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TJL · 12-08-2003, 08:53 PM

Well space opera fans Sci Fi Channel unveils it's long awaited "reimagining" of "Battlestar Galactica" tonight.

I was never a big fan of the original series, but I am looking forward to seeing the changes they've made.

Will you be watching?

EricIdlefan · 12-20-2003, 05:03 PM

No matter how many remakes any and all shows make, the original, in my opinion and book, IS THE ORIGINAL!!

TJL · 12-20-2003, 09:43 PM

I was going to post an in depth review of the mini series, but I didn't get around to writing it, and I forgot what I was going to say.

But I really enjoyed the remake of "Battlestar" and I hope they make another mini series soon.

EricIdlefan · 12-30-2003, 10:26 PM

I hope they do too and I wished they put back on Babylon 5!!

TJL · 02-03-2004, 09:32 PM

Just got this of of moviehole:

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sci Fi Channel has picked up the options last week on key cast members of the “Battlestar Galactica” mini-series – including Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Katee Sackhoff.

The trade says the cable network is aiming to bow "Galactica" as a full-fledged series as early as fourth-quarter 2004. At least six episodes are expected to be shot in Vancouver as soon as April.

The four-hour mini-series averaged 4.2 million viewers last year, making it the third-highest-rated multinight program Sci Fi has aired.

Kickass! I enjoyed the mini series and I look forward to picking apart to series when it premieres.

TJL · 02-03-2004, 09:36 PM

Oh, I realized I just bumped up an old thread, but I don't give a rat's rear!

Nikitabee · 03-11-2004, 04:18 PM

I've only seen clips so far and wasn't overjoyed to see the cylons looking like humans. They useto scare the socks off me when i was little. They should have kept them the same, to scare a whole new generation

They help make the show. And Starbuck a woman? I'll haveto wait until i see a full episode to judge properly though. Never know, might love it

TJL · 03-11-2004, 05:57 PM

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Originally posted by Nikitabee
I've only seen clips so far and wasn't overjoyed to see the cylons looking like humans. They useto scare the socks off me when i was little. They should have kept them the same, to scare a whole new generation They help make the show. And Starbuck a woman? I'll haveto wait until i see a full episode to judge properly though. Never know, might love it

According to the show, The Cylons are still a species of robots, the human looking ones are some "new models" designed to infiltrate the humans. There was a brief glimpse of the robot cylons in the beginning of part one, and hopefully they will be seem more when the series premieres.They have made some changes from the original series, but it's for the best, I hated the original!

H. E. Pennypacker · 01-07-2005, 08:56 AM

Viewers in America be sure to tune in Saturday to see an edited version of the Miniseries on NBC 8/7c

Australian Viewers the Miniseries and Series will premiere early this year (2005) on the Ten Network

TJL · 01-07-2005, 09:45 AM

An edited version? That stinks. I was hoping Sci Fi Channel would run it again before the series premiered.

dlemond · 01-07-2005, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by TJL

An edited version? That stinks. I was hoping Sci Fi Channel would run it again before the series premiered.

The miniseries is now out on DVD if you are interested.

TJL · 01-07-2005, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by dlemond

The miniseries is now out on DVD if you are interested.

That's true, it just came out on DVD.

But you would think that Sci Fi would be rerunning it, to maybe promote the new series?

dlemond · 01-07-2005, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by TJL

That's true, it just came out on DVD.

But you would think that Sci Fi would be rerunning it, to maybe promote the new series?

Who knows what they do at Sci Fi except for everything wrong (getting rid of Farscape, their highest rated show, comes to mind).

Apparently next week they are airing the first two episodes of the new series.
I think that is odd, it's like they are backlogged or something.

And almost the entire first season has aired in England already.
Explain that to me.

H. E. Pennypacker · 01-07-2005, 04:17 PM

Either the finance was coming from Britain or they're using it as a test-market (likely) they seem to be very nervous about this. If I was anybody else producing a Science Fiction show I'd be the one who is nervous. Brannon Braga and Rick Berman should be breaking out into a cold sweat over this, Ron Moore leaves Voyager under bad circumstances and then comes back to make them all look like fools, with this very superior show.

It's a shame that NBC is cutting the miniseries from 4 hours to 3, but what do you expect. Last year I downloaded an episode of Scrubs that had just aired in the US, no problem, then a few weeks back the same episode finally made it to Free to Air here in Australia, I saw two whole scenes on the Australian broadcast that were completely missing from my downloaded US version, I think this sort of thing is happening all of the time, basically Network TV in the US is slowly becoming either unworkable or unaffordable and they're having to fit more ads in to pay for it.

Amazing that a country of 20 million (Australia) can sustain 5 free to air television stations (3 of them commercial networks, the other two public broadcasters) as well as 40 cable channels, and yet they don't have to show as many ads as a US TV Network in a country of 260 million plus!

So what's up with this picture, the cost of production, basically TV shows cost a lot to produce, in Australia they get around this by not only producing their own shows but by buying overseas hits, a typical one hour drama in Australia probably costs $200,000 to $300,000 to make, the network doesn't cover all these costs and Australia is too small to have a syndication market so these shows have to attract overseas sales to survive, compare this to an episode of Scrubs which probably cost the network $20,000 to air twice.

Australian productions are where Australian networks base their prestige or reputation, but they make their money on US shows which are cheap to buy (depending on their popularity - Murphy Brown, for example, was a big hit here and Warner Bros renegotiated with Channel Nine to sell the show for $100,000 an episode, this was around the time of Dan Quayle!)

Maybe this is what US Networks will eventually need to do, in fact I don't know why they don't do it already. Take 'the office' for example, NBC is remaking this Britcom, unless Norman Lear is involved Britcom remakes seem to head south real quick (in fact there hasn't been a good Britcom remake since Three's Company which in the UK was 'Man About the House') WHY, Why not just save money and air the original (probably a lot cheaper than making something new I'll bet!) thereby cutting some costs. Think of all the money that has been wasted on the US Coupling or Payne or Men Behaving Badly or other Britcom remakes through the years, we all speak english so what's the problem!

On the same subject I saw something freakish the other day on SBS (Australian Public Broadcaster [Special Broadcast Service] showing multi-cultural non-english speaking fare, South Park, and a lot of soccer!) it was a Turkish version of The Nanny, man it freaked me out, but this I understand because Turkish people don't speak English, so a new version of a Sitcom (humour is very dependant on language) is a good idea in that case, but not Britain to US!

andybhoy · 02-20-2005, 06:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dlemond

And almost the entire first season has aired in England already.
Explain that to me.

It aird in the UK, not just England. Uk channel "SkyOne" paid for a large percentage of the show's production costs and one of their stipulations was that the Uk got episodes first. The US could have shown them a week later but sci fi chose to air after the New Year.

On the other side of the coin, years ago, the series 7 or 8 (or season 7 or 8 if you prefer) of UK show Red Dwarf aired in the US before it had all been seen in the uk (only 2 or 3 episodes had been seen) so that PBS stations could raise money from fans of the show by getting the new series much quicker than usual.

Hell, the BBC even upped the number of episodes per series from 6 to 8 for the final two series to get the show up to the requisite number for syndication in the US (and diluting the quality of the show, as there was only one writer left by then). It's swings and roundabouts - without skytv's money, you wouldn't be watching BSG at all.

12-08-2003, 08:53 PM	#1
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12-20-2003, 05:03 PM	#2
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02-03-2004, 09:32 PM	#5
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	Battlestar Galactica to be a series Just got this of of moviehole: According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Sci Fi Channel has picked up the options last week on key cast members of the “Battlestar Galactica” mini-series – including Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Katee Sackhoff. The trade says the cable network is aiming to bow "Galactica" as a full-fledged series as early as fourth-quarter 2004. At least six episodes are expected to be shot in Vancouver as soon as April. The four-hour mini-series averaged 4.2 million viewers last year, making it the third-highest-rated multinight program Sci Fi has aired. Kickass! I enjoyed the mini series and I look forward to picking apart to series when it premieres.

03-11-2004, 04:18 PM	#7
Nikitabee S & C Fan Occasional Poster Join Date: Dec 07, 2003 Location: Oxfordshire, England. Posts: 91	I've only seen clips so far and wasn't overjoyed to see the cylons looking like humans. They useto scare the socks off me when i was little. They should have kept them the same, to scare a whole new generation They help make the show. And Starbuck a woman? I'll haveto wait until i see a full episode to judge properly though. Never know, might love it
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01-07-2005, 08:56 AM	#9
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12-20-2003, 09:43 PM	#3
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	I was going to post an in depth review of the mini series, but I didn't get around to writing it, and I forgot what I was going to say. But I really enjoyed the remake of "Battlestar" and I hope they make another mini series soon.

12-30-2003, 10:26 PM	#4
EricIdlefan June Bug & School's Out Forum Addict Join Date: Oct 12, 2003 Location: East TN Posts: 68,236	I hope they do too and I wished they put back on Babylon 5!!

02-03-2004, 09:36 PM	#6
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	Oh, I realized I just bumped up an old thread, but I don't give a rat's rear!

01-07-2005, 09:45 AM	#10
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	An edited version? That stinks. I was hoping Sci Fi Channel would run it again before the series premiered.

01-07-2005, 04:17 PM	#14
H. E. Pennypacker televisionrant.blogspot.c om Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 10, 2004 Location: Geelong-Melbourne, Australia Posts: 109	Either the finance was coming from Britain or they're using it as a test-market (likely) they seem to be very nervous about this. If I was anybody else producing a Science Fiction show I'd be the one who is nervous. Brannon Braga and Rick Berman should be breaking out into a cold sweat over this, Ron Moore leaves Voyager under bad circumstances and then comes back to make them all look like fools, with this very superior show. It's a shame that NBC is cutting the miniseries from 4 hours to 3, but what do you expect. Last year I downloaded an episode of Scrubs that had just aired in the US, no problem, then a few weeks back the same episode finally made it to Free to Air here in Australia, I saw two whole scenes on the Australian broadcast that were completely missing from my downloaded US version, I think this sort of thing is happening all of the time, basically Network TV in the US is slowly becoming either unworkable or unaffordable and they're having to fit more ads in to pay for it. Amazing that a country of 20 million (Australia) can sustain 5 free to air television stations (3 of them commercial networks, the other two public broadcasters) as well as 40 cable channels, and yet they don't have to show as many ads as a US TV Network in a country of 260 million plus! So what's up with this picture, the cost of production, basically TV shows cost a lot to produce, in Australia they get around this by not only producing their own shows but by buying overseas hits, a typical one hour drama in Australia probably costs $200,000 to $300,000 to make, the network doesn't cover all these costs and Australia is too small to have a syndication market so these shows have to attract overseas sales to survive, compare this to an episode of Scrubs which probably cost the network $20,000 to air twice. Australian productions are where Australian networks base their prestige or reputation, but they make their money on US shows which are cheap to buy (depending on their popularity - Murphy Brown, for example, was a big hit here and Warner Bros renegotiated with Channel Nine to sell the show for $100,000 an episode, this was around the time of Dan Quayle!) Maybe this is what US Networks will eventually need to do, in fact I don't know why they don't do it already. Take 'the office' for example, NBC is remaking this Britcom, unless Norman Lear is involved Britcom remakes seem to head south real quick (in fact there hasn't been a good Britcom remake since Three's Company which in the UK was 'Man About the House') WHY, Why not just save money and air the original (probably a lot cheaper than making something new I'll bet!) thereby cutting some costs. Think of all the money that has been wasted on the US Coupling or Payne or Men Behaving Badly or other Britcom remakes through the years, we all speak english so what's the problem! On the same subject I saw something freakish the other day on SBS (Australian Public Broadcaster [Special Broadcast Service] showing multi-cultural non-english speaking fare, South Park, and a lot of soccer!) it was a Turkish version of The Nanny, man it freaked me out, but this I understand because Turkish people don't speak English, so a new version of a Sitcom (humour is very dependant on language) is a good idea in that case, but not Britain to US!