Science Fiction Television

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A wormhole-tested guide to starships, strange worlds, artificial minds, impossible futures and shows cancelled several seasons too early.

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2000s

Firefly

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Skully is remembering David Hemblen (1941–2020), born on this day, and celebrating the performances that still light up our screens.

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VisionQuest

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14 October 2026 · UK

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Blade Runner 2099

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25 November 2026 · UK

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Neuromancer

128 days to go

22 January 2027 · UK

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12 September 2026

Sci-Fi TV News Round-Up: Emmy Glory, Sudden Cancellations and New Worlds Ahead

Welcome back to Skully’s weekly sweep of the science-fiction television universe. This edition covers eight days rather than seven, because even highly advanced skeletal beings occasionally forget to…

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4 September 2026

Sci-Fi TV News Round-Up: Dark Matter Returns, Silo Reaches Its Finale and Stargate Secrets Emerge

Welcome to the first Sci-Fi TV Guide weekly news round-up, collecting the transmissions worth knowing about from across the science-fiction television universe. This opening edition includes returning shows,…

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Space Adventures

Starships, distant worlds and crews who definitely skipped the safety briefing.

16 matching guides Alien Encounters

First contact, invasions and visitors whose motives remain inconveniently vague.

17 matching guides Time Travel

Loops, paradoxes and people making history considerably more complicated.

19 matching guides Dystopian Futures

Broken societies, sealed worlds and governments with extremely reassuring slogans.

17 matching guides AI & Cyberpunk

Artificial minds, digital worlds and technology quietly updating its plans for humanity.

15 matching guides Mind-Bending Sci-Fi

Conspiracies, fractured realities and questions that arrive with three more questions.

20 matching guides Retro Sci-Fi

Analogue futures, practical effects and control panels containing heroic quantities of switches.

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2010s

For All Mankind

🌕 Byte-Sized Overview: The Soviets landed on the Moon first. NASA panics. The space race never ends. Cue decades of Cold War-fueled…

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2020s

3 Body Problem

🪐 Byte-Sized Overview: The laws of physics are breaking. Scientists are dying mysteriously. And somewhere far away, a distant civilization is watching…

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2020s

Silo

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Ten thousand people live beneath the earth in a vast concrete silo. They work, raise families and maintain the…

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2000s

Warehouse 13

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Somewhere in South Dakota stands a vast government warehouse containing Lewis Carroll’s mirror, Edgar Allan Poe’s pen, Nikola Tesla’s…

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2010s

War of the Worlds (2019)

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Humanity finally receives proof that intelligent life exists beyond Earth. Unfortunately, the reply arrives with all the warmth of…

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2010s

Westworld

✨ Byte-Sized Overview Westworld offers every luxury expected from an exclusive Western theme park: beautiful scenery, convincing gunfights, consequence-free indulgence and artificial…

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2000s