''HypaSpace'' was a weekly entertainment news program about the world of science fiction and fantasy, created by and shown on

Space Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider ...

, a former Canadian cable television station, now

CTV Sci-Fi Channel CTV Sci-Fi Channel is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel primarily broadcasts speculative fiction and related programming. The network was launched on October 17, 1997 as Space under its original pa ...

. It had daily and weekly segments. The television show covers movies, television, books, comics and community events. The show has ''HypaSpace'' daily shows and ''HypaSpace'' weekly shows which sums up the week of news. The series was casual and irreverent. ''HypaSpace'' was produced by Simon Evans and Michelle Dudas. There were 260 episodes per year, excluding the first year, which started in May, and the sixth year, as the daily shows were pulled around mid-December with only the weekend edition airing. The daily segments stopped being produced in mid-December 2007, which meant that in its last year, the show had only 26 episodes. There were approximately 1480 episodes of the show. In May 2005,

Kim Poirier Kim Jacinthe Poirier (born February 6, 1980) is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host. Biography Personal life Born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of actress/model Carol Laquerre who was Miss Toronto in 1976, sh ...

took over hosting the show, joining original host

Jonathan Llyr Jonathan Llyr (born 1966) is a Canadian actor and TV personality. Llyr (sometimes credited as Jonathan Bryn Llyr) is best known for his work as an on-air personality for Space, Canada's science fiction specialty channel. He first appeared on th ...

, now a reporter for the program. Poirier left the show in July 2007. Segments of ''HypaSpace'' aired interstitially between Space programs. Llyr hosted the show whenever Poirier was on a break or was ill. He also hosted the HypaSpace

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

, which started on October 7, 2006.

Mark Askwith Mark Askwith (born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian producer, writer, interviewer (and sometime-publisher/editor), and a familiar name in the fields of science fiction and comics. Early life Askwith was born into a military household on April 6, 1956 ...

then took over as the host of the podcast. Danielle McGimsie was the new host of the show after Poirier's departure and shared hosting duties with Llyr. After Llyr was let go from the show at the end of 2007, Natasha was given a bigger role for the show. Producer Simon Evans also left the show in November 2007, and it was taken over by Michelle Dudas. Kim Poirier returned to the show on 8 March 2008 with Natasha still presenting the games and toys portion of the show. Danielle McGimsie was no longer part of the show. Natasha was the only presenter to be with the show during its entirety. The last show episode aired on 27 June 2008; it was replaced by a similar show called ''The Circuit'', which premiered on 15 August 2008, and later ''

InnerSPACE ''Innerspace'' is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. It was inspired by the 1966 science fiction film ''Fantastic Voyage''. It sta ...

'', which debuted in 2009.

On-air presenters

(2005–2008) *

Natasha Eloi Natasha Eloi (born in Hammersmith, England) is a Canadian television personality and videographer. She is most often seen on the Space channel as a space, science and technology reporter and on ''The Circuit'' as the resident toy expert. She al ...

(2002–2008) *

(2002–2007) * Danielle McGimsie (2007–2008)

Guest presenters

Colin Ferguson Colin Ferguson (born July 22, 1972) is a Canadian-American actor, director and producer.
Yahoo! Mov ...

Katee Sackhoff Katee Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known for playing Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's television program ''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004–2009), Niko Breckenridge on the Netflix series '' Another ...

* Grace Park *Teddy Wilson *

Nicki Clyne Nicki Clyne is a Canadian actress, known for her role as Cally Henderson on the SyFy television series ''Battlestar Galactica''. Clyne is a member of NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company founded by Keith Raniere. Former members, the media, an ...

External links

*
HypaSpace official website

HypaSpace podcast site
CTV Sci-Fi Channel original programming Entertainment news shows in Canada Television series by Bell Media {{Canada-news-tv-prog-stub