SPACE Orders Interstellar Bounty Hunter Series Killjoys
The 10-episode first season takes the Canadian network to outer space next year.
Canadian broadcaster SPACE has been ramping up its original series development in recent months, joining BBC America to produce this year’s hit Orphan Black as well as developing the upcoming female werewolf show Bitten.
But SPACE isn’t done there: the network has announced Killjoys, a new science fiction series due out next year. It’s billed as “an action-packed adventure series following a trio of interplanetary bounty hunters as they navigate through political turmoil, questionable morality and complicated relationships.”
SPACE has ordered 10 episodes, to be delivered in 2014.
The series is the brainchild of writer Michelle Lovretta, who created the Showcase/Syfy hit Lost Girl (now filming its fourth season). She also wrote and produced for The Secret Circle, and was a writer on series such as Relic Hunter and Mutant X.
The network released this description of the series:
In a distant Galaxy, the people of the planet Qresh have colonized their three moons, creating four stratified worlds, each defined along socio-economic lines and rife with social unrest. In this planetary unit, known as the Quad, a highly regulated group of bounty hunters, Killjoys, are licensed to pursue a vast range of warrants throughout the galaxy. Killjoys must follow strict rules, and there are harsh consequences for veering from their mantra: “The Warrant is All.” Killjoys are not allowed to take a personal or political side in their mission, which proves to be impossible and near fatal for Dutch. Dutch is a gorgeous, complicated and deadly Killjoy at the top of her game. Her partner, John the Bastard, is a peacemaker who hates conflict.
When John’s incredibly sexy and confident brother D’avin shows up to join the partners, the dysfunctional trio’s lives become intertwined. Confined to close quarters, Dutch, John, and D’avin quickly find themselves caught in a tricky love triangle.
Killjoys comes from Temple Street Productions, which is behind Orphan Black and a number of other Canadian series. Lovretta will executive produce with Temple Street’s David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg.
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