BSG Officially a go!

[Darrin Drader]

And now, the news I've been waiting for:

February 10, 2004


BATTLESTAR GALACTICA GREENLIT FOR SERIES

Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff & Tricia Helfer
Reprising Roles in New SCI FI Channel Original Series

SCI FI Channel has greenlit production on the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a new original weekly series. Based on the top-rated December miniseries event of the same name, the one-hour drama is slated to begin production on 13 episodes in Vancouver next month.

All principal cast from the mini will reprise their roles for the series, including Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), among others.

Ronald D. Moore (Carnivale, Mission Impossible 2) returns as executive producer as well as writer. The project will be produced exclusively for SCI FI, in association with Sky One. The series will be distributed by USACE, where David Eick, an executive producer of the miniseries, serves as Executive Vice President.

An edgy re-imagining of the 1978 television series, the SCI FI miniseries became the highest-rated cable mini in 2003, delivering more viewers and higher ratings than HBO's Angels in America. The Battlestar Galactica series is an intriguing take on the classic adventure of a ragtag fleet of humans, the sole survivors of a devastating nuclear attack by the robot Cylons. Faced with an un-winnable battle against a deadly enemy, they are forced to flee under the protection of their one remaining warship, the outdated Battlestar Galactica. Pursued by the Cylons, some of whom have now taken human form, Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Roslin (McDonnell) lead these last remnants of humanity in search of a new home, a planet called Earth.

SCI FI Channel is a television network where "what if" is what's on. SCI FI fuels the imagination of viewers with original series and events, blockbuster movies and classic science fiction and fantasy programming, as well as a dynamic Web site (www.scifi.com) and magazine. Launched in 1992, and currently in 83 million homes, SCI FI Channel is a program service of Universal Television Networks, part of the Universal Television Group (www.universalstudios.com), a division of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE), the U.S.-based film, television and recreation entity of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company.

WOOT!

 

[Greatwyrm]

I think Butthead said it best, "Rock on, Beavis!"

I liked the mini-series much more than the original series. I'm glad they decided to go on with the project.

On a side note, I caught an episode of Buck Rogers last night. It really reminded me of how things always seem so much cooler when you're a kid than they do when you're older. How did I ever watch that in the first place?

 

[Darrin Drader]

On a side note, I caught an episode of Buck Rogers last night. It really reminded me of how things always seem so much cooler when you're a kid than they do when you're older. How did I ever watch that in the first place?

Even as a kid I never liked Buck Rogers. I think I originally saw it as crap and when I got older I realized that it was a cheap replacement for BSG. The funny thing is that it lives on in (much, much better) shows, like Farscape.

 

[Greatwyrm]

The funny thing is that it lives on in (much, much better) shows, like Farscape.

Oh, the concept is cool. Explorer/soldier in a time/place he doesn't belong in. The show it self just stunk the place up.

 

[John Crichton]

Hot damn!

With this greenlighted along with the in production Farscape mini-series and the Firefly movie (hush hush) I am one happy dude.

* fingers crossed for SFC handling properly and responsibly *

 

[Darrin Drader]

Hot damn!

With this greenlighted along with the in production Farscape mini-series and the Firefly movie (hush hush) I am one happy dude.

* fingers crossed for SFC handling properly and responsibly *

Agreed! I finally have something on TV to look forward to.

As for Scifi, I have the feeling that the amount of time they took in developing this, deciding whether or not to make it into a series, and the fact that they're working on having a major network immediately re-air the episodes means that they will give it a chance. I'm not going to get involved with one of those crazy mid-season letter writing campaigns or anything. If they cancel it, they cancel it. On the other hand, if they keep it, they'll keep me as a viewer. I'm sure there are a lot of other people in the same category as me, so I think this will be a good thing.

As for Farscape, you know, I'm happy that they're doing a miniseries to finish things off, but at the same time I really feel like the show peaked at the end of the 3rd season and 4th season was the weakest one. Maybe its cancellation was timely so that we don't have to witness the show get dragged through season after mediocre season before the actors finally quit. If the trend would have continued it could have been much more like another Voyager, except trippier and with more pretty colors.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Very nice. Wonder when it'll hit the tube?

 

[Mercule]

On a side note, I caught an episode of Buck Rogers last night. It really reminded me of how things always seem so much cooler when you're a kid than they do when you're older. How did I ever watch that in the first place?

The show may have stank, but I read a couple issues of the comic, and it was okay (at least to a 12 year old).

 

[Jamdin]

I can give you two reasons that I watched Buck Rogers: Erin Gray and Pamela Hensley

While I enjoyed the original Battlestar Galactica, I did enjoy the new mini-series despite the fact that it felt like I was watching an extended version of the new The Outer Limits. I was waiting for the fembot to expose herself and then start going on a killing spree.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I was waiting for the fembot to expose herself and then start going on a killing spree.

Yeah, me too.

Oh wait, you meant that as a negative.