Battlestar Galactica Fan Community

see yourself become the villain

2008-07-27T00:43:07Z

Here is a bunch of icons from Unfinished Business Version: Extended. Hope you like!

Teasers

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see them @ my journal loveclaireicons.

Season 4.0 DVD coming to Europe as early as October

2008-07-26T18:54:30Z

You all know how this works:

The Americans and Canadians have to wait ages for their Region 1 DVDs (Season 4.0 on the penultimate day of this year) but their sets are usually chock full with extras such as deleted scenes, podcasts, video blogs, specials, choice between different episode lengths and so on.

In stark contrast to that, European/Australian Region 2 sets are barely more than bare-bones episodes in a nice package but at least we get them a lot earlier.

Hence, Season 4.0 will come to Europe as early as 6 October (Amazon DE, Amazon UK), at a price of around 25 pound / 43 euros (that's more than 65 rupees, uh, dollars).

Wanna buy a used Mark II Viper?

2008-07-26T02:06:23Z

NBC UNIVERSAL TELEVISION, DVD, MUSIC, AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP TEAMS WITH PROPWORX TO AUCTION OFF COSTUMES, PROPS AND SET PIECES FROM SCI FI CHANNEL'S HIT SERIES 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA'

More Than 3000 One-of-a-Kind Items Including "Admiral Adama's" Uniform And "Starbuck's" Flight Suit Will Be Offered In Two Live Auctions and Several Online Auctions To Coincide With The Final Episodes of the Series

BURBANK, Calif. - July 24, 2008 -- NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group and Propworx are teaming to auction off props, costumes and key memorabilia from Sci Fi Channel's hit series Battlestar Galactica. The award-winning drama, currently in its fourth and final season, will present its remaining 10 episodes early next year and as the series draws to a close, fans will have a chance to bid on more than 3,000 items including costumes, props and set pieces that range from the uniform worn by "Admiral William Adama" (Edward James Olmos) to a life-sized Centurion costume.

NBC Universal and Propworx will conduct two live auctions in Los Angeles, along with a series of Internet auctions at BattlestarProps.com, in tandem with the airing of the final episodes. Items that will be available to purchase include a wide variety of costumes and props that fans have come to know and love, including the flight suits worn by "Starbuck" (Katee Sackhoff) and "Apollo" (Jamie Bamber), several life sized Vipers and Raptors and Cylon Raiders, as well as pieces of the Combat Information Center (CIC).

"Battlestar Galactica is an incredible series that has drawn critical praise as well as tremendous fan support," said Stacey Ward, Director, NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music, and Consumer Products Group. "We are really proud to be able to give fans a chance to bid on their favorite costume, prop or a piece of the set in this unique auction setting."

"This is an amazing opportunity for the passionate and loyal fans of Battlestar Galactica to own a piece of their favorite show," said Alec Peters, chief executive officer of Propworx. "There will be something for everyone in every price range. If you saw it on the show, we will most likely be selling it!"

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Michael Hogan to attend London MCM Expo in October

2008-07-25T21:23:22Z

Today the operators of London MCM Expo announced the first BSG guest for their October event: Michael Hogan.

Attending both days (25-26 October), Hogan will come to a European event for the very first time. London MCM Expo are a series of collectors fairs featuring a couple of (cramped) autograph booths and a small number of talks/panels.

Their previous event (May 2008) was attended by Aaron Douglas, Alessandro Juliani, Edward J. Olmos and Rekha Sharma, among other genre guests. You can watch one of their panels here.

Edit: Aaron Douglas had to cancel Galactica Four (8-10 August in London).

eric stoltz discusses caprica (sort of)

2008-07-25T15:09:26Z

yay! people are starting to discuss the show!

io9.com has a short-ish interview with eric stoltz over here. there are no spoilers for the pilot/movie, only perhaps a few mentions of the premise and characters.

scifi100 - kara/lee batch #3

2008-07-25T07:12:53Z

This is my third batch of icons for scifi100

Topic: Battlestar Galactica
Subject: Kara/Lee
Themes: cold, hero, hot, stars, time run + 22 artist choice icons (019 - 040)
Total 21/50 themed & 40/50 artist's choice

Teasers:

the rest @ creative_muse

New Battlestar Galactica Knol

2008-07-25T05:27:58Z

I have created a VERY BASIC knol on Battlestar Galactica. You can see it here. Like I said, it is very basic as of this writing and am looking for collaborators. If you are interested in helping me develop this knol, please contact me.

FYI What is a knol? Knol is Google's new service that is their 'answer' to wikipedia.

In case anyone's interested...

2008-07-25T01:57:08Z

So i'm in San Diego at Comic Con. I've been doing picspams each night. Some good BSG stuff from today.

Wednesday (Preview)
Thursday

Saturday will have more BSG stuff as well.

Interviews with Grace Park and Jamie Bamber

2008-07-25T00:22:04Z

A FHM interview with Grace with a lot of sexy pictures. http://www.fhmonline.com/girls_girls_of_fhm_article.asp?cnl_id=1&stn_id=1&idx_id=6350
She talks about The Cleaner and BSG. There's one little bit of info that might be considered a little spoilery that pleased me very much. :)

Another very long interview with Grace: http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18932§ionId=7

And in case you haven't seen this already, here is, well, not a proper interview, but an article with quotes by Jamie Bamber. He is another cast member who claims that the finale is amazing, the best thing Ron has ever written, and he says that it answers all the questions.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=57983&type=0

BSG Spoof

2008-07-24T21:38:13Z

BSG Babes Posters

2008-07-24T17:58:16Z

Found this at ThinkGeek: Battlestar Babes Posters by Steve Anderson. Pretty nifty, and I'm a fan of Anderson's work. Just wanted to share with you all.

Michael Rymer to direct Witchblade movie

2008-07-23T21:31:03Z

This will be so much awesome I may need an oxygen tank when I watch it.

And, any ideas on who he might pick as a lead? (Not that I have anyone in mind... ;) )

Icon Contest for SCIFI movies and tv shows

2008-07-23T19:11:59Z

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A BRAND NEW COMMUNITY!

For all scifi movies and tv shows!!!

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Come and join!! :)

Rekha Sharma Slice Of SciFi Interview

2008-07-23T14:30:34Z

The 12th July Slice Of SciFi show has an interview with Rekha Sharma. It starts about 30 minutes in the podcast. No spoilers for unaired episodes (the spoiler alert is for The Ties That Bind).

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/07/12/slice-of-scifi-169/

Old Tricia Helfer Modelling Editorial

2008-07-23T10:42:40Z

I came across some HQ scans of an editorial which features Tricia from a 98 issue of Arena Magazine that I thought I'd share. I hadn't seem some of them before and figured they would be new to some others as well.

You can view them at my livejournal here

NSFW

caprica?

2008-07-23T10:19:54Z

is this a promo shot for caprica? i googled the show and this is one of the things that came up, but since i'm not familiar with esai morales' previous work it might well be a promo shot for something else he's done. am curious, because i'd love to see some promo shots for caprica, if they're out there somewhere. :)

Cylon Computers

2008-07-23T00:05:06Z

So I was walking around Tulane University and saw this fountain and just had to share. Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a computer on a basestar?? </nerdiness>

The sex appeal of law enforcement

2008-07-22T21:05:44Z

Fellow Caprica City user cassie00 drew my attention to what our beloved BSG actors' next projects have in common:

Jamie Bamber - plays a cop in "Law & Order: UK"
Aaron Douglas - plays a cop in "The Bridge"
Grace Park - plays an agent of the Immigration and Customs Security agency in "The Border"
Tahmoh Penikett - plays an FBI agent in "Dollhouse"

See the pattern?

Edit:
Tricia Helfer - secret government agent in "Burn Notice" (thx vivianc1968)
Katee Sackhoff - considered for cop role in "CSI" (thx asta77)

Lucy Lawless will be at Comic Con

2008-07-22T20:29:13Z

Lucy Lawless will be at Comic-Con.

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Thursday, July 24 @ 4:45-5:45 "SCREAM" Like a Girl
Spike loves women. And the coolest women on the planet are the ones who destroy aliens, defeat serial killers and battle evil villains with their superpowers! In honor of Spike's ScreamAwards 2008--the first and most important televised event that celebrates the genius creative talent behind the powerhouse Hollywood genres of comic books, science fiction, fantasy and horror--Spike brings you a candid discussion of these genres from the women they love, who are poised to rule the fanboy's universe! Moderator Kevin Smith (Clerks), the brilliant writer, director, and comic book genius hosts an all-female panel of actresses, artists, writers, directors, and producers, including Gale Ann Hurd (Terminator, Terminator 2), Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica), Jaime King (The Spirit, Sin City), and Pia Guerra (Y: The Last Man), in a discussion about working in these genres from their unique point of view. Twenty lucky panel attendees will win tickets to the 2008 Scream Awards. Ballroom 20

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci08_prog_thu.php
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Bodie Olmos will be at Comic Con

2008-07-22T16:45:46Z

http://www.diamondselecttoys.com/article.asp?ai=72555

Battlestar Galactica's Bodie Olmos will be appearing at the DST booth on Friday and Saturday and will be signing autographs in both the mornings and afternoons of each day. Autograph tickets will be included in one of two packages: 1) $20 for one autograph ticket and one 8×10 photo or 2) $25 for one autograph ticket and one "Hot Dog" action figure.

Caprica trailer

2008-07-21T22:35:10Z

Caprica trailer shown at the TCA press tour

Edit: The LA Times has a better version, but I wasn't able to make the embed work over here. That's why I uploaded their file to YouTube.

Maureen Ryan Interview with Ron Moore

2008-07-21T20:47:22Z

The full interview with Ron which covers BSG and Caprica can be found here. Maureen put what she thought might be a spoiler at the end of the interview, but I don't feel it's a spoiler, just Ron's way of phrasing something.

Here are some of the highlights she listed from the interview:

* The proposed 'Battlestar Galactica" TV movie would take place during the time frame of previous seasons, but it would air after the series finale.

* (SciFi President Dave) Howe said the final episodes of 'Battlestar' will begin airing in January.

* The final set of episodes will be at least 11 hours long, and the series finale will occupy three of those hours. However, there’s a chance that the series finale could expand even more.

* The 'Battlestar' series finale will definitely expand on DVD. Regardless of the length of the finale that airs on Sci Fi next year, an even longer cut will be released on DVD.

* Howe said that if 'Caprica' gets a full series order, it will air in 2009. If 'Caprica', which was written by Moore and Remi Aubuchon, does not get a series order and airs as a standalone 2-hour movie, it could air this fall.

* Regarding when the network would decide whether to pick 'Caprica' as a full series, Howe said the decision would come in September. He and his team are considering two other pilots as well, 'Revolution' and 'Warehouse 13.' Executives will get a cut of 'Caprica' in early August, then decide in September whether it will become a series.

* Howe said if 'Caprica' does get a series order, it will not be something that is designed to end after 13 episodes. It’ll be a regular series that could potentially go on for years, not a limited-run series.

Oh, and contradicting what I just posted from the SciFi Wire:

MR: Indeed. As far as Webisodes, are they still happening?

RDM: Yes, they haven’t shot them yet, they haven’t made the announcement yet. They haven’t locked down the cast. [laughs] I’m not sure what they do in business affairs, but they haven’t locked down all these contracts yet. But yeah, there’s an intention to do them, 10 of them.

MR: Who wrote them?

RDM: Jane, I believe, wrote them. [Mo here: Jane Espenson co-wrote them with "Battlestar" writer Seamus Kevin Fahey. An fyi to readers: I am going to do more checking on the Webisodes. I am going to ask Sci Fi executives if they still intend to make the them and I’ll also ask when the Webisodes would debut.]

So SciFi is announcing the webisdoe will air before Season 4.5, yet they haven't been filmed nor is a cast in place?

Battestar Galactica Season 4.5 Webisodes

2008-07-21T19:50:22Z

From SciFi Wire:

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 Webisodes. With the fourth and final season of SCI FI's award-winning series coming to a close, fans can view Galactica Webisodes as they return in the weeks leading up to the final 10 episodes of the show. SCIFI.COM and Universal Cable Production will produce 10 two- and three-minute serialized Webisode chapters, which will complement and enhance the series.

A (sort of) Star Wars/BSG link

2008-07-21T16:13:49Z

Most people know, or at least can tell, that the original Battlestar show was heavily inspired by Star Wars.

Over here on the Official Star Wars blog, there's a story about some rare art that was found, by legendary artist Ralph McQuarrie. In it, there's mention of work he did for, and inspiration of, designs for the original BSG.

"The landing bays on the original ’70s Galactica spaceship were originally located at the back end of the ship — Ralph felt they should be moved away from the hull in case of a landing mishap, and so were born the signature “appendage” landing bays on the original Galactica"

The story is a treat not only for Star Wars and BSG fans, but also for those who love learning about the conception and design of shows and movies. I've been amazed by McQuarrie's work for years, so this was a pretty cool little factoid for me today.

Exclusive: Jamie Bamber to Star in Law & Order: UK

2008-07-21T06:20:21Z

From "Watch with Kristin"

According to Jamie, "I'm doing a series in England called Law & Order: UK, and I'm being a cop. And, yes, the show is London judiciary and London cops. It's got the same premise as the original American Law & Order, same everything, just with a UK production company and UK actors. My partner's going to be a British guy named Bradley Walsh." (Bradley Walsh's IMDb page)

The series, which begins production this August in London, will air first on ITV in the United Kingdom.

Wow... I'm surprised, but I'm happy for him! I'm not in neither the US nor UK, but... can American or Canadian people watch ITV? Is there a TV channel like BBC America? Any ideas, anyone?