menuBarBack
Beam Up News | Join | Your Account
Home
Advanced Search
boxBottom
News Tribblets
boxBottom
Stardates Calendar
News Story

Features

Ronald D. Moore's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Set for Summer Season Two Premiere

Features

By Steve Krutzler / 10:14, 23 February 2005 / General Genre/SciFi

The Sci-Fi Channel announced today that the second season of former STAR TREK writer Ronald D. Moore's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA will debut this summer. The first season of thirteen episodes is currently airing Friday nights on the cable network.

According to a network release, BATTLESTAR has averaged over 3 million viewers since its January 14th debut in the U.S. The show has become "a ratings juggernaut, catapulting SCI FI to the top spot in cable among P25-54 for five consecutive Fridays," reads the release.

The second season order is for 20 episodes that will begin production in Vancouver, Canada next month. No exact date has been set for the show's summer 2005 premiere. Sci-Fi reports that the entire cast will return to their roles and Moore and producer David Eick will continue on. BATTLESTAR is Sci-Fi's highest-rated original series.

BSG airs Friday nights at 10 PM and season one also features the work of DS9 writers Bradley Thompson and David Weddle.



More Top StoriesComments
Nov 24Cover and Info for Star Trek Movie Adaptation Comic Book2
Nov 24Scott Bakula on Why He Played the Role of Captain Archer in Enterprise6
Nov 24Leonard Nimoy Talks About Star Trek XII and (Not) Watching New Movie with Shatner0
Nov 23J.J. Abrams and Chris Pine Talk How Gratifying That Star Trek was Well Received, Working with Leonard Nimoy and Star Trek XII4
Nov 23Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.0
Story Archives...Browse:   

Talkback

15 comments Post New | Help
View:

RE: Imagine, if you will... | Report this post to moderator
By: cooper2000 (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:26:32 on Feb 23, 2005

Probably none thats why it;s not being shopped around. Enterprise is a ratings and money loser.

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top

RE: Imagine, if you will... | Report this post to moderator
By: Brikar (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:58:31 on Feb 23, 2005 | Edit History (1)

There's no reason to believe that "Enterprise" would have been successful on the Sci-Fi Channel. Sci-Fi is a cable channel, and one with only about 80 or 90 million subscribers that I'd last heard. UPN on the other hand, is a network, broadcast freely for anyone who can pick it up. It's impossible to assume that all of ENT's viewers would follow it to Sci-Fi.

Plus, there's Prometheus' point that Sci-Fi doesn't really have the money for the series. They had to cut a deal with their UK counterpart just to pay for "Battlestar Galactica".

--------

"Serenity" is the movie "Star Wars" prequels wish they could be.

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top
RE: Imagine, if you will... by Cyrus @ 17:57:17 on Feb 23
RE: Imagine, if you will... by Sam Cogley @ 11:47:29 on Feb 23
    RE: Imagine, if you will... by Brikar @ 12:13:39 on Feb 23

Their plate is full... | Report this post to moderator
By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:40:36 on Feb 23, 2005

...They have more original programming (Scare Tactics, et al notwithstanding) than they ever have. I doubt they have the money.

Even if they did Paramount isn't interested. They want to put the animal down (bitter irony that they do so only now that it's getting good)

As for BSG...bring it on. I can't wait.

--------

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture." ---Pastor Ray Mummert speaking of those who favor Darwinian Evolution over Intelligent Design.

"If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty Humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being." ---Gene Roddenberry

Reply
Reply
Quote
Quote
Parent
Parent
Talkback Top
Top
Promenade










TrekWeb Merchants
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.ca
Amazon.de
Barnes & Noble

Get Firefox!
Privacy Policy | About Us | Legal Notice | Contact Us | | Get Firefox!
© 1996-2009 TrekWeb.com and Steve Krutzler. All rights reserved.