Tonight, Syfy premieres the second season of the hit series, Resident Alien. With the fate of humanity in the balance, Asta realizes that Harry needs to care about more humans that just herself if he is going to care enough to save the rest of the planet, and she tries to get him to make some new friends. “He's trying to make friends, or he wants to,” said Tudyk to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision during a roundtable interview with the press. “I think he'd be happy just living with pizza and Law & Order and not really dealing with anybody else except Asta, but…he needs more friends, and he needs to go out into the world.”

However, that’s hard to do if people are after you. “Also, the world is coming after him,” continued Tudyk. “Sheriff Mike (Corey Reynolds) is coming after him, and their friendship is very unlikely at the beginning, because Harry happened to inhabit…the body of a murderer. So, now all the evidence points rightly to Harry, even though Harry didn't do the murdering.”

Tonight, Syfy premieres its new series, Astrid & Lilly Save the World. In the series, after accidentally opening a portal, monsters start coming through, and its up to high school students Astrid, played by Jana Morrison, and Lilly, played by Samantha Aucoin, to stop them, all while surviving high school.

While removing the threat of the monsters, Astrid and Lilly both get super powers, albeit strange ones. Astrid is able to smell approaching monsters, and Lilly’s leg starts hurting when they’re near. Morrison, while talking to Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision during an exclusive interview, teased that their powers may change. “I can say that [powers] grow, as we do as people,” said the actress.

In disposing of the monsters, Astrid and Lilly get into some quite gross situations. “We've definitely touched some not so nice things,” said Aucoin during the interview. “They made these really realistic organs that were inside the monsters and we had to hold them out and dig our nails into them and squeeze goo out of them…It was not appetizing at all.”

On Wednesday, January 26, SYFY is officially launching its first-ever, members-only club for sci-fi superfans: SYFY Insider.
 
SYFY Insider was created as a destination where superfans can access exclusive, premium content including:
 
* Never before seen videos and BTS moments
* Early access to the official Resident Alien after-show
* Upcoming sneak peeks from shows including Resident Alien, Chucky and more
* Exclusive interviews + interactive Q&As with talent and showrunners
* Sweepstakes and giveaways
* Watch parties for new episodes
* Editorial content not limited to SYFY programming, but spanning the entire sci-fi genre across a variety of interests

***The following interview contains spoilers for 3.01***

Saturday, an all-new episode of the series A Discovery of Witches premieres in the US. In the third season of the series, which is based on the third book in the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness, Diana (Teresa Palmer) and Matthew (Matthew Goode) return from time walking in Elizabethan England to continue their quest for the Book of Life.

Alex Kingston, who plays the role of Sarah Bishop, Diana’s aunt, didn’t know anything about the novels before taking on the role and was a little bit skeptical at first, but once she started reading, she was intrigued. “I thought it was a very good kind of parallel to the lives and the world that we find ourselves in as humans,” said Kingston during an exclusive interview with Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision, “which is sort of the disparity between ethnicities, the lack of inclusion, the fear in some cases of what people might consider different cultures, and that was all represented within the creature world as well. So, I thought that that was actually an interesting take to follow.”

One of the things the actress really enjoyed about the role of Sarah was that she could just let it all go. “She's sort of in sloppy clothes,” the actress explained, “…It was kind of fab. I didn't have to care about looking ‘just so’ like so many characters for women, you know, executives or whatever; their hair has to be straightened, and they have to look super ‘on.’ I didn't need to for Sarah, so that was actually fabulous.”

Lifetime’s series of Saturday night thrillers continues this weekend with Vanished: Searching for My Sister.  Tatyana Ali (Love That Girl) stars in dual roles as Jada and Kayla, identical twins who look alike but couldn’t be more different. When wild child Kayla disappears, responsible Jada reports her missing and waits for the police to do their thing. But when the investigation stalls, Jada matters into her own hands. Posing as her missing sister, she searches for leads  - and gets more than she bargained for.  

While playing twins was an intriguing prospect, that’s not what drew Ali to the project. “I was so excited when I read the script,” she told journalists last week, “the fact that it’s based on a true story and that this really happened, that a woman really went undercover as her twin, all of that was so exciting. I love the notion of not allowing your loved one to remain a statistic or not be cared about, that someone would fight so hard to make sure that her sister, who has been through addiction, been through all these things, that her life mattered.”

If you’re looking for some great new dramas to add to your watchlist, Lifetime’s got you covered. The network has announced a slate of six original movies rolling out over the next few weeks. The diverse lineup includes plenty of suspense and surprises, so get comfy and grab your remote!

First up is Safe Room, premiering tonight at 8:00 Eastern/7:00 Central. The thriller stars Nicole Ari Parker (Chicago P.D., Empire) as Lila Jackson, a newly widowed mom raising her autistic son. When Ian (Nik Sanchez, The Rookie) witnesses a killing, Lila must protect him from two intruders looking to silence them. The thriller also stars Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Mackenzie Astin (The Magicians) and Boris Kodjoe (Station 19, Soul Food), who also makes his directorial debut.

The chemistry among the cast was apparent in a Zoom call with journalists. Kodjoe and Ari Parker have been married for 15 years, while de Mateo and Astin have known each other forever.

“I think the universe helped establish the chemistry,” Astin told SciFi Vision. “Drea and I have known each other for about twenty years,” he said. “I actually sort of got this job because Drea recommended me."

***Warning: This story contains major spoilers for the series finale of The Expanse.***

The Expanse’s series finale is out today on Prime Video, and it doesn’t disappoint. The episode is chock full of the thrilling action scenes, narrow escapes and quality effects we’ve come to expect from this fantastic series. And when the war for control of the Belt is finally over, the conflict ends with a deft political maneuver that would make Chrisjen Avasarala proud.

SciFi Vision spoke with the show’s creative team – series creators Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham and showrunner Naren Shankar – about captain Camina Drummer (Cara Gee)’s key role this season. Drummer lost everything: her home, her friends, her family, and everything she thought she knew about the Belt – before becoming a key player in the solar system’s new order. 

“One of the terrible things in fiction is being a protagonist,” Abraham deadpanned. “Things never go well for you.”

***The video part of the interview contains spoilers for 6.06***

Over the past three seasons, fans of The Expanse have watched Amos, played by Wes Chatham, grow into a friend and mentor to Clarissa, played by Nadine Nicole, much as Naomi (Dominique Tipper) was to him back in season one. Clarissa's relationship with captain James Holden (Steven Strait) is complicated (remember when she framed him for mass murder?), but she’s making a real effort to settle in with the Roci crew. So, how much is her relationship with Amos responsible for her ability to set aside revenge and become a better person?

“I would say most of it, if not all,” said actress Nadine Nicole in a recent exclusive interview with SciFi Vision. “She'd pretty much given up on any second chances until someone thought that she might deserve that and gave it to her.”

Tonight, The CW premieres its newest superhero adventure, Naomi, starring Kaci Walfall in the title role. When the unexplainable happens in her own hometown, Superman blogger Naomi starts to question everything she she knows about herself as odd things start happening to her.

The series is part of the DC Universe, but a bit different than you might think, as the world isn’t yet aware of Superman other than as a comic book character. “I think what's so lovely about the world of comics and DC specifically is that there's really something for everyone,” executive producer Jill Blankenship told SciFi Vision during a recent TCA panel. “And in it, you get to touch on all these different places and all these exciting characters.” Blankenship also said that when it comes to potential crossovers with other DC series on The CW “nothing is ever off the table.”

Executive producer Ava DuVernay, who, as has Blankenship, has worked in the DC Universe before, liked that it is different than other super hero origin stories. “[S]he's who she is, and she knows everything that's going on. This was really the step to becoming yourself, the steps to realizing your destiny, the steps that it takes to become who you're meant to be.”

Today, the final season of A Discovery of Witches, based on the trio of novels by Deborah Harkness, premieres on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder in the US.

When witch Diana, played by Teresa Palmer, and vampire Matthew (Matthew Goode) return from 1590 to their own time to continue their hunt to recover the elusive Ashmole 782, Diana is already pregnant. Now having the experience of being a mother in real life, Palmer was impacted in the way she played the character this season, the actress told Jamie Ruby of SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview. “I got to dive back into the feelings of becoming a mother for the first time,” said Palmer, “because that's a very special certain feeling of newness, newness and anticipation and excitement. Also, you're very nervous, and you're trying to find your footing.”

The actress also said that she played a big part in the way the birthing scene comes to fruition. “I met with the writers; I met with Deb, and I just kind of folded in some of the sisterhood element to the birth experience and incorporating Alex Kingston in the birth a lot, that real sort of [feminine] divine energy that sort of takes over when you give birth, or when some women give birth, and I wanted that experience for Diana on screen.”