Battlestar Galactica Season 2 This Summer

jangobongo writes "SCI FI Channel announced that the second season of its hit original series Battlestar Galactica will premiere this summer with 20 new episodes, after earlier confirming their commitment to the show. Production will resume in March in Vancouver, B.C., with the entire ensemble cast returning, along with executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore and executive producer David Eick. Averaging over 3 million viewers per episode, the series has quickly become SCI FI's highest-rated original series. No news on when a UK premeire might occur, but with Battlestar Gallactica ranking number 9 out of the top ten most popular TV program downloads worldwide, I don't think UK fans would have to wait long in any case." They're offering the first episode of the show for viewing in a no-charge commercial free venue on the official site.

Re:DVD

[digidave]

Yes, seriously. I don't have the Sci Fi channel (or Space, as it's called in Canada, which I assume carries the show). I could get it if I wanted to order a package that includes 15 other channels that I don't want.

I imagine there are tons of people like me who can't watch the show, but would love to be able to.

Re:DVD

[Bender0x7D1]

According to Amazon UK [amazon.co.uk] Season 1, Part 1 will be released March 28. However, it will be region 2 encoding. So for all of you in Europe, Japan, etc. please make sure to set up a BitTorrent so all of us in the US have a chance to get it.

Thanks in advance.

BSG Blog

[vossman77]

The writer maintains a blog [scifi.com] where he answers questions from viewers, such as why 33 minutes?

I found it very interesting.

Re:Season 2?

[dorward]

> "Where's the rest of Season 1?"

It is not unheard of for a show to get a half-season when its just starting out. It gives the TV companies a chance to test the waters.

Then there are cases like Buffy - which replaced a show mid-season and only got a half season as a result (then it got 6 full seasons and a spin off).

But hey, 20 more episodes ordered. Yippie.

Re:DVD

[angusr]

March 28th for the first 13 episodes, at least here in region 2.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007L6SA 8 [amazon.co.uk]

Re:DVD

[angusr]

You could do what most people who are not in region 1 do, which is get a multiregion DVD. They're not hard to find - in fact, in the UK it's harder to find a DVD which is region locked than one that isn't.

Region coding is pretty much dead. It's not an excuse for piracy.

Episode 1

[nuclear305]

Since the story didn't even bother linking to the online episode and there are no obvious links anywhere that I could find...

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/33_full_episode/ [scifi.com]

Re:"Original" series???

[Scyber]

SciFi always makes that distinction b/c their highest rated show (or at least it used to be) is Stargate SG-1. That show was originally aired by another network and the SciFi channel took it over later in its run.

Re:BSG Blog

[TheRaven64]

"was this the first show to ever show a Bathroom on a space ship?"

It's ground-breaking TV, baby. Talk about reinventing the genre.

The first episode of Voyager showed Nelix in a bath. One episode of Babylon 5 had two senior officers holding a conversation while using urinals. Not quite new...

Re:Season 2?

[Richard_at_work]

Generally the first season is shorter, but heres a list of recent shows that had 24 or more episodes per season - I was surprised to see it wasnt as large as I initially thought.

TV Show - Episodes per season

Voyager - 26
Deepspace 9 - 26
Enterprise - 26
24 - 24
West Wing - 24
Friends - Hovered between 23 and 25

BSG Theme song differences

[EvilXenu]

Apparently the intro to the US version is different from the UK version:

http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t= 22 471

The vocals in the UK theme are the Hindu Gayatri Mantra.

AUM BHOOR BHUWAH SWAHA,
TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASAYA DHEEMAHI
DHIYO YO NAHA PRACHODAYAT

Translation:

Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life, Remover of pain and sorrow, The Bestower of happiness, Oh! Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light, May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

just a nitpick

[twilight30]

Not physically being in the US I couldn't comment on the themes being different, or some of the shots. But:

It's made in Vancouver ... We're still not part of the States just yet! :) .

Sky One funded half the first season's episodes. One of their conditions for doing so was the right of first showing in the UK.

Actually this fact is quite important to mention, because there have been delays in broadcast and contract negotiations in the past over here, even when dealing with parts of the same network.

Case in point: one year Sky One couldn't show the latest season's episodes of Voyager on time when it turned out Paramount couldn't agree a suitable price with Sky One's media buyers. Totally embarrassing for the latter network, especially as they had already hyped it up in their promotional advertising and had viewers frothing at the mouth for the opener. They had to explain it on air at the last minute, and IIRC it fucked them up for two or three weeks.

Re:Season 2?

[Wildfire Darkstar]

By far, the most common arrangement these days seems to be networks purchasing seasons of 13 episodes, with the so-called "back nine" (or some roughly similar number) option: if the show performs well, a further nine episodes are purchased, for a total of 22 episodes per season.

Re:Episode 1

[bgarcia]

Here's a link directly to the .ram file for the first episode of Battlestar Galactica: "33" [rbn.com]

Re:Be worried...

[Leo McGarry]

Sort of. The "Starbuck gets stranded on a desert planet" idea was a good one, so it showed up in the new show, albeit in a totally different context. The idea of a raid on a mining outpost from "The Living Legend" was reused in the episode "The Hand of God." The title "The Hand of God" was used in both the old show and the new show, but I don't think there are any similarities between the episodes at all, really.

It's weird. It's like Ron Moore and his team sat down and watched the whole run of the old show (it was only 18 episodes or so, something like that) and got familiar with it, then went off and did their own thing. You can see traces of the old show in broad ideas and in itty bitty details (like the fact that Starbuck waggles her wings in "You Can't Go Home Again"), but it's not like they're trying to do a remake.

Re:Handheld Cameras on BSG

[Anonymous Coward]

Buy the Firefly DVD set, they were doing zoom-and-pan CGI camera effects two years ago. ZOIC, the visual effects studio, works/ed on both shows.

Re:Interesting...

[Anonymous Coward]

What, you didn't think they would actually kill off his character, did you? No Adama, BSG! Adama is the best character they've got!

Re:DVD

[TeraCo]

Time to leap in and point out that the Australian government ruled it was illegal to do region coding. All DVD players's sold in Australia are uncoded now (or at least you get instructions when it's sold to you.)