The Expanse on SyFy: Discussion - Spoilers.

[ecgordon]

December, 2376, the year the story is set in. By that time everything will be shot on location.

[pakar]

Virtual reality tour of the Canterbury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVY2...ature=youtu.be

Unfortunately only for U.S. viewers

[pakar]

A two nights premiere on December 14th and 15th

https://www.facebook.com/ExpanseSyfy?fref=nf

[VampyreWraith]

Nice to finally get a premiere date for this!

[Wyrminarrd]

Strange time to premiere a series...

[ecgordon]

Normally that would be true, but most other networks will be in repeat mode at that time, and tying it to the premiere of Childhood's End should be good for both.

[pakar]

Normally that would be true, but most other networks will be in repeat mode at that time, and tying it to the premiere of Childhood's End should be good for both.

Perhaps but airing only two episodes and then going into a two weeks break before the viewers can decide if the show is worth watching (and you can't decide that on 2 episodes except if it is very bad) doesn't look like a wise decision.
As for the tying with Childhood's end i think it will help more childhood's end (since many viewers thse days don't seem to know it!) than The Expanse.

[pakar]

Normally that would be true, but most other networks will be in repeat mode at that time, and tying it to the premiere of Childhood's End should be good for both.

Perhaps but airing only two episodes and then going into a two weeks break before the viewers can decide if the show is worth watching (and you can't decide that on 2 episodes except if it is very bad) doesn't look like a wise decision.
As for the tying with Childhood's end i think it will help more childhood's end (since many viewers these days don't seem to know it!) than The Expanse.

[Katch]

More on this show.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/10/0...into-nycc-2015

[N7OperativeAlpha]

http://geekritique.net/2015/10/09/th...pisode-review/

It has a 5 million per episode budget. Can good space opera be done on this budget?

[ecgordon]

Considering Farscape, BSG, and even Firefly were produced for roughly 2 million per ep, I don't see the problem. Sure, inflation is a factor, but CGI technology has also increased so that effects can be done very well for less than before. Plus, most of the CGI will be able to be reused throughout the series, figured into the up-front costs of the pilot and not in the per episode budget.

EDIT: I just remembered that $5 million was the budget for the theatrical feature Moon, directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell. That looked pretty good to me.

[Ian-S]

More is sometimes less, i.e. the higher the budget, the crappier the content, looking at you Avatar...

[knowles2]

http://geekritique.net/2015/10/09/th...pisode-review/

It has a 5 million per episode budget. Can good space opera be done on this budget?

Yes. But that a lot of money to spend on a program for Syfy. Put into perspective, Games of Thrones have the same kind of per episode budget, sometimes it goes into 6/7 million on a episode, Expanse has the advantage of not having to do nearly as many location shots. It should be fairly easy to reuse cg footage. Of cause I'm sure those will be counter by the cost of doing fairly expensive to do zero g scenes.

[LtColCarter]

Hmmm...this seems intriguing. I'm looking forward to it coming out.

[ecgordon]

Now we only have to wait three weeks.

http://www.nbcumv.com/news/syfy-debu...ay-november-23