SCIFI TREMORS

S.S. Wilson, co-writer and co-producer of the upcoming SCI FI Channel original show Tremors: The Series, told SCI FI Wire that the show offered him the chance to develop ideas left out of the film series on which it is based. "We're able to do a lot of ideas that never made it into the movies, because the movies always started out bigger than their budgets," Wilson said in an interview. "We cut many things from the movies, so there are literally ideas in the first few episodes of the series that were in the scripts for Tremors 2 and 3, but never made it into those movies for budgetary reasons."

Wilson, who co-wrote and co-produced the original Tremors film in 1990, added that a series allows for the deepening of the franchise's characters. "That's what drives television anyway," he said. "You come back every week to see what's going on with people you invite into your home." But, he added, "we have had to increase the strangeness factor of our little valley, Perfection Valley, in order to provide a broader pallet of creatures. That will start unfolding in the first six episodes."

Tremors: The Series, starring Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, premieres with two back-to-back hourlong episodes, starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT March 28.