http://www.syfy.com/
http://www.syfy.com/childhood039send...nd-trailer-2-0
http://www.syfy.com/childhood039send...nly-just-begun
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/ChildhoodsEnd%281stEd%29.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood's_End
like many of Clarke's later novels, "Childhood's End" began as a short story, "Guardian Angel" (1946), interestingly, Clarke and Stanley Kubrick considered "Childhood's End", by then a finished novel in 1953, for a movie. they ultimately chose another short story, "The Sentinel", to expand into what became "2001: A Space Odyssey". that worked out rather well.
Syfy has not had many well done recent original works. i hope this is more like the re-imaging of "Battlestar Galactica" rather than more recent and somewhat disappointing works like "Defiance" which had promise but ultimately fell flat.
one good sign is that Syfy realized you can't present the material in "Childhood's End" in a short movie, they are presenting it over 3 days starting Monday Dec 14th, with 3 two hour segments.
i hope they get this right and respect Clarke's work. i would hate to see one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time not correctly done.