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Airdate: Riverworld

Which actor appearing in a well-known drama on Free to Air can be seen in a SciFi miniseries airing this weekend?

Which actor appearing in a well-known drama on Free to Air can be seen in a SciFi miniseries airing this weekend?

Movie Extra will air the two part sci-fi miniseries Riverworld, based on the novels by Philip Jose Farmer. It stars Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, The Dollhouse) and Laura Vandervoort (Smallville).

The Canadian production aired on Syfy in the US in April. A separate telemovie was produced in 2003 but was never furthered into a series.

….and if you guessed Alan Cumming (The Good Wife) you are correct.

When American war zone journalist Matt Ellman (Tahmoh Penikett) and his fiancée, Jessie Machalan (Laura Vandervoort), are killed in an explosion, Matt awakens, separated from Jessie, on the banks of a river snaking endlessly across a mysterious new plane of existence. On Riverworld, everyone who has ever lived on Earth, every soul throughout time, has been reborn along the banks of a seemingly endless river.

Determined to locate Jessie, Matt aligns with Tomoe (Jeananne Goossen), a 13th century female warrior, Allegra, a 15th century courtesan of shifting alliances, and American novelist and riverboat captain Samuel Clements (Mark Deklin), better known as Mark Twain. For Matt, each unfathomable day, each nefarious encounter, only deepens the conundrum of Riverworld and raises more questions. What happened to Earth and when? What is the purpose of the burning Orb? What powers are contained in the infamous Dark Tower? And why is their every move being followed by the watchful eye of an alien being? The answers are waiting beyond the endless swells of Riverworld.

It premieres on Movie Extra on Sunday August 15 at 8:30pm with Part 2 on Monday at 8:30pm.

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