Now this is the kind of good news that makes it worth getting out of bed on a Monday … The Sci Fi Channel announced several new shows Sunday for both TV and the web, including a 10-part web-only Farscape series:

SCI FI Channel will revive its popular original show Farscape as a Web-based series of short films on SCIFI.COM’s SCI FI Pulse broadband network, part of a slate of new original online programming.

SCI FI has ordered 10 webisodes of Farscape, to be produced by Brian Henson and Robert Halmi Jr. and produced by The Jim Henson Co., in association with RHI Entertainment.

The series will expand the Farscape universe, but the network had no announcements on casting or premiere dates.

Also announced were an animated comedy called The Awesomes described as a combination of The Office and Super Friends, an untitled mini-series written by Steve Niles and online “mini-sodes” of Battlestar Galactica that lead into the two-hour movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor, which will be shown in November.

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