Syfy Renews 'Continuum' For a Third Season!

If you've been watching Continuum on Syfy, you know it's actually a pretty decent sci-fi offering.  It has a great mix of stories, combined with an ill-fated hero who is stuck out of time, and will probably never return to her own time.

News today is that Syfy renewed Continuum for a third season, due out in 2014, for a 13-episode order.

So not only am I enjoying it, obviously enough folks are watching it in its Friday time-slot, and with the bonus of live+7 viewing, the story of Kiera (Rachel Nichols) and her fight against a terrorist group whose come back from the future to start their s**t here will continue for another season.

Check out the press release below for more gritty details:

CONTINUUM – #1 ORIGINAL CABLE DRAMA FRIDAYS AT 10PM – WILL RETURN TO SYFY FOR ITS THIRD SEASON

13 ALL-NEW EPISODES WILL PREMIERE IN 2014

NEW YORK – August 1, 2013 – Syfy has announced that it will air the third season of the popular time traveling police series Continuum.   The #1 original cable drama in its Friday 10PM time period, Continuum will return to the network in 2014 with 13 all-new episodes. 

Currently airing season two, which concludes on Friday, August 30, Continuum ranks as the #1 original cable drama in its time slot among Adults 18-49, Adults 25-54 and total viewers.  Based on Live +7 data,  the series is currently averaging 728K Adults 18-49, 836K Adults 25-54 and 1.8 million total viewers, up 21 percent, 18 percent, and 21 percent, respectively, from season one.

Continuum stars Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron, a cop from the future who finds herself trapped in the present day, swept along when a group of fanatical terrorists escaped their planned execution in 2077 by vaulting back in time.

Continuum co-stars Victor Webster (Castle, Melrose Place) as detective Carlos Fonnegra and Erik Knudsen (Jericho, Scream 4), who plays teen tech genius Alec Sadler.

Executive producers of Continuum are series creator Simon Barry (The Art of War), Pat Williams (Smallville), and Tom Rowe (Tin Man). Continuum is a Showcase original series and is produced by Reunion Pictures in association with Shaw Media.

About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw is a diversified communications and media company, providing consumers with broadband cable television, High-Speed Internet, Home Phone, telecommunications services (through Shaw Business), satellite direct-to-home services (through Shaw Direct) and engaging programming content (through Shaw Media). Shaw serves 3.3 million customers, through a reliable and extensive fibre network. Shaw Media operates one of the largest conventional television networks in Canada, Global Television, and 19 specialty networks including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY® and Showcase. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX – SJR.B, NYSE – SJR). 

About Syfy

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, 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 98 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)

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