New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted

Trunks writes "A few days ago the Sci Fi Channel officially announced a 13 episode season for Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica remake. Looks like they'll be bringing back most of the cast members, including Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell. The new series will begin a few days after the miniseries that aired a few months back. Production commences next month in Vancouver, B.C." This had been speculated previously, and the rumors are indeed true.

Comments

Shame about the UK

[Bowdie]

Here, Sky have decided to stitch BGnew into a movie and show it on their movie channel, as opposed to Sky one, where my simpsons, 24, and trek.. are.

I guess now I'm going to have to hit a torrent for it.

Yuk

[nurb432]

It's too bad its going to become a series. It wasn't true enough to the original, I saw several technical inconstancies..

Show was slow, poorly acted and generally dull as well, seemed like just another B5 to me.. Perhaps it can improve, but its got a long way to go in order to be taken seriously as a show as far as im concerned.....

Yes I expect to be moderated into oblivion, but its what my impression was after the pilot 'mini series' ( if any one actually thought it wouldnt become a series, they were blind to the rather obvious marketing ploy to get people to watch it )

Why did it have to be Battlebarf?

[whitroth]

All the cancelled *good* series, like Firefly, and they have to remake one of the worst skiffy series ever made?

I have *no* intention of watching. I still remember incedulosity at the pilot of the original series (22 planets straffed to death by fighters, not bombers...), and then nearly barfing over...I think it was called "Fire in the Ship", where the Cattlecar is apparently made of plywood, since so much of it burns, and blast/emergency doors don't shut, and a landing bay that appears to be open to space that allows a fire to keep burning, and having to use the magnets on explosives to walk across the outside of the ship, since they had no other way to do it, and they couldn't simply depressurize....

mark "*I* passed all my science courses,
the turkeys who made the turkey
never took any"

I thought the managment of scifi hated space shows

[skybird0]

Hmmm. They cancel Farscape (their highest rated show) and order new thirteen episodes of the remake of the unlamented Battlestar Pond^H^H^H^HGalactica?