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As we prepare for San Diego Comic-Con 2025, and although we have shifted to streaming service science fiction series, TeamWHR is pleased to announce that broadcast television is returning to original series. This subsequent to no new cable or network series on broadcast television for two years.
Of interest, such series dominated broadcast television for three decades, many of which we have reported on since 2008 when this website was created to analyze and review over thirty television programs here and on our archived websites listed on the right sidebar.
Over and above the more than one hundred (103) entertainment conventions, and hundreds of interviews across over thirty websites, we also analyzed fictional dramas such as Mayans MC and Body of Proof because science fiction celebrities starred in them. We also analyzed many dozens of movies at our dedicated Movie Magic website until deciding to post films and TCM Film Festival movie analysis here to focus solely on conventions, scripted series and interviews for each of the same.
The science fiction series we started with was Stargate at conventions subsequent to working with MGM Studios on their official website. In 2009 WormholeRiders News Agency we expanded our coverage analyzing episodes of Agents of Shield, Alcatraz, Alphas, Being Human, Caprica, Chuck, Continuum, Dark Matter, Day of the Dead, Debris, Defiance, Destination Truth, Dracula, Eureka, Falling Skies, Flashforward, Fringe, Haven, Helix, Hollywood Treasure, Killjoys, La Brea, Primeval New World, Revolution, Sanctuary, Stargate, Supernatural, Terra Nova, The Event, The Expanse, The Neighbors, Treadstone, Vampire Diaries, Van Helsing, V Series, and Warehouse 13.
The Back Story:
When the latest consolidation of the entertainment industry began in 2017 with the Comcast NBC Universal merger, we ceased opening dedicated websites for each new series and began moving popular series posts from thousands published over the past seventeen years to our main blog here.
The entertainment industry consolidation has continued unabated sometimes with less than desired results. Facing significant financial losses, particularly in California and Canada where many programs are produced, the top thirty firms in the industry have lost 540 billion in value resulting in tens of thousands of job losses that continued with the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike where 17,000 losses were reported in California. Additionally recent direct losses of over six (6) billion dollars on projects since the strike have been reported. This was caused by several factors including a failure to produce series acceptable to audiences, the labor strike, and a shift in audience viewing habits towards streaming services. All of these factors led to reduced broadcast television science fiction production levels.
The good news is that the trend for science fiction scripted series on broadcast television is beginning a modest comeback this year with the renewal of The Ark for a third season, set to return to SYFY in 2026. 2025 dovetailed this news with new series that debuted this year. As a result of studios and networks rehiring creative talent instead of misguided executive’s dictating what programs and series will be created, more good news is expected with streaming services producing the lions share of scripted science fiction programs.
Best of all, as delineated below, of the three new broadcast network science fiction scripted series, one is featured in a fabulous panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 that begins on July 25, 2025!
Alien: Earth:
Alien: Earth is a fantastic new scripted science fiction (prequel) series based on the original 1979 Alien movie. Created by Noah Hawley for FX Networks / Hulu, Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler as Wendy, Alex Lawther as CJ, Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Essie Davis as Dame Silvia, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, Kit Young as Tootles, Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, Babou Ceesay as Morrow and a large supporting cast.
The prequel series takes place in the year 2120, two years before the events of the original film Alien film that took place in the year 2122. Alien: Earth is set some 22 years before Alien: Romulus (2024) which was set in 2142, 59 years before Aliens (1986) and 59 years before Alien 3 (1992) which took place in the year 2179.
Perhaps a disappointment to franchise admirers, it has been confirmed by Hawley that the events which took place in the prequel movies Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017) will be ignored. This has raised questions about the Alien franchise canon when a spaceship crash lands on Earth in 2120 just prior to the events that transpired in the original Alien movie.
Nevertheless, we here at TeamWHR are excited about Alien: Earth as a series, and are eagerly looking forward to the panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, the special Alien Earth Wreckage exhibit at the convention, and the exiting series broadcast premiere August 12, 2025!
Nautilus:
Nautilus creator James Dormer chose Village Roadshow Studios for filming the series in Oxenford, Queensland, Australia for AMC in the United States. The series is a prequel to the famous Walt Disney movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The prequel is based on the 1869 novel by Jules Verne that explores the back story of the infamous Captain Nemo originally portrayed by acting legend James Mason.
Nautilus features a huge ensemble main cast starring Shazad Latif as the younger version of Captain Nemo, Georgia Flood as Humility Lucas, Céline Menville as Loti, Luke Arnold as Captain Billy Millais, Jacob Collins-Levy as Youngblood, Kayden Price as Blaster, Benedict Hardie as Edward Cuff, Arlo Green as Turan, Tyrone Ngatai as Kai, Ling Cooper Tang as Suyin, Pacharo Mzembe as Boniface Adamu, Ashan Kumar as Ranbir Lodhari, Damien Garvey as Director Crawley, Cameron Cuffe as Algernon Pitt, and Andrew Shaw as Jiacomo.
The episodes are well produced with practical as well as computer generated special effects making the story quite enjoyable. The remote areas of Australia also adds to the realism of this origin story about Captain Nemo and his legendary submarine, the Nautilus.
In the series we learn that Captain Nemo is an Indian prince robbed of his family birthright who was made a prisoner of the infamous East India Company that has stolen his ideas, property and forced to build the Nautilus or face death.
Bent on revenge against the corrupt United Kingdom East India Company, young Captain Nemo escapes the prison, steals the Nautilus from the East India Company (EIC) and sets sail with a diverse crew on board.
The theft of the awesome first of it’s kind high technology submarine angers EIC Director Crawley and his aide who vow to hunt down Captain Nemo to take back the Nautilus.
Subsequent to escaping, Captain Nemo and his band of heroes adventures find our heroes battling the evil East India Company Dreadnought battleship while viewers revel in the discovery of fabulous underwater worlds!
The Librarians: The Next Chapter:
The Librarians: The Next Chapter creators are John Rogers and show runner Dean Devlin featured on the TNT Network. Devlin is well known for Stargate (1994) as well as science fiction movies and television series including Independence Day (1996), The Triangle (2005) miniseries, The Librarians (original movies / series) and Leverage Redemption for a total of over 40 other beloved highly successful efforts including The Ark.
The Librarians: The Next Chapter represents the third true scripted science fiction series to be released on broadcast television in 2025. Currently running on TNT Networks, the series is produced by Electric Entertainment which offers the series on their streaming service, available commercial free for paid subscribers.
This superb series is nearing the end of it’s first season twelve episode run representing a move by Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) that echoes their recent announcement to return creative control to content producers subsequent to the merger of the conglomerate now producing outstanding desirable results.
We here at WormholeRiders News Agency applaud WBD for making this move that has resulted in rehiring content creators in a bottoms up instead of top down management style. The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a continuation of The Librarians movies and television series that were originally broadcast on the now defunct television broadcast network The CW. Once the home of many science fiction and teen drama shows, CW is now a streaming service under the Nexstar Media Group jointly owned by WBD and Paramount Global.
The Librarians: The Next Chapter opened with the return of beloved Christian Kane as the legendary Jacob Stone from the popular 2014 to 2018 Librarians series. Also starring is Jessica Green as Charlie Cornwall. Fans will recall Ms. Green from the four season successful series The Outpost (2018-2021) was executive produced by Mr. Devlin. Featuring a large ensemble cast that includes Callum McGowan as Vikram Chamberlain, Olivia Morris as Lysa Pascal, Bluey Robinson as Conner Green, Caroline Loncq as Elaine Astolat, Adnan Haskovic as General Bogdan Gregor, admirers of The Ark have been delighted to see Paul Leonard Murray as Dr. Frederic Stanaris, Pavle Jerinic as Petar Blagojevic, and Jadran Malkovich as Guy Leroy in guest starring roles.
The series features Rachel Olschan and Noah Wyle as Executive Producers. Viewers will recall Wyle from the original 2004 movie that kicked off the franchise and Olschan from The Ark. Additionally viewers have enjoyed the writing of The Ark’s Rebecca Rosenberg and the directing of Sandra Mitrovic, Milan Todorovic, and Orsi Nagypal, all featured Directors from The Ark.
The continuation series features time travel from a past Librarian. Returning to what used to be his castle, Vikram Chamberlain discovers it is now a a museum, which in turn causes him to accidentally unleash magic across the world. The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a popular series that we enjoy each week and we are pleased with the fact that this superb science series has already been renewed for a second season!
We had hoped all three series would be featured at SDCC, but due to studio tight budgets, that will not be the case. Nevertheless we look forward to Press Rooms and Panels that will be featured at San Diego Comic-Con in next week. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or your family!
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