MSOL has posted an announcement that states that Michael Shanks has filmed an episode of the Sci Fi Channel original series Eureka and that this episode is scheduled to premiere Tuesday, September 25, at 9/8c. Lexa Doig, Shanks’s wife and Stargate‘s Dr. Carolyn Lam, also recently filmed an episode, but it is a different one and its premiere date is currently not known.
Eureka is currently the Sci Fi Channel’s highest-rated program, and stars Colin Ferguson as Sheriff Jack Carter who has to deal with a town full of “über-geniuses working on the next era of scientific achievement.” Sometimes, however, these scientists’ experiments don’t always go as planned.
EPISODE SPOILERS BELOW
ETA: According to Ron at spoilme, Shanks’s episode is entitled “All That Glitters…” in which Shanks plays “a surprisingly sexy artist” who “creates a metal statue that mysteriously turns into gold.” This episode was formerly entitled “The Alchemist” (or “Alchemy”, according to VisitEureka.net). Audition sides for the character Christopher Dactalos fit the description of Shanks’s character in these spoilers. Dactalos suspects that the statue’s mold that he created was used to forge the golden statue. When Carter goes to his studio to investigate, he finds Dactalos “charismatic” and a “sexy genius”, with the added thought, “Who knew?” 😉
Also according to VisitEureka.net, Doig’s episode title is “Maneater” and is to premiere September 18.
[Thanks to Ron, Prion, and Sue for the tip.]