The new Battlestar Galactica episodes will begin in April. No word on the second half half of the season.
Video du Jour: Sci-Fi’s multiple personalities
The good: Battlestar Galactica season 4 preview. Have you accepted Baltar as your personal Jesus?
The bad: Tin Man trailer. DG? Yellow Brick Route? The O.Z? WTF?
Eureka! We have another season
SciFi has announced that we’re getting another season of Eureka. Per SyFyPortal, Eureka did very well for the network this season.
Color me happy. (Although hopefully not gold that soon gets eaten away, as happened on this week’s episode.)
SGA This Friday. News at Eleven.
So it looks like a full-court press for Stargate Atlantis, this year. Both MGM and SciFi have been offering up the interviews and press events to get the word out that the new season of Stargate Atlantis starts this Friday at 10pm, Eastern, on SciFi.
A round-up of the coverage:
– Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) can be found on GateWorld, SyFyPortal and MultiChannelJewel Staite (formerly of Firefly, now Dr. Keller) shares the love with GateWorld.
– And Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan) shares some broad stroke story tidbits and her surprise at how well the producers took the news of her pregnancy.
BSG news out of Dragon*Con
I’m not sure how many CJers actually made it into any of the Battlestar Galactica panels, but for those wondering what the big news was, SyFy Portal has a report: It seems that Jamie Bamber claimed that Sci-Fi’s plan right now is to split the next (and last!) season into two parts – and not airing the second until 2009. Seeing as how bad Sci-Fi is at learning their lessons when it comes to scheduling (among other things) it’s more than a little plausible.
Or it was all a joke. Okay… This is the Sci-Fi Channel we’re talking about, after all. (Thanks, Scoke!)
In a related personal anecdote, Helen and I figured out how to save BSG from being so relentlessly depressing – add a class clown. See, Wash didn’t die. He just fell through a wormhole and ended up on the Galactica. It could totally happen!
SciFi Fall Lineup Announced
Time to program those TiVo’s. SciFi has put their fall line-up out for the world to see.
Stargate Atlantis will be premiering on September 28th in the Friday, 10pm timeslot. Per GateWorld, they’re actually planning to (shocker) run the season all the way through. (Dare to dream that there won’t be a six-month, ratings-plummeting break between halves!)
Battlestar Galactica geeks can take some solace that although Razor won’t premiere until November 24th, “mini-sodes” will be airing during Flash Gordon. (Hey. They have to try and salvage that show somehow!)
Sci-Fi Channel: Farscape lives! Sort of.
Yesterday, Sci-Fi Channel announced that they’ll be producing 10 webisodes of Farscape. No stars are attached but hopes are high it could leave to a revival of the popular series. Among Sci-Fi’s other announcements is a second Battlestar Galactica webisode arc, a six-hour miniseries based on The Odyssey and co-created by Farscape and Stargate SG-1 actor Ben Browder, and of course Battlestar Galactica: Razor, which is due on November 24th.
Do they realize how ironic this is?
The temptation! This wouldn’t normally be something we’d include on this page. But I just had to.
You have to acknowledge some amusement when SciFi hosts a contest in which you can die in an upcoming original SciFi movie (many of which have died in the ratings on more than one occasion or marked the death of many an acting career).
Go! Be a part of the Crappy Movie Hall of Fame!
Sci-Fi Channel reports 4th quarter ratings
Much has been made of Battlestar Galactica’s ratings ‘slip’ this season, but Sci-Fi reports that the second half of season 3 rose 8% from the second half of season 2, and that it’s making significant gains with (shock!) female viewers. Eureka also did well, with the series premiere being the highest-rated and most-watched series in network history.
Hide your eyes!
The Sci-Fi Channel is doing a makeover on The Wizard of Oz. I’ll let the article speak for itself:
Using adjectives such as psychedelic, twisted and bizarre to describe “Tin Man,” Sci Fi said the mini turns Dorothy into a young woman named DG, who finds herself plunged into a netherworld called the Outer Zone. Other celebrated characters are reimagined in “Tin Man”: the cowardly lion as a wolverine-like creature without backbone, the wicked witch as a sorceress called Azkadellia and the wizard as a larger-than-life figure called the Mystic Man.
Umm…