After first announcing a 6-episode season six, SyFy abruptly pulled an about face and cancelled the sixth season of Eureka, the science fiction comedy/drama created by Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia. The series, which debuted in July of 2006, is not going to disappear immediately. It will end with the 12-episode season 5 that is set to air on SyFy in 2012, so diehard fans will have some time to attempt to convince SyFy to keep the property going in some form.
One of the most original American science fiction TV series in years, Eureka takes place in a fictional high tech community in Oregon where nearly everyone is a scientist working on major technological breakthroughs at a corporation known as Global Dynamics. The key dynamic in the series is the tension between Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson), a man endowed with considerable practical intelligence and the numerous resident Eureka double-domes, who either on purpose or inadvertently create problems for the community that Sheriff Carter has to deal with.
BOOM! Studios, which was co-founded by Eureka co-creator Andrew Cosby, has published several issues of a Eureka comic book, which are based on storylines provided by Cosby (see “Eureka Comic Does Season 1.5”).
