bsg-related stories
Posted Jun 27th 2009 11:46AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free
If you are, then you could potentially work for Bear McCreary, who wrote the theme to the new(er)
Battlestar Galactica and its spin-off
Caprica.
He's looking for a web designer to design a site for The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra.
I gotta hand it to the man for his cleverness. There are likely web designer rabid fans out there who would happily clean Bear McCreary's car with their tongue for a chance to have their name attached with any aspect of the franchise (hopefully they have some talent). I'm sure there will be a cyberspace line to help Mr. McCreary design his site and he doesn't have to pay a dime.
On the other hand, the winner of the contest gets some pretty cool one-of-a-kind
Battlestar Galactica merchandise (including the baton from the
BSG concert McCreary be conducting), so maybe everybody wins. If you want to create that clever idea of an entire orchestra of Cylon Centurions, now's your chance.
[via
Ain't It Cool]
Posted Mar 22nd 2009 1:23PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Battlestar Galactica, Ratings, Reality-Free
Battlestar Galactica ended with its highest ratings in three years,
drawing 2.4 million viewers for its finale. Granted, these are early ratings for the live viewing and don't take into account things like delayed viewings or iTunes purchases. Still, where were all these people during the run of the series?
Something about series finales tend to draw out people with even a modicum of interest in a show. I guess if they weren't there in the beginning, they still want to be there at the end. Mind you, the ratings of
Dollhouse still beat
BSG with
4.13 million viewers, but there is a world of difference between network and cable. Personally, I used the DVR and caught both.
Of course, this isn't the end of the franchise. Between "The Plan" and the spin-off
Caprica, something has to keep people tuned in and the ratings up while the Sci Fi Channel does something stupid like
changing its name.
Posted Mar 21st 2009 12:19AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E20) "Frakkity, frak. Don't talk back." (Apologies to Lieber and Stoller)
After four years of some of the best and most adult sci-fi in the history of television,
Battlestar Galactica draws to a close with a bang and then a whimper, with an overall satisfying ending that was as morally complex as any episode in the series.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak, Part 2 (series finale)
Posted Mar 14th 2009 12:45AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E19) You can tell that this show is approaching the end. Tonight's episode had the credits and chanting immediately after the "previously" montage and didn't even show scenes from tonight's episode during the final part of the opening. Plus, it was written by the same guy who wrote the original mini-series way back when. That's a telling sign.
Caprica City looks like a high-tech New York City. That was probably intentional.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak, Part 1
Posted Mar 6th 2009 11:54PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E18) I know it's a little late in the game to make this sort of observation, what with the show having only two episodes left, but if I were to compare characters in this show to characters in
Gilligan's Island, I would say that Six is Ginger, Eight is Mary Ann and President Roslin is Mrs. Howell. Adama would naturally be the Skipper and Tigh would be Gilligan. I'm still working on Mr. Howell and the Professor.
In the beginning of the episode, either in someone's fantasy or projection or reality, Hera is moving the Galactica in a position next to the enemy Cylon fleet. Foreshadowing?
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Islanded in a Stream of Stars
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 12:06PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
I know we've been hearing about
Caprica for the last nineteen years or so (exaggeration, save your comments), but it's been one of those TBD projects, where network execs would say, "Someday we'll get to it depending on how the ratings go for
Battlestar Galactica's final season, and if we need to make more room for wrestling or gimmicky game shows like
Estate of Panic and
Cha$e. See, those shows cost us about twenty-six bucks apiece to make and this show could be costly."
It makes sense to be cautious. Despite high critical praise, the parent series has slipping ratings and continues to be snubbed by major awards. But it looks like the powers that be at Sci Fi have finally decided
to greenlight the Caprica series. Considering
BSG isn't on the air at all right now, I'm not sure what helped them commit to this decision today. Maybe they looked and they just realized that their latest two major projects were
Cha$e and
Estate of Panic and it put them in ... well ... a state of panic. "This is Sci Fi," they may have declared. "How about we try
that kind of programming?"
Continue reading BSG prequel series Caprica is officially a go at Sci Fi
Posted Oct 5th 2008 1:07PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
AMC has done pretty well for itself of late with the critically acclaimed series
Broken Trail, Mad Men and
Breaking Bad. I'm also hopefully optimistic that they will do a good job with their mini-series remake of
The Prisoner. Because of this established pedigree, I am incredibly excited to hear that
AMC is developing a series based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars novel. With Terry Goodkind's
The Sword of Truth series already coming to television, it looks like someone in TV land has been raiding my library. Oh there are so many more good sci-fi and fantasy series to develop. Feel free to stop by any time!
The article indicates the series is based on Robinson's 1992 novel of the same name, but I hope they take it a step further and look to his expanded
Mars trilogy. That way they can have several seasons of stories to tell. I guess, though, with the bigger story covering a couple of centuries there could be some casting problems. Hell, overhaul the entire cast every few seasons.
ER does it and it's been on the air for almost fifteen years.
Continue reading AMC develping Robinson's Red Mars for series
Posted Aug 22nd 2008 10:21AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
(Check out part three of this four-part report)
Tired of hearing about Comic-Con? Figured all the talk was over? Sorry to disappoint you, but due to an untimely vacation (vacation untimely? Wha...how?) and a bit of reflection on my first trip to the big 'Con, I was able to get this last bit complete for you.
The Sci Fi / Entertainment Weekly PartyMan did it feel good to have gone to my last panel. I had much sympathy for Rich, who had another nearly-full day ahead of him on Sunday. So, we went out to finally get a decent meal at an actual restaurant downtown before we had to head off to the party. We had no idea at all what to expect from the party -- would there be food? Free booze? Who would be there?
Continue reading My post-Comic-Con report, part four
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 7:41PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
I haven't even gone to get my badge yet, where
I hear from Cinematical that there's lots of goodies to have, and lookee here -- Sci Fi stuff! The fine folks over at Sci Fi Channel were nice enough to drop off a ginormous purple bag full of loot, like the Raider model above; t-shirts, breath mints, temporary tattoos ...
Check the gallery for more, and
check out what they're giving to registrants over at Cinematical.
Posted Jun 30th 2008 2:21PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Fans of the almost late, definitely great
Battlestar Galactica over at Sci Fi can keep their hopes alive that the series may return in the form of those oft-rumored movies. On June 27, Grace Park said that
rumors of a Battlestar Galactica made-for-TV film have reached the set, where they recently had their wrap party for the four-year series. None of the actors have been contacted, and as we've been reporting all over the place here on TV Squad, the various
actors and
actresses are getting snatched up
left and
right for
new shows.
Park's rumor had shooting beginning in August, which seems a tremendous stretch, as most of the new fall shows the actors are appearing in will be filming at that time. It would make more sense to try and film it during breaks. Or maybe it's going to go the route of
Razor and feature mostly non-regular actors. Hell, she may have heard about the filming of prequel series
Caprica.
Who knows what the hell is going on, but this is the new media. Facts be damned, I love
Battlestar Galactica, and if Park had said this shortly before vomiting and passing out drunk off her ass, it'd still be worth a post. Anyone hear anything more?
[via AICN]
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 25th 2008 5:42PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Casting, Reality-Free
Remember when
FOX signed that holding deal for Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer? Well, now they're using it. The former model, best known as every fanboy's synthetic fantasy via her portrayal of sympathetic Cylon "Number 6" on Sci Fi's reimagined
Battlestar Galactica,
Tricia Helfer has been cast in FOX's Inseparable. As it turns out she won't be playing a hot figment of anyone's imagination, though that would be a good use for the title.
Instead, she's been cast as a psychiatrist who works for the police department. How that will relate to Lloyd Owen's split personality hero/villain lead hasn't been made clear, but I'm guessing she'll be
his psychiatrist. Would she find it weird that all of her male patients would only want to talk about their sexual fantasies with her?
"Here let me show you what I'm talking about, doctor. Why don't you get down on your knees and face me ... What do you mean that wouldn't be professional? I want to know what these yearnings mean. And can you undo that top button."
Continue reading Tricia Helfer is Inseparable from our televisions
Posted Jun 20th 2008 12:57PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Get ready for many,
many Friday nights of having to find something better to do than sit in front of television to watch
Battlestar Galactica. You could always dig into your past-season DVDs to reminisce on what's happened before ("and will happen again?") or simply
watch BSG online. There's also the unimaginable: spending time with friends and loved ones, stepping out of the house or, gods forbid, getting some extra sleep.
While we all think of what to do with that extra hour we have every week, let's go over a few things going on since last week's
mid-season finale.
Continue reading It's Friday and there's no Galactica. What will we do?!
Posted Jun 16th 2008 9:21AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Interviews, Reality-Free
(Warning! If you haven't watched the latest episode of BSG yet, thar be spoilers ahead!)After
last Friday's episode, a lot of us had questions about what we saw. Was that Earth? Are humans and cylons really bonded together, after all this time? Who is the final cylon? I finally took the time to throw a slew of questions toward writer and co-executive producer
Jane Espenson about this episode, and she had a few things to say (though nothing quite as revealing as I had hoped).
Rather than get into what I had to say, I'll let her letter back to me speak on its own. As you'll quickly see, she's not a woman of few words when it comes to this show. I'm hoping she'll have just as much to spill when I ask her questions for our
Buffy Retro Squad week next week.
Continue reading Jane Espenson on Battlestar Galactica's mid-season finale
Posted Jun 13th 2008 11:30PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Video, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S04E09) Well now, how was that for a surprise ending? Well, that is, for those who didn't get to see the screening in L.A. Wednesday night. I was invited to go but, seeing as I live on the other side of the country, it wasn't really all that practical to be there.
While this was an amazing episode, I've got mixed feelings of sorts. I'm elated that this isn't the finale episode of the series, that we've got another slew of episodes to go through before "the end." However, this episode felt like it possibly could have ended the series -- will the
real final episode pay off as well as this one did?
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica: Revelations - VIDEO
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