SCI FI Channel unveiled a slate of original scripted series pilots, including True Believer, developed in partnership with actress and comic-book fan Rosario Dawson, and The Stranded, the first release under the newly formed joint venture SCI FI/Virgin Comics.

True Believer is a two-hour backdoor pilot based on an original concept from Dawson, David Atchinson (Dawson's co-author on the Image Comics series Occult Crimes Task Force), Matthew Spradlin and Tom Feister. The contemporary dramedy centers on a 20-something comic-book nerd who hires a washed-up real-life superhero to be his crime-fighting sidekick and to teach him the ropes.

Dawson will serve as executive producer, with Atchinson and Spradlin aboard to write. Feister will consult on the project.

The Stranded is a two-hour pilot based on the SCI FI/Virgin Comics title by Mike Carey, which was released in January. In it, five seemingly everyday people must face a terrifying question: What if your entire life--your childhood, your family, your memories--was a lie? For the stranded--Sisera, Endo, Drum, Tamree and Cullen--that's true. Each of them is from another world called Standfire, and the past is returning to try to kill them.

Other pilots given the green light include Deputized, a two-hour pilot written by Joe Gazzam. The dramedy centers on an average guy who suddenly finds himself possessing special abilities after being accidentally fitted with an alien exoskeleton that cannot be removed. He is enlisted to serve on an intergalactic police force.

Alice is a six-hour miniseries from writer/director Nick Willing and executive producers Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr. (Tin Man). The miniseries is a modern-day retelling of the classic story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.