SyFy Acquires US Rights to Canadian Sci-Fi Crime Drama Continuum

The Canadian sci-fi crime drama Continuum has been picked up by SyFy to air in the US.

The 10-episode first season of the series premiered on Showcase in May 2012 and has been renewed for a second season.

The series stars Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron, a regular cop from 65 years in the future who finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver. She is alone, a stranger in a strange land, and has eight of the most ruthless criminals from the future, known as Liber8, loose in the city. Lucky for Kiera, through the use of her CMR (cellular memory recall), a futuristic liquid chip technology implanted in her brain, she connects with Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen), a seventeen-year-old tech genius. When Kiera calls and Alec answers, a very unique partnership begins.

Kiera's first desire is to get "home". But until she figures out a way to do that, she must survive in our time period and use all the resources available to her to track and capture the terrorists before they alter history enough to change the course of the future. After all, what's the point of going back if the future isn't the one you left?

Watch a trailer for Continuum below.