The Syfy network in the U.S. is going into production with a pilot episode for a new Battlestar Galactica spin off series tentatively called Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. If the pilot goes well it will be greenlit into a full series.
The new series will be focused on a young William Adama, fresh out of the Academy cadet school and in his early twenties. It will be set during the first Cylon war with Adama assigned to a new Battlestar Galactica ship.
Wonder if they'll be able to work Colonel Tigh and his wife Ellen into the series in some way. Those 2 and Doc Cottle are the only ones old enough to make it into a series set 40 years before the events of the main BSG reboot series.
It remains to be seen if Ronald Moore will be involved in this series. He is under a long term contract to Sony and this is a Universal/ Syfy production; so, some side deal will have to be made for Moore to be allowed to work on this series.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/10/28/battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome-david-eick/
http://tv.ign.com/articles/113/1132214p1.html
The new series will be focused on a young William Adama, fresh out of the Academy cadet school and in his early twenties. It will be set during the first Cylon war with Adama assigned to a new Battlestar Galactica ship.
Wonder if they'll be able to work Colonel Tigh and his wife Ellen into the series in some way. Those 2 and Doc Cottle are the only ones old enough to make it into a series set 40 years before the events of the main BSG reboot series.
It remains to be seen if Ronald Moore will be involved in this series. He is under a long term contract to Sony and this is a Universal/ Syfy production; so, some side deal will have to be made for Moore to be allowed to work on this series.
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/10/28/battlestar-galactica-blood-and-chrome-david-eick/
http://tv.ign.com/articles/113/1132214p1.html