Syfy UK Picks Up Jordan Peele’s ‘The Twilight Zone’ To Premiere In February
Syfy UK has acquired Jordan Peele’s ‘The Twilight Zone‘ from CBS All Access, with an eye to premiere in February 2020 it has been announced.
Jordan Peele, the mind behind the creepy horror hits ‘US’ and ‘Get Out’ invites you back into another dimension in this revival of the classic anthology series, with stars such as Chris O’Dowd, Seth Rogen, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan and Adam Scott appearing in a series of spine-tingling, stand-alone morality tales with wicked twists – all updated for a new, socially conscious generation.
First airing in 1959 and created by Rod Serling, ‘The Twilight Zone’ is pretty much the grandfather of the modern sci-fi series. Each week, the seminal tv show took unrelated character and situations to tell one-off stories based on the paranormal or sci-fi, usually with some sort of moral or twist at the end.
The one thing people usually remember about the series is Serling’s voiceover introduction, which altered a little from season to season, but the final version went “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension – a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.”
The show ran for 5 seasons in its original incarnation but was revived for ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ in 1983, then returned as a tv show in 1985 which ran for 3 seasons, then again in 2002 for a run which lasted 1 season.
This new version of ‘The Twilight Zone’ is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw, with Marc Ramirez (‘The Defenders’, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’) as showrunner.
This acquisition is one of the first major new properties for Syfy UK since Sky took over direct control of the NBCUniversal channels in the UK following Comcast’s acquisition of Sky in September 2019. The move has also seen changes to Universal channel and finally allowed all three of the ‘Chicago’ franchise series moved on to Sky Witness.
‘The Twilight Zone‘ Season 1 is currently set to premiere on Syfy UK in February 2020 (exact date/time TBC).
