Syfy Orders Six-Hour Miniseries 'Ascension'

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Syfy is getting ambitious with its latest project.

The network has ordered a six-hour event series from Smallville writer/producer Philip Levens.

The miniseries is described as a "space opera" that "will focus on a covert space mission launched by the U.S. government in 1963, which sent hundreds of men, women, and children on a century-long voyage aboard a starship called Ascension to populate a new world. Passengers aboard the spaceship begin to question the true nature of their mission after the mysterious murder of a young woman takes place nearly 50 years into their voyage, as they being to approach the point of no return."

Ascension, which seriously sounds like the most awesome thing Syfy has done in AGES, is scheduled to premiere this November.

Via: Entertainment Weekly