More spoilers from Bruce Miller (SFX interview)

All right, I snagged a copy of SFX (here) and there are some pretty big spoilers for Nina and Rachel's storylines in season two -- coming right after these two awesome BTS pics Azita Ghanizada posted the other day.

Spoilers roundup for the first eight episodes of season two

Okay, if you're on Twitter, some of this won't be news.

Spoilers after the jump.

First Alphas season two photos and new promo with Kat [spoilers]

A new "Powerful Mondays" teaser has been posted on Syfy's site and it contains some footage from season two.



Since Syfy's latest video section layout hates both users and embedding, you're probably better off watching the clip here. Have I mentioned that it's region-locked? You can get around that part with proxies.

SFX Magazine has posted the first two photos from Alphas 2x01, "Wake-Up Call." They contain spoilers.

Just a reminder: if you're in the UK, SFX has an interview with Bruce Miller in tomorrow's issue.

New interview with Bruce Miller [spoilers]

SFX Magazine has posted a snippet from an interview with Bruce Miller, the new Alphas head writer, that's coming out in the new issue (SFX #223, hitting newsstands in the UK this Wednesday).

Miller gave them some pretty big season two spoilers. Here is what he said:

“Both how grounded and realistic, and how extraordinary and surprising, this season is going to be, will definitely surprise our viewers,” Miller tells Red Alert. “John Pyper-Ferguson is coming back to continue his role as Stan Parrish, who is an Alpha who appeared in the last episode last year, whose ability is that he can heal himself. He has great recuperative abilities. But also that means he’s lived a very long time. So the battle between Parrish and [the Alphas’ leader] Rosen [David Strathairn] is really the centrepiece of our season. These are two very, very smart men, who both have an idealistic but very different vision of our future.”

Of course there’s no shortage of challenges in store for the other Alphas…

“The character of Hicks [Warren Christie] is going to be in a relationship that we reveal this year, sleeping with the boss’s daughter. Which is very complicated, considering that he used to be dating someone else on the team, the character of Nina.”

^ So yeah, Nina and Hicks are history when the new season starts, and Parish has some big episodes coming up ("Alpha Dogs" and "Gods and Monsters" will be pretty awesome if the audition scenes are anything to go by.)

I'll post a spoilers roundup for the first eight episodes today or tomorrow and hopefully get my paws on the SFX interview when it comes out.

Alphas Season One DVD extras

TVShowsonDVD.com has posted the list of bonus features on the Alphas: Season One DVD:

• Extended Version of the Pilot
• Deleted Scenes
• Alphas at Comic-Con 2011 featurette
• Alphas Fan Q & A as well.

The DVD will be out on July 17.

Alphas season two premieres on Monday, July 23 at 10 pm

Syfy has finally confirmed the premiere date for season two. It's Monday, July 23 at 10 pm.

Based on the dates on the Syfy Igniters site (pic right), the airing schedule for season two should look like this:

23/07 2x01 Wake-Up Call
30/07 2x02 The Quick and the Dead
06/08 2x03 Alpha Dogs
13/08 2x04 When Push Comes to Shove
20/08 2x05 Gaslight
27/08 2x06 Alphaville
03/09 (Labor Day)
10/09 2x07 Gods and Monsters
17/09 2x08
24/09 2x09
01/10 2x10
08/10 2x11
15/10 2x12
22/10 2x13 (season finale)

They are currently filming episode 2x06, "Alphaville," with Summer Glau back as Skylar.

More updates and a round of spoilers coming over the weekend, if Syfy doesn't beat me to it.

Edited to add - press release:

ALPHAS (SEASON 2 PREMIERE)

Premieres Monday, July 23 at 10PM

In Syfy's action-packed hit drama series, an unlikely team of ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities - known as Alphas - takes on mysterious cases the CIA, FBI and Pentagon are unable to solve and go head-to-head with criminal Alphas.

Season 2 picks up eight months after last year's finale with the stage set for an explosive turn of events at the Binghamton facility (the Guantanamo of the Alpha world) that could have devastating, far-reaching consequences. Dr. Lee Rosen (Emmy Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn), having exposed the existence of Alphas to the unsuspecting public, finds himself discredited and imprisoned by a government desperate to cover up his revelation. The rest of the core team has disbanded and some, without Rosen's guidance and care, have regressed to their old, destructive ways. They must now battle their individual demons in order to reunite and try to save their own.

Alphas also stars Malik Yoba, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Ryan Cartwright and Laura Mennell. Erin Way (Detroit 187, Private Practice) joins the cast this season as "Kat" a mysterious young loner whose Alpha ability allows her to pick up any skill at a glance. But while her skills are permanent, her personal memories are short-lived. The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions and BermanBraun Television with executive producers Bruce Miller, Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun, Gene Stein and Zak Penn. Penn and co-executive producer Michael Karnow are series creators.

Alphas Season 1 DVD release date

TV Shows on DVD reports that Alphas Season 1 will be released on DVD on July 17. Universal Studios Home Entertainment hasn't released the cover art and DVD details yet, but you can pre-order the DVD from Amazon: