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The fall TV season is beginning, and that means one thing — you're finally going to get to see the TV pilots that the networks have been sweating over for a year. Most of them will totally suck — even if the shows they launch wind up being good. But a few of them will be amazing, full of killer action and interesting characters. More »
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Ronald D. Moore's "CSI meets Harry Potter" TV series filmed its pilot episode recently, but what's it really like? How will the man who brought us the mysticism-tinged Battlestar Galactica reboot handle a world of magic? More »
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Mini Battlestar Galactica reunion! In between shooting scenes for Ron Moore's new supernatural cop drama the 17th Precinct, Tricia Helfer sent out a set photo with her old BSG castmates Jamie Bamber and James Callis. More »
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Last week, we showed you Ron Moore's original series bible for Battlestar Galactica — but the webcomic Hijinks Ensue brings us Ron Moore's Bible study class. Best part: Brother McCreary's crazy trashcan tribal drum music. [via Battlestar_Blog] More »
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Ron Moore's original series bible for Battlestar Galactica is online, and it's full of critiques of "bumpy-headed aliens," "techno-double-talk" and other Star Trek mainstays. The most important thing to remember about the Cylons? "They are not the Borg." More »
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Are you ready for Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore to go full-on magical? NBC has ordered a pilot for Moore's Precinct 17, an ensemble police drama set in a world ruled by magic instead of science, in the town of Excelsior. More »
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Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica juggled heavy duty space opera and fantastical, magic elements. But his next project will leave space behind, in favor of a world of pure magic, in the vein of Harry Potter for adults. More »
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The first half of Caprica season one was about setting things in motion. But the second half, airing January, will be all action, the producers told us. And James Marsters talked about playing a religious fundamentalist who uses his sex-appeal. More »
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At the Caprica roundtables, we finally got to sit next to Ronald D. Moore. And we couldn't resist asking him: What was the deal with Starbuck at the end of Battlestar Galactica? Here's what he said. More »
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Tomorrow's the last episode of Lost before the big-blow-out finale, and some people feel like the island-castaway show hasn't explained enough. Is Lost another answers-averse show like Battlestar Galactica? No. In fact, Lost has already provided more answers than BSG. More »
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Science fiction is an endangered species on the "big four" U.S. networks — Lost is ending, and pretty much every other show is in ratings freefall. Which trend should we blame for this turn of events? More »
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Sounds like The Thing prequel is moving out of development purgatory, and into actual production. Filming will begin this March. But with Ronald D. Moore script thrown out, is this something we want? More »
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Have any movie directors or producers revealed themselves to be "masters" of science fiction in recent years? In this chart, we look at how some of the contenders for SF mastery have fared. More »
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Science fiction author Charles Stross hates Star Trek. He also hates Babylon 5 and can't be bothered with Doctor Who. Why? Because in so much science fiction television, the technology portrayed is so often irrelevant to the story being told. More »
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Universal have reportedly fast-tracked their big-screen reboot of Battlestar Galactica, bringing Bryan Singer on board to direct and co-produce. But is there any way in which this will end up being anything other than a well-intentioned failure? More »
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Battlestar Galactica's prequel series, Caprica, may be about the origins of the Cylon killer robots, but a lot of its storylines will deal with battles between the twelve colonies... which may actually heat up into full-on interstellar combat. Spoilers below. More »
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We've all had our problems with Battlestar Galactica's weird solar flare-out of an ending, but was it actually the worst ending in the history of science fiction? That's what Usenet luminary and Electronic Frontier Foundation Chairman Brad Templeton is claiming. More »
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Yes, Dollhouse may have lowered the bar for "success" for Fox's Sci-Fi shows, but even with that in mind, the audience for last night's Virtuality airing suggests that the show will never make it to series. More »
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Virtuality is a reality-TV space opera and the newest television idea from Ron Moore, co-creator of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot. But the show may never make it past the pilot that airs tonight. Is that really a loss? More »
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When we got a chance to take part in a conference call with Ronald D. Moore about Virtuality, there was only one question we wanted to ask him: How is this new show different from Star Trek's holodeck episodes? More »
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Ronald D. Moore's long-awaited Virtuality airs June 26, and we've got exclusive concept art showing the inner workings of the deep-space probe Phaeton and its various modules — including a super-detailed diagram explaining the physics of the ship. More »
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Ron Moore's awesome virtual-reality thriller, Virtuality, may be the freshest, most challenging work he's ever come up with. Fox has been sitting on the two-hour pilot for months, but it looks like it'll finally air. More »
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Battlestar Galactica comes to an end this Friday... but why does it have to end at all? Never mind Caprica, here're some other possible additions to the BSG family that could one day happen. More »
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As Battlestar Galactica hurtles towards next week's two-hour finale, it's time for showrunner Ronald D. Moore to look back at the legacy of the show, and how it's changed science fiction... well, kind of. More »
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Mutant gang-leader Splatter doesn't like the ladies, but he's not gay either. So what's his deal? One mutant groupie, with apalling Purple Rain-era makeup, finds out — in this horrendous/horrifying (NSFW) scene from Future Kill. More »
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Feeling as if the Tyrol subplot on Friday's Battlestar Galactica was a little... retconnish? In the latest commentary podcast, series showrunner and episode writer Ronald Moore comes clean about how the idea came up. Spoilers! More »
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For years, we've been hearing about Ron Moore's "Cylon Bible," which tells all the secrets of Battlestar Galactica's artificial antagonists. Now at last, a new video includes several precious pages. Possible spoilers. More »
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Is Ron Moore's new show Virtuality going to take the "Most Troubled SF Show On Fox" crown away from Joss Whedon's Dollhouse? Listening to Fox network president Kevin Reilly, you'd be forgiven for thinking so. More »
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It's not just Moff who's offering up crazy ideas about the end of Battlestar Galactica. With the show returning for its final episodes on Friday, let's look at some of our favorite (probably wrong) theories. More »
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Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica isn't going to be an action adventure show, nor will it have any space scenes, according to creator Ron Moore. But does that mean that it's going to be... *gulp* boring? More »
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We've been excited about Ron Moore's new show Virtuality since we first read the pilot script ages ago. So it's heartbreaking to hear that Fox is sending it back to the drawing board. Minor spoilers: More »
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NBC's announcement that Jay Leno will be appearing on your screens at 10pm every weekday starting this fall may revolutionize the industry - in a way that may not be good news for SF dramas. More »
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Seth Green is currently guest starring on Heroes, but in this clip from tomorrow night’s Robot Chicken season premiere, Tim Kring wasn’t the first science fiction television producer he approached for work. Green and his Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich find themselves unemployed and ask Joss Whedon and Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore for a job. The meetings don’t go as well as they had hoped, but expose everything you secretly suspected about the producers. More »
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Remember Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel that Ron Moore was working on? Moore and co. shot a pilot months ago, and we were supposed to hear by September whether it would become a series. Sci Fi had planned to air the pilot as a TV movie in December, but scrapped the idea. Now the pilot may not air until after the last BSG episode — and maybe not even then. [TV Guide] More »
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One of my big worries for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been the tendency to dip too far into religious allegory. But last night's episode, "Brothers of Nablus?" Totally converted me. I'm now a zealot for the Bible stories in the Terminator universe, thanks to Cameron's Old-Testament bloodthirstiness and the show's little twist about New-Testament forgiveness not always being the best policy. Click through for spoilers and rehashing. More »
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As Californians prepare to vote on whether to allow teh gayz to get married, we could soon be seeing our first same-sex married couple on television — but the show takes place in the distant future. As this week's TV Guide trumpets, Ron Moore's Virtuality includes the sure-to-be-controversial married couple Manny (Jose Pablo Cantillo) and Val (Gene Farber), who hold hands freely aboard the starship Phaeton. And show creator Ron Moore tells a queer television blogger that he feels bad for not including more gay characters on Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica. More »
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There are many, many reasons to wish that you'd worked on Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica: -the critical kudos, the security of being involved in one of television's best SF shows ever, the possibility of being in the same room as Grace Park at some point - but the wrap party's special limited edition yearbook may be the prettiest reason of them all. Is it too much to ask that this tribute to the cast and crew of the show gets some kind of modified general release when the series reaches its conclusion next year? More »
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What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica this week than by disillusioning fans? We'll do that by letting you know just how unoriginal the show's robotic bad guys really were. It's not enough that they looked like Darth Vader's cheaper, silver cousins - now we find out that they were originally intended to have been very similar to Doctor Who's favorite alien cyborgs, as well. More »
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While we may not know exactly what lies ahead for the crew of Battlestar Galactica as the show speeds towards its conclusion next year, but we do now know that the end of one particular character isn't what the writers may have initially intended, or what you may be expecting. Get ready to start your processes of elimination. More »
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With the recent announcement that two of our favorite TV shows - Firefly and Babylon 5 - have been added to the upcoming launch of new online VOD channel TheWB.com, we're wondering whether we're nearing the day that we're never going to have to get out of our comfortable chair and put down the laptop ever again. More »
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