Syfy has announced that both Dark Matter and Killjoys have been renewed for a second season.

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Dark Matter will receive another 13 episodes, set to premiere in 2016.Dark Matter averaged 1.8 million viewers in its first season. The series, created by Stargate franchise writers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, follows six people who wake up on a derelict spaceship with no memory of who they are or how they got on board. It's based on a Dark Horse graphic novel of the same name.Killjoys, meanwhile, will air 10 episodes once more for its second season in 2016. It averaged 1.5 million viewers in its first season.Killjoys follows a trio of bounty hunters chasing deadly fugitives through a distant planetary system on the brink of a class war.

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