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Sci-fi Streaming Channel DUSTx Announces New Shows “Orpheus Project” and “Restoration”
Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi brand DUST announced today that its sci-fi channel, DUSTx, is significantly broadening its reach by launching on additional OTT platforms, including Comcast FLEX, Vizio TV and Sling TV, as well as on Samsung TV Plus in the UK, serving sci-fi fans in the UK for the first time. The press release also details two brand new upcoming projects…
In conjunction with the expansion of DUSTx on multiple OTT platforms, DUST is also growing their content offering and launching two new original sci-fi series on DUSTx; “Orpheus Project” and “Restoration”. Season one of “Orpheus Project” will debut on September 20th, followed by release of season two on October 20th. Episode one of “Restoration” is set to premiere on September 9th, with a new episode premiering each day through September 13th.
“Since its launch on Roku, DUSTx has surpassed our expectations in terms of viewership and retention, driven in large part by our loyal fanbase of sci-fi lovers,” said Eric Bromberg, DUST GM . “In response to audience demand, we are expanding our distribution to more platforms as well as our programming with more original and global series.”
DUSTx has quickly become the go-to destination for science fiction, offering timeless classics like Event Horizon, The Running Man, “Mystery Science Theatre 3000” and “Roswell”, alongside cutting-edge fare like A Scanner Darkly and dozens of provocative original short films.
As a producer, distributor and purveyor of premium sci-fi content, DUST recently premiered the sci-fi western, PROSPECT, in theaters across the country, as well as the feature-length AI documentary, More Human Than Human and secured the rights to # 1 New York Times best-selling author, Kyle Higgins’ (Nightwing) Alec Siegel (Batman Beyond) and Rod Reis’ (Winter Soldier) interstellar noir comic, Hadrian’s Wall, and has partnered with Higgins to develop into a feature film.
About: “Orpheus Project”:
Synopsis:
From Endemol Shine Israel comes “Orpheus Project”, two original seasons commissioned by HOT Israel, where it was also popular on the channel’s VOD platform An Israeli series that follows five elite medical students chosen for a special prestigious program run by a renowned professor. They spend their days moving from operating room to hospital bed actively trying to save lives, but by night they tap into the secret world of the after-life. During a near-death experience, they discover a mysterious portal that can transport them to the uncharted world of the hereafter. What they soon realize is that the portal goes both ways. Once the gate is opened, even for the slightest moment, death becomes an endless visitor, providing supernatural powers that help them become better doctors but also undermine everything they know about themselves. The series stars Netflix’s “Fauda” series breakout star Yuval Segal. “Orpheus Project” has also been adapted in the Netherlands. The company is part of Endemol Shine Group who have a portfolio of scripted superbrands including Peaky Blinders and Black Mirror as well as Humans, Grantchester and Tin Star, all of which have aired in 100 or more markets. Israeli pay TV broadcaster are behind a range of hits including Euphoria which has just sold to HBO and Queens which is currently in production for its second series with Endemol Shine Israel.
Creators:
- Gal Zaid, Roni Idor, Ruti Zaid and Michal Aviram
About “Restoration”:
Synopsis:
“Restoration” is a five-part series starring Grant Cartwright (Barracuda), Stephen Carracher (Vanished) and Nadia Townsend (Knowing, City Homicide) set in the near future where a company offers individuals the service of having their memories downloaded “for backup” – in the event of death, those memories can be uploaded into a new body. After a routine backup, Oliver Klein wakes to find his memories restored into a body that is not his own. Trapped in a foreign body with its own ‘muscle memory’, Oliver discovers that he is capable of doing things the original Oliver never could… and never would. Oliver must find a way to reconnect with his family and his life while coming face-to-face with the truth that he is no longer the only Oliver Klein.
Filmmakers:
- Directed by: Stuart Willis, an award-winning writer and director of elevated genre
- Written by: Stuart Willis and screenwriter, Matthew Clayfield (Lord Jones is Dead)
Best known to horror fans for playing Rupert Giles in 121 episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” actor Anthony Head (aka Anthony Stewart Head) has passed away at 72 years old.
Daughters Emily and Daisy Head said in a statement to the BBC that their father “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”
Their statement continues, “It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many. We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in — he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.”
Anthony Head more recently played Rupert Mannion in 18 episodes of “Ted Lasso,” with the English actor’s film and television credits dating back to 1978. On the horror front, Anthony Head starred in Darren Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, as well as 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Let the Wrong One In, “Warehouse 13,” and “The Canterville Ghost.”
Also of note here in the world of horror, Anthony Head once played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a London stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the 1990s.
Outside the horror world, Anthony Head’s film and television credits well exceed 100 different productions and include “Highlander,” “NYPD Blue,” “Silent Witness,” “Doctor Who,” And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, “Little Britain,” The Magic Door, “Sensitive Skin,” Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, “Free Agents,” The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, “You, Me & Them,” “Dominion,” A Street Cat Named Bob, and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.
“Buffy” actor James Marsters writes on Instagram, “There’s a hole in the World. Anthony Head has passed on from us. He was an unflaggingly kind and steady presence on the set of Buffy, and the best actor in the cast. He was the best of us. I was lucky to have known, and learned from him. He left the world a better place for his presence. Thank you Tony for all you gave.”
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