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SCI FI Greenlights 12-Hour Spielberg Miniseries Event

SCI FI Channel will team again with Steven Spielberg, screenwriter Les Bohem and DreamWorks Television, for the ambitious 12-hour miniseries event NINE LIVES, it was announced Jan. 12, 2006, at the Television Critics Press Tour. The group's last collaboration was 2003's groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning 20-hour miniseries, Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN. NINE LIVES is slated to air in 2007.

NINE LIVES, an epic story of love, explores the greatest mystery of all... what happens after you die? The drama focuses on several characters, each grieving over the loss of a loved one, who then discover how to reunite with their loved ones in the afterlife through near-death experiences. But each journey to the other side threatens to unleash an evil force on mankind.

Bohem (THE ALAMO) will pen the entire saga, as well as exec produce the film with Spielberg and DreamWorks TVs co-presidents, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.

"Our last outing with Steven Spielberg, Les Bohem and DreamWorks was both a milestone for television and a turning point for SCI FI, said Mark Stern, SCI FI Channel evp of original programming. We can't wait to work with this team to recapture that magic. NINE LIVES is an event miniseries that deals with one of our most compelling universal themes - the afterlife."

"We're extremely excited about being back with our family at SCI FI with NINE LIVES, said Frank and Falvey. Les has done an amazing job at delivering on Steven's ideas and, as with TAKEN, he has crafted them into an incredibly entertaining narrative that benefits from the mutli-night format."

SCI FI's big event miniseries strategy include ratings winners like Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin present THE TRIANGLE; BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, now the channel's most critically acclaimed original series; the Emmy Award-winning 10-night mega-event Steven Spielberg Presents TAKEN and the critically-acclaimed literary adaptations of CHILDREN OF DUNE and LEGEND OF EARTHSEA.

DreamWorks Television is a division of DreamWorks SKG which was founded in 1994 by Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. DreamWorks Television is in production on season three of the hit NBC series, LAS VEGAS; as well as season two of the critically acclaimed FX drama, RESCUE ME; and the upcoming ABC reality series, THE MIRACLE WORKERS.DreamWorks Television recently produced INTO THE WEST for TNT, which was the highest rated mini-series for the season with 81 million unique viewers and has been nominated for Globe Globe, PGA, Broadcast Critics and SAG awards (among others).

The SCI FI Channel fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic website (www.scifi.com) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 85 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.