Sci-fi TV series 'Defiance' launches with video game: 'one world, two ways in'
Cast members of the television show "Defiance," 
(left to right) Tony Curran as Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr, 
Julie Benz as Amanda Rosewater, Mia Kirshner as Kenya Rosewater, Grant 
Bowler as Joshua Nolan, Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nyira and Graham 
Greene as Rafe McCawley are shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN 
PRESS/HO-Shaw Media-Joe Pugliese/Syfy
 
 
What
 will Earth look like in the year 2046? Pretty beat up if a sprawling 
outdoor backlot for a new sci-fi TV series, tucked out of sight in an 
industrial section of Toronto's east end, is any indication.
"Defiance" launches 
simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. April 15 as both a TV series and a
 video game. Both Showcase and the U.S. cable channel Syfy will premiere
 it over two hours Monday at 10 p.m.
Earlier this year before TV critics in Los Angeles,
 Syfy president Dave Howe called it "one world, but with two ways in." 
Five years in the making, the series was planned all along as a way to 
unite "high-quality scripted television and online gaming in an 
unprecedented way."
Read more at 
Brandon Sun 
Tweets (and photos) from Tony Curran:
Great night at Syfy up Fronts New York City
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Datak&Stahma having a moment 3 days till launch
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It wouldn't be the Syfy Upfront if it wasn't a star studded event, and the stellar cast of Defiance surely delivers
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Up Fronts NYC
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In MYM Magazine out April 18th in UK
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Defiance Trailer: Datak
Cunning,
 intelligent, and ambitious, Datak Tarr has a firm grip on Defiance's 
underworld. How long can they stay on top? Defiance premieres Monday at 
9/8c only on Syfy.
Watch the trailer 
here. 
Defiance - Syfy Video Featurette: 'Datak' Promo - NEW Series Apr 15 '13Read more at 
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DEFIANCE: Jaime Murray and Tony Curran Plan To Prosper In New Sneak Peeks
Full article at 
Seriable 
Another Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance
The 2-hour premiere arrives April 15th.
Read more at 
SciFi Cool 
Nice Boy of the Week: Tony Curran
The Nice Boy of the Week this week is actor 
Tony Curran, who is one of the cast members of the upcoming Syfy series 
Defiance that will debut on Monday, April 15.
Tony Curran
 was born in Glasgow, Scotland and graduated from the Royal Scottish 
Academy of Music and Drama. He got his first break on television in 1986
 in the British children’s series called 
Dramarama.
A few years 
later he had small roles in the box office films 
Captive that starred 
Julia Ormond and Tim Roth and 
Being Human that starred Robin Williams. 
Over the course of the next four years, he appeared in the British and 
Scottish TV series 
Soldier Soldier, 
Grange Hill, 
Taggart, 
The Bill, 
A 
Touch of Frost, 
This Life and 
Touching Evil.
Read more at 
Nice Girls TV
NBCU's $100 Million Gamble on Syfy's 'Defiance'
The first TV series and video game to launch in tandem, the multiplatform event marks a critical test for the cable network.
Syfy
 is welcoming a two-headed baby into the world. The NBCUniversal-owned 
network in April is launching 
Defiance, a risky experiment in transmedia
 that pairs the most expensive series in the cable net's history with an
 equally pricey massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game. Each can 
be enjoyed on its own, but NBCU, which has invested close to $100 
million in Defiance, needs both sci-fi fans and gamers -- two fickle 
groups -- to show up in big numbers to justify the expense.
Read more at 
Hollywood Reporter
Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview - NEW Series Apr 15 '13 on Syfy
The
 cast of SyFy's series, 
Defiance, introduce themselves and actor Grant 
Bowler talks about the inspiration for his character, Chief Lawkeeper 
Jeb Nolan. 
Video includes interviews with Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Mia Kirshner, 
Tony Curran and Graham Greene.
Set on a transformed Earth thirty years in the future, 
Defiance is the 
story of courage and survival in a frontier town where feuding factions 
of humans and aliens must stand together against outside forces that 
threaten their existence. 
Defiance premiering Monday April 15 at 9/8c on
 Syfy.
Watch the interviews at 
Antipodalarapaima
Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview Part 2
The
 cast of SyFy's new series, Defiance, talk about the languages of the 
alien races, the Votan, and how it impacted their performances. David J.
 Peterson developed the languages for the series.
More 
here.
Loving The Aliens - Article in TV & Satellite Week
Read a scan of the article 
here. 
Michael Nankin interview: Defiance, latex, TV pilots and more
With
 the launch of the Defiance series and TV show imminent, we spoke to 
producer and director Michael Nankin about its making...
 The Syfy Channel is about to air what is surely its biggest experiment 
yet. Called 
Defiance, it’s a sci-fi series which not only employs some 
proven industry talent - not least writer Rockne S O’Bannon, of 
Alien 
Nation and 
SeaQuest DSV fame, director and producer Michael Nankin, who 
previously helmed episodes of 
Battlestar Galactica and 
Alphas - but also
 coincides with the launch of the online shooter of the same name.
In
 a media first, 
Defiance the TV series and 
Defiance the videogame will 
share characters and storylines, with events in the show replicated in 
the online experience, too. It’s a concept that has roped in the 
creative minds from both Syfy and Trion Worlds, cost an undisclosed sum 
of money, and will, if successful, no doubt pave the way for further 
‘transmedia’ collaborations in the future.
Set on a 
post-apocalyptic Earth where multiple races of aliens live uneasily 
among humans, 
Defiance takes place in the ramshackle town of the same 
name. Roguishly handsome newcomer Nolan (Grant Bowler) provides our way 
into this grubby community, in which bitter rivalries and cultural 
chasms constantly threaten its stability. As much a Western as a sci-fi 
show, 
Defiance is infused with a lightness of touch and a faintly kitsch
 sensibility, which is far removed from the brooding, post-911 
atmosphere of 
Battlestar Galactica, whose success Syfy will no doubt be 
hoping to replicate here.
Ahead of the 
Defiance pilot’s premiere 
on the 16th April, we had a chance to talk to Nankin about what we can 
expect from the show, the pitfalls in developing a TV series and game at
 the same time, and the perils of directing a show full of alien 
prosthetics, contact lenses, and brightly-coloured wigs...
Read the full interview at  
Den of Geek
Tony Curran (Datak Tarr)Actor bio at 
Showcase
At the Defiance Shoot.
 Photos (including Tony Curran)
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Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus
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Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus. Tony Curran
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Dive Into the TV and Game World of DEFIANCE With Featurette, Exclusive Set Visit Pics and More
SciFiMafia.com attended a set tour and press 
conference a few months ago and we have chosen a sampling from the sheer
 tonnage of pics taken to share with you, to accompany this first Making
 Of featurette of the game and series and the newest trailer for the 
series and TV spot for the game.
Read more at 
SciFi Mania 
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Vampires, Zombies & Werewolves Movie Marathon - Syfy: Schedule Apr 6 '13 
Underworld: Evolution
Gory sequel finds the bloodsucking heroine (
Kate Beckinsale) tracing the origins of the ancient feud between the tribes of vampires and werewolves.
Cast includes Kate Beckinsale, 
Defiance's 
Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen and Sophia Myles.
Blade II
A vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) teams up with the undead to take down a band of mutant bloodsuckers. 
Cast includes Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela, 
The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, Luke Goss and 
Tony Curran.
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