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[04/30/14 - 12:39 PM]
Syfy Digital Announces New Transmedia Storytelling Initiatives Across Social, Second Screen and Digital Experiences
Syfy also announced its first original digital comedy series "Underlings," a workplace comedy that brings viewers inside a criminal organization.

[via press release from Syfy]

SYFY DIGITAL ANNOUNCES NEW TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING INITIATIVES ACROSS SOCIAL, SECOND SCREEN AND DIGITAL EXPERIENCES

IN-SHOW AVATAR JOINS HIT SERIES DEFIANCE

INTERACTIVE HANDBOOK FOR NEW DRAMA DOMINION

SYFY SYNC FOR BROWSERS FOR SHARKNADO 2

SYFY NOW AVAILABLE SOON ON ANDROID PHONES AND TABLETS

NEW YORK - April 30, 2014 - Building upon its recent transmedia successes, Syfy Digital today announced significant new digital, social and second screen storytelling initiatives including a game-to-TV Avatar joining the cast of the hit series Defiance; Syfy Now debuting on Android phones and tablets this summer, an interactive handbook to the eagerly anticipated new drama Dominion, and a new web experience for Syfy Sync for Sharknado 2 and Defiance.

Syfy also announced its first original digital comedy series Underlings, a workplace comedy that brings viewers inside a criminal organization. The cast includes Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones' wildling leader Styr, Magnar of Thenn) and Jessica Chobot (Attack of the Show).

In making the announcement, Michael Engleman, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Digital and Global Brand Strategy, Syfy, said: "Today we think about digital as a core part of our content experience, rather than a companion part. Our storytelling strategy rests on three pillars: enabling greater participation so that fans can influence content and programming, extending the 'first screen' story to provide a deeper, richer narrative experience, and, lastly, providing greater access to what goes on behind the scenes. The net result is a more multi-screen brand of storytelling for a fan base that absolutely craves it."

NEW SYFY DIGITAL INITIATIVES

DEFIANCE

In-Show Avatar

Season 2, premiering June 19, will feature a new character based on an actual player's in-game avatar. The winner of the "Play the Game, Join the Show Contest" was revealed on Facebook in a video by the show's executive producer, Kevin Murphy, in September. The live-action character based on the winner's avatar will be joining the show's cast this summer.

The Defiant Few

Defiance is unveiling a new way for fans to interact with the show online and via social in Season 2. Starting with premiere, every week, viewers will be invited to participate in a parallel storyline where they'll be encouraged to take on "missions" consisting of web-based casual games and challenges that will propel this storyline and give viewers a chance to win substantial real-world prizes.

DOMINION

Citizen's Handbook - A Guide to Vega

Created by the series' writers, Citizen's Handbook - A Guide to Vega will provide an immersive, interactive guide/handbook to the fictional city of Vega, featuring exclusive video and multimedia content created specifically for this experience. It will allow viewers to delve into the rich mythology of Dominion weeks before the series premieres on-screen on Syfy June 19.

FACE OFF

Earlier in the year, Syfy enjoyed great success with the Opposite Worlds Twitter Popularity Index, which created a new means of interacting with a competition reality show via social media. Kalev H. Leetaru utilized his patented research methods technology to measure the "social sentiment" around the contestants on the show, producing the weekly rankings from "most popular" to "least popular." Syfy will now use the next generation of that innovative technology and apply it to Season 7 of its highest-rated unscripted series Face Off, giving viewers the ability to directly affect the outcome of the show by cheering for, or talking smack about, players on the show via Twitter in natural-language tweets.

UNDERLINGS

This new 10-episode live action original digital series, produced by Universal Cable Productions and More Media, is a workplace comedy that takes viewers inside the criminal organization, G.O.R.I.L.LA. (Global Oppression, Rebellion, Intelligence, Larceny, and LAsers), and introduces them to the three guys who make sure the printer is stocked with toner, organize the office karaoke night and keep the death rays deadly. Syfy's first original digital comedy stars Jonathan Howard, Chris Mena and Tony Vitale with Jessica Chobot (Nerdist News), Michael Naughton (Kirby Buckets, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), James Adomian (Comedy Bang Bang, @midnight) and Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones, Banshee).

TVE

Syfy Now apps

Beginning this summer, Syfy Now apps will be available on Android phones and tablets, joining Syfy.com (web), iOS and Win8. Syfy Now will also add the ability to watch episodes in-browser with Syfy Sync content appearing alongside, extending Sync to yet another platform.

These new Syfy Digital second screen concepts build upon the recent success of:

· Helix's Access Granted, where viewers were granted access to the Ilaria Corporation's computer systems via a rich media web and mobile experience where they could interact with video, images and audio clips revealing information about characters and plotlines, generating 1.3 million page views;

· Syfy Sync - Launched in Aug 2012 on tablets with over 200k installs to date, the Syfy Sync app expanded to smartphones in March. Currently over 100 episodes from Syfy shows such as Face Off, Defiance and Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge are now sync-enabled - all featuring rich content that viewers can only get in this synchronized experience. Syfy Sync is adding a new experience for desktop and mobile web browsers this summer, starting with Defiance Season 2 and Sharknado 2.

Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)





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· DEFIANCE (SYFY)
· DOMINION (SYFY)
· FACE OFF (SYFY)





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