via press release:
SYFY LOADS Warehouse 13 WITH EXCITING NEW GUEST STARS
The Second Season of the Channel’s Most Successful Series Ever Will Feature Firefly Alums Jewel Staite and Sean Maher, Gina Torres as well as Philip Winchester (Crusoe), Paula Garces (Defying Gravity)
New York, NY – March 25, 2010 – Warehouse 13, the most successful series in Syfy history, today announced that Gina Torres will join Firefly alums Jewel Staite and Sean Maher as guest stars during the second season, which kicks off in July. The series is currently in production in Toronto.
Philip Winchester (Crusoe) and Paula Garces (Defying Gravity) will also appear as guest stars this year.
Torres and Garces’ roles are both love interests for Pete (Eddie McClintock)
Torres, who portrayed “Zoe Washburne” in Firefly, plays "Kate,” an agent from Pete's past.
Garces, who played “Paula Morales” in Defying Gravity and “Officer Tina Hanlon” in The Shield, assumes the recurring role of "Kelly," a sexy, spunky, headstrong veterinarian in the Warehouse town of Univille who catches Pete’s eye.
In the episode featuring Philip Winchester (“Jack Chase” in Alice), Pete and Myka discover an object in the Warehouse town of Univille is transmitting increasingly dangerous scenes from old Hollywood movies. Winchester plays 1950s matinee idol "Raymond St. James,” the star of these movies, in roles which include a Cowboy, a Marine, a Gladiator and a Mad Scientist.
Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government. The Warehouse’s caretaker Artie (Saul Rubinek) charges Pete (Eddie McClintock) and Myka (Joanne Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the Warehouse itself.
In its first season, Warehouse 13 became the all-time Syfy leader in total viewers (4.1 million), Adults 25-54 (2.1 million) and Household ratings (2.9), as measured by 7-Day DVR data.
Warehouse 13 is produced for Syfy by Universal Cable Productions. Jack Kenny (The Book of Daniel) returns as showrunner.
Universal Cable Productions creates quality content across multiple media platforms for USA, Syfy and other networks. A leader in innovative and critically acclaimed programming, UCP is the studio behind USA's Royal Pains, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Psych, In Plain Sight and Covert Affairs along with Syfy's Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Caprica. The studio also produced both long-running series Monk and Battlestar Galactica. UCP is a division of NBC Universal.
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 95 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. Syfy. Imagine greater.
Looking forward to this show's return. Syfy got it right this time.
Yes I need a relief from my “Chuck” burn this year and Warehouse was a welcome surprise last season.
The good news not covered here, is that when Warehouse 13 starts, so does Eureka! Warehouse has been the “Chuck” of the SyFy Channel, bringing in larger and larger names to guest. I like the escapist nature of both shows, and hope they have a few more years left in them. Long live Sy-Friday!
This show has a good premise and likeable main characters. I especially liked the addition of the girl (Claudia) that works as the assistant at the warehouse.
One thing, though, is it me or does it seem like an awfully long time between seasons. Kind of makes you think they didn't want to commit early on a 2nd season.
With regard to the claim “most successful series in Syfy history” That seems a fairly safe claim since wasn't W13 the kickoff program for “Syfy”.
That kind of has the same PR ring as a movie being touted as “one of the best films of the year” . . .and the announcement is made on January 3rd.
It's a decent show, but these incredibly unknown guest stars are far from “Exciting”
Firefly, Wonderfalls and The Shield, some of the previous series that these guest stars have appeared in, are well known to anyone who is a fan of quality television.
One thing, though, is it me or does it seem like an awfully long time between seasons. Kind of makes you think they didn't want to commit early on a 2nd season
They committed to a second season before the first ended. The reason it's been so long is that it is a summer series. Syfy doesn't tend to do the split seasons like USA does, so it can be a long wait between seasons.
Syfy has split a lot of shows, but it's always shows w/20 episode orders (Stargates, BSG/Caprica). Seasons of series like WH13 and Sanctuary where they only order 13 hours run straight through.
The Futon Critic has the last two seasons of Stargate Atlantis as running straight through. They only have the last season of BSG listed (which I know was split), so I don't know about the others.
Caprica will go on hiatus after this Friday's episode, end SGU which has been on hiatus for several months already will return the following Friday.
OK, so the shows I watch on Syfy don't get split seasons… silly syfy
Sounds like another role with kick butt potential for Torres
This show is a lot of fun. The perfect entertainment for a slow summer night. I can't wait to see it return.
What, no Summer Glau? Does SyFy not realize she is THE biggest sci-fi star around these days? Have any of their suits been at a sci-fi convention when she walks out on the platform and gets a five minute standing ovation? Richard T. Jones said at Comic-Con back in 2007 when they had the TSCC panel, “I hate coming out after Summer Glau”.
Fortunately, Summer has a new pilot now in production for NBC called “The Cape”, basically a version of “The Spirit” where a cop is presumed dead and returns as a superhero but without superpowers. Summer plays a journalist blogger (or is that a blogging journalist) who goes after corrupt cops. Supposedly she gets to kick some butt. Hope NBC picks it up (although given NBC's record, it will likely crash like a meteorite).
I hate to Be the Buzzkill….BUT HOW CAN THIS SHOW BE THE HIGHEST WATCHED SHOW EVER ON SCI-FI
NOT BSG?? NOT Caprica??
I Saw 4 MILLION PEOPLE WATCH FRINGE????
(Pukes in Mouth)
That Show is For COMPLETE MORONS WITH AS LOW AN IQ AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!!!
Yeah There just Happens to be this Crazy Old Guy WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING?? lol
That Show is Like X-Files for Retards, Dumbed Down Beyond my Ability to Stomach
I Do LOVE Lost & JJ Abrams is OK….But FRINGE= DUMBEST SHOW EVER
Very anger.
Very anger.