Melissa O’Neil (Les Miserables), Marc Bendavid (Bitten), Anthony Lemke (White House Down), Alex Mallari Jr. (Robocop) and Jodelle Ferland (Twilight) with Roger Cross (The Strain) and Zoie Palmer (Lost Girl) are to star in Syfy's 13 episode space series 'Dark Matter', which hails from Stargate writers and executive producers Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi. 
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'.
Syfy has promoted long-time executive Chris Regina to the position of Senior Vice-President of Program Strategy for both the genre network and its sibling Chiller. 
Syfy is developing Krypton, an hour-long DC Comics series following Superman's grandfather, which hails from David S. Goyer, Ian Goldberg and Warner Horizon Television. 
Jason Ralph (Aquarius) and Sosie Bacon (The Closer) have been cast as the leads in Syfy's drama pilot 'The Magicians', which is an adaptation of the Lev Grossman novel of the same name. 
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'. 