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EXCLUSIVE: Ronald D. Moore has found a new TV home. The Battlestar
Galactica creator has inked a two-year overall with Sony Pictures TV to create and executive produce series projects for broadcast and cable through his production company Tall Ship Prods. Moore is coming off three consecutive overall deals at NBC Uni’s Universal Media Studios that were tied to Moore’s services on Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica, a reimagening of Glen A. Larson’s classic, which he executive produced and ran with David Eick. The duo is also behind the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica.
Star Trek veteran Moore, repped by CAA, started his writing career on Next Generation and also spent five years on Deep Space Nine. He then served as co-executive producer/co-showrunner on the WB’s Roswell and as executive producer/showrunner on HBO’s Carnivale before segueing to Battlestar Galactica. Sony is clearly making a push in genre series. The studio recently signed Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough to an overall deal.
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Glen A. Larson is the Creator of Battlestar Galactica.
I’d just like to point out that the headline is incorrect, Glen A. Larson created Battlestar Galactica, and not Ronald D. Moore.
That’s a fact, ask the WGA.
Good luck to RDM on his new venture.
There’s a home run!
Congrats to Sony.
What are the likely channels that Sony TV will sell its genre stuff to? Would Syfy be a likely buyer, given all the cross-synergizement over at nbc uni?
Sony TV grabbing another sci-fi/fantasy genre showrunner. Last week it was Al Gough and Miles Millar….
So, does this affect “Caprica”?
By far one of the most talented writers we have in the business today. I hope he made a lot of money and is given the freedom to do his work. Congratulations!
Tall Ship Prod is then next Bad Robot.
Why does this dude remind me of Eric Bana?
I would like to point out one small bit of missed use language :”Genre Series”! Since the lexical definition of the word that is first is:”1 : a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content” and “2 : kind, sort”; it is not really a category itself but a word that means category itself. So the proper usage is Sony is making a hard push into the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and teen driven dramas. It is not correctly used as genre television since everything has a set, class, category, genre it can be placed within. I know that producers, directors, writers and television journalists want to impress the world with the phrase genre television but all it means in reality is category television… not so impressive now is it once some one knows the meaning of the word! Well that is the English lesson for today. I hope all are edified by this new found knowledge and the above mentioned feel like buffoons as they should.
Later your friend Herman Melville
Herbe Finee, I doubt this will affect “Caprica” much because Ron Moore abandoned it after the pilot. The show has sucked without his strong creative presence rewriting scripts. If he won’t be head writer for that show, I don’t know that any of us can expect it to improve. He was VITAL to BSG’s quality; the less he rewrote (He stopped rewriting completely for Season 4, which was why it was the worst season), the more the show had serious trouble and lacked political insight. The only person I’d be happy with head writing Caprica is either Michael Taylor, Mark Verheiden, or Michael Angeli, if Ron Moore doesn’t do it himself, but Ron Moore would be the best choice!
I’m saddened by his detachment because Syfy’s Mark Stern has the courage to really back powerful and topical political commentary. He won’t have Ron Moore’s stuff rewritten or watered down or censored like the vast majority of Hollywood network heads. That’s just a fact. Ron Moore should take advantage of Syfy’s courage to really do some justice to the show and to our larger society.
Moore had a lot of great ideas and writing for BSG but didn’t know how to wrap it up in the final season.
Like most writers with big egos, I see him making the same mistakes a couple more times before listening to anyone else.
Spot on jamie. BSG’s conclusion undermined what went before it and Caprica too.
Still, Ron Moore is great, his insights on his podcasts excellent and it was thru his writer’s strike blog I discovered Deadline.
To each his or her own. I thought the final season of BSG pretty much crystallized the issues that were always in the show; most of the elements that people complain about in S4 were telegraphed in S1, or S2 at latest. What impressed me about the BSG conclusion was how he managed to keep strong and compelling drama going (knockout episodes like “The Oath”) while dealing with all the mythology issues that had to be dealt with.
While BSG lacked the structure and planning of, say, Lost, it’s one of the best-designed shows I’ve seen, and certainly sets the standard for sci-fi for years to come. I’m happily on board for whatever RDM tries next.
There was more planning on LOST than BSG? Seems as though the final ep of BSG was a clear extension of the first episode while LOST, while it’s last ep is still unaired, has four and a half hours to tie up it’s loose ends (which it undoubtedly will not esp according to the producers who said the finale will have people scratching their heads saying WTF?) You can disagree with how certain things (like Starbuck and the President’s dream) were ultimately handled but the final episode of BSG was a foregone conclusion right out the gate when the show started.
Bonzai!
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Ron Moore will write…and you will all suffer! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Congrats to Ron! There’s no doubt in my mind why Next Gen, DS9, Carnivale, and BSG are some of my favorite series. He’s a guy who knows how to craft a series, and run a solid show.
Ron moore is a genius, battlestar is an inspiration in our daily lives!
Ron Moore is an inspiration to us working folks!