U.S. pay-TV channel Starz Entertainment recently teamed up with Vancouver producer Front Street Pictures to coproduce three B.C.-shot action-adventure TV movies for U.S.-based Sci Fi Channel.

Beyond Sherwood stars Julian Sands as the sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Dunne (Sanctuary) as Robin Hood, and will be shot in Vancouver, with Peter DeLuise (Stargate SG-1) directing.

Burbank, CA-based Starz, a subsidiary of U.S. giant Liberty Media, says it is also attached to Merlin and the Book of Beasts, a King Arthur tale starring James Callis (Battlestar Galactica) that shot in and around Vancouver last year. Shannen Doherty toplines the third project, the Kamloops-shot The Lost Treasures of the Grand Canyon, playing an archaeologist who leads her exploration team away from lost Aztec warriors.