scifi channel starting production on riverworld, starring tahmoh penikett


	scifi channel starting production on riverworld, starring tahmoh penikett

cylons

4-17-2009 7:38 PM

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riverworld, scifi, television, casting news, tahmoh penikett

cylons says:

i was wondering when they'd finally take advantage of the riverworld premise (would work well for a movie or a series)... not that this means they'll do it justice, but hey, at least it's not another season of painkiller jane.

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Sci Fi has found lead actors for "Riverworld" and "The Phantom,"
its upcoming movie events that will serve as trials for possible
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"Battlestar Galactica" veteran Tahmoh Penikett and "Smallville"
supergirl Laura Vandervoort will star in "Riverworld," and Ryan
Carnes ("Desperate Housewives") has been cast as the Phantom.
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Penikett is best known for playing Helo on "Battlestar." In
"Riverworld," he will play war correspondent Matt Ellman, who is
killed along with his fiancee (Vandervoort) but awakens in a
mysterious world populated by everyone who has lived on Earth.
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