It's no Sharktopus, but it is Greg Brady.
via press release:
SYFY APRIL SATURDAY ORIGINAL MOVIES SHOWCASE BARRY WILLIAMS AND TIFFANY BATTLING MEGA PIRANHA
JEWEL STAITE TAKES ON MOTHMAN
New York, NY – March 19, 2010 – Brady Bunch alum Barry Williams teams with pop singer Tiffany to save Florida from a giant piranha and Jewel Staite takes on the infamous American-born legend, The Mothman, when Syfy celebrates spring with a pair of pass-the-pizza-and-beer Saturday Original Movies.
In Mega Piranha, premiering on Saturday, April 10, at 9PM (ET/PT), Barry Williams, 1980s singing sensation Tiffany and Paul Logan (Megafault)form an unusual alliance to stop a mutant strain of giant ferocious piranhas that have escaped from the Amazon and are eating their way to Florida. Produced by David Michael Latt, David Rimawi and Paul Bales. Directed and written by Eric Forsberg.
Jewel Staite (Firefly, Stargate Atlantis) stars in Mothman, premiering Saturday, April 24, at 9PM (ET/PT). In the movie, the legendary West Virginia monster returns to exact Revenge on five childhood friends who covered up an accidental killing. Produced by Brad Krevoy and Reuben Liber. Directed by Sheldon Wilson. Written by Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
Johnny Bravo vs Megapirahna. Oy.
We're moving back to killer piranha from sharks? That's kind of retro. Of course they're Mega Piranha. I wonder if these will do better than Dinoshark? I'll have to track and see whether Syfy Saturday Night Specials do better in the summer or if the ratings remain steady.
When I saw the heading with Mothman in it, I became hopeful and then I read the description. Completely uninteresting.
Instead of making good SCIFI movies, SyFy continues to make trash D films like this. Sadly I like Jewel Staite as an actress but have no desire to watch either of these poorly conceived movies.
If Syfy had made good Scifi shows as consistantly as they have made these “C” monstor movies the channel would be the number one rates cable network.
Maybe Concast will have a high powered suit that likes the scifi genre and the channel will reurn to its roots, but in my view they need to just change the channel name to”The critter movies and Paranorma network “or The C&P Channel. Strangely enough they already have a Chiller channel so whay not put the critter “C”" moviesw over there. Actually they are running the older titles on Chiller and maybe Sleuth channel, but no where is any Scifi anymore except the by product of the new SoapFi series of Caprica and SG:Universe. No actual new scifi.
The Mothman bit is particularly amusing to me, because I used to hang out with John A. Keel, the journalist who first investigated that incident and whose book was the inspiration for the Richard Gere movie. In fact, while in the Army back in 1969, I actually went to Point Pleasant, West Virginia and interviewed a number of people about the events, although not any of the actual participants (who had moved on.) So I can at least confirm that what Keel reported apparently actually happened. WHAT actually caused the incident is of course up in the air.
Really Tiffany? After Debbie Gibson stared in a low budget sci-fi movie you decided you needed to do one too?
While I noticed that SYFY touted the ratings of Dinoshark, It looked to me that it just did about average for their Sat movie slot.
I agree – it'll be interesting to see whether Mega Piranha, Mothman, Sharktopus and who knows what else raise the average. (Could any of those raise the bar too. Doubtful). There's a certain sameness to all of those – I don't see how interest can really be sustained from week to week indefinitely. But who knows. I don't watch what gets shown in that slot any more. (Maybe they could redo all the Godzilla sequels made with Mothra and the rest, but in America rather than Japan.JustKidding)
While I noticed that SYFY touted the ratings of Dinoshark, It looked to me that it just did about average for their Sat movie slot.
I agree – it'll be interesting to see whether Mega Piranha, Mothman, Sharktopus and who knows what else raise the average. (Could any of those raise the bar too. Doubtful). There's a certain sameness to all of those – I don't see how interest can really be sustained from week to week indefinitely. But who knows. I don't watch what gets shown in that slot any more. (Maybe they could redo all the Godzilla sequels made with Mothra and the rest, but in America rather than Japan.JustKidding)