10 Upcoming New Sci-Fi TV Shows To Be Excited About
Futuristic heroes, alien doctors and a lot more apocalypse; TV is about to get weirder...
A genre in which the possibilities are quite literally endless, sci-fi has provided us regular folk with many hours of escapism and entertainment, with its reach spanning across novels, poetry, film and, of course, television as it confounds and bewilders us with the boundaries that it pushes and the questions it ultimately asks, even going so far as to leave us wondering if there really is life out there.
The science fiction genre is, in many ways, the gift that just keeps on giving and all it takes is one look at the TV calendar to know that it doesn't plan on changing that anytime soon.
While we all have our favourite sci-fi classics, there will be a host of new and ambitiously outlandish affairs joining them in the coming year - ones that will undoubtedly derive pleasure in using those endless possibilities to pose us with questions that their predecessors have not yet asked (well, most of them anyway).
From genetically-modified dinosaurs to superhero spin-offs; you name it and sci-fi has it. On that note, let's meet some of the most exciting upcoming shows the genre has to offer.
10. Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer had quite a turbulent time getting itself to screens (which surprisingly didn't have anything to do with the fact that it was basically a remake of what was already a perfect film) as creative differences and network swaps had it languishing in development hell for a very long time. But it overcame that hurdle and will finally steamroll its way to TNT in May of this year.
Starring Jennifer Connolly and Daveed Diggs, the show is certainly reminiscent of its big-screen counterpart in that it's set so many years after another ice age has turned the planet into a frozen shell of what it once was and the last remaining part of the human race is crammed into a giant train that constantly circles the globe. Like its predecessor, it will also hone in on issues of class division and spawn interesting discussions about survival.
While the promotional material of Snowpiercer hasn't allowed it to differentiate itself from its big-screen predecessor all that much, that's understandable given that it's adapting the same concept. But let's not forget how compelling that concept is, and given that it's already been renewed for a second season, expect to see it offer up its own contributions once it gets past the obligatory set-up stage.