Syfy's Three Inches

[primitiveskin]

Apparently, I don't know much about how networks develop TV shows. I had seen some announcements about actors being added to the cast as regulars...but on the PILOT!?! I thought that you make annoucements about cast members becoming series regulars only after the show officially has been picked up as a series. I only became intrigued by this show due to this highly underwhelming synopsis:

In Three Inches, professional daydreamer and underachiever, Walter Spackman (Reid) is struck by lightning, and develops a unique "super" power -- the ability to move any object using just his mind... but only a distance of three inches.

It was only upon reading this further expansion of the synopsis that I decided that the concept wasn't intrisically a complete waste of time:

He's soon recruited by a covert team of superheroes each gifted with their own extraordinarily ordinary abilities. Together, the unlikely band of heroes proves that "super" is simply a state of mind.

Doing some research, this Fox-produced pilot for Syfy was greenlit in March to start production in Toronto on August 30. The series lead is Noah Reid, but some of the other notables on the cast are:

James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Caprica)
Andrea Martin (SCTV)
Stephanie Jacobsen (Battlestar Galactica: Razor, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Melrose Place)
Naoko Mori (Torchwood)

Remember, this is only a pilot, and it hasn't even finished filming yet. The powers that be need to test and evaluate it before ordering it as a series. So, there could be rewrites or recasting long before this thing ever gets put on the schedule, assuming that it in fact will ever end up on Syfy's schedule.

Anyway, here's a link to a copy of the press release:

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2...0100826syfy01/