TV Week: Cool new shows for SciFi & USA

TV Week: "Sci Fi Channel and USA Network announced several new projects at the Television Critics Association semi-annual press tour Friday, including a new 'Flash Gordon' series.

As is their TCA custom, Sci Fi announced an extensive slate. The 'Flash Gordon' series, based on the classic comic strip, includes 22 one-hour episodes produced by Robert Halmi and Robert Halmi Jr., who previously produced Sci Fi's 'Legend of Earthsea' series, among many other television longform projects.

Sci Fi also has a new reality series, 'Destination Truth,' which is an hour-long, six-episode series investigating unexplained mysteries.

USA Network greenlighted 11 episodes of 'In Plain Sight,' a new drama starring Mary McCormack ('The West Wing') as a U.S. Federal Marshal working for the Witness Protection Program. David Maples ('Huff') serves as showrunner, with 'Dawson's Creek' producer Paul Stupin executive-producing.

Sci Fi's development slate includes a miniseries called 'Diamond Age,' based on a novel by Neal Stephenson about a futuristic society, executive-produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. "