SDCC 2014: Syfy Brings Original Programming to San Diego

Fans of Sharknado (or at least, fans who love to hate Sharknado) and other Syfy original programming will have plenty to see next weekend at the San Diego Comic Con. 

Syfy (does anyone else read this as sphy-e?) is hosting five panels at the Con: Sharknado 2, Defiance, Dominion, Helix and Ascension.

Sharknado 2

Sharknado 2 is the sequel-that-social-media spawned (after the twitterverse blew up over Sharknado) and the panel will feature Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Vivica A Fox, Kari Wuhrer, Judah Friedlander and Director Anthony C Ferrante. Join them to discuss the “social media and pop culture storm of the century.” Special we-shouldn’t-have-to-say-it-but-better-safe-than-sorry note: Functioning chainsaws are not allowed at the Convention.

The Sharknado 2 panel will be on Thursday, July 24th, from 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. in room 6BCF (that’s a real room number. Honest).

Sharknado 2 will premiere on the Syfy channel on July 30th at 9/8c.

And in case you have no idea what a Sharknado is, here’s the trailer for the sequel:

Syfy will also have panels for it’s original television programming. Which it totally has. It’s not all WWE wrestling and Sharknado’s on Syfy  channel, you guys!

Dominion

Dominion premiered on Syfy on June 19th, and airs on Thursday at 9/8c. It’s set after Armageddon, and mankind’s last bastion of safety is the City of Vega, which was Las Vegas (there’s a sin metaphor here somewhere). It takes place after the events in the movie Legion,  where the war between Heaven and Hell has wrecked earth, and Mankind is pitted against Angels and Demons to survive. The panel will feature the series stars Chris Egan, Tom Wisdom, Roxanne McKee, Alan Dale and Anthony Stewart Head, as well as Executive Producer Vaun Wilmott.

The panel is on Friday, July 25th. from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in room 6DE.

Helix

Syfy will also be featuring a panel with the cast of Helix, so we can ask all those burning questions. Like “How did you get a second season?” and “Where exactly are you in the Arctic where it’s equally night and day all the time?”

The second season will premiere sometime in Winter 2015.

And, if you want to know what we really think about Helix, head over to our 10 Things Wrong With Helix article.

Kyra Zagorsky, Mark Ghanime, Jordan Hayes, Neil Napier, and Executive Producers Ronald D Moore and Steven Maeda, will be on the panel, which will be from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.  at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in the Indigo Ballroom.

Defiance

Syfy’s Defiance is now in its second season.

 Defiance returned to Syfy this summer for its second season. The show, which follows a group of diverse cross-section of humans and aliens attempting to live together on a terraformed Earth in the small frontier town of Defiance.

The popular multi-platform show is bringing its stars to Comic Con for a panel on Saturday, July 26th, from 1 pm to 2 p.m. at the Hilton Bayfromt Hotel in the Indigo Ballroom (hey, you can go for Helix and stay for Defiance!). The panel will feature Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Jesse Rath and Executive Producer Kevin Murphy.

Defiance airs on Thursdays at 8/7 c and check out the season 2 trailer below:

Ascension

Ascension marks Syfy’s return to the six-hour mini-series, which will debut in November of this year.  Ascension  follows a covert space mission, launched in 1963, that sent hundreds of people on a century long voyage to find another planet that humanity could survive on. The journey reaches its halfway mark when a murder on board causes the ship’s population to question the mission and their purpose.

Syfy’s Ascension panel will feature Tricia Helfer, Brian Van Holt, Andrea Roth, and Executive Producer Philip Levens, and will be from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 26th,  in room 6DE.

Here’s a look at the (intriguing) trailer:

http://youtu.be/QpDVwfiLNRM

What do you think, Comic-Conners? Which panel is a must for you? All of them? None of them? Let us know in the comments!