Yeah Markean, this is because the postproduction is huge.
As all the sets of BSG have been destoyed, now they have all those sets digitalized, they took a lot of pictures of all the old sets of BSG and Blood and Chrome has been done on green screen, so they is a lot of 3D stuff to make the get the pilot ended. The work is done with the actors, but not completed with the computer engineers...
The good point is that this manner of work seems to be cheaper than to maintain big producion studios like in BSG, so they if they spend less money for the new BSG BandC, then there is more chances to see it on the air.