Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

Syfy is continuing to live up to its name, ordering three new science fiction pilots.

The Machine, based on the 2013 movie starring Caity Lot and Toby Stephens, is set in a world that is being transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence. The proposed series will explore the epic conflict between man and technology through the lives and motivations of six interwoven characters – each of whom holds the key to humanity’s victory or its destruction.

The Haunted is a supernatural horror-drama about four siblings who reunite following their parents’ deaths. As they try to overcome their fractured personal relationships they find that they must also face the literal ghosts from their past in order to survive. The Magicians’ Noga Landau wrote the pilot.

Happy! is based on Grant Morrison and Brian Robertson’s graphic novel. It follows Nick Sax – an intoxicated, corrupt former cop-turned-hit man — who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse.