BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Sci Fi) - The show's third season is set to kick off on Friday, October 6 at 10:00/9:00c according to advertising sales materials recently released by the network. The series will run for 10 consecutive weeks (through December 8), after which it will return for an additional 10 installments in 2007.

Yippie !

 

 

The sleuths over at AVSForum.com have uncovered a page at Microsoft's Windows Media website offering a sneak peek into the future of HD-DVD. It reveals the first part of an alphabetical list of upcoming titles, amongst them the first confirmation of a television show and a couple cult classics.

The List includes: 12 Monkeys, 2 Fast 2 Furious, American Pie, Animal House, Army of Darkness, Backdraft, Battlestar Galactica (2004) Season 1, Conan the Barbarian, Dante's Peak, Dazed and Confused, Dracula (1931), Dune Theatrical and End of Days.

I'm personally going to be all over "Army of Darkness," "Conan the Barbarian" and "Battlestar Galactica: Season One." Now all we have to do is get ahold of F through Z!
 

Source: Themanroom.com

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The Unofficial Battlestar Galactica Blog has posted on their website that the "Battlestar Galactica" series is getting a new spinoff series. The news has already been confirmed by the Sci-fi channel, who is paying for and will be broadcasting "Caprica".

 

 

Wouldn't it be just a bit too early to start a spinoff series? Sure, BSG is great! What did I say? I meant friggin' GREAT!. But this after only 2 seasons? I don't know what to think of it...

The SCI FI Channel's top-rated original series will break the mold and jump to a fall season premiere, the network announced today. The 20-episode third season of Battlestar Galactica will premiere in October 2006 on the cable network.

The network did not give a reason for the later premiere date. As a cable channel SCI FI has traditionally counter-programmed to the big broadcast networks, airing new episodes of its original series when the networks are in reruns.

 

 Read the full story on Gateworld.net.

 

The characters of the (re-imagined) Battlestar Galactica look back in this interview to their part in the mini-series. Looks like one big happy family to me...

 

GRACE PARK: I feel so shallow, everyone had these great stories, but I wanted the role of Starbuck because it was listed as a recurring role, and I wanted a steady paycheck. It was Katee, a Latino girl, and I in the final audition for Starbuck. I thought, they have no frackin’ idea who this character is. When I didn’t get Starbuck I was offered Sharon, but I didn’t want to play her, she just seemed like the nice girl on the show. Then when I re-read the script I got to the end and said ‘Woah! Sharon is a Cylon! I’ll never die! When did they change that?’ Which of course they hadn’t changed the script, but I had only read it looking for Starbuck’s part.

 

Check out the full interview over here: http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1442

Today "Battlestar Galactica" composer Bear McCreary held a strings and piano session at the Warner Brothers Eastwood Scoring Stage in Burbank, CA. The session was to record music for the upcoming two-episode "season finale", which - according to McCreary - will leave fans yelling at their screens, due to the cliffhanger aspect.

There is just over 50-minutes of score over the two episodes (a 60-minute, and 90-minute finale), with only 16-minutes requiring strings. McCreary conducted the 21-piece string session, which included a cue that ran the entire act (approximately ten minutes).

"I had 36-hours to write 55-minutes of music, for a 2.5-hour long monstrosity - and only five days to produce it all," explained McCreary. Score mixer and music co-producer Steve Kaplan made sure that the pre-records worked with the strings, and fans of the show are sure to be clamoring for some of these cues when La-La Land Records releases the soundtrack in June.

 

Bear McCreary performs piano for the "Battlestar Galactica" season finale

 

Source: http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=731

Interview (podcast): http://www.soundtrack.net/podcast/

Genoeg van de valentijn zever; de stomste, meest irritante periode van het jaar. Tijd voor wat actie! En wat voor actie...

Het Amerikaanse Sci Fi Channel heeft aangekondigd dat de laatste aflevering van het tweede seizoen van Battlestar Galactica (gepland op 10 maart) de volle 90 minuten zal duren. De aflevering "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2" wordt natuurlijk doorspect met reclameblokken, waardoor de aflevering zélf toch tegen het uurtje moet gaan duren.

 

In true Galactica-style, the expanded season finale cliffhanger is sure to leave viewers wanting more. Up to this point, the last remnants of humanity have been on the run from the Cylons and searching for a mythical planet called Earth. They have been led by President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), a woman whom many believe is the chosen prophet of human scripture, and Admiral William Adama (Edward James Olmos), a retired war hero forced back into service after the Cylons' near-genocide of the human race.

Source: http://comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=13207

 

 

- I've asked you here to find out why the Cylons hate us so much.

- It's what you said at the ceremony before the attack when Galactica was being decommissioned. You gave a speech that sounded like it wasn't the one you prepared. You said that humanity was a flawed creation. And that people still kill one another for petty jealousy and greed. You said that humanity never asked itself why it deserved to survive. Maybe you don't.

-1- Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi)

Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving the last remnants of humanity. Laugh if you want, but this story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good.

 Full listing: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1141640,00.html

Scifi.com has put up the deleted scenes for episodes 201 to 209. They're available on their website at http://scifi.com/battlestar/episodes/season02/201/ , /202/ , ect... Scroll down to watch them.

For those of you who are some sort of score addicts (like I am), you'll really want to see (and listen) to this sample that was put up on Bear McCreary's website. If you turn the tv button, you'll find another clip, but it isn't that good.

 

The music you're hearing is taken from episode 2x10 called Pegasus, possibly the best BSG episode untill now (and also the last one before the mid-season break; with a *huge* cliffhanger) Man, i just can wait till the next episodes are aired.

 

SCI FI Channel announced that it has renewed its original series Battlestar Galactica for a third season. Production on the 20-episode order is slated to begin in Vancouver, Canada, in February 2006 for premiere later in the year, the network said.

The entire ensemble cast returns for the new season, including Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. Also returning are executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore and executive producer David Eick.

 

 

SCI FI is getting ready to pick up it's top-rated series Battlestar Galactica for a third season, TV Week is reporting. The cable network is expected to order another 20-episode season, to premiere next summer alongside SCI FI Friday companions Stargate SG-1 (Season Ten) and Stargate Atlantis (Season Three).

Though the shows ratings dipped slightly from the first season -- which ran from January to March of this year -- the numbers were still solid enough to keep Galactica in the network's top ratings spot. Along with the Stargates, Galactica also helped SCI FI hold on to the top cable spot for Friday night in key demographics.

 

Source: Gateworld.net

 

Damn, I really hope they make a third season of this series. The previous seasons were just great and they surely can go on for another year... but not too much!

Get that kazillion of LEGO blocks from your attic and start buildinga viper swarm! Some guy at lugnet has been watching Battlestar Galactica lately and created these... Check the models!