Luke Pasqualino as William Adama in the Blood & Chrome pilot.
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And the fact is, Battlestar Galactica fans are unanimous in wanting to see Blood & Chrome as a real, live series, with all the battles and bloodletting to wash our minds of the failure of the talky, too-slow-to-boot-up Caprica. Nevermind that Syfy has said pretty definitively that the prequel is not going to series and further development will be web only (the latest official word, in March). We want B&C. So say we all.
But the hope-inflating comments from SDCC need to be looked at carefully. Asked about B&C, Richard Hatch said he thought the property was still viable. The powers that be are still figuring out where to place it, Hatch said. A Syfy representative in the audience offered a "Soon!" when someone asked when it would be available, according to one report. BSG series co-executive producer and writer Jane Espensen smiliarly indicated that B&C still has a future. But none of that contradicts what Syfy has already said, which is that it will air the 90-minute pilot on Syfy and that the project may still be developed as a digital series.
When Syfy honcho Mark Stern says something to equivocate the network's previous statement that B&C is going to be a digital series if it's anything at all--and the economics of that might not be decided until after Syfy gauges the fans' reaction to the pilot when it airs--then I'll start to get excited. (We'll get some kind of clue if Syfy makes an event out of airing the pilot, as opposed to slipping it under the radar in the dead of the holidays like it did for Three Inches.
Meanwhile, we can get our BSG kicks watching a growly, hate-filled Michael Hogan sneer, shout, and stab everything in sight on Teen Wolf.
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I truly hope that the powers that be like Mark Stern come to the realization that scifi lovers yearn for quality science fiction storytelling and not the mundane, uncreative, crap they air on that network (SyFy) most of the time. The Battlestar Galactica universe has had incredible success and has a huge following, and I believe that there were important lessons learned from Caprica to make B&C really good. I hope there are people like Stern who will for once listen to the public and provide a quality story that so many yearn to enjoy. Grow some balls Stern and figure out whats good science fiction and whats not, cuz you dont have a very good track record. The SyFy network is plummeting because of you.
Fact is that SyFy is losing its core fan base… science fiction fans. Imagine a sci fi channel that shows sci fi. I think that once they changed the channel to SyFy they basically bailed on thier fan base. No more Stargate, Eureka, and no more Galactica. Caprica was just starting to do it’s thing. What is left…WWE, supposed reality spook/ paranormal shows, countless vampire inspired crap and sub par movies. Only things worth watching even remotely sci fi left is Warehouse 13, Haven and Merlin. Throw sci fi fans a bone and give us something like we used to have with series such as Galactica, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and Space Above and Beyond. Give us Blood and Chrome, you owe us.
I’ve given up on sifi. Their programming execs are all morons. No surprise that it’s Universal NBC, the same geniuses that gives us MSNBC.
But I need to say a word about Caprica. It was a different beast than BSG, the greatest tv show in the history of the medium. Caprica was more intellectual and serial. Yet it was a truly brilliant and fantastic show with incredible acting, plots and f/x. It is a better show than almost anything airing on tv today, hands down. And vastly better than anything sifi shows in their lineup.
I’m frankly tired of watching executives debate and decide on this issue.
IT’S FRAKKIN’ BATTLESTAR GALACTICA YOU MORONS! THE FIRST ONE YOU FUNDED GOT YOU INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION INCLUDING THE UNITED NATIONS AND A FOLLOWING OF MILLIONS!
Get your heads together and greenlight the series for god’s sake.
Sy Fail has been on a continuous downward spiral abandoning great projects for what essentially looks like a once great family member lost in a crack binge with simply un-acceptable reality based programming. Let’s either have an intervention or simply have management committed for the insanity of abandoning everything that’s right.
I couldn’t agree more. I actually remember when it was SciFi and their oprogramming was top notch. Once the pos corporate souless cretans of mediocrity got their hands on it, SyFy was born and a plethora of mindless sheep driven programming flooded the channel. It’s truly a sad day when society actually finds reality tv entertaining. Unfortunately, I do not see any network coming out to emancipate scifi fans from this jailor of apathy….
I am about to start my third viewing of the complete BSG series. This was one of the most intelligent series on TV. Please produce Blood and Chrome.
Yeh, after a decade of reruns, years of Stargate lamity’, (gawd’,…Stargate…) old movies and newer lamer’ SyFy original movies, SyFy was finally redeemed by great writing and production quality in shows like Farscape, Eureka, and Galactica only to turn a blind eye to the type of great writing that gave real weight to the term “SyFy original”. We’ll see what happens.
They say that syfy is trying to work out the economics? Well I have a very simple solution stop wasting money on those stupid syfy original movies that no one in their right mind would spend 2 hours of their life watching. BSG was the best syfy series ever, so why would they have a hard time working out the economics? The reason why is that for the same budget they could produce a bunch of reality shows and get paid the same for advertising and still raise the cost to cable and satellite providers every time the contract ends. Today we pay more than ever for tv programming and now all we get is a bunch of frakin reality shows.
I’m starting to think we need a new Sci-Fi channel, one that shows Sci-Fi instead of all that reality-tv crap. They managed to DESTROY Stargate, the one show I didn’t think ANYONE could screw-up. I was wrong.
I’m willing to pay to watch Blood & Chrome, but those idiots at NBC apparently don’t want my money. Guess Amazon will have to sell me other shows then. Their loss. Why would ANYONE spend that much money to produce a series, and then not release it to the core fans in a reasonable time-frame? They have lost the majority of their sci-fi fan base, and some other production company should step up to the plate and capitalize on that fact.
There’s no cure for SyFylus.
Syfy channel is nbc. nuff said.. Set the bar as low as it can go, and you still have it set to high.
BSG is the most addictive show! Every time I watch it through again, I find something new. This time, I really paid attention to the whole Final Five family and the Cain/Abel issues with Cavil and Daniel. I just want more! There is so much that could be produced. The angels that were seen in Caprica (series), the angels in BSG (Cara, her father, Guis, Caprica 6)…it all ties together! I want more!
SyFy isn’t even recognizable anymore. Why is WWE considered SciFi anyway?
Can you please explain to me WHY THE HELL they keep trying to go to Syfy? Caprica might have actually survived on another network – no one watches SyFy because it’s utter trash, not mentioning that Caprica was sub par.
Syfy won’t take B and C? GO TO TNT. Go. To. T.N.T. They’ve already proven in 20 episodes of Falling Skies that they can outdo Syfy and everything theyve done for the past 12 years (excluding BSG which isn’t to their credit.) Granted FS does have Spielberg but RDM far outweighs Spielberg as a TV creator.
It’s getting old. Get off of Syfy, they’re terrible. They air wrestling, and megaoctopus vs supersnail, and ghost shows, and everything but science fiction. They don’t have rights to your show.
You’re assuming that the guy at the piano was her father, which was never officially answered . They did that on purpose to make fans involved. He was an angel probably, but there’s no point in trying to make anything involving the angels again. And, screw you, the stargate commenter. Stargate is one of the biggest and longest running franchises in history, including Dr. Who, Star Trek, and star wars. Stargate was perfectly fine until SGU which was just plain terrible.
SYFY should sell the Battlestar Gallatica series to Netflix, since it is completely obvious that SYFY executives don’t like the series. Two years is long enough. Come to think of it, SYFY should change their name, since there’s nothing really SCI FI about that channel.
for the love of the GODS Would syfy get there heads out of there asses and sell blood & chrome to TNT or to anyone else who will show it?? I CANT TAKE IT!! how much longer are they gonna dick around here?? its unbelievable this delay!!
It is rediculous that “SyFy” continues to cancel and not pick up so many high quality Science Fiction shows. The channel has abandoned it’s core base and is in a death spiral. Watching what’s happening to this station is almost as entertaining as what happened to SOE when they rammed the “NGE” down Star Wars Galaxies fans throats.
There’s an old adage: Never forget the folks who got you there.
Sci-Fi channel became what it was by giving science fiction fans a place to go to watch the type of content they wanted to watch. Unfortunately they sold out and have cancelled just about every quality show left and nobody is sure how much longer those shows have before they, too, are replaced by reality TV or wrestling lineups of shows.
Sad really… Sci-Fi channel was one of my favorites… I only check into SyFy, now, however to watch few remaining shows they have. It’s not a channel I default to anymore. And even the shows I do watch I tend to DVR now rather than watching live. Frankly I wish one of the other stations would buy the contracts for the few remaining decent shows on syfy and just let the channel collapse under it’s own weight.
Brother works with the SyFy people. I pissed and moaned about this to him. He said those stupid SyFy movies take a couple of million to make and they get high ratings, (don’t say people don’t watch them). The TV show would take a couple of million PER episode and a fraction of viewers as the movie. He said it was all about ratings and $. And the show just doesn’t have it right now.
I was not happy with that answer.
I think syfy should pull their heads out of there asses or sell BSG Blood & Chrome to someone who would do it and us sci-fi fans some good. Sell it to maybe Netfix, TNT, AMC, or even HBO. Someone who’s not afraid to spend some money on a good series to make more. Or better yet, make it a 2D/3D Movie series and put it in the theatres once to four times a year. I’m sure it would make millions if not billions. It would definetly make more money than 5 of those cheesy SYFY movies put together. It could even beat out Avengers, Titanic, or STAR WARS. There you go, sell it to George Lucas…………….Frak SYFY. Bring back SCI-FI. And end those stupid reality tv shows and wrestling line ups.
The only reason I watched SYFY was for Battlestar Galactica. That was a great series line with a well done storyline. I also got into the Caprica series until that got canceled. Everything else on the SYFY network is FRAKing GARBAGE!!! There is nothing else on that channel worth watching anymore! I was really looking forward to getting hooked on another Battlestar Gallactica prequel. However that will never happen thanks to the SYFY executives (who are guaranteed to be clueless as to what good Science Fiction is). Hell netflix has a better Scifi selection than the SyFy channel so that is where I will go to get my SciFi fix. And just like MTV, the Syfy network will become another unused, unwatched channel on my cable box.
SyFy the Chanel that hates sci fi WTF give us what was making you destination viewing quality sci fi, time to put out Battlestar Galactica Blood & Chrome even if it’s just dvd release.
I loved BSG and enjoyed Caprica, its pace and deep psychological issues. I was looking forward to Blood and Chrome, checking the web intermittently to find out the release date. Now it feels like a funeral for BGS, a true end. So sad. So say we all.
I’m not surprises to read all these negatieve comments about syfy. I’m still waiting for a good new series with some awsome spacefights and a good storyline. B & C had my hopes up, but I guess I’ll be waiting some more.
I am pretty disgusted with the SYFY channel – i have read their comments about what they want the channel to be – that it is more than Science Fiction – and if that is how they feel then they have missed the boat – for them to not take BSG: Blood and Chrome seriously enough to make a TV series then they don’t get it at all. What i see on the SYFY channel are B movies and programs that are so awful i can’t even believe people watch that crap. There needs to be a new TV channel that really is SciFi – grrrr SciFi when made well is intelligent, and insightful, and intriguing and all of what makes a good movie – not all this junk they keep airing like SyFY is about bad horror crap
I though someone at the channel finally pulled their head out of there ass. A reason to actually go to ????? What was that channel again.
Not making this a series is stupid ….sell it to someone with balls.