SYFY’S ORIGINAL EVENT SERIES ASCENSIONCOMMENCES PRODUCTION IN MONTREAL
Six-Episode Series From Lionsgate Television, Sea To Sky Studios and Blumhouse Productions To Premiere November 2014
NEW YORK – July 7, 2014 – Syfy’sAscension, a six-hour event series premiering in November, has commenced production in Montreal, QC. Written and created by executive producer and showrunner Philip Levens (Smallville),Ascension is an ambitious original drama following a covert U.S. space mission launched in the 1960’s that sent hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world. Half way into their journey, as they approach the point of no return, the mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s population to question the true nature of their mission.
Produced by Lionsgate Television and Sea To Sky Studios in association with Blumhouse Productions, the series starsBrandon P. Bell (Hollywood Heights) as the confident and capable First Officer Oren Gault, Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town,The Bridge) as the eponymous ship’s captain William Denninger and Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) as Viondra Denniger, the Captain’s beautiful, manipulative and dangerous wife (who also serves as the ship’s Chief Steward).
Joining Bell, Van Holt and Helfer areTiffany Lonsdale as Chief Astronomer Emily Vanderhaus, Andrea Roth as the ship’s head doctor Juliet Bryce, Jacqueline Byers as her daughter Nora Bryce, PJBoudousque as Nora’s love interest, James Toback and Ryan Robbins as Safety Officer (and Emily’s husband) Duke Vanderhaus.
Ascension is executive produced by Jason Blum (The Normal Heart, Stranded, The River, film franchises Paranormal Activityand The Purge) along with Ivan Fecan, Tim Gamble and Brett Burlock on behalf of Sea To Sky Studios. The event series will be co-financed and distributed by Universal Cable Productions and Lionsgate Television.
Ascension is slated to launch in November 2014 and air through December.
