Futuristic hybrid TV and gaming property "Defiance" arrives at Showcase

TORONTO - Shaw Media is plunging further into sci-fi by picking up Syfy’s Defiance to debut in spring 2013 on Showcase. The deal with NBCUniversal Television Canada brings the new one-hour multifaceted series that is set in the near future (shot in Toronto) and introduces audiences to an exotically transformed planet Earth, with “landscapes permanently altered following the sudden, and tumultuous – arrival of seven unique alien races.” A partnership between Syfy and Trion Worlds, Defiance is marketed as the “first-ever convergence of television and Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) gaming, featuring an interconnected world and storylines that will co-exist throughout...