Get it? Splash? “Riverworld”? Ahem.
If our “Riverworld” review comments section is any indication, most of the 2.1 million viewers that tuned into the SyFy Channel’s premiere of “Riverworld” didn’t like what they saw, but they nevertheless helped the channel to its highest Sunday night rating for the year.


RHI Entertainment recently put a full trailer for their “Riverworld” mini-series that is set to be released as a backdoor pilot on the SyFy Channel sometime in 2010 on
Here’s your first look at Tahmoh Penikett in the new SyFy channel’s relaunching of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld. The new TV series will star Pinikett (of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse) as war journalist Matt Ellman, who dies while on his honeymoon with his wife Jessie (Smallville and the new V’s Laura Vandervoort) and wakes up in the titular Riverworld, a mysterious planet where every person who has ever lived on Earth is brought after their death. 
The Sci Fi Channel’s two newest offerings, Riverworld and The Phantom (based on the comic book and, as far as we can tell, completely different from the movie starring Billy Zane), have found their leads. For Riverworld, based on Philip Jose Farmer’s series of fantasy novels, former Battlestar Galactica star Tahmoh Penikett and Smallville’s Laura Vandervoort will play the show’s leads, a war correspondent and his wife who both die and are resurrected on Riverworld, a mysterious world populated by everyone who has ever lived (and died) on Earth.