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TV Media Weekly
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March 17 - 23, 2018
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By Andrew Warren
TV Media
History lesson: It's an origin
story with which most pop culture
consumers are no doubt familiar:
an infant is sent fleeing from a dy-
ing planet in a spacecraft that
crashes on Earth. He's found by a
pair of childless farmers who raise
him with a strong moral compass
despite his otherworldly abilities,
and when he grows up, he uses
his superpowers to become hu-
manity's greatest champion.
Superman's beginnings have
been visited time and time again
both in comics and on screen, but
what's been less explored is just
what was going on on his home
planet of Krypton in the decades
before its destruction. Syfy's new
series "Krypton" aims to fill that
void by following Seg-El, a young
Kryptonian from a family with a
tarnished reputation as trouble-
makers, who just so happens to be
Superman's grandfather. The su-
perhero drama premieres
Wednesday, March 21.
The smouldering Cameron
Cuffe stars as Seg-El in the first
leading role for the young actor,
who's previously appeared in
"Time After Time" and British se-
ries "The Halycon." Starring
alongside him is Shaun Sipos
("Dark Matter") as a time traveler
from the future who brings Seg-El
a message about Krypton's future
— and it isn't a pleasant one.
Georgina Campbell ("Broad-
church") stars as Lyta Zod, a war-
rior and Seg-El's secret lover, with
Ian McElhinney ("Game of
Thrones"), Elliot Cowan ("Da Vin-
ci's Demons"), Rasmus Hardiker
("Thunderbirds Are Go") and Wal-
lis Day ("Hollyoaks") rounding
out the main cast.
Kryptonians have been hot on
screens in recent years. Although
Superman movies "Man of Steel"
(2013) and "Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice" (2016) both met
with lukewarm reception from
critics, they performed well at the
box office, and CW's "Supergirl"
continues to be a hit with critics
and audiences alike.
"Krypton," though, peeks into
the past to reveal the untold story
of what happened long before Su-
perman was even born. The new
series premieres Wednesday,
March 21, on Syfy.
Little smart-alecs: Kids. Who
hasn't felt a little bit dumb when
one of them pulls out an obscure
fact, corrects a spelling mistake or
solves a math problem while the
adults are still fumbling for their
calculators? There sure are some
brainy children out there, and
NBC's new summer game show
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