Sanctuary is a Canadian science fiction-fantasy television series, created by Damian Kindler and funded largely by the Beedie Development Group. The show is an expansion of an eight-webisode series that was released at no cost through the Internet in early 2007. Seeing the success of the web series, Syfy decided to pick up the series for a more traditional television-based 13-episode season. The show centers on Dr. Helen Magnus, a 157-year-old teratologist , and her team of experts who run the Sanctuary, an organization that seeks out extraordinarily-powerful creatures and people, known as... Abnormals, and tries to help and learn from them, while also having to contain the more dangerous ones. The series premiered on October 3, 2008, in both Canada and the United States, and on October 6 in the United Kingdom. The premiere drew in more than 3 million viewers making it the highest rated original series premiere for Syfy since Eureka debuted in July 2006.
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| On the air: | March 14, 2007-August 30, 2007 |
| Number of seasons: | 4 |
| Network: | Movie Central, The Movie Network, Syfy, ITV, ITV4 |
| Producer: | Amanda Tapping, Martin Wood, Sam Egan |
| Genre: | Science Fiction |