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First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes

mikrorechner writes "GateWorld has had a look on five new episodes of the upcoming season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Beware of spoilers. In other news, season 2 will be shown first in the US by the Sci-Fi Channel starting July 15, with UK's Sky One following in October." If only UHD would simulcast in HD this would be perfect.

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  1. Re:If only... by duncangough · · Score: 2, Informative

    *sigh*

    Season 1 DVD, or would you prefer the Mini Series first?


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    Oh, and this crappy capatcha system is b0rked, ffs

  2. spoilers!! by Cat_Byte · · Score: 4, Informative

    Argh I read the first page and stopped. Those aren't spoilers, its a walk-through of what happens just like the overview of 'Lost' on the ABC website. Don't read it if you don't want big time spoilers. It even ruins the suspense of the cliffhanger at the end of season 1. BAH!

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  3. It's not that easy... by Kjella · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...very often, to price a show, to sell a show or to evaluate purchasing a show, you need to have numbers to go on. Living in Norway, I can assure you *no* show is broadcast simultaniously with the US. They always go by first season's US figures when selling here. I'm not sure how they do it for movies, but my impression cinemas they run all the big hollywood blockbusters, and then see how many weeks to keep it on. TV shows are like a one-off airing, a bit different.

    Kjella

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  4. HDTV? by carlhirsch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sci-Fi channel doesn't provide an HDTV signal anywhere, right? Isn't the DirecTV signal SD?

    One of the nice things about downloading the Brit Sky torrents was the fact that they were in hi-def.

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    1. Re:HDTV? by vrai · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sky doesn't broadcast in HD TV, they won't even be shipping set-top boxes that support it until Q4 2005. The torrents were nothing but bog-standard PAL (576 lines interlaced at 50 half-fields per second).

    2. Re:HDTV? by Junior+Samples · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Canadian downloads have been the cleanest. They don't have that annoying SciFi logo in the lower right corner of the screen. I've seen the Sky One logo on their feeds in the upper left corner, but it's not as annoying as SciFi's.

      There have been HDTV torrents of Stargate Atlantis and Battle Star Galactica, but I don't know the origin of the broadcast source.

  5. Re:Shown first in the US? by nerd_tek · · Score: 2, Informative

    Explain then how the UK gets Season One on DVD before the US does? Since my cable company took away my Sci-Fi channel and replaced it with Lifetime, I'm totally up a creek.

  6. Evidence by The+New+Andy · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here is evidence for you:

    CNN

    Many jokes submitted contained references to animals. Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny.

  7. Re:Interesting by wbattestilli · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because SkyOne and SciFi worked it out that way. Neither really care about pissing off Brits or Yanks. They only care about $.

    The show was very expensive. To mitigate risk, SciFi asked SkyOne to split the costs with them. SkyOne said fine but we get to show it first in exchange for helping you out.

    Now for season 2, SciFi is confident and probably didn't need any help funding it. As a result SkyOne gets to wait for syndication like everybody else.

  8. Re:Why must... by twoshortplanks · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Where is Doctor Who 2005?"

    On BBC1 every saturday night slap bang in the middle of prime time viewing?

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  9. Re:Finally some good Sci Fi by RazorJ_2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...because they probably spend their money and time hiring brainless MBAssholes who don't know anything about their target audience other than what they think their demographic reports say.

    I lay copyright on the word "MBAssholes".

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  10. Re:Torrent? by laurent420 · · Score: 2, Informative

    best BSG torrent i've found. miniseries and first season

  11. Notice the Google ads? by EvilStein · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got a block of 4 ads - all but 1 were for "Miss the show? Download it here!" sites.

    I bet the MPAA would blow an artery if they saw that. :P

  12. Re:Interesting by ivano · · Score: 2, Informative
    plural of euro is euro not euros

    ciao