Battlestar Galactica Spin Off Series Planned

[Kilgore Trout]

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

 

[james t kirk]

Wasn't Caprica supposed to be the spin off series?

What happened to it?

Blood and Chrome? - sounds like Spartacus - Blood and Sand.

 

[Cassini]

I thought Stargate Universe was supposed to be the Battlestar Galactica spin-off series.

Caprica was cancelled.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Caprica was cancelled last week by Syfy network due to low ratings.
Most BSG fans didn't make the crossover to the new series it seems. I'm going to pick it up on DVD, heard the series got off to a slow start; but, they found their groove and the scripts for the second half of season 1 were really good.

I've got all 4 seasons of BSG on DVD, and just re watched the whole series for the first time and was surprised at how good the series was a second time around. I think I enjoyed it more on the second go round than first time I watched it over the 5 years the series was on.

http://unrealityshout.com/blogs/caprica-cancelled-syfy

 

[james t kirk]

BSG was a great show. It would be very hard to top.

Like Star Trek, TOS, TNG were all excellent, but DS9, Voyager, Enterprise - none could come close. In the end, the producers went to the well too many times and almost killed the franchise.

Same could happen with BSG.

 

[Aardvark154]

Caprica was cancelled last week by Syfy network due to low ratings.

To bad I enjoyed it, but I can see why a lot of BSG fans would not have been interested.



Although Genevieve Buechner was cute, I think Alessandra Torresani played her role in a particulalry interesting way.

 

[Safdar]

Stargate Universe is a spin off of the Stargate series SG1 and Atlantis.

Caprica was a good show but very slow paced for a scifi show. I watched the first season and I didn't even know the 2nd season started airing before it was cancelled. I'll have to catch it on DVD.

Of the Star Trek series Enterprise was my favorite. Too bad they did not find an audience.

 

[bishop]

Caprica was garbage.

I found it funny that for a hundred generations the adama blood line kept that silly voice, but magically adama's son lost it in 1 generation.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I think Alessandra Torresani played her role in a particulalry interesting way.

Was she a Cylon in the Caprica series? If so she must have had some intriguing technical glitches being the first model and everything.

I will watch Caprica on DVD because I like Ronald Moore's writing and style.
On a different subject Syfy is up to their usual stunts in the way they release series to DVD. They have split season 1 into 2 parts requiring 2 purchases.
Caprica season 1.0 with 10 episodes and and Caprica Season 1.5 with 8 episodes. Why can't they just do things like everyone else and release the whole season in one dvd package?

 

[Aardvark154]

Was she a Cylon in the Caprica series? If so she must have had some intriguing technical glitches being the first model and everything.

I don't want to give it away if you don't know - but sort of.

 

[The Cunning Linguist]

I loved BSG, and I tried to love Caprica....but...just didn't do it for me...

 

[blueman]

Posted originally Oct 23/10

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthrea...ork-greenlights-Battlestar-spinoff&highlight=

 

[Kilgore Trout]

It's been announced that Ronald Moore is going to produce and write a new series for CBS called "The Wild Wild West" a reboot of a series from the 1960's.

I wish the project was going to one of the cable companies like HBO or Showtime, because CBS involvement might cheapen and gut out the heart of the thing and turn it into a kind of bland quarter pound McDonalds cheeseburger. The premise sounds like something Moore is really good at though.

Moore was executive producer and writer for the first season of Carnivale.
The new show will be focused on a couple of U.S. federeal agents in post civil war America.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/11/wild-wild-west/

 

[frank12]

Like Star Trek, TOS, TNG were all excellent, but DS9, Voyager, Enterprise - none could come close. In the end, the producers went to the well too many times and almost killed the franchise.

I liked DS9 a lot more than TNG. I agree with you on Voyager and Enterprise. The same can be said about Stargate SGI vs Atlantis, and Universe. They should have stopped after Atlantis. Babylon 5 vs Crusade, although Crusade's problems had more to do with interference and problems at TNT.

I hope a spin off of BSG doesn't happen. The remake of the original series was great, I never did get into Caprica. Maybe they can come back in a few years.

 

[The Cunning Linguist]

I think the re-imagining of BSG was like catching lightning in a bottle. When it was introduced, it "played" on themes taken right from the headlines (is it right to torture POW's if it saves lives elsewhere, terrorists living in our midst, looking like us, etc).

Which is why it resonated with an audience outside the standard Sci-Fi "geekdom" universe.