{"id":11160,"date":"2014-09-29T02:29:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2014-09-29T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T06:29:19","slug":"transmissions-syfy-orders-more-episodes-of-wizard-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Syfy Orders More Episodes of Wizard Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Syfy has ordered six additional one-hour episodes of its exciti<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wizard-Wars-Penn-and-Teller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11161\" style=\"width: 354px;\" alt=\"Wizard Wars Penn and Teller\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Wizard-Wars-Penn-and-Teller-276x300.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/span>ng competition series, Wizard Wars.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The series challenges bright and innovative young magicians to impress judges Penn &amp; Teller with mind-blowing, original magic using only a random assortment of everyday objects.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The series is expected to return in January 2015, showcasing magicians from Chicago, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and more.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wizard Wars debuted August 19 to over one million Live +SD total viewers tuning in, growing substantially in the timeslot from previous weeks and year-to-year.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Live +7, the premiere grew to 1.3 million total viewers. Wizard Wars\u2019 first season so far ranks as Syfy\u2019s #1 new unscripted series this year among males. The series has also demonstrated success on Friday nights with its most recent encore showing at 10 p.m. ET\/PT (Sept. 5) earning 1.1 million total viewers and growing from that week\u2019s new episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wizard Wars is produced by A. Smith &amp; Co. (Hell&#8217;s Kitchen). Executive producers are Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Frank Sinton, Tim Eagan, Penn Jillette and Teller.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syfy has ordered six additional one-hour episodes of its exciting competition series, Wizard Wars.\u00a0 The series challenges bright and innovative young magicians to impress judges Penn &amp; Teller with mind-blowing, original magic using only a random assortment of everyday objects.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[568,3777,3775,81,39,3776,3774],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-competition","tag-penn-and-teller","tag-penn-jillette","tag-reality","tag-syfy","tag-teller","tag-wizard-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}