{"id":27018,"date":"2016-06-18T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-imagining-diverse-futures"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:13:40","slug":"how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-imagining-diverse-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-imagining-diverse-futures","title":{"rendered":"How Syfy is Leading The Charge With Imagining Diverse Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-imagining-diverse-futures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of seasons of television, critics and audiences have begun to pay a considerable amount of attention to the role of women and racial diversity on their favorite shows. Despite being set in the future, science fiction television has often been stubbornly stuck in the past. With its latest lineup, however, the Syfy channel has demonstrated that a proactive approach can create lasting change.<\/p>\n<p>While visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/how-the-creators-of-dark-matter-and-killjoys-are-raisin-1779393664#_ga=1.63439599.1902454575.1445722781\">sets of <em>Dark Matter<\/em> and <em>Killjoys<\/em><\/a>, I spent some time chatting with a fellow journalist, where we began to talk about how the channel\u2019s new slate of shows had demonstrated some considerable changes in the science fiction world: across <em>The Expanse<\/em>, <em>Dark Matter<\/em>, <em>Killjoys<\/em> and <em>12 Monkeys<\/em>, women and people of color were cast in lead or in prominent roles, with particular attention being paid to underprivileged groups in many instances. Recently, spoke with the showrunners of each production about their approach to envisioning their respective futures.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-imagining-diverse-f-1782214014\">http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/how-syfy-is-leading-the-charge-with-i...1782214014<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of seasons of television, critics and audiences have begun to pay a considerable amount of attention to the role of women and racial diversity on their favorite shows. Despite being set in the future, science fiction television has often been stubbornly stuck in the past. With its latest lineup, however, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61460,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018\/revisions\/61460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}