Sci-Fi Channel Picks up Warehouse 13 for Series

Sci-Fi TV News, Warehouse 13 TV Series — By Nix on September 19, 2008

Okay, so I’ve been hearing about this new show Warehouse 13 for a while now, and I’ve been writing about it, but I have yet to actually see an episode of this thing. From what I’m hearing (they’re calling it a “dramedy” now), it sounds very much like a new, 2008 version of the short-lived UPN X-Files clone Special Unit 2. If that is indeed true, then yeah, I’m going to like this, as I was a fan (maybe the only one?) of SU2’s unique brand of wacky humor, barely credible storylines, and just general hijinx that requires, first and foremost, a major suspension in disbelief to enjoy. Warehouse 13 seems to be something like that. Maybe.

THR has news on the show being picked up for a series by the Sci Fi Channel:

The hourlong dramedy, from Universal Cable Studios, is described as part “X-Files,” part “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and part “Moonlighting.”

It revolves around two FBI agents — rule-bender Peter (Eddie McClintock) and by-the-book Myka (Joanne Kelly) — who, after saving the life of the U.S. president, are relocated to Warehouse 13, a location that houses supernatural objects the government has collected over the centuries.

The cable channel originally ordered a two-hour pilot of the project, written by “Farscape” creator Rockne O’Bannon, “Battlestar Galactica” co-exec producer Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote.

I’m telling you, it’s the 2008 version of Special Unit 2. And if you happen to dig that show like I did, well, then that isn’t such a bad comparison. The worst thing the makers of Warehouse 13 can possibly do is go the dark and gritty route, which would just make it another X-Files clone in a season with already one such clone (Fringe, anyone?).

Below: Joannea Kelly — 2008’s version of Dana Scully or Kate Benson?

Joanne kelly in Warehouse 13


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  • Edward Smith says:

    See Warehouse 23 for future story ideas.

    There are 5 “levels” filled with randomly accessible “boxes” containing things that the Secret Master have deemed the public is not ready for.

    This amusing and bizarre in a sci-fi/X-Files sort of way.

    This site has been contributed to by many sci-fi geeks for many years. There are some dynamite ideas in here. There are some real stinkers too; keep the lottery/committee based story writers away from here.

  • Carl says:

    The title immediately made me think of SU2. That show was cut down way too soon. It was a lot of fun.

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