‘Defiance’ and ‘Dominion’ Renewed by Syfy

Syfy fans can breathe easy as the network has announced renewals for hit show Defiance and new series Dominion today.

The network ordered a 13-episode third season for its original drama Defiance, as well as a 13-episode order for the second season of Dominion and you can read the entire press release announcing the great news below:

NEW YORK – September 25, 2014 – Syfy today announced a third season for its original series Defiance, giving a 13-episode order to the action packed drama, and a second season for the epic supernatural thriller Dominion, which will also consist of 13 episodes. Both series are produced by Universal Cable Productions and are slated to return with all-new episodes in 2015.

Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives, Caprica, Hellcats) will resume his role as executive producer and showrunner of Defiance while Vaun Wilmott (Sons of Anarchy) will continue to fill the same posts for Dominion.

Season to date,Dominion and Defiance are the top two cable programs in the Thursday 8-10pm time period among P25-54s.  With most current Live+7 data, both series are averaging 2.7 million total viewers, 1.2 million viewers 18-49 and 1.4 million viewers 25-54. Drawing an especially engaged social audience,Dominion was the most social drama on Thursdays across all of TV in tweets (15.4K) and tweets per unique (8.0).

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