Ronald D. Moore-related stories
Posted Aug 10th 2009 5:42PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Battlestar Galactica, Casting, Reality-Free
Battlestar Galactica's Luciana Carro is returning to Syfy with a role on the
BSG prequel series
Caprica. Fans will remember Carro as Kat on
BSG, the cocky Viper pilot and "stims" addict who became a thorn in Starbuck's side. Carro is the first
BSG actor to join the
Caprica cast, says
Battlestar Blog, who heard the news at a recent Wizard World Chicago Q&A.
Kat succumbed to radiation poisoning after flying her last mission in season three of
BSG. Carro will most likely be playing a new character on
Caprica, since the show takes place more than fifty years before the events of
BSG. The news has fans wondering whether or not Carro's
Caprica character will be related to Kat.
Continue reading Battlestar's Kat joins Caprica
Posted Jun 4th 2009 3:32PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
Originally,
it was slated for July 4th, but now Fox has moved the pilot for Ron Moore's new virtual reality series
Virtuality into its
Friday Night Death Slot on June 26th. I guess it wasn't even worthy of a holiday showing.
You'd think, given how the relaunch of
Battlestar Galactica renewed interest in mature, complex science fiction that Fox would have more faith in the series. They were probably looking for something akin to
24 and all they got was a bunch of crew members playing video games on a long space mission.
On the other hand, the show could legitimately suck. I would tend to doubt it as I've always liked Moore's work on the
Star Trek franchise and certainly
BSG.
Caprica wasn't as good as I'd hoped, but it's only the pilot.
In order for
Virtuality to have any chance of survival than all it has to do is get good ratings on a Fox Friday night during the summer. Yeah, good luck with that.
Posted May 31st 2009 7:05PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
Weeks ago,
we reported that Fox would air the two-hour pilot for Ron Moore's
Virtuality on July 4 -- the day everyone in America will be eating barbecue, drinking beer and not watching TV. We obviously saw this as a bad sign for the
Battlestar Galactia creator's new sci-fi series. Why would the network dump the premiere of a high-concept sci-fi show on a holiday? Probably because they don't believe in the project.
Virtuality, the series, is not on Fox's schedule for the upcoming fall season, and rumors about its death have been swirling for weeks.
Our pals at Airlock Alpha recently
gave us hope about the series getting be picked up. This weekend, they pointed us to a
blog post by Doug Drexler, the CG supervisor for the
Virtuality pilot. Here's what Drexler posted:
Continue reading Still no series order for Battlestar creator's Virtuality
Posted May 8th 2009 3:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
This week, we learned that
Fox will air the pilot for
Battlestar Galactica producer Ron Moore's new show,
Virtuality, on July 4. I was excited about this news at first. I love
BSG and almost everything else Ron Moore has ever produced/written (
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
Roswell). But now I'm worried.
Fox reportedly
ordered a bunch of changes to the show last December, hoping to make it more of a mainstream drama. Now, some folks, like our buddies at
Airlock Alpha, seemed convinced that airing the pilot on July 4 is a sign that Fox has already given up on
Virtuality.
Continue reading Is Ron Moore's Virtuality dead in the water?
Posted Jan 24th 2009 10:00AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E12) "There are days when I really hate this job." - Admiral AdamaRon Moore's directorial debut! It was a good one (although not as good as last week). It probably helped that he also wrote the episode.
A long-nagging question of mine was answered in tonight's episode: if Cylons can't procreate and Tyrol was a Cylon, then how could he have a kid with Cally? The answer was that the kid wasn't his. It does leave the question of Tigh and Six's baby. Can the Final Five procreate with other Cylons? And who is that guy that is the father of Cally's son? I didn't recognize him. Has he appeared previously? This plot point seemed out of the blue. Also, they seem certain that Tigh is the father, but could it possibly be Baltar instead?
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: A Disquiet Follows My Soul
Posted Jul 29th 2008 9:03AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
After a log day of being in Hall H and Ballroom 20, things started to come to an end for the busiest day of the 'Con with the
Battlestar Galactica panel. Basically, if didn't already have your arse planted in a seat in Ballroom 20 for that panel, you weren't getting to see
BSG. I'm either completely dedicated to the coverage for TV Squad or a complete fanboy for the show. I submit that I'm likely both.
I'm not going to post the full, detailed report yet, as Sci Fi has told me we'll have embeddable video to show you soon (
here it is on SciFI.com). Seriously, there's no way I can put to justice the funny job that Kevin Smith did as moderator -- you have to see and hear it for yourself. I will, however, submit to you the highlights for now.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jun 30th 2008 1:28PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
The casts are coming together for
Fox's new pilots Virtuality and Inseparable. Malik Yoba, who was on
Girlfriends, and Warren Kole, who has appeared briefly on
CSI: Miami and
24, have joined the cast. The show is a Jekyll and Hyde story of sorts. It follows partially-paralyzed forensic psychiatrist Justin Lamreaux who has a split personality. Lamreaux, played by Lloyd Owen, shares his life with his criminal alter ego Clyde. I'm not sure about this one. I'm sick of all the crime procedurals, and
Dexter may have beat them to the punch on the half criminal/half cop concept.
On
Inseparable, Yoba and Kole will play detectives: Yoba, an officer who works with the main character but is unaware of his condition; Kole, a young officer ready to move on up.
Erik Jensen, Jose Pablo Cantillo, and Clea DuVall were added to Fox's two-hour pilot
Virtuality. The show is set on the Phaeton, a starship exploring other solar systems. Jensen of The Bronx is Burning will play the ship's navigator. Cantillo of Standoff will play a mathematician. And DuVall, who was in
Heroes and starred in
Carnivale, will play Jensen's co-pilot.
What do you think of these new pilots?
Posted Jun 29th 2008 10:19AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
Now that the show is over (for the time being), Ronald D. Moore got back with releasing podcasts this week. However, he seems to have skipped a couple in the middle.
As I've done in the past, I'll just summarize some of what I thought were the more interesting parts of the podcasts. If you're interested in learning more about Moore's insights and details about each episode, you really should take the time to
listen to the podcasts yourself. Now if only someone could sync up these podcasts with the Hulu videos, that would be awesome.
Here are the highlights ...
Continue reading BSG podcast recap: Episodes 408, 411 & 412 commentary
Posted Jun 12th 2008 5:24PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
I mean seriously, what the frak? Why the frak do we have to wait until frakking 2009 for the final frakking season of
Battlestar frakking
Galactica. Those motherfrakking skinjobs, and I know they're Cylons or they wouldn't do this to us, really like to frakking torture us diehard frakking fans, don't they. Frakkers! Wow, that does make it incredibly frakking easy to drop frakking curse words all the frakking time without really frakking cussing. How frakking liberating is that!
But back to business. Executive producer Ronald D. Moore spoke at a Wednesday night screening of this Friday's summer finale and broke the news that the remainder of this
fourth and final season of BSG probably wouldn't air until early 2009. The show just doesn't want to have to face off against the new fall slates on the networks or football and baseball, which I guess I can understand. Why not wait until January so all you have to deal with is those crappy shows nobody watches like
American Idol and
24? And nobody will be interested in the build-ups to the season finales of shows like
Lost and
Heroes. It's a frakking no-brainer!
Posted Jun 7th 2007 8:24AM by Kevin Kelly
Filed under: Industry, Battlestar Galactica
Warning: there are a few spoilers ahead for those of you who haven't seen the entire series up-to-date, so beware!When the powers that be at TV Squad ask you to attend a
Battlestar Galactica event in your town, you don't really hesitate before responding. Actually, you fire up your own FTL drives and go for broke. That was the scene last night when I invaded the SciFi Channel event held in Los Angeles at the Arclight Theater.
I'll do my best at setting the scene for you. If I leave anything out, or omit certain facts, it's only because I've just returned and am doing my best at recapping the entire evening based on my addled brain's memory of everything. I took a camera and a handheld audio recorder, but they literally had guards eagle-eyeing us, and we were told that if we were caught taking photos or recording anything, they would confiscate every device we owned (even my iPod shuffle?!) and eject us from the building. Or nearest airlock, I wasn't quite clear on that.
So I turned to my backup device, a notebook and a handy pen with quick-drying ink, and these are the results. Plus I got a few shots off before the Cylon Centurion made me shut everything down, and I'll be sharing those as well.
Continue reading TV Squad attends the Battlestar Galactica fan blowout
Posted Jun 1st 2007 4:55PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Cancellations
This afternoon I listened in on a conference call with
Battlestar Galactica Executive Producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, announcing news regarding the series' fourth season. Just as mentioned
earlier in the month -- and as many had already figured out -- the forthcoming season of the show will be the series' last.
Highlights from the call after the jump.
Continue reading Moore and Eick speak up about Battlestar Galactica's future and more
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