At the Television Critic’s Association tour it was announced that the SCI FI Channel has given the go ahead for production on FLASH GORDON, based on the popular comic strip franchise.
22 one-hour episodes will be produced for the Sci Fi channel with production beginning in Canada in early 2007.
The comic strip followed the adventures of Flash Gordon and his companions Dr. Hans Zarkov and Dale Arden who become stranded on the planet Mongo which is inhabited by a number of different cultures. These cultures have been falling one by one under the domination of the vicious tyrant Ming the Merciless.
The series is slated to debut on SCI FI in July of ‘07.
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