When Starfleet Academy premiered this week, fans finally got to see two of the most anticipated characters:  Robert Picardo’s holographic Doctor and Gina Yashere’s Commander Lura Thok. Picardo has been a fan favorite since The Doctor’s run on Voyager thirty years ago, and viewers can’t wait to see him back in action. Yashere (Bob Hearts Abishola), on the other hand, makes her Star Trek debut as a Klingon/Jem’Hadar hybrid - two of franchise’s most fearsome species.

We asked the veteran and the rookie crewmembers what got the excited to join Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streams Thursdays on Paramount+

Starfleet Academy is here! The latest entry in the Star Trek franchise premiered on Paramount+ this week, and in the capable hands of executive producers and co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau, it’s everything fans have been waiting for. Set in Discovery’s far future timeline, the show focuses on the first class of cadets to attend Starfleet Academy since the collapse of the Federation more than 100 years ago.

Kurtzman is a franchise veteran with four previous Star Trek series under his belt (Discovery, Short Treks, Picard, Strange New Worlds). Landau, on the other hand, is new to Star Trek but she’s not afraid to take on a beloved iconic property - in the last few years Landau created both Nancy Drew and Tom Swift for the small screen.

SciFi Vision caught up with Kurtzman and Landau ahead of the premiere. The pair described how their working relationship combines deep trust and creative debate to “make the diamond.” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy streams on Thursdays exclusively on Paramount+.

In Riot Women, Kitty (Rosalie Craig), recently released after having been caught shoplifting, is singing in a bar when she’s approached by depressed teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) at a time when they both need it the most.

The two, along with Kitty’s arresting police officer, Holly (Tamsin Greig), midwife Yvonne (Amelia Bullmore), and pub owner, Jess (Lorraine Ashbourne), form a punk rock band in order to take part in a local talent contest. The unlikely friends find their voices while facing the challenges of women of a certain age, from menopause to absent husbands and more.

***The following interview contains spoilers for episode one***

The Hunting Party, which debuts its second season tonight on NBC, follows a small team of investigators, including ex-FBI profiler Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh), CIA Agent Jacob Hassani (Patrick Sabongui), and prison guard Shane Florence (Josh McKenzie) who track down the worst of serial killers who have escaped the top-secret prison known as the Pit. The series, which is a hybrid of both procedural manhunt and serialized conspiracy thriller, picks up where last season left off, with the team having been disbanded and Bex pushing to get the hunting party officially reinstated in the aftermath of Odell (Nick Wechsler)’s attack.

Recently, star Roxburgh spoke with SciFi Vision about the tone of season two, how the new players and loss of Odell affect the dynamics, Bex and Shane getting closer, guest stars this season, and more.

Tonight, season two of The Hunting Party premieres on NBC. Equal parts procedural manhunt and serialized conspiracy thriller, the series follows a small team of investigators led by Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh), who track down and capture the worst of the worst serial killers who have escaped from the top-secret prison known as the Pit. Picking up where the season one finale left off, in tonight’s all-new episode, Bex works to have the team reinstated to continue their search for the missing inmates, the first of which is Ron Simms (Eric McCormack), an escaped killer targeting women who are searching to find love.

Eric McCormack, along with his son, Finnigan McCormack, who plays a younger version of Ron, spoke with SciFi Vision about working on the premiere, getting into the dark character, keeping it consistent, working with rabbits, and more.

Today, the Acorn TV original crime drama, My Life is Murder, returns for its fifth season. The eight-episode season season, starring Lucy Lawless as investigator Alexa Crowe, features all new intriguing cases, starting today when Alexa and her tech wiz Madison (Ebony Vagulans) investigate a cheer squad when a fitness influencer is suddenly murdered.

Star Lawless recently spoke to SciFi Vision about her character’s growth this season as well as possible romance, some of the guest cast coming up, how her character has changed her, and much more.

The Hallmark Channel reality competition Finding Mr. Christmas, which started out with ten aspiring male actors competing to become the next leading man for the network, closes out its second season tomorrow night when the top three contestants, Craig Geoghan, Rustin Cole Sailors, and Angel Garet, take part in their final star quality challenge. During the season finale, the three will film a three-part scene in three different locations that ends in a kiss. Acting in a scene alongside not only Ellen Krakow, but host Jonathan Bennett, judge Melissa Peterson, and actor Kristoffer Polaha as well, the finalists will see if they have what it takes to win it all.

Last week, the final three contestants spoke with SciFi Vision about competing in the finale, including the challenges they faced, acting alongside Hallmark stars in the episode, and more.

When season three of Blue Lights starts, response officers Grace (Sian Brooke), Annie (Katherine Devlin), and Tommy (Nathan Braniff) are now two years into their jobs when they are pulled into a major drugs and trafficking case across Belfast. It becomes personal for Grace when she realizes that vulnerable teenager and drug runner Lindsay Singleton (Aoife Hughes) is the same girl she once tried to save in her social worker days. Meanwhile, Stevie (Martin McCann)’s promotion to sergeant changes the dynamic between them, leaving him torn between backing her instincts and enforcing the rules from his new position.

Brooke recently spoke with SciFi Vision about season three, including the impact of Stevie’s promotion on his relationship with Grace, how her character feels about Lindsay and if she regrets changing professions, and more. She also spoke briefly about her time on the successful British series Sherlock.

New episodes drop every Thursday on Britbox, and the season three finale will premiere on on December 18th.

Blending historical fiction with an offbeat murder mystery during the Gilded Age, The Artist opens with the death of industrialist Norman Henry (Mandy Patinkin) and then rewinds to examine how a week-long gathering at his estate where the invited guests are prominent, influential people of the time, ended in murder. Among the guests is Danny Houston’s Edgar Degas, whose eyesight and career are fading.

The actor recently spoke with SciFi Vision about the working on the series and becoming the French Impressionist artist.

The first three episode of the series are available now for free on The Network, with the rest of the season dropping on Christmas Day.

The film Altered takes place in an alternate dystopian future where the world has turned to genetic modification as the path to survival and progress, leaving unmodified people, or “Specials,” like outcasts Leon (Tom Felton) and Chloe (Elizaveta Bugulova), branded as second-class citizens. From his workshop in the underground, Leon uses his mechanical skills to make devices that help the Specials to blend in among the genetically enhanced. When powerful politicians like Senator Frank Kessler (Richard Brake) escalate policies that endanger Specials everywhere, Leon and Chloe are pushed toward a dangerous mission that will force them to risk everything to fight for justice.

Brake recently spoke with SciFi Vision about the unique film, which recently premiered in theaters and on demand, as well as a bit about working on Game of Thrones, Batman Begins, and Thor: The Dark World.