News > Sc iFi acquires Warehouse 13
October 25, 2007
Written by John Lichman
On the trail of Revolution, Sci Fi Channel has announced it greenlit the two-hour pilot for Warehouse 13, a self-described "X-Files meets Moonlighting" over at .
The show focuses on two FBI agents who are left in charge of the titular warehouse, filled with all sorts of weird artifacts, technology and other terrors only hinted at on the Internet. The duo are in charge of tracking down missing--or new--objects and bringing them safely back to the compound in South Dakota.
According to Sci Fi original programming exec VP Mark Stern, "Warehouse 13" arose directly out of the channel's mandate to expand the scope of its original fare in order to reach wider auds, including women.
"This plays into our agenda," Stern said. "It's set in the present, it celebrates imagination, yet it's meant to broaden out our audience reach."
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"There's something rich about that whole concept," Stern said. "It's a huge storehouse, a 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'-style spot described as America's attic."
Just as a romance starts to develop between the two lead characters, one of the mysterious artifacts brings the female FBI agent's dead partner back to life -- creating quite the bizarre love triangle.
Huh. Raiders meets X-Files meets Moonlighting meets Pushing Daises.
Has to beat Painkiller Jane.
