Watch for ‘Charlie Jade’, New Eco Series on Sci-Fi Channel

Some of you may already know about the series ‘Charlie Jade’, which ran briefly on The Space Channel and is currently being rerun overseas. The Sci-Fi Channel recently announced that they’re picking up the series for the Friday night lineup, starting on June 6th. ‘Charlie Jade’ has quite an interesting plot involving several parallel universes including a dystopian version, an idyllic version and one that corresponds to present day reality.

The Futon Critic explains it:

“Jade,” which ran for 20 episodes on Canada’s SPACE channel in 2005, is detailed by said network as follows: “What if humans didn’t abuse the earth and its resources? How different would the world be? Take a fantastic leap of the imagination and explore the world through three parallel universes – Alphaverse (what our world could end up being), Betaverse (our world today), and Gammaverse (what our world could have been). Charlie Jade is a rogue detective in Alphaverse who, while on the hunt for the killer of a missing woman, gets caught in an explosion from a covert desert operation, propelling him into a strange parallel universe (Betaverse). As he searches for the truth about the explosion, he is drawn into a conflict that not only involves his home universe and the one he now inhabits, but another pristine pacifist universe (Gammaverse) with unsuspected terror at its heart.”

Scripts are currently being written for a second season of the show, but it hasn’t been greenlit yet.

While I’m generally not a sci-fi geek in any capacity, I may tune in to check out how they pull off the environmental theme. I’d love to see more mainstream entertainment dealing with the possible effects of the harm we’re doing to the planet as humans.

You can see a promo of the show on YouTube. Check out its SciFi Channel debut this Friday at 8/7 central.

Link [The Futon Critic]

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