The SCI FI Channel has found lead actors for “Riverworld” and “The Phantom,” its upcoming four-hour movie events that will serve as trials for possible new series, says The Hollywood Reporter.
“Battlestar Galactica” veteran Tahmoh Penikett and “Smallville” supergirl Laura Vandervoort will star in “Riverworld,” and Ryan Carnes (“Desperate Housewives”) has been cast as the Phantom.
Penikett will play war correspondent Matt Ellman,…
