From The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA):
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-scifi2-2008jun02,0,3454022.story
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TELEVISION
Sci Fi Channel is game to join the virtual world
The channel is teaming with a gaming company to create a TV series that also plays out on the Web. Fans would help shape the story arc.
By Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 2, 2008
Can two alien cultures coexist in one writers room? Sci Fi is entering a brave new world by teaming television writers with video-game designers to create a franchise that is both a television series and a massive multiplayer game on the Internet -- more than that, the fans who play the game will actually help shape the show's story arc with their virtual exploits.
"This is the Holy Grail for us, without a doubt," said Dave Howe, president of the Sci Fi Channel, which has teamed with Trion World Network, an on-the-rise gaming company based in Redwood City, Calif. "This is groundbreaking, and I don't say that lightly."
Sci Fi Channel executives are mum about the title of the show and game and their premise, but they do hint that it will be set 80 to 100 years in the future on an Earth that looks very different from today. The team has summer 2010 as the targeted launch; more details are expected to be announced in July at Comic-Con International in San Diego.
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