Galactica Wins Peabody

Who’da thunk it? A sci-fi show actually winning a Peabody Award?

The new Battlestar Galactica has won an award for 2006. (Okay. They also chose South Park. But really. That’s a brilliant show.)

Per the press release:

A belated, brilliantly re-imagined revival of a so-so 1970s outer-space saga, the series about imperiled survivors of a besieged planet has revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be “human.” NBC Universal Television Studio.

Makes you just want to give Baltar a big ol’ squishy hug, doesn’t it?

Fan club president race runs close

As we reported earlier, Lucasfilm is running a recruiting contest for the next Star Wars Fan Club president. Whoever gets the most referrals from people signing or renewing Hyperspace wins. The winner gets to be Fan Club president and an expense-paid trip to San Diego Comic-Con International, among other things.

It looks like it’s between Dustin Roberts and Tom ‘Uscwannabe’ Costabile. According to the leaderboard, Costabile is currently in the lead, having 29 bounties to Robert’s 26.

Costabile’s lead is all the more impressive since he doesn’t have two major fansites pimping him out several times a day. Or maybe Rebelscum and TFN readers are so annoyed with the Roberts news-flood they’re throwing votes to the competition? Hmm…