Helo Leads Syfy Up The River, In Search Of The Next BSG
Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica star Tahmoh Penikett has
landed another major science fiction role, this time in a TV-
movie adaptation of Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, as the Syfy
Channel attempts to replace, well…BSG, mostly.  The Riverworld
books are set on an alien (but Earth-like) planet in the far
future where, for some unknown reason, everybody who has ever
lived is simultaneously resurrected as healthy, twenty-five year
old versions of themselves. The various stories set in this
universe explore both how famous historical figures interact
with each other and their strange new surroundings, as well as
the larger attempts by the thirty-six billion people on the
planet to recreate human society.   Penikett plays Matt Ellman,
a war correspondent who is killed and resurrected along with his
fiancé, played by Smallville's Laura Vandervoort. The two
characters, who as far as I can tell are being newly created for
the miniseries, will serve as the