Sci-Fi Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009) [SyFy remake]

A storyline is a storyline. They can't really make an entire fifth series, but they can extend all the episodes in series four, maybe....


Final 'Galactica' episodes to be longer?

Thursday, July 31 2008, 08:28 BST
By Ben Rawson-Jones, Cult Editor
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The Sci Fi Channel has revealed that each of the final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica may be extended should the show's bosses deem it necessary.

Speaking to Sci Fi Wire at the San Diego Comic-Con, executive producer David Eick stated: "We're constantly getting into the editing room with ten, 15, sometimes 20 minutes of material that you can't get into an episode.

"[And] the story has become so critical in order to realise the arc of the series that we can't just cut stuff out and save it for later or push it 'til next year... it's all got to be there."

Ahead of next year's broadcast of the last ever episodes, Eick said the crew was "able to convince the network to let us air... long episodes" and "take single episodes and make them double episodes... [and] double episodes and make them quadruple episodes".
 
Translation:
The Sci-Fi Channel has admitted to trying to squeeze every last drop of profit out of the BSG series while they can before it goes off the air and fans revolt next season after watching Caprica resulting in the memories of the recently deceased BSG series to be permanently tarnished.
 
Apollo Boasts BSG Could be Big as Doctor Who

Apollo Boasts BSG Could be Big as Doctor Who

Wired said:


Hide the Doritos and Mountain Dew. Hold onto your seven-sided dice and turn off the cowboy episode of The Prisoner. Ready? OK: Apollo on Battlestar Galactica says his show is better than Doctor Who.

Go! Nerd fight!

In fairness, that's an exaggeration as Jamie Bamber (the Apollo-esque thespian in question) actually complained to the British press that BSG could match Who's international popularity if the plucky Cylons just had a chance.

Bemoaning his show's limited exposure on the Sci-Fi Channel and Sky One (in the U.K.), Bamber said BSG would be more than a cult show if it aired on a big-time network like The Doctor's BBC1.

The trouble with his griping is Battlestar Galactica is hardly hidden on the distant moons of Kobol. (Does Kobol have moons? I don't know.) Last I looked, the cable and satellite networks in question aren't exactly obscure. They're not buried up the dial behind the All Meringue Music Channel and Community Access. I hear the DVDs are readily available. So, both shows have dedicated followings with easy access to episodes.

And while Doctor Who pulls down every British TV award in sight, BSG enjoys critical success very few genre shows ever sniff.

So, what's the big deal? Maybe Bamber is bummed that girls recognize David Tennant more often.

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Re: Apollo Boasts BSG Could be Big as Doctor Who

Kind of weird to be complaining about popularity in a show's *last* season.

Perhaps he is just trying to get his name out there for when he starts sending resumes out?
 
Your First Glimpse At Battlestar Galactica's Black Ops Spin-Off [Exclusive]

Your First Glimpse At Battlestar Galactica's Black Ops Spin-Off [Exclusive]

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It wasn't just the Galactica and her fleet that escaped the destruction of the twelve colonies, according to new comic Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts — but that doesn't mean that the smuggler crew of the Orion's Pride or black-ops Viper "Ghost Squadron" have escaped the Cylons altogether. We've got some exclusive pages from the first issue of the new series that show you the vote that doomed the colonies, as well as an introduction to the new survivors.

The series, published by Dynamite Entertainment, is the first time that an all-new cast have taken center-stage (although they did publish a Pegasus comic last year) — offering fans a chance to see what future Galactica spin-offs, both in terms of comics and TV, may have to offer.

The first issue hits stores today.



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Battlestar Galactica Gets a Finale Date

Battlestar Galactica Gets a Finale Date

Wired said:


The final episodes of riveting sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica will begin airing Jan. 16, 2009, according to Sci Fi Channel.

Presumably the second half of Season 4 will pick up where the first half's shocking cliffhanger left off. The season, and the series, will end March 20, according to the press release. Presumably we'll know who (or what) the final Cylon is by then.

That won't be the end for Galactica fans, though. A post-season movie special exploring the Cylons' quest to obliterate the human race has already been announced, and there's always the Caprica spinoff that's in the works.

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Unless I missed seeing another BSG discussion thread, I gotta say I can't believe no one has posted about the finale this past Friday night. Fantastic show, with a satisfactory ending. Television just got a little more poorer due to losing this series. I guess we can look forward to Edward James Olmos' Battlestar Galactica: The Plan movie, and of course the new series Caprica, which I believe will begin in 2010.
 
BBC America has acquired rights to broadcast SyFy's version of "Battlestar Galactica" along with the re-imagined BSG made-for-TV movies.

BBC America will start airing the material on June 18.


Personally I likely won't be watching since DirecTV still doesn't offer us BBC America in HD. :( It'd be kind of weird to go from watching the shows in HD on SyFy back to SD on BBC.
 
TV – Battlestar Galactica (Miniseries, 2003)

This series passed me by when it emerged in the 2000s but I'd heard good things about it so I saw the first two 90 minute programmes which constituted a "miniseries". The first, that is, since the 1970s version which I had also missed. For those unfamiliar with the setting, a brief summary follows.

The time is the far future when faster-than-light technology has permitted interstellar travel. Humanity is settled on a dozen colony worlds, and to assist with further exploration of inhospitable environments has developed Cylons – tough, intelligent robots of humanoid shape. The Cylons had eventually rebelled against humanity and after a stalemated war had withdrawn from human space forty years before the story begins. But now they are back, on a war of annihilation – with the aid of a new form of Cylons who are almost indistinguishable from humans. Their initial attack is successful, leaving the only hope for humanity the last surviving Battlestar – a giant space warship named Galactica.

After the initial scenes most of the action in set on board the Galactica or its one-person "Viper" combat craft. There is a varied cast of generally well-drawn characters with many personality clashes driving the plot. Despite this, I found the whole feel of the series to be rather old-fashioned and unoriginal – a kind of blend of Star Trek and Star Wars, with just a few of its own twists thrown in. As a matter of personal preference, I have also never liked the "enemy within" kind of story, in which the viewer/reader knows which of the "good guys" is really a "bad guy" – but the good guys do not.

Overall I enjoyed the miniseries, but faced with a further 70 or so episodes I decided that Battlestar Galactica wasn't quite intriguing or likeable enough for me to want to devote that much time to it. I probably would have followed it to the end had I watched it week by week when it first came out, but as I get older so I become increasingly picky about what I'm prepared to watch or read, especially if that involves a major time commitment – too much to do, not enough time!


(This entry is cross-posted from my science-fiction & fantasy blog.)
 
Has anyone seen an episode with a lady in a red dress disappearing in a pitch black room and in another scene a man lockpicking a door with a woman next to him in another scene. Also the man and the woman encounter a room with weapons.I viewed the tv show or film in 2010,2011 or 2013.I do not know the actors.
 
Has anyone seen an episode with a lady in a red dress disappearing in a pitch black room and in another scene a man lockpicking a door with a woman next to him in another scene. Also the man and the woman encounter a room with weapons.I viewed the tv show or film in 2010,2011 or 2013.I do not know the actors.
The woman in a red dress is likely Tricia Helfer as the Cyclon character "Six". If you're thinking of the same woman in a different scene with a man than it was likely the character Baltar.

Is there something about those particular scenes you're trying to find out about?
 
Mackie, you couldn't be looking for a lock picking scene with a woman is wearing a red dress and she disappears into another room?
 

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