Sanctuary is a Canadian
science fiction-
fantasy television series, created by
Damian Kindler and funded largely by the Beedie Development Group. The show is an expansion of an eight-
webisode series that was released through the Internet in early 2007. Seeing the success of the
web series,
Syfy decided to buy the broadcast rights to the series and pay to re-stage the series in a season of thirteen episodes.