Killjoys (TV series)

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Killjoys
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  • Science fiction
  • Drama
  • Adventure
Created by Michelle Lovretta
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Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10 (list of episodes)
Production
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  • David Fortier
  • Ivan Schneeberg
Running time 42 minutes
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Distributor NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network Space
Original release June 19, 2015 (2015-06-19) –
present (present)
External links
Website at Space
Website at Syfy

Killjoys is a Canadian space adventure drama series that airs on Space channel in Canada. The show was officially ordered to series on October 7, 2013, with a 10-episode pick-up.[1] In April 2014, it was announced that Syfy would co-produce the series, and the first season premiered June 19, 2015.[2][3] The series was renewed for a second season in September 2015, which is set to premiere on July 1, 2016.[4][5]

Premise

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Further information: List of Killjoys episodes

Killjoys follows a trio of hard-living bounty hunters – Dutch, John, and D'avin– taking on interplanetary missions, chasing and capturing deadly criminals throughout a distant system named the Quad. They have sworn amongst themselves to remain neutral during a bloody, multi-planetary class war that threatens to destroy the Quad. However, their own pasts and the events around them begin to draw them in deeper to this dangerous vortex of war. Script error: No such module "Series overview".

Cast

Main

Recurring

  • Tamsen McDonough as the voice of Lucy, the ship computer
  • Morgan Kelly as Alvis ("God"), a monk and revolutionary
  • Thom Allison as Pree, a bartender
  • Rob Stewart as Khlyen, Dutch's mentor
  • Sarah Power as Pawter Simms, a disgraced medic
  • Mayko Nguyen as Delle Seyah Kendry, a scheming aristocrat
  • Nora McLellan as Bellus Haardy, a warrant broker and friend of Dutch
  • Sean Baek as Fancy Lee, a competing bounty hunter

Broadcast

Killjoys premiered June 19, 2015, in both Canada and the United States, and episodes air simultaneously on the two channels each Friday.[8] It premiered in Australia on January 30, 2016.[9]

Reception

The first episode of the series received 286,000 overnight viewers in Canada.[10] Charlie Jane Anders of io9 gave the show a very positive rating saying, "If wanting to watch fun, quippy characters get into scrapes and survive by the skin of their teeth, on spaceships and alien planets, is wrong, I don’t want to be right. Killjoys has just the right mix of guns, high-tech knives, assassins, cage fights, missions to hostile planets, dark secrets, tiny robot weapons and general space headbutting thrills to be the perfect treat for Friday nights." Addressing the occasional negative review she went on to state "We don’t need every television show to be True Detective or even Battlestar Galactica."[11] Writing for Forbes.com, Merrill Barr gave the first four episodes of the show an average to negative rating in a review titled "Sci-Fi Fun With Nothing Else To Offer", opining that though enjoyable for sci-fi fans, it featured "sci-fi archetypes that aren't bringing anything new to the table", an "overly complicated" fictional universe, and was "extremely light on depth and character intrigue."[12]

On September 1, 2015, Syfy announced it would renew Killjoys for a second season of 10 episodes. Bill McGoldrick, Syfy's executive VP of original content was quoted as saying "With exciting space-based action, deep world building, and a standout cast, Killjoys has struck a nerve with viewers and critics alike. We can't wait to see what adventures Michelle Lovretta and Temple Street take Dutch, John and D'avin on in season two." David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, the executive producers of the show, were quoted as saying "We couldn't be more excited to bring back Killjoys and its stellar cast to audiences across the U.S. We look forward to working with the team at Syfy for a thrilling second season."[13]

References

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