The Sci-Fi Channel has ordered a full 13-episode season of Sanctuary.
Originally created for the Web by Stargate SG-1's Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood, and Damian Kindler, Sanctuary will be the first TV show filmed with live actors against virtual sets - the method used for the movies 300 and Sin City. Sanctuary was the Web's first ongoing sci-fi series.
The trio had shopped Sanctuary to Sci-Fi executives before it premiered on the Web and talks became more solid when they brought in a DVD of two 1-hour blocks of webisodes. Originally released on a subscription model, webisodes quickly found their way to file-sharing sites, such as YouTube.
The show will be retooled for TV, with a brand-new 2-hour premiere and certain enhancements to the CGI and other effects. The cast will remain the same.
The series is slated to start filming in March. While the writers' strike is presumed to have ended by then, neither Stargate SG-1 nor Sanctuary are affected by it, as they are both filmed in Canada.
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
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