Along with revealing that they are developing a Gateway series with Battlestar Galactica's David Eick, Syfy used their time at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour to announce premiere dates for space opera The Expanse and miniseries Childhood's End. 
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer alum Julian McMahon and Shutter's Daisy Betts have signed on for co-starring roles in Syfy's Arthur C. Clarke adaptation 'Childhood's End'.
British actor Osy Ikhile has landed one of the lead roles in Syfy's six-hour miniseries adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke novel 'Childhood's End'. 
Emmy award nominee Charles Dance, who played Tywin Lannister on the first four seasons of HBO's 'Game of Thrones', has been tapped to star in the six-hour miniseries adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke novel 'Childhood's End'. 
Syfy has given the greenlight to Childhood's End, a six hour miniseries adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi novel of the same name,