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Battlestar spin-off wins series

Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spin-off, will be an intense family drama without spaceships.

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America’s Sci Fi Channel has greenlit Caprica, the prequel to hit series Battlestar Galactica, to a series.

Already a 2hr telemovie, Caprica will star Eric Stoltz (pictured), Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker, and will be set 50 years prior to Galactica‘s seminal attack on human civilization by the Cylons.

The Sci Fi Channel is aiming for an early 2010 premiere for the series, with production starting around the middle of next year, probably in Vancouver.

The cable network hopes to draw a broader audience to a series it sees as more compelling family drama than a “space opera.”

“We want people to come to this who have never heard of Battlestar Galactica ” Sci Fi’s Dave Howe said. “I think, because (‘Galactica’s’) backdrop was space and spaceships, there was a barrier to entry for some viewers. Caprica has none of that. It’s an intense family drama set on an Earth-like planet, in the near future, speaking to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly.”

Source: Variety

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  1. Yeah i think they are making am mistake by making this a series. Also the premise seems to contradict BSG.

    It’s Sci-Fi what can you expect? They cancelled Stargate Atlantis even though it rated well, to replace it with a new Stargate show to attract a wider audience. However the new show sounds lame. People trapped on a really old space ship that they can’t control in another galaxy. Also a younger crew = Stargate 90210 Voyager: Space 1999.

    Honestly will people pick up watching a new stargate series, who didn’t watch the 10 seasons of SG1 and the 5 seasons of Atlantis? Will people watch a BSG prequel who didn’t watch BSG? People want to watch the sci-fi channel for space and space ships and sci-fi!
    I think there’s a shift to refocus the networks audience. I believe it’s all newer management who seem to have contempt for the science fiction geek in people. Instead of catering better to the current audience and demographics, they believe the current viewers will watch anything Sci-Fi, anything BSG, anything Stargate, regardless of quality or relation to what they currently watch. So they want to water it down, make it as main stream as possible, and basically make the channel show content like any other channel, but with a slight sci-fi twist to the content to differentiate itself.

  2. “It’s an intense family drama set on an Earth-like planet, in the near future”

    On a sci-fi channel? wtf??

    more and more I think they’ll leave the finale of galactica having some sort of tie-in to Caprica.

    A 2 hour tele-movie:yes, possibly interesting. A series? I dont think it’ll work.

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