George R.R. Martin's psychic space show gets the green light at Syfy

According to Variety, Syfy has given an unsurprising series order to Nightflyers, a space drama based on a novella of the same name by Game Of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin. The show will be about “eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath” who are traveling through space in a ship called The Nightflyer, and though they’re a “tight-knit crew,” they eventually start to lose trust in each other after “terrifying and violent events begin to take place.” (The story was previously adapted into a movie in 1987, if this all sounds familiar.)