# The Dresden Files on Sci-Fi Channel
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 21, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477 "2006-07-21T14:19:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/1 "2006-07-21T14:19:57Z")
I’m sure we’ve got some Dresden Files fans out there somewhere. I pretty much devoured the first three books. Well, apparently they’re doing a TV series on the [Sci-Fi channel](http://www.scifi.com/dresdenfiles/), and it’s due out sometime this summer. How exciting!
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/2 "2006-07-21T19:01:41Z")
I’m a fan of those books as well. A [preview for the series](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrRoTmmwOg) is now available on YouTube. It just says the show is “coming soon”, but I think it’s supposed to be this winter. january, maybe?
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/3 "2006-07-21T19:14:26Z")
I like the books too. This preview ran on SciFi during Eureka the other night, and that’s the first I’ve heard of it. Harry looked pretty good, and I liked the effect for the burst of magic from the palm of his hand.
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### Author:  [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/4 "2006-07-21T19:37:45Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#):
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> I’m a fan of those books as well. A [preview for the series](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrRoTmmwOg) is now available on YouTube. It just says the show is “coming soon”, but I think it’s supposed to be this winter. january, maybe?
The Sci-Fi channel’s website says summer.
Actually, it says “Sumer 2006.”
Damn those Mesopotamians! They always get the good shows first!
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/5 "2006-07-21T19:47:00Z")
I just checked the info posted at Jim Butcher’s official web forum at [www.jim-butcher.com](http://www.jim-butcher.com), and they’re all saying January. Both Jim Butcher and the show’s producer post on the board, so I suppose they’d have the scoop.
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### Author:  [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/6 "2006-07-21T23:05:14Z")
Another fan checking in. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/7 "2006-07-21T23:06:31Z")
It can take a hella long time for me to download any kind of video. Could somebody offer a precis of what “The Dresden Files” is all about, please?
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/8 "2006-07-22T02:37:48Z")
I’m a huge fan of Butcher. If I know it is on, I’ll be recording it.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/9 "2006-07-22T03:11:17Z")
Awesome! I haven’t been picking up the more recent ones, but I used to read him closely ever since he posted on the Laurell K. Hamilton boards (you know, before she went down the tubes.) A super-classy guy.
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/10 "2006-07-22T04:07:57Z")
I just finished Proven Guilty, and I liked it a lot.
You just can’t beat a smart ass wizard.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/11 "2006-07-22T04:13:09Z")
> [@Baldwin](#):
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> It can take a hella long time for me to download any kind of video. Could somebody offer a precis of what “The Dresden Files” is all about, please?
From the link in the OP (no video):
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> Based on the best-selling series of novels by Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files pilot, written by Beimler and Wolfe, tells the story of Harry Dresden, a Chicago-based private detective with extraordinary abilities. Where others see typical crimes of assault, kidnapping and murder, Harry sees otherworldly forces at work. He’s a wizard, the real thing, the only wizard listed in the Chicago yellow pages. Whether consulting for the police on inexplicable crimes or following his own cases, Dresden does battle with the forces of darkness, always maintaining a wry sense of humor and a unique perspective on our world.
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### Author:  [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/12 "2006-07-22T12:07:31Z")
I’ve read all of Butcher’s books, both the Dresden Files and his Fury of Calderon books and I really like his stuff. I hope they do right by him with the series.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/13 "2006-07-22T15:10:49Z")
I’ll sign in as a fan as well, and keeping my fingers crossed (in many ways) about the TV series.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/14 "2006-07-22T16:16:02Z")
Thanks, **Ferret Herder**. Gosh. Sounds . . . really derivative.
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dresden-files-on-sci-fi-channel/365477/15 "2006-07-22T17:51:06Z")
> [@Baldwin](#):
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> Thanks, **Ferret Herder**. Gosh. Sounds . . . really derivative.
It’s not what it’s about, it’s the way it’s about it. They’re well-written books with interesting, likeable characters.