What is this "new" show on Sci-Fi called Charlie Jade??

techs

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Caught a blurb that a new show would premiere on SciFi next week at 8 pm.
Looked it up and according to tv.com it first aired in 2005???
So I looked it up further and its either a British or South African show that, as far as I can tell, has a pretty devoted audience.

Here's the premise:

While on a hunt for a woman with no identity, Detective Charlie Jade is shot into a strange parallel universe (Betaverse) when a facility that he is investigating explodes.

Charlie is from Alphaverse, a dystopian universe that is ruled by five mega corporations. Betaverse, the universe Charlie is initially sent to, corresponds to "our" reality. But there's a third universe, the Gammaverse, an apparent Utopia that has an abundance of natural resources that Vex-Cor (one of the Alphaverse mega-corps) would like to exploit.

Charlie Jade was filmed in Cape Town, South Africa and produced by CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation.


Has anyone seen it?
 

FLWRHART

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Dec 5, 2005
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sorry never heard of it and I went to check it out but they are only showing one episode from 2006
 

Kadarin

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I just watched this tonight on SCIFI. It was pretty well done, and I'm looking forward to more.
 

xcript

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I saw it a few years ago (it was on Space here in Canada).

I really liked it. The Alphaverse feels very "blade-runnery", which is cool. Interesting characters, acting is decent, etc. Each universe is tinted differently (to make it easier to keep track of what's going on in which reality, I assume), which is strange at first, but you get used to it.

BTW, it's Canadian & South African.
 

middlehead

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Haven't watched it, but the previews I saw damn sure didn't seem like something Sci Fi would greenlight themselves.