The Expanse blasts off with a two-night premiere
Syfy‘s upcoming space thriller “The Expanse” will launch with a two-night premiere Monday, December 14 and Tuesday, December 15 at 10PM (ET/PT). The epic drama from Alcon TV is based on the international best-selling book series of the same name and will regularly air on Tuesdays at 10PM for the remainder of its 10-episode first season.
The most ambitious series in Syfy history, “The Expanse” is set two hundred years in the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. A hardened detective (Thomas Jane, “Hung”) and a rogue ship’s captain (Steven Strait, “Magic City”) come together for what starts as the case of a missing young woman and evolves into a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo (“House of Saddam,” House of Sand and Fog) also stars as Chrisjen Avasarala, a smart and cunning politician who has risen in the ranks of Earth’s governing body without once standing for election.
Rounding out the cast are Dominique Tipper, Cas Anvar, Wes Chatham and Florence Faivre. Jonathan Banks, Paulo Costanzo, and Jay Hernandez will appear as guest stars throughout the series’ first season.
Award-winning director Terry McDonough directed the first two episodes of the series. Academy Award-nominated screenwriting duo Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby wrote the pilot and serve as writers as well as executive producers. Fergus and Ostby are showrunners, alongside fellow executive producer Naren Shankar (CSI, Farscape).
The Expanse is financed and produced by Alcon Television Group (ATG), a division of Alcon Entertainment. Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson serve as executive producers along with former president of Alcon Television Sharon Hall. Alcon Television executive Ben Roberts serves as co-producer.
Sean Daniel and Jason Brown of the Sean Daniel Company developed the original pitch as a direct-to-series project, with Fergus and Ostby. Daniel and Brown are executive producers. Ben Cook serves as a producer.
The series is based on the popular New York Times bestselling book series collectively known as “The Expanse,” written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pen name James S. A. Corey). Abraham and Franck are show producers.
The multi-installment, best-selling book series is published in 17 countries, including China, France, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. Book one in the series, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for a Hugo Award as well as a Locus Award, while the second novel, Caliban’s War was nominated for a Locus Award.
