Syfy Returns To Space With Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Universal Cable Productions said it’s working with Wolfe on a show set in a postwar era on the Starship Defender looking for lost worlds requiring law and order. The ship is helmed by humans and trans-humans, who don’t get along very well, as part of the newly formed Unity Democracy.
http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/8759
Will Syfy’s Defiance be the next Firefly?
Syfy has finally found a lead for their joint television and massive multiplayer online series, Defiance. It’s Cooter from True Blood, better known as Grant Bowler. And with the announcement of their lead, a few new details for this space Western have been revealed.
According to Deadline Defiance will take place on...
“A future Earth, [where] Defiance introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan (Bowler), the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few oasis of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world.”
http://io9.com/5877292/will-syfys-defiance-be-the-next-firefly
It sounds more like they are working for the government side in Firefly!