Battlestar Galactica
(12/2003 - present)



Airs: Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, (SciFi Channel)

DVD releases:

Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (12/28/04) [Buy It]
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (7/26/05 - U.K. Release)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (9/20/05 - U.S. Release) [Buy It]
Battlestar Galactica 2.0 - 1st half of season one (12/20/05) [Buy It]
Battlestar Galactica 2.5 (09/19/2006) [Buy It]


Premise:

"The Cylons were created by man.
They Rebelled.
They Evolved.
They look and feel Human.
Some are programmed to think they are human.
There are many copies.
And they have a plan."


Battlestar Galactica is a "re-imagining" of the Universal Studios late 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica.

News: (09/08/06) - Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of Battlestar Galactica, told fans at this year’s WorldCon that the third season will be a deadly one.

"Oh, there're some changes in the air," Moore said. "We're going to lose some people this year. Not all of our friends are going to make it all the way."

Moore added that the 2.5 DVD will include a special 90-minute version of the episode “Pegasus.”

(04/28/06) - On April 25 the SCIFI Channel has announced its development of Caprica, a spin-off prequel of Battlestar Galactica. The spin-off comes from executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.

The description giving is..."Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better."

"But a startling breakthrough in robotics is about to occur, one that will bring to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot: a Cylon. Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica), Caprica will weave together corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television's first science fiction family saga."

(03/09/06) - The SCI FI Channel has officially announced that Battlestar Galactica will return in October with a full 20-episode third season. Production begins in Vancouver, Canada, in April.

(02/06/06) - The SCI FI Channel has announced that Lucy Lawless is joining the cast of Battlestar Galactica in the upcoming third season. Lawless will reprise her role as D'Anna Biers in a 10-episode arc. Lawless appears next on February 24 in the episode "Downloaded."

(11/09/05) - According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC Universal has struck a deal with DirecTV to allow viewers to pay video-on-demand to watch current prime-time series hours after they air for free, including Battlestar Galactica and Surface.

NBC will be charging 99 cents per commercial-free episode. This news coincides with a similar announcement from CBS and Comcast and a rumored deal between ABC and Apple's iPod.

(10/31/05) - According to TV Week, the Sci Fi Channel has ordered a third season of Battlestar Galactica. No official word yet to confirm that or how many episodes have been ordered. The popular SF series did fall a bit in the ratings this season, second season dropped from an average of 1.7 million (18- to 49-year-old viewers) last year to 1.5 million.

(09/23/05) - Now Playing magazine has posted interviews about the upcoming episode "Pegasus."

(08/08/05) - Congrations to the cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica for winning the Hugo award for best dramatic presentation, short form, for its first-season premiere, "33."

(07/25/05) - Katee Sackhoff told SCI FI Wire that she asked the producers to expand a storyline in which her character finds romance. "I have a love interest that comes in in episode four and five, and he left," Sackhoff said. "He was gone. And I thought to bring him back, and it's a big deal to have to bring him back, because basically you have to go back to Caprica again. ... It's a huge thing. It's a couple of episodes, if not more than that, to bring his character back, and I fought for that because we have great chemistry and I enjoy him."

"She is extremely vulnerable, and extremely fragile," she said. "And she wants so badly to be loved. And she doesn't know how to do that. She's been hurt so many times in her life. The easiest way for her to feel loved is to have sex with somebody, to feel that immediate connection. And I think that when she [did] do that and realized that wasn't what [she] wanted, again, she leaves them. So that's why it's a string of men and it's only one time or two times. But I think with the man that she met on Caprica, she finally gave her heart to someone. And it's a big thing for her, and we've been seeing the emotional toll it has taken for her, because she misses him a lot."

(07/19/05) - Co-creator Ronald D. Moore revealed in a panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego that the Battlestar Pegasus will be appearing this season [episode 10], a returning element from the original series. David Eick, co-creator and executive producer gave SCI FI Wire a few more details.

"This really came out of a conversation Ron and I had early on about the episodes we had seen of the original show and what felt like they might be well served by a fresh interpretation," Eick said. "The storyline that we thought was interesting was the Battlestar Pegasus. And so, naturally, we put a pretty unexpected and, I think, pretty subversive spin on it. But it's definitely going to be a fixture for a while."

Eick said. "It stands to reason that in a show that's all about how we're all trying to survive this horrific attack by this inhuman enemy, that the thing that we're really exploring is not that threat from without, but how it turns itself inward and how it becomes insidious and internal, and how it begins to break us down from inside ourselves," he said. "And what better way to take that idea to the next level than to introduce another human being who, on the face of it, is going to help us defeat the Cylons, defeat that third outside enemy, once and for all, but in reality serves to only remind us once again that the biggest enemy is really us?"

(06/02/05) - [Warning: Spoilers] Series creator and executive producer Ronald D. Moore told Sci Fi Wire, that more characters die in the upcoming second season.

"Yes, there are a couple of familiar faces that will go down for the count," Moore said. "I would say the events of the end of last season [mark] the beginning of this season."

"Adama's (Edward James Olmos) shot. There's people stranded on Kobol. Kara's (Katee Sackhoff) back on Caprica. Those storylines continue; all those continue. I would say we don't wrap up season one until episode seven. Adama is not back on his feet anytime soon. Commander Tigh (Michael Hogan) is in charge of Galactica. Laura (Mary McDonnell) is in jail. There's a meteor crisis that follows the cliffhanger, and Tigh kind of steers them through that crisis successfully. But, you know, Tigh, he's probably the guy you don't want in charge."

"Things begin to unravel when [Tigh's] in charge of the fleet. He declares martial law at a certain point. There is an incident where he sends the troops to get supplies, because the ships are withholding supplies from Galactica. He says enough is enough and sends out the troops, and an incident happens, and people get killed. They shoot a bunch of civilians. It's a whole nightmare, and Laura starts an insurrection and the fleet divides. There's a lot of fallout from the events of the last season."

(02/23/05) - The SCI FI Channel has officially announced that the second season of Battlestar Galactica will premiere this summer, with 20 new episodes. The entire ensemble cast will return for season two.

(02/18/05) - According to Sy-Fy Portal, the second season will be 20 episodes.

(02/15/05) - It's official, the SCI FI Channel has announced that it has ordered a second season of Battlestar Galactica. Details of the renewal have not been revealed at this time.

[More News...]

Cast:

Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama
Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
Jamie Bamber as Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama
Katee Sackhoff as Lieutenant Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
Grace Park as Lieutenant Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii
James Callis as Dr. Gaius Baltar
Tricia Helfer as Number 6
Matthew Bennett as Aaron Doral
Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya
Aaron Douglas as Chief Petty Officer Tyrol
Michael Eklund as Deckhand Prosna
Alessandro Juliani as Lt. Gaeta
Anne Lockhart as Lt. Sheba
Kandyse McClure as Dualla
Connor Widdows as Boxey


Crew:

Ronald D. Moore - Executive Producer
David Eick - Executive Producer


Episode List









Episode #Prod #Original
Air Date		 Episode Title
 
 
TV Miniseries
  M-1 08-Dec-2003 Mini Series - Part 1
  M-2 09-Dec-2003 Mini Series - Part 2
Season One
1. 1-110114-Jan-2005 33
2. 1-210214-Jan-2005 Water
3. 1-310321-Jan-2005 Bastille Day
4. 1-410428-Jan-2005 Act of Contrition
5. 1-510504-Feb-2005 You Can't Go Home Again
6. 1-610611-Feb-2005 Litmus
7. 1-710718-Feb-2005 Six Degrees of Separation
8. 1-810825-Feb-2005 Flesh and Bone
9. 1-910904-Mar-2005 Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
10. 1-1011011-Mar-2005 The Hand of God
11. 1-1111118-Mar-2005 Colonial Day
12. 1-1211225-Mar-2005 Kobol's Last Gleaming (1)
13. 1-1311301-Apr-2005 Kobol's Last Gleaming (2)
Season Two
14. 2-115-Jul-2005 Scattered
15. 2-222-Jul-2005 Valley of Darkness
16. 2-329-Jul-2005 Fragged
17. 2-405-Aug-2005 Resistance
18. 2-512-Aug-2005 The Farm
19. 2-619-Aug-2005 Home: Part 1
20. 2-726-Aug-2005 Home: Part 2
21. 2-809-Sep-2005 Final Cut
22. 2-916-Sep-2005 Flight of the Phoenix
23. 2-1023-Sep-2005 Pegasus
24. 2-1106-Jan-2006 Resurrection Ship (1)
25. 2-1213-Jan-2006 Resurrection Ship (2)
26. 2-1320-Jan-2006 Epiphanies
27. 2-1427-Jan-2006 Black Market
28. 2-1503-Feb-2006 Scar
29. 2-1610-Feb-2006 Sacrifice
30. 2-1717-Feb-2006 The Captain's Hand
31. 2-1824-Feb-2006 Downloaded
32. 2-1903-Mar-2006 Lay Down Your Burdens (1)
33. 2-2010-Mar-2006 Lay Down Your Burdens (2)
Special
34. 2-215-Sep-2006 Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance (Web series)
Season Three
35. 3-16-Oct-2006 Occupation
36. 3-26-Oct-2006 Precipice
37. 3-313-Oct-2006 Exodus, Part 1
38. 3-420-Oct-2006 Exodus, Part 2
39. 3-527-Oct-2006 Collaborators
40. 3-603-Nov-2006 Torn (1)
41. 3-710-Nov-2006 A Measure of Salvation (2)
42. 3-817-Nov-2006 Hero
43. 3-924-Nov-2006 Unfinished Business
44. 3-1001-Dec-2006 The Passage
45. 3-1108-Dec-2006 The Eye of Jupiter (1)
46. 3-1205-Jan-2007 Rapture (2)
47. 3-1312-Jan-2007 Taking a Break from All Your Worries





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