Search results matching tag 'Battlestar Galactica'

Re: RE: The Wire makes BBC Two debut with 568,000 viewers

255762 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:59:56 GMT

This is all well and good, but as the Guardian asked recently is Battlestar Galactica Better than The Wire? YES.

"Yes, it is set in the future. Yes, humans are battling it out with robots. But don't dismiss Battlestar Galactica just because it's sci-fi. As the series draws to a close, Richard Vine celebrates a groundbreaking piece of TV".

There's this as well from a great feature on the Chicago Tribune's site that sums it up:

"...If I had to choose to have only seen one of them, I would choose 'Battlestar' every single time. 'The Wire' is an extraordinary testament to a particular time and place and the kind of lives that are lived in Baltimore and cities like it. 'Battlestar' is an even more extraordinary meditation on the human condition that to me stands up there with some of the great mythological stories about that. It also gives an emotional way for us to think about it for own lives in the way 'The Wire' can't, unless one is living a life like those in Baltimore.

"I learned a lot from watching 'The Wire' and I thought about things I hadn't thought about before. But it didn't get into my soul. 'Battlestar' has and it will stay there."

Terrrifying BBC trailer watch at your own peril

255762 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:48:00 GMT

Have you seen the TV trailer for BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction series? It is a fine piece of scary advertising. The complaints are bound to rack up thick and fast for this cardiac arrest inducing trailer.

Other than the Today Programme, I never listen to Radio 4 despite some reasonably good intentions, but hearing the promo for this yesterday and seeing this I'm more than half inclined to listen to what the BBC has planned with programmes appearing on Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 7.

You can check out the full listings on the BBC website, but highlights include an adaption of HG Wells' The Time Machine by Philip Osment; 'Salmonella Man on Planet Porno' (a group of male researchers, on a quest to discover the secret of the bizarre planet Porno, become sexual objects themselves) on Radio 3, which sounds totally mad. There's an adaptation of Arthur C Clarke's classic novel 'Rendezvous with Rama' and an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel 'The Drowned World' about a London that becomes a primordial swamp as global warming melts the ice-caps.

Better still there is also 'Bring Me The Head of Philip K Dick', which is described as a darkly disturbing story (well it would be wouldn't it being Philip K Dick') telling of a contemporary America where faith, national security and the very fabric of time are under attack from an unlikely and terrifying weapon invented by a shadowy research unit inside the Pentagon while the android head of Philip K. Dick is on the loose and wreaking havoc. His head clearly escaped from 'Futurama'.

More quality comes in the shape of 'The Sofa of Time'. A new comedy series starring Nick ('Shaun of the Dead') Frost. Apparently, it is said that those who sit on the Sofa of Time can be transported anywhere and to any time. That happens to me all the time.

Maybe best of all is a re-imaging of the classic British sci-fi series 'Blake's 7'. That's on BBC Radio 7 - well it had to be didn't it? That comes ahead of the show being remade for TV by Sky One. It made that announcement last year, but nothing recent has been heard on that front.

Talking of re-imaging have you been watching the final episodes of 'Battlestar Galactica'? Sadly, there are only four episodes left ever and it has been a hell of a ride. Dark, bumpy and full of twists and surprises. Plus there was a reckoning, which turned out not to be a good thing if you only have one leg. Having been glued to it I have no idea who they are going to end it. Ellen Tigh though? What a shocker.

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Battlestar Galactica goes constructivist with recruitment posters

255762 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:42:00 GMT

The final half season of Battlestar Galactica is going to air on Sky1 in the new year and they've produced these promotional posters done in the style of Soviet Constructivism of the 1930s.

I think they're very cool and am almost tempted to buy them as the five set posters are on sale at Amazon.com for $29.95. Okay, I won't as clearly that would be too geeky for words, but I am stupidly excited by imminent'ish arrival of this televisual event that will bring a conclusion to one of the best bits of TV in recent years.

There are lots of spoilers around here and there for the final episodes (but don't click unless you want to ruin the it all - you've been warned) after makers the Sci-Fi Channel split the final series in half having aired the first ten episodes in the first part of this year. All those months to wait to find out how it ends.

There are lots of spoilers out there giving away details of who the final Cylon model is and what happens to the rag tag fleet having reached earth and found it a nuclear wasteland.

If you haven't already seen it here's the trailer for Battlestar Galactica 4.5.

Re: Will you be watching Minder?

255762 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:00 GMT

This sounds like a tough one to remake and Shane Ritchie is an acquired taste, but Minder wasn't exactly Masterpiece Theatre in the first place so the bar isn't exactly set that high.

So far the only decent remakes have been things like Battlestar Galactica - awesome in the extreme, others have been more hit and miss.

They redid the Professionals in 1999 as CI5: The New Professionals - but that ran for 13 episodes and then it was gone.

This doesn't exactly bode well for the remake of late 1970s early 80s show Blake's 7 which Sky are also doing.

I'm surprised they haven't tried remaking the Sweeney.

Whedon plans internet takeover with Dollhouse

255762 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:07:00 GMT

More news on the Joss Whedon front. Having already made a web splash with 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog' the Buffy creator plans a new internet takeover with plans for webisodes for his upcoming series 'Dollhouse'.

The series, starring Buffy bad girl, Eliza Dushku as some kind of programmable agent is due to air in the US in January where it should run for 13 episodes (say "should" because it is on Fox, which cancelled Whedon's last show 'Firefly' before its run ended. boo).

Whedon said that they are "planning to do a series of Webisodes -- literally a full season of them. We're planning to do one for every episode produced. Whether we pull that off remains to be seen".

Unlike other shows that have tried webisodes, like 'Battlestar Galactica', Fox will use them as pre-episode teasers that will go out before each week's show, so there should be 13 webisodes in all if things run to plan, which is cool becaause by the time it gets to DVD that means another 40 minutes of 'Dollhouse'.

No news on where it will air in the UK yet. BSkyB and the BBC, which have each aired 'Buffy' previously, are pretty much saying the same thing. Both seem interested, but are waiting to see a full pilot, which seems to have been causing Whedon the odd problem. He's just shot another one after "tone" issues with his first effort.

He explains all on his blog (in conversation with himself):

What’s that, you say? A second first? How can such a thing be? Does it defy the laws of all physics? Well, I sat down with Rutherford D. Actualperson to do a quick Q&A and give you all the skinny on the progress of my new series (Available on iTunes at some point one would assume!)

Rutherford D. Actualperson: Joss. You are a legend in the industry, and your forehead is a normal size proportionate to your face. Tell me about the idea behind doing a new first episode. Didn’t you already shoot one?

Joss: Yes, Ruhthie, I did. And it was grand, simply grand.

R.D.A: Then why shoot another? Also, your teeth are whitish.

Joss: I said it was grand, I didn’t say it was comprehensible. I showed some scenes to David Lynch and he’s all, “whuh?” Bad sign. But I kid.

The fact is, I’m very proud of the ep we shot and the series is making me crazy with the excitement. But I tend to come at things sideways, and there were a few clarity issues for some viewers. There were also some slight issues with tone – I was in a dark, noir kind of place (where, as many of you know, I make my home), and didn’t bring the visceral pop the network had expected from the script. The network was cool about it, but not sure how to come out of the gate with the ep.

R.D.A.: So they made you do another. It’s Firefly all over again! Run! For the love of God, HE’S CALLING FROM THE HOUSE!!!

Joss: Wow. Good panic.

R.D.A.: I try. But I am genuinely concerned. Also your smooth skin and elegant hands are making me bi-curious.

Joss: Well, the idea to do a new first episode wasn’t the network’s. It was mine. I understood their consternation, and saw the gap between my style and their expectations, and I suggested I shoot a new ep and make the one I’d shot the second. It isn’t going to be buried, like the pilot of Firefly. It’s simply coming after another, slightly cleaner ep. And because unlike Firefly, it isn’t a two hour epic which introduces everyone to each other, the onus isn’t on the new ep to explain a million things.

The fact is, Fox ordered the series before we shot a frame and then, after the strike, I had literally two months to write and prep the whole thing. Which means simply that the network has to figure out what they might want to tweak AFTER it was shot, unlike a pilot. Buffy didn’t make the fall sched, Angel got shut down when they saw the second ep outline… it’s birth pangs. The network truly gets the premise (this is a whole new crew, as you know), loves the cast, is excited about the show – but they’re also specific about how they want to bring people to the show and I not only respect that, I kinda have to slap my forehead that I didn’t tailor my tone and structure to the network’s needs, since that’s something I pride myself on.

R.D.A.: You’re not just being the good soldier?

Joss: We both know from years of experience that I’m a crap soldier, though I am an accomplished fan-dancer. No, this is a very cold look at what’s going on, and it’s not an Us vs Them. The truth is, I’m in love with this world, and I don’t care how people get into it. I have a million things to say about (and through) all of these characters, and I don’t mind which ones I say first. I think I just turned in a pretty cool pilot script. [Editor’s note: that means someone TOLD him THEY thought it was cool. He has no judgement of his own. This is sad, but on the plus side, it was probably one of his writers, who actually ARE cool. So rest easy.]

R.D.A.: So what does this mean for production?

Joss: We’ve pushed an extra few days so I can prep this bitch within an inch of its life, i.e., read it once more.

R.D.A.: But how will this affect the foundation of the very turning of our precious earth, and by that I mean Comiccon?

Joss: Yeah. Unfortunately, we won’t have a new teaser to show, since we’ll start shooting after the con. People will have to settle for chatting with Eliza and Tahmoh. But they’re likeable folk. (Sadly, Tahmoh only speaks Canadian, though he has a lovely translator at his side, like Isabella Rosselini in “White Nights”.) We’ll still rock the panel, but showing clips is kind of a tradition, so my emoticon doth frown.

R.D.A.: And the first first episode?

Joss: I’ll reshoot a few scenes, but it’ll basically air as is. When I was given seven episodes, I referred to them as “the Seven Pilots”, ‘cause you always have to lay out the premise one way or another in those early eps. So instead of Grumpy, this particular episode will be Sneezy. (Seriously. Eliza fights POLLEN! Sooo sexy.)

R.D.A.: So Eliza’s still a different character every week?

Joss: Often several.

R.D.A: And in the Dollhouse, the amazing-looking facility where all the beautiful people whose memories have been wiped live in a state of unselfconscious innocence, the showers are co-ed? [Editor’s note: the showers are co-ed?]

Joss: The showers are co-ed. [Editor’s note: HOT damn.]

R.D.A.: So nothing of substance has been changed. Shower-wise.

Joss: You are a sad, lonely actual man, Actualman.

R.D.A.: So true, so true. Thank you for talking/fan-dancing to me. Anything else you’d like to add?

Joss: Available exclusively on iTunes! Oh. About Dollhouse? Only that it’s going to be a funhouse ride of excitement, fear, existential angst and co-ed showers. That I love it. Love the writers, love the cast, and already blissfully live in the strange, compelling world of the removable self. Hmm. When I pitched it to Eliza, she said “My God, it’s my life!” But after that sentence, I think maybe it’s mine.

R.D.A.: I guess we’ll have to wait till January to see what you’ve cooked up.

Joss: And I’ll probably keep cooking till the moment I serve.

'Battlestar Galactica' mid-season finale brilliance

255762 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:00 GMT

Please I want more and I can't wait until next year. It has already won raves review, but I have only just got around to watching the mid-season finale of 'Battlestar Galactica' and I am going to have to watch it again. It was better than 'Lost', which is still scoring for me, and still sitting there on Sky+ ready to be watched again. I've said it before, but it's the best TV around.

Rarely does an hour of television rise off of the screen and manage to pack so much in not least its bleak final homage to Charlton Heston and 'Planet of the Apes'.

If you haven't already seen this show go out and buy the DVDs, but suffice to say Tuesday's episode 'Revelations', the last until the final batch of episodes appear next year, delivered exactly what it promised: our rag tag shot to bits fleet finally made it to Earth and what did they find?

That's right a dark and grim nuclear wasteland, a world washed away and apparently leaving the characters nowhere to turn.

It was such as brave move to make with as many as 10 episodes left to run. The whole show that is so much about focused on gods/god, religious mythology and faith was about finding earth.

That was going to be their salvation, but it looks like they won't be partying down on a nuked out earth. Not that the show, which began with a nuclear apocalypse, has included suicide bombers and people shoved out of airlocks along the way, has ever been much of a party.

Lots of speculation about where they landed with reference to the show's much-talked-of opera house, which links several of the Cylon and human characters. Did they make it to Australia? Or New York?

Who knows, but now there is a long wait for the final episodes of the show, which has seen something of a resurgence since its fourth series began, after the Sci-Fi channel produced a movie that aired on Sky One here and went straight to DVD. They are now talking of three more possible spin off DVD movies.

This is on top of the Sci-Fi Channel's 'Battlestar' spin-off project 'Caprica', set before 'Battlestar'.

There are also to be another set of webisodes that will link the first 10 episodes of Season 4 and the second half of the fourth and final season.

It is a show that so deserved a bigger audience. Still, now just a long wait and lots of time for geeky speculation filling up the web.

I like this one best. There were no humans, and that everyone has been a Cylon or a human-Cylon hybrid all along.

Even John McCain has been outted as a Cylon. No surprise really, just look at his similarity to BSG's Colonel Sol Tigh. Amusingly spooky and another reason to vote for Obama.

Anyways, visit the very good blog Galactica Sitrep for more.

Screen geek DiCaprio plays Atari

255762 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:43:00 GMT

I'd been thinking about the rise in geeks and things digital on the screen, when it has been revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio is to lead an Atari movie? Pong the movie, who would have thunk it.

DiCaprio is to play video game industry pioneer Nolan Bushnell in a film called: 'Atari'. Always thought it was a cool name. It is described as a mix of 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' and 'Tucker'. Okay …can't quite see it, but really it could be pretty cool.

Bushnell came up with Pong and it was pretty much the first console that a lot of came across. He is always the guy with a huge Beatles moment. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked for Atari and brought him a design of a…home computer. Bushnell passed on the idea and the rest is all Apple.

There is a lot of the geek cool on-screen thing going around. Virgin 1 is airing 'Chuck', a really almost pretty good comedy about a geek guy who accidentally gets top secret government data pumped into his brain. He now finds himself fighting terrorists with his CIA handlers, but still finds time to play 'Call of Duty 4' with his geek loser buddy Morgan who incidentally scores at work because he is the best COD4 player his co-worker knows. I think it's a 6/10 often, with "whatever" like plots.

There's the sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory', which could also be called 'Four geeks and a blonde' as really that is the plot. Lots of collectibles and again console playing. I quite like this. The writing is sharp and the one-liners very funny. It is even geekier, although now they have hooked up the blonde with one of the geeks. A good 7./10.

There is 'Gossip Girl', which is meant to have an anonymous voiceover blogger at its heart, but most reports say that the blogger hardly features. The show is tanking on TV and looks like creator Josh Schwartz could be waving goodbye to that one. Schwartz, of course, gave us geek 'The OC', which with its Star War references and comics was as geeky but cool as it got. Second time around there is a big hole in the heart of the story about some rather dull Manhattan upper preppies.

The show is getting just 2m viewers in the US and its home network the CW has stopped streaming it online in an effort to boost numbers.

In the UK, the 'IT Crowd' is coming back, but really I saw a couple of episodes first time around and hated it all. Someone at Channel 4 must really like it as this will be series 3.

I don't think we've been very good at producing geek cool shows in the UK. Remember the dotcom drama bust that was 'Attachments'? No can't think of anything other than Simon Pegg's 'Spaced', which only ever had two short runs in the UK, although it did give us 'Shaun of the Dead'.

The had been talk that a US version of that show was to be made, but Fox apparently passed on the pilot, which was being made by uber geek producer McG ('Charlie's Angels', 'Supernatural', 'Chuck' and now 'Terminator 4'), but without any Pegg or Edgar Wright involvement.

*It goes without saving that there is 'Battlestar Galactica', but that show transcends and is brilliant TV in is own right. Okay, no I have mentioned it I'll move along.

The Battlestar effect

255762 — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:31:34 GMT

I can't tell you how disappointed I am. You go away for a few days and back home earth shattering news rocks the TV world. No not Dawn Airey, but the return of 'Blake's 7'.

Anyone who has been here before will know that I am of the firm belief that 'Battlestar Galactica' is some of the best television ever made and that reimagining the show as a dark and desperate struggle for survival in a post 9/11 world has made for compelling viewing.

While at the end of the 1970s the US was enjoying the camp original of 'Battlestar Galactica' we had 'Blake's 7', which was as dark as British sci-fi gets.

A band of rebels on the run in a cool ship from the totalitarian Federation regime, and now it is on its way to Sky One.

Actually that was two cool ships, and one after the other they all ended up in small pieces. First the Liberator.

...and then Scorpio, each with their distinctive onboard computers.

Slight worry as the station has little track record with drama (it did some sub-'Buffy the Vampire' show called 'Hex', but it had short bumpy, cast-changing run). But Sky also had a co-production role in the "re-imagining" of 'Battlestar Galactica' so it does know TV magic when it sees it.

'Blake's 7' has already made a little comeback with audio stories, but a move to TV is what fans have really wanted. Sky has commissioned two 60-minute shows and six scripts have in all been mapped out. I just hope it doesn't go the way of Sky's botched remake of the 'The Prisoner', which got dropped.

For a Big Brother/1984 set-in-space story about a society that controlled the lives of its civilians, 'Blake's 7' is perfect for a return. The only shame is that they did not do it sooner because it looks unlikely that any of the cast will make a reappearance -- retired as most are.

Oddly enough, like the new 'Battlestar Galactica', now in its fourth and final season, 'Blake's 7' only ran for four years until Paul Darrow's Avon shot dead the eponymous Blake in the final episode in a spectacular shootout.

Why the BBC hasn't moved on this before, after the success of revamping 'Doctor Who', is anyone's guess, but as a broadcaster it has never handled sc-fi very well -- even now (softening Doctor who with earlier timeslots and the awful Catherine Tate).

Oddly enough, it is making a 'Blake 7' -alike show about outcasts from Earth looking for a new home... which is odd, but very BBC like.

The success of the show will depend on whether Sky One can sell it, as the BBC has done with 'Doctor Who', in the US. First time around, the BBC sold 'Blacke's 7' in 40 countries around the world and that was in the 70s/80s, when most of the ships and props were made along strict guidelines set by 'Blue Peter'.

Sky has already said that Blake will be back as a character and you have to hope Federation boss Servalan will also return. She brought a dark touch of glamour to the show and Daniela Nardini, Anna from 'This Life' fame, would be a shoe-in -- she has been playing the role in the audio dramas.

The best role and the best lines belonged to Avon. The cool, cold and calculating cynic, who pretty much always dressed in black, and much will rely on who gets cast there.

There's so much to look forward. In the meantime, there is always YouTube. My favourite line: "Staying with your requires a level of stupidity I'm not capable of", but here are some more of top quips.

Failure to Twitter

255762 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:14:02 GMT

Even Number 10 is at it now. Twittering is what I am talking about and although I have signed up for it, I cannot quite work up the enthusiasm. I think I'm digitally deficient and wondering what to do about it.

I keep noticing people on Facebook twittering. Rory Sutherland is a good twitterer, but I guess we all knew that already.

I signed up for Twitter ages ago as various people enthused about it, but at the time I was quite keen on Facebook updates. Yes, you guessed, now I am less keen.

But Twitter remains and as ground swell behind it grows it deserves more attention. Some people have really got into it, pouring out streams of Twitter posts or status updates.

This has seen it adopted by social media influencers and that is having an impact as people are starting to monitor it in the same way that blogs, forums and websites have previously been monitored.

There's a service called Tweet Scan that lets you do that. Apparently, you know if someone is worth monitoring (or if someone is a Twitterer of influence) if they have over 1500 people following their "tweets" on Twitter.

That potential audience, particularly of influential people who have journalists, bloggers and other commentators following them, could have a huge impact. It is certainly a larger audience than those enjoyed by a lot of blogs.

As that is the cool thing about Twitter. It is easy to follow and much easier to digest than a phone. I keep meaning to put it on my phone.

This has led to some interesting experiments. The Online Journalism blog has recently tried a little experiment of using Twitter to do a live-review of the Clay Shirky book 'Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations'.

It was an interesting experiment and was done, as Paul Bradshaw says on his blog, because A) he could; B) to see how viral it would go; and C) to see how social you could make that most anti-social of activities: reading a book.

It's kind of no surprise, in a way, what he discovered. It turned into a conversation as does any piece of online content - or publishing full stop for that matter. It is all conversation, but the immediacy and the ease of Twitter makes that process even easier. It is almost all conversation: the short sentences, those little utterances.

"As I twittered, other users chipped in with their responses, thoughts, and additions, like this, and this, and this. Others added leads based on the ideas mentioned, useful links and examples. And still others asked questions, which I then attempted to answer (”Does he acknowledge the role of bloggers in elevating the cases of missing persons who are traditionally given short shrift?” twittered Kim Pearson).

There are other examples of the same thing. US TV site TV Fodder is live blogging the start of the very exciting final series of 'Battlestar Galactica'. Those of you who have ever read a post by me know that I am quite excited by this event. I see that Sky One has almost an entire evening devoted to the show tonight ahead of its airing next week in the UK. Sadly, will have to Sky + this as I have a life. Just kidding - I am watching the football.

I digress. As enthusiasm for Twitter spreads - and if my name sake (Gordon Brown and Number 10 ) can do it - then really I need to get my Twittering arse in gear. I have few followers.

So if you are on Twitter and want to follow me please do (GordonM). I will be eternally grateful, or at least grateful until the next social media must-have addition to my life and yours arrives.

How to get a fourth season

255762 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:41:13 GMT

It's the season where US TV executives are cancelling shows. Leaving many show runners very anxious. The same fate could have also befallen the show 'How I Met Your Mother', if it were not for the brilliant whiz of signing Britney Spears for a guest appearance.

Her turn as ditzy receptionist Abby in the show pulled in almost an extra 3m viewers and has possibly won the show a fourth season.

Her appearance came at the height of all of her media related troubles, but still 'How I Met My Mother' was only averaging 7.8m an episode, which are not great numbers.

When Britney made her appearance on the CBS show it attracted 10.6m, giving the show its highest ratings this season.

Britney can save you and possibly herself as well, as her funny performance was praised by critics with the New York Daily News saying that "Spears proved she can act every bit as well as she can sing" and the New York Post adding that "Brit looked slim, trim and gorgeous".

It now looks like CBS could give the show a fourth season. It's not the only one to hear some good news this week. Fox has stuck with twisty turny prison drama 'Prison Break'.

I liked this show and have watched large parts on DVD, but even as the actors strike cut the third season short at 13 episodes it seemed unlikely it would get a fourth after audiences of only around 8m.

But Fox has ordered a full run of 22 episodes, which is good news for Sky One, where the show is one of its better performers as is Fox-renewed crime drama 'Bones'. I just hope having broken out of prison in Chicago and in Panama they don't go for a triple. Although mighty fine cliff hanger.

Fox wasted no time in dumping comedy 'The Return of Jezebel James', which aired only two episodes.

For Virgin 1 the news is good on the Terminator front. Fox is almost certain to bring back 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' after the finale's performance last week did well and with more Terminator movies on the way (starring Christian Bale) the future is looking bright... you know, killer computer networks aside.

Looks like Michelle Ryan's really pretty good 'Bionic Woman' won't be back, which appears a shame. It did will on ITV2 and Ryan is comes over like a cool brunette able to do a more than passable American accent. It also helps that bad bionic girl, Katee Sackhoff of 'Battlestar Galactica' Starbuck fame, is also very good.

Talking of the WBS (World's Best Show) 'Battlestar Galactica' returns in the US and Sky One on April 8. Sadly that is the fourth and final season although reports last week said that it might get its own spin-off with the Sci-Fi Channel has green lighted a pre-quel show called 'Caprica' and from what one of Battlestar's creators, David Eick has to say it sounds pretty cool (to the geek that is me, anyway).

"'Caprica' is a story that Ron Moore and I concocted with [co-executive producer] Remi Aubuchon, and we're casting as we speak," Eick said. "I'm very excited about that. If 'Battlestar Galactica' is 'Black Hawk Down,' I would say that 'Caprica' is 'American Beauty.'
"'Caprica' is all about the inner lives of the people on a planet and how their personal relationships as well as their professional relationships inform what will become the creation of the Cylons," he said.

Looks like 'Sex and the City' author Candace Bushnell's stab at her own show has failed, with ABC's deciding not to bring back 'Cashmere Mafia': Also cancelled is 'Jericho', with shows such as 'Moonlight', the 'Angel'-alike vampire detective show airing on Virgin TV's Living, and 'Reaper' on the cusp.