No Advance Start for Sky One & Hatch Back!

[koenigrules]

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Galactica Report: Details for Second Season
Sci Fi & SKY One order 20 more episodes.

February 23, 2005 -

Sci Fi & SKY Officially Renew Galactica:

The Sci Fi Channel announced today that it has officially renewed Ron Moore's "re-imagined" Battlestar Galactica for a second season. One of the worst kept secrets in the entertainment industry, Sci Fi confirmed that they would be renewing the series weeks ago but hadn't released any details until now.

Galactica's second season will consist of 20 episodes, 7 more than it had during its first season. The Vancouver, Canada based production is set to start back up in March for a summer premiere on the Sci Fi Channel as part of the network's highly successful Sci Fi Friday lineup of original programming.

Given the short lead time, it is unlikely that SKY One will have the kind of advance start fans saw during the first season. Battlestar Galactica premiered late last year in the UK, prompting fans in other countries to look to the internet to see the episodes. A recent report the the British press listed Battlestar Galactica as one of the top 10 television series traded over the Internet, along with fellow Sci Fi Channel productions Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis.

The entire cast will be back for the second season, including Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. Executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore and executive producer David Eick are also returning to the jobs they held last season.

Fans have asked about the status of Richard Hatch, star of the original Galactica series who has appeared in a couple of episodes in the first season. No official word has been released on the subject but sources involved with the series have indicated to IGNFF that fans should expect to see Hatch return to the series next season.

Battlestar Galactica has quickly become the ratings anchor of Sci Fi's Friday night lineup, averaging around 3 million viewers per week.

[ladyrheena]

No advance? Okay, I can live with that. It'll save us all busting our fingers typing SPOILERS so often up here. But, uh...are we going to get left behind in the UK? Or are they going to release for Sci-fi and Sky at the same time? Worried now!

[caseOrange]

YES! YES! YES!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[ladyrheena]

Wow, caseOrange, that was eloquent.

[Blade Runner]

I think they willbe ared at the same time the stargates are aired here in the UK

[ladyrheena]

Does that mean we won't be lagging, or we will? Sorry, I don't watch Stargate so that means little to me.

[ChrisS]

Assuming that it's a situation just like Stargate, it means that SFC will air the first 10 episodes in July-September, but then take a huge break and not start showing the last 10 episodes of the season until January. Sky will not start the season until October, but not take any breaks except for Christmas, which means that they'll catch up to and surpass the US schedule in December. So the US gets the first half of the season first, and the UK gets the second half of the season first. Seems fair.

[Blade Runner]

Although BBC Cult suggest Sky may air them at the same time
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/02/24/17221.shtml

[ChrisS]

I don't believe that'll happen. Or rather, I don't think it'll last for the whole season. SFC always takes a huge mid-season break in the fall to avoid competing with the big broadcast networks. Has Sky ever done something like that before?

[Corwin]

I'm guessing Sky won't start showing S2 till Sept/Oct

ChrisS said:

I don't believe that'll happen. Or rather, I don't think it'll last for the whole season. SFC always takes a huge mid-season break in the fall to avoid competing with the big broadcast networks. Has Sky ever done something like that before?

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It's certainly not common practice for Sky.

It did once stop a series of Andromada half way through so that it could start showing something else (the last season of ST Voyager I think). I presume they showed the rest of it at some point but if they did it was in the middle of the night and not at primetime.

[ladyrheena]

Waaah. That's a bummer. I won't have Sky (indeed won't have a TV) once I go off to university and I was hoping I could get at least some of my season two BSG fix before I go in September.

[Blade Runner]

ladyrheena said:

Waaah. That's a bummer. I won't have Sky (indeed won't have a TV) once I go off to university and I was hoping I could get at least some of my season two BSG fix before I go in September.

if you live in a shared house you'll probably have it

[ladyrheena]

Nah, the campus accomodation has no such stuff. You get a computer connection, but there's no way I'm paying another £25 a week for a premium room with all the other trappings. I love BSG, but not +£300 a year!!!

[Blade Runner]

ladyrheena said:

Nah, the campus accomodation has no such stuff. You get a computer connection, but there's no way I'm paying another £25 a week for a premium room with all the other trappings. I love BSG, but not +£300 a year!!!

You'll meet someone in your year that lives in a shared house and has sky ;D

[prism700]

Blade said:

You'll meet someone in your year that lives in a shared house and has sky ;D

Absolutely! Make this your mission but be discrete