ASCENSION co-creator Philip Levens talks about the Syfy series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/17/2014
ASCENSION Key Art | ©2014 Syfy

In Syfy’s six-hour, three-night event ASCENSION, which concludes Wednesday December 17, the eponymous spacecraft launched from Earth back in 1963 as a secret project meant to save the human race from nuclear war. The inhabitants of Ascension, now in their fiftieth year of space travel, are halfway to the nearest habitable planet; the older voyagers who are alive now will be very old if they survive to reach their destination. No one has had contact with Earth since shortly after launch and consequently doesn’t know if the world even exists any more. The people aboard Ascension are still very much […]Read On »


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TV Review: ASCENSION – Season 1 – “Night One”

By PETER BROWN
A female who was murdered on board the spaceship ASCENSION gets sent off into space in "Night 1" | © 2014 Syfy

Cast: Gil Bellows, Tricia Helfer, Brandon P. Bell, Brian Van Holt, Andrea Roth, Jacqueline Byers, Emily Vanderhaus, Ryan Robbins, PJ Boudousque, Ellie O’Brien Writers: Adrian Cruz, Philip Levens, Melody Fox Director: Mairzee Alams Network: Airs on SyFy, Monday @ 9 p.m. Original Telecast: December 15, 2014 ASCENSION is an interesting mix of THE TRUMAN SHOW meets BIOSHOCK meets TWIN PEAKS meets DOCTOR WHO. If you are unfamiliar with BIOSHOCK, it is an award winning video game based on an idea that a slew of rich people disgusted with the way America was turning broke off from the Union in the […]Read On »


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ASCENSION star Brian Van Holt lifts off – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/16/2014
Brian Van Holt as Captain William Denninger in ASCENSION | ©2014 Syfy/Diego Uchite

Syfy’s miniseries ASCENSION, which runs in three two-hour blocks this week, is set in space – in the present. In creator Adrian Cruz’s premise, President Kennedy secretly authorized a project to send a number of people on what will be a hundred-year mission to reach the nearest inhabitable planet, which will be the salvation of the human race if Earth is destroyed by the nuclear threat that then seemed imminent. It’s now fifty years into the journey. The population aboard the Ascension has reached six hundred, though no one aboard has any contact with Earth or indeed even knows if […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: It’s HAPPY ENDINGS for Elisha Cuthbert

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/13/2011
Elisha Cuthbert in HAPPY ENDINGS | ©2011 ABC/Bob D'Amico

In ABC’s new comedy HAPPY ENDINGS,  premiering tonight at the special time of 9:30 PM, with a second episode in the regular 10 PM timeslot, Alex, played by Elisha Cuthbert, is supposed to marry David, played by Zachary Knighton. However, she ditches him GRADUATE-style at the altar for another guy. While Alex’s new romance doesn’t last, the show explores the lasting ramifications of the breakup on both characters and their group of mutual friends. Calgary, Canada-born Cuthbert played Jack Bauer’s peril-prone daughter Kim off and on over the ten-year span of 24 and more recently co-starred in the missing-persons drama […]Read On »


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