BattleStar Galactica: Blood and Chrome

[Krakalakachkn]

I never watched Caprica, but I heard it was a good show.

 

Syfy has officially cancelled their "Battlestar Galactica" spin-off prequel "Caprica" after less than one season reports Entertainment Weekly.

 

Reviews were decent for the series, which looked into the first developments of Cylon technology, but ratings were dismal with only around 1.1-1.3 million viewers tuning in for the first nine episodes early this year. The second half began airing earlier this month to even worse numbers with just 710,000 tuning into last week's episode.

 

Syfy says the remaining five first run episodes have been pulled from the schedule and will be burned off sometime in the first quarter of 2011 to conclude the run of the series.

 

The news comes a week after another prequel series, "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome", was announced. That more action-oriented show, set during the First Cylon War and following a 20-something William Adama as he is first assigned to the Galactica, has not been affected by this announcement.

[AndrewLee]

I liked it. Kind of annoyed now.  

[Krakalakachkn]

Production has officially begun in Vancouver on Syfy's highly anticipated two-hour pilot "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome".

 

The synopsis reads as follows: "The action is set in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the twelve colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot named William Adama (Luke Pasqualino), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful Battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica.

 

Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly find himself at odds with Coker (Ben Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet."

 

Universal Cable Productions will produce the series "utilizing cutting edge CGI and virtual technology" according to the press release.