at? I was on a creative tear today, finishing a new scene for one episode and rewriting multiple scenes for two more - all while I was stuck in traffic this morning. As I've always…
October 22, 2015: Dark Matter season 2 sneak peeks!
Work progresses on Dark Matter season 2. Today brought a fresh round of auditions - and a handful of very strong candidates. Casting the part of Nyx is going to be especially challenging because our casting director, Lisa Parasyn, and her team have assembled some truly terrific talent. Some great choices among the candidates who auditioned for…
October 5, 2015: Canadians love their scifi television!
Well, this is interesting. Apparently, Canadians are HUGE fans of science fiction television: "During the 2014-2015 broadcast year Canadian TV sci-fi series Orphan Black on Space (4.3 million viewers*), Dark Matter on Space (3.7 million), Between on City Total and Killjoys on Space (both 3.2 million) each reached roughly 10% of the Canadian population. In…
July 19, 2015: Dark Matter update! Periscope! Links! The SDCC Panel!
That's 9 p.m. in the U.K., 10 p.m. in Germany, 4 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. PST. Find me @BaronDestructo on twitter. #AskJoeDM for tomorrow's event. For those of you who missed the Dark Matter panel at SDCC, here it is compliments of Tom Gardiner from http://www.threeifbyspace.net: On Dark Matter Episode 106: http://www.thetvjunkies.com/dark-matter-episode-six/ "Dark Matter took a bloody trip down memory…
June 19, 2015: Dark Matter Episode 2 airs tonight! 10 p.m. EST and PST! 9 p.m. CST! 7 p.m PST!
https://twitter.com/SyfyTV/status/611972968621539328 Dark Matter's second episode airs tonight on SyFy and Space Channel at 10:00 p.m. EST/7:00 PST And 10:00 PST I'll be live tweeting through both broadcasts. Who'll be joining me? In preparation for tonight's big event, I've been dropping a few sneak peek screen caps on twitter... So, who is the baddest crew member? ***…
June 12, 2015: Dark Matter Premieres! Interviews! Reviews! Articles!
Go! Watch the premiere! Tonight! 10 p.m. on SyFy (U.S.) 7 p.m. PST, 10 p.m. EST on Space Channel (Canada) And here is our updated global premiere rundown. New and improved! Now with added Portugal! The cast, crew, and EP Vanessa Piazza and I (@BaronDestructo) will be live tweeting the event - both east and…
June 11, 2015: 1 Day to the Dark Matter series premiere! Interviews! Articles! Global Premiere Dates! Win a model of our hero ship!
SyFy's Dark Matter Brings The Badass Ladies In Force: http://www.themarysue.com/dark-matter-interview/ Space Opera is Set for a New Dawn with Dark Matter: http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/television/space-opera-is-set-for-a-new-dawn-with-dark-matter/ "Dark Matter’s 13-episode first season is destined to be an action-packed mix of drama, humour and adventure in the mould of Stargate and Firefly. Any similarity to the former is not coincidental given that Mallozzi and…
June 9, 2015: 3 Days to the Dark Matter premiere! Videos! Pics! Our hero ship!
Another short video from the gang at Space Channel: "Death. Despair. Chaos. So what?" More early reviews: http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2015/06/dark-matter-gets-two-thumbs-up.html http://www.scifistream.com/2015/06/review-dark-matter-blasts-off-this-friday/ I talk about the show with Greg David at TV, eh?: http://www.tv-eh.com/2015/06/09/dark-matter-launches-canadas-summer-of-sci-fi/ "There is a lot of dark sci-fi out there that is great,” he explains. “But a lot of fans are missing a fun sci-fi…
June 7, 2015: 5 Days to the Dark Matter world premiere! Checking out the ship’s underbelly! And a couple of Stargate tidbits to boot!
Comin' at ya in five (WITH FIVE!)! Space Channel here in Canada is counting down toward the Friday premiere in delightful fashion. Each day ticks off with a different Dark Matter, appropriately enough... Who's next? Can't wait to find out tomorrow! SyFy UK and SyFy Australia, meanwhile, have launched this terrific campaign that asks... Zoie Palmer (Dark…
June 6, 2015: 6 Days to the Dark Matter Premiere! Sneak peek and behind the scene goodies!
The excitement continues to mount as we approach the Dark Matter premiere, less than a week away (Friday, 10 p.m. on SyFy/Space)! I'll be live-tweeting the event with various to-be-announced cast members, pulling double duty with both the east and west coast airings. Who'd like to join us? A slightly different Dark Matter trailer from Space Channel: https://www.facebook.com/SPACEchannel/videos/10153037388371225/ Some…
June 3, 2015: Thank you!
Thank you so much for all the touching tributes to my gal, Jelly. I received emails, Facebook messages, tweets, and, as you can see, over 125 comments on yesterday's entry. It feels strange and lonely without her. I'll miss propping her up on my chest so that we could gaze longingly into each other's eyes,…
May 29, 2015: Two weeks to the Dark Matter world premiere! A Jelly update!
"If this series not popular, I really can't believe." - Akemi last night after watching the producer's cut of episode #113, our season finale. Her words echo the sentiments of my writing partner who said pretty much the same thing, in less economical fashion, after viewing prod cuts of our first two episodes: "So, having seen…
May 23, 2015: The Dark Matter Deluge!
Whoa! As our series premiere draws ever nearer (less than two weeks and counting!), things are really beginning to ramp up. Check out all of the Dark Matter-related goodies... ...starting with this terrific interview by longtime Stargate supporter and friend, Steve Eramo, who talks to Dark Matter Executive Producer and Prodigy Pictures President Jay Firestone about how he…
May 20, 2015: And that’s a wrap on Dark Matter’s first season!
Annnnnnd we're done! More or less. I've still got my producer cuts of episode #112 and #113 to complete, all the mixes to sit through, and visual effects to approve but, for all intents and purposes, production on Dark Matter's first season is complete. It's hard to believe that this time last year, I honestly…