S.C.I.F.I. World was a daytime programming schedule for the Sci Fi Channel that started on July 17, 2000 and ended on December 21, 2001. It was what replaced varied programming in favor for mini-marathons.

Format

Divided into five different segments in accordance with the days of the week, each day centred on a particular science fiction theme, which the marathons followed, airing from 10 AM to 4 PM. These themes were named in such a way that, when assembled, they formed an acronym of the channel's name.

Superhero Land, which, on Mondays focused on superheroes featuring marathons of such shows as ''Batman'', ''The Incredible Hulk'', and ''Automan''. The first marathon aired thereon was of ''The Six Million Dollar Man''.

Creature Land, which, on Tuesdays focused primarily on monsters, otherworldly, nonhumanoid or otherwise, that included marathons of such shows as ''Land of the Giants'', ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', ''Earth 2'', and ''SeaQuest DSV''. The first marathon aired thereon was of ''The Incredible Hulk''.

Intergalactic Land, which centred attention towards space-driven shows as ''Space: Above and Beyond'', ''Star Trek'', and ''Lost in Space''. The first marathon aired thereon was of the original ''Battlestar Galactica''. These shows were seen on Wednesdays.

Fantastic Land, which deviated from the usual science-fiction focus unto more fantasy-based shows like ''Night Gallery'', ''Otherworld'', and ''Darkroom''. The first marathon aired thereon was of ''Quantum Leap''. These shows could be seen on Thursdays.

Inhuman Land, akin to ''Creatureland'''s theme, every Friday focused on monsters but more along the lines of a conspiratorial scope and concerned the humanoid kind as was depicted in an animation of Carl Kolchak trying to evade a werewolf in the shadowy alleys of ''Inhumanland''. Shows aired included ''Dark Skies'', ''Alien Nation'', and ''Something is Out There''. The first marathon aired thereon was of ''Manimal''.

To reinforce this novelty, the programming schedule was advertised by way of animations depicting it as a theme-park which various science-fiction characters such as James T. Kirk, Duncan MacLeod, and RoboCop inhabited. Aside from this, graphic teasers, trivia, and on-air questions were aired to amuse and inform the viewer and promote the SciFi.com website.

List of ''S.C.I.F.I. World'' shows

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Shows	! First Airing
bgcolor="#FFCC33" colspan="4"				Superhero Land
''Automan''	August 7, 2000
	January 29, 2001
''The Bionic Woman''	July 24, 2000
''Black Scorpion (TV series)	Black Scorpion''	October 1, 2001
''The Crow: Stairway to Heaven''	March 12, 2001
''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''	October 30, 2000
''Highlander: The Raven''	October 15, 2001
''The Incredible Hulk (TV series)	The Incredible Hulk''	August 28, 2000
''RoboCop: The Series''	August 14, 2000
''The Sentinel (TV series)	The Sentinel''	February 12, 2001
''The Six Million Dollar Man''	July 17, 2000
''Wonder Woman (TV series)	Wonder Woman''	July 31, 2000
''Xena: Warrior Princess''	September 18, 2000
bgcolor="#49E20E" colspan="4"				Creature Land
	November 14, 2000
''Brimstone (TV series)	Brimstone''	May 22, 2001
''Earth 2 (TV series)	Earth 2''	August 1, 2000
''Friday the 13th: The Series''	January 30, 2001
''G vs E''	October 9, 2001
''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''	August 15, 2000
''The Incredible Hulk (1977 TV series)	The Incredible Hulk''	July 18, 2000
''Kolchak: The Night Stalker''	September 26, 2000
''Land of the Giants''	August 8, 2000
''Manimal''	August 29, 2000
''SeaQuest DSV''	July 25, 2000
''The Six Million Dollar Man''	October 24, 2000
''Sliders''	January 9, 2001
''Star Trek: The Original Series	Star Trek''	August 22, 2000
''Swamp Thing (TV series)	Swamp Thing''	December 12, 2000
bgcolor="#0099CC" colspan="4"				Intergalactic Land
	July 19, 2000
''Dark Skies''	October 3, 2001
''Lost in Space''	August 2, 2000
''The Ray Bradbury Theater''	August 16, 2000
''Quantum Leap (TV series)	Quantum Leap''	September 12, 2001
''Space: Above and Beyond''	August 9, 2000
''Star Trek: The Original Series	Star Trek''	July 26, 2000
''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)	The Twilight Zone''	December 13, 2000
''Wonder Woman (TV series)	Wonder Woman''	October 25, 2000
bgcolor="#FF6EB4" colspan="4"				Fantastic Land
	November 2, 2000
''Black Scorpion (TV series)	Black Scorpion''	November 8, 2001
''Darkroom (TV series)	Darkroom''	August 31, 2000
''Fantasy Island#1998 series	Fantasy Island''	January 25, 2001
''Friday the 13th: The Series''	August 30, 2001
''Highlander: The Raven''	February 1, 2001
''Highlander: The Series''	August 3, 2000
''Night Gallery''	August 17, 2000
''Otherworld (TV series)	Otherworld''	September 21, 2000
''Probe (TV series)	Probe''	August 24, 2000
''Quantum Leap (TV series)	Quantum Leap''	July 20, 2000
''SeaQuest DSV''	September 14, 2000
''Sliders''	September 28, 2000
''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)	The Twilight Zone''	July 27, 2000
''Viper (TV series)	Viper''	February 8, 2001
bgcolor="#6B6B6B" colspan="4"				Inhuman Land
	July 28, 2000
''Brimstone (TV series)	Brimstone''	January 19, 2001
''Dark Skies''	August 18, 2000
''Friday the 13th: The Series''	April 13, 2001
''Gemini Man''	August 4, 2000
''G vs E''	November 30, 2001
''The Invisible Man (1975 series)	The Invisible Man''	September 8, 2000
''Kolchak: The Night Stalker''	August 25, 2000
''Manimal''	July 21, 2000
''Prey (TV series)	Prey''	February 9, 2001
''SeaQuest DSV''	October 6, 2000
''Swamp Thing (TV series)	Swamp Thing''	August 11, 2000
''The Visitor (TV series)	The Visitor''	September 15, 2000

Reception and Influence

Despite criticisms made by viewers in favour of reverting back to a more varied programming schedule, this format of airing marathons five times a week continues to this very day although, since then, ''S.C.I.F.I. World'' has ceased to be as is much of Sci Fi Channel's second-run programming.

References

See also

Cartoon Quest

The Animation Station

External links

Sci-Fi Channel Cancels Daily ''Star Trek'' Showings

Category:Television programming blocks Category:Syfy

name	Matthew Broderick
birth date	March 21, 1962
birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
occupation	Actor
years active	1979–present
spouse	Sarah Jessica Parker (1997–present; 3 children) }}

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of ''The Producers''.

He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his featured role in the play ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' and one in 1995 for his leading role in the musical ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''. He was also nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical, for ''The Producers'' but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane. To date, Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Early life

Broderick was born in New York City, the son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter; and James Joseph Broderick, an actor. Broderick's mother was Jewish and his father was a Catholic of Irish descent. Broderick attended grade school at the City & Country School (a progressive K–8 school in Manhattan) and attended high school at Walden School (a defunct private school in Manhattan with a strong drama program). After the death of his mother, her paintings were exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.

Career

Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's ''On Valentine's Day'', playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Foote's. This was followed by a supporting role as Harvey Fierstein's adopted son in the Off-Broadway production of Fierstein's ''Torch Song Trilogy''; then, a good review by ''New York Times'' theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 2004 ''60 Minutes II'' interview:

He followed that with the role of Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon ''Eugene Trilogy'' including the plays, ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' and ''Biloxi Blues''. His first film role was also written by Neil Simon. Broderick debuted in ''Max Dugan Returns'' (1983). His first big hit film was ''WarGames'', a summer hit in 1983 he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker. This was followed by the role of Philippe Gaston in ''Ladyhawke'', in 1985.

Broderick then got the role as the charming, clever slacker in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. At age 23, Broderick played a high-school student who, with his girlfriend and best friend, plays hooky and explores Chicago. The film remains a 1980s comedy favorite today and is one of Broderick's best-known roles (particularly with teenage audiences). Also in 1987, he played an air force troop pilot Jimmy Garrett in ''Project X''. In 1988 Broderick played Harvey Fierstein's gay lover, Alan, in the screen adaptation of ''Torch Song Trilogy''. In the 1989 film ''Glory'', he received good reviews for his portrayal of the American Civil War officer Robert Gould Shaw.

In the 1990s, Broderick took on the role as the adult lion, Simba, in the successful animated film, ''The Lion King'', and also voiced Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of ''The Thief and the Cobbler'' which had originally been intended as a silent role. He won recognition for two dark-comedy roles. The first was that of a bachelor in ''The Cable Guy'' with Jim Carrey. The second was that of a high-school teacher in Alexander Payne's ''Election'' with Reese Witherspoon.

Broderick returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably with his Tony Award–winning performance in ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' and his Tony Award–nominated performance in the Mel Brooks' stage version of ''The Producers'' in 2001. He continued to make feature films, including the 2005 adaptation of ''The Producers''. Broderick played the role of Leopold “Leo” Bloom, an accountant who co-produces a musical designed to fail, but which turns out to be successful.

Broderick reunited with his co-star from ''The Lion King'' and ''The Producers'', Nathan Lane, in ''The Odd Couple'', which opened on Broadway in October 2005. He appeared on Broadway as a college professor in ''The Philanthropist'', running April 10 through June 28, 2009.

In October 2010, Broderick was featured in the US version of the BBC programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?''.

He will return to the Broadway stage in Spring 2012 to star in the musical ''Nice Work If You Can Get It'', directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.

Awards

He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his featured role in the play ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' and one in 1995 for his leading role in the musical ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''. He was also nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical, for ''The Producers'' but lost to Lane. To date, Matthew Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Personal life

Relationships and family

Broderick met actress Jennifer Grey on the set of ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' and in 1986 was briefly engaged to her.

Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother and the couple married on May 19, 1997 in a civil ceremony in a historic deconsecrated synagogue on the Lower East Side. Although Broderick considers himself culturally Jewish, the ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest.

Parker and Broderick have a son, James Wilke Broderick, born on October 28, 2002. On April 28, 2009, it was confirmed that Broderick and Parker were expecting twin girls through surrogacy. Broderick and Parker's surrogate delivered their twin daughters, Marion Loretta Elwell (5 pounds, 11 ounces) and Tabitha Hodge (6 pounds), on June 22, 2009.

Although they live in New York City, they spend a considerable amount of time at their holiday home near Kilcar, a village in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, where Broderick spent his summers as a child. They also have a house in The Hamptons.

Car accident

On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in Northern Ireland, vacationing with Jennifer Grey, when he veered their rented BMW into the wrong lane on a country road in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and smashed head-on into a car driven by Anna Gallagher, 30. She and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were killed.

Broderick spent four weeks in a Belfast hospital with a fractured leg and ribs, collapsed lung and concussion. Grey suffered severe whiplash.

Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane. "I don't remember the day. I don't remember even getting up in the morning. I don't remember making my bed. What I first remember is waking up in the hospital, with a very strange feeling going on in my leg," he said at the time.

Broderick was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and faced a prison term of up to five years. He was later convicted of the lesser charge of careless driving and fined $175. The victims' family called the case "a travesty of justice."

Broderick agreed to meet with the family of the two women in the spring of 2003 so that the family could gain some sense of closure about the accident.

Credits

Film
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
	''Max Dugan Returns''	Michael McPhee	Debut role
''WarGames''	David Lightman	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actor
		Brother
	Harold "Hally"
''Ladyhawke''	Philippe Gaston, "The Mouse"
	''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''	Ferris Bueller	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
''On Valentine's Day''	Brother
1987		James "Jimmy" Garrett
	''She's Having a Baby''	cameo "Ferris Bueller"
	Eugene Morris Jerome
	Alan Simon
		Adam McMullen
	Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
1990		Clark Kellogg / The Narrator
1992		William "Bill" Campbell
	''The Night We Never Met''	Samuel "Sam" Lester
''A Life in the Theater''	John	Made-for-television film
	''The Lion King''	Simba the Lion (adult)	(voice only)
''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle''	Charles MacArthur
	William "Will" Lightbody
1995		Tack the Cobbler / The Narrator	(voice only)
	''The Cable Guy''	Steven M. Kovacs	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (against Jim Carrey)
	Richard Feynman
		Sam
''Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery''	Sgt. John Ordway	(TV Special/voice only)
		Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos
''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride''	Simba the Lion	(voice only)
''Walking to the Waterline''	Michael Woods
		James "Jim" McAllister	Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
	Inspector Gadget / Robo-Gadget / Jonathan "John" Brown
2000	''You Can Count on Me''	Brian Everett
		Professor Harold Hill	Made-for-television film
''Good Boy!''	Canid 3942 the Dog ("Hubble")
	''The Lion King 1½''	Simba the Lion (teenager and adult)
''Marie and Bruce''	Bruce
	Walter Kresby
''The Last Shot''	Steven Schats
	Roger Beekman
2006		Steven "Steve" Finch
	''Then She Found Me''	Benjamin "Ben" Green
''Bee Movie''	Adam Flayman	(voice only)
	''Diminished Capacity''	Cooper Kennedy
''Finding Amanda''	Taylor Peters Mendon
	Despereaux	(voice only)
		Benjamin "Ben" Singer
''Beach Lane''	Mike Brennan	television film
''Easy A''	Ferris Bueller	Video Footage, uncredited.
		Andrew "Andy" Van Tassel	Completed
''Tower Heist''	Jack "Chase" Fitzhugh	Filming
		Davis Baton
	Hans Christian Andersen

{| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Stage |- ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- | 1981 | ''Torch Song Trilogy'' | | |- | 1983 | ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' | | |- | 1985 | ''Biloxi Blues'' | | |- | 1995 | ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' | | revival |- | 1999 | ''Night Must Fall'' | | revival |- | 2000 | ''Taller Than a Dwarf'' | | |- |2001–2002, 2003 | ''The Producers'' | | |- | 2002 | ''Short Talks on the Universe'' | | |- | 2004 | ''The Foreigner'' | | |- | 2005 | ''The Odd Couple'' | | revival |- | rowspan=2| 2009 | ''The Philanthropist'' | | revival |- | ''The Starry Messenger'' | | |- | 2012 | ''Nice Work If You Can Get It'' | | {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Television |- ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- |1981 |''Lou Grant'' | | Episode: "Generations" |- |rowspan=2|1985 |''Faerie Tale Theatre'' | | Episode: "Cinderella" |- |''Master Harold...and the Boys'' | | |- |1993 |''A Life in the Theater (1993)'' | | |- |1995 | ''Frasier'' | | Episode: "She's the Boss" |- |1997 |''Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery'' | | |- |2003 | ''The Music Man (2003)'' | | |- | 2008 | ''30 Rock'' | | Episode: "Cooter" |- | 2009 | ''Cyberchase'' | | Episode: "Father's Day" |- | rowspan=3 |2010 |''Who Do You Think You Are?'' | | |- |''Louie'' | | Episode: "Heckler/Cop Movie" |- |''Beach Lane'' | |

References

External links

2004 Story from ''60 Minutes II''

Matthew Broderick – ''Downstage Center'' 2004 interview at American Theatre Wing.org

TonyAwards.com Interview with Matthew Broderick

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