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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.
Ok so who has the .torrent link?
*ducks*
They may be able to curb some of the pirating if they would just broadcast simultaneously.
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I missed season 1, but should be able to catch season 2 on TV. Too bad season 1's not coming out on DVD until (apparently) after season 2 starts. Really, do they realize the benefits of releasing a DVD of a seson of a television show BEFORE the next season starts?
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OK, I can understand a simultaneous broadcast, but why doe the UK have to act as testers for the program, and then have to wait an additional 4 months because the test went well???
Karma be dammed, I'm going to download these episodes and boycott the TV showings. The UK are NOT second class consumers despite what the studios believe.
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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...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.
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Have you seen most of the junk Hollywood puts out? They seem to think that all consumers are second class.
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Hey, you guys gave us the first season before it aired over here, and we'll return the favor. BitTorrent makes all this "who gets what first" bullshit meaningless.
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).
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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.
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Better watch out though, it'll cause hallucinations.
On BBC1 every saturday night slap bang in the middle of prime time viewing?
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about the only things I can agree with you on are The Andromeda Strain (one of the few decent Crichton adaptations) West World (oh, look Chrichton again) and Logan's Run.
I mean, you're using Sliders as a basis for judging what constitiutes good sci-fi? Really? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan, but highbrow entertainment it aint.
Personally I think it's a pretty good time for Sci-fi at the moment. The Serenity movie's coming out soon, Dr Who is on TV again (and it's awesome), I'm loving BSG so far, and lots of people are getting excited over Lost and Atlantis, not that I've watched either.
Looking back to last year, when the world looked pretty grim - no Buffy, no Angel, Firefly and Farscape cancelled and seemingly nothing rushing in to fill the void - I'm grateful for what we're getting now, and I want more.
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