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It’s over for Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica. The cable network said today that it will be pulling the show off the schedule effective immediately. The final five episodes of the sci-fi saga will air in the first quarter of 2011 and will mark the end of the series’ one-season run. “We appreciate all the support that fans have shown for Caprica and are very proud of the producers, cast, writers and the rest of the amazing team that has been committed to this fine series,” said Mark Stern, Syfy’s EVP of original programming. “Unfortunately, despite its obvious quality, ‘Caprica’ has not been able to build the audience necessary to justify a second season.” After a soft start with the first part of its freshman season at the beginning of the year, Caprica returned with the second half of the season earlier this month to disappointing 889,000 viewers and a 0.4 rating with adults 18-49. That was down from where it ended in the spring, with the series falling even further in the ratings since, raising speculation about pending cancellation. But Despite Caprica’s cancellation, the Battlestar Galactica legacy will live on at Syfy, at least for now. The cable network just greenlighted a two-hour pilot for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, about the young years of Ensign William Adama, which hails from Battlestar Galactica exec producer David Eick.
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This is so lame. I am experiencing extreme disappointment. I don’t even get to see the end of the show til next year. blah!!!
This season was slow to develop.. A shame.
Unfortunately, you didn’t have to be Edgar Cayce to see this one coming.
Sad. It was a good show, just never as good as it could have been, imho.
Syfy should do a show about Edgar Cayce! He could be like an Indiana Jones who can heal illnesses with his mind.
not fair..there was no press and then it was at difficult times. I have it Tivo’d..thought it was a great show..it will be missed.
Stop tivoing TV shows. if you don’t watch them within seven days of tivoing them then it doesn’t count towards the show’s numbers. if you like a show watch it live, or within 24 hours of tivoing it.
Well thats only if you’re a nielsen family, which 99% of us are not…so it doesnt matter
And be a Nielsen family for it to count in the first place.
Not to mention the fact that many of us work long hours, have lives and, oh, watch a ridiculous amount of tv shows because we work in the industry.
Assistant, I agree 100%. Working in the TV industry… I want to watch shows, but of course… you just never have time!
Anonymous, if you’re not one of the less than 1 per cent of US households that have a Nielsen’s box it doesn’t matter whether you watch your tv shows live or not. No one’s counting what the other 99 percent of US households is watching anyways.
It’s a twisted system.
The first season was great, but then this season they totally deviated from what made it great: all the Cylon origin/virtual reality stuff. Instead it focused on a crazy cult group of religious zealots with a real b-movie mythology. If they kept it focused on the futuristic technology of Eric Stoltz’s character and his relationship with his Cylon daughter it would have been better.
This is still the first season. There hasn’t been but one season. And that is a large part of the problem. SyFy is bitching that the ratings dropped off after airing half a season. Guess what… people want more than 10 episodes in a row. SyFy is not HBO. And HBO can barely get away with this crap. Caprica was really getting interesting in the second half of this season. They’d actually made the Tauron thing both interesting and pertinent. In the first half of the season it was SO tacked on and uninteresting. This is a shame. SyFy needs to be careful of becoming the new Fox regarding SF shows.
All Cable networks air 10-13 episodes then take hiatus. Shoot Closer aired 6 once then went on hiatus from the winter to summer and aired 11 more to round a 17 episode season. White Collar does 13 episodes at a time… Leverage did 9 this summer, I think…
Its standard cable practice…
Good. Now cancel SGU.
SGU is the only thing standing between Syfy and sucking. And movies about giant sharks cross-bred with mythical/fantastic creatures. Those are also awesome.
Yea, why not cancel all the scifi and make it a wrestling channel.
(I liked Caprica.)
Exactly. Caprica and SGU are well planned, well executed SF that require thought and investment. They’re not shoot ‘em ups with pew pew lasers and neat and tidy endings for each episode. Unfortunately, that’s what some people have been pining for. But you’re right. If these shows fail, SyFy will eventually end up being just another SpikeTV/G4. And that will suck REALLY bad.
Bummer….loved this show!
the show sucked and was boring.
Sorry to see this show go. It was a great series that was a victim of poor scheduling and little promotion. Loved the cast, I’m sure they will all move on to quality projects.
little promotion!!???? there were billboards, magazine ads, and the image of the actress all over the los angeles and metropolitan of major areas. people just dont care to watch this type of programming. plain and simple
ummm, it was months between the first and second halves of Season One. The second half wasn’t even supposed to come back until January and then they announced in September that it would come back in October instead. Maybe they tossed up some billboards during that month, but seemed like a lackluster return that the network couldn’t care less about.
Syfy took 9 months off between airing of the rest of the season and now they cancel it because they never gave it a chance. That was the closest I got to liking Battlestar Gallactica. I guess they need more time for Fact or Faked and Sanctuary.
Hey, Sanctuary is awesome in its own right. At least it *is* sci-fi, instead of all the bullshit Fact or Faked, or Ghost Hunters crap they air. FOUR series/spinoffs, and they aren’t even fiction.
It was a good show, not great because it moved sooooooo slowlllllyyyyyyy!!! Then they break the season up many months apart and people forget about it, lose interest! By the end of it’s debut last year, Cylons should have been coming off the production line!
exactly. happened to me. i was like when is this show back and then i moved on to something else. syfy blew it.
a++wypse.
I’m bummed. I love the BSG world and enjoyed this show, but it just wasn’t good. They didn’t know what kind of show it was, and it was so painfully one note throughout most episodes. Even the theme song sucked. If only they’d hired writers with experience in whatever genre they thought they were going for. This concept could’ve really gone places. Maybe the re-make of THIS show in 35 years will be a groundbreaking series like BSG was to it’s predecessor.
Also, how ironic that the “final five” episodes are what us fans will be waiting to see.
I’m actually glad to see this go and to know that all this amazing talent will now be availlable for a MUCH better story with Blood and Chrome !! Don’t give up the quality, just roll with it and bring us back a ratings killer !!
Loved Battlestar, but found this prequel tiresome and portentous. Mike Taylor will do an awesome job with “Blood and Chrome,” the BSG prequel they should’ve made!
“Portentous?” You found that Caprica foretold the future?!?!? O.o
To be fair, the show was portentous. It foretold the events of BSG.
When a show is truncated and has a split season and the night changes; the cancellation is a self fulfilling prophecy!
The prequel was solid and the religious cult overplay did weaken the story of the birth of the Cylons!
Hopefully they might consider showing what happened between the toasters and the human Cylons being formed as a two series parallel
to the original BG!
Waiting until 2011 is a disservice to the fans.
Bummer. They could at least give the small but devoted fan base the last five episodes. No fair making us wait … it’s not like I’m going to watch anything else on SyFy in the meantime, unfortunately.
They need to let the BSG franchise cool off. No new spin offs, TV movies, etc. Let people start to miss it a little bit. If they don’t, they’ll be repeating the same mistake (but much faster) that Berman & Braga did with the Star Trek franchise a few years ago. More is not necessarily better.
Not a surprise. Went into CAPRICA with high hopes that were dashed almost immediately, lasted maybe 6 episodes before it became a chore to watch. The show was sold to me as “DALLAS on Caprica” and that would have been a different show from BSG but still interesting. The story was fundamentally flawed from the beginning – wasn’t expecting a “ZOMG!!! The moody teenage genius girl is in teh Robot!!!1!” out of the gate and lost interest breathtakingly fast.
Have to agree. Was a massive fan of BSG, too. But with each episode of Caprica I was like, “Um, I think it’s good…damn, no it’s not…”
I had the same reaction. I was a massive, massive fan of the 2004 reboot and hardly made it through the first episode of Caprica. It was a brave choice to make it tonally completely different than BSG, but I think they may have outsmarted themselves. People (or, I) loved the moody, low-tech, “real people in a horrible situation” feel of BSG. Never at any point in watching Caprica did I think “these are real people”. It felt like the network version of a futuristic drama (not a compliment). All flash, no feeling.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Sand? Like Spartacus?
Weird.
Not a huge surprise. The lack of support for Sci-Fi, on “Syfy” (short for what social disease?) has been getting more and more obvious as the months have passed since the name change.
Hey, lets do something original? Something *not* shot on a hand held camera. Something that is not reality TV, Reboxed. Something with a script and production values? I didn’t think so.
Not likely… in the future either.
Sorry guys, you just lost another viewer.
I thought I was the only one that noticed the content change, since the name change. Thank you Enigma – every now and then it is nice to know I’m not alone.
Really like most of it, could of been better but too much sto background bs. Should have stayed focused on dr. graystone. sucks gotta wait til next year for a lame ending. what bunch of bull!
Typical of the disrespect NBC shows its viewers & employees.
Frak. Not surprising, but frak.
Ah well, at least I don’t have to watch anything on Skiffi anymore.
The show was boring. Battle Star Gallactica had the action plane scenes in space which is what Caprica lacked. I really wanted to like this show. But, it played that like an afternoon Soap Opera. I stopped watching two episodes ago.
Oh, frak. The show didn’t – to me – find it’s ground – but I was willing to hold on – I have a lot of faith in anything BSG. But it was challenging to keep my interest with the HUGE wait between half seasons, the schedule change etc. Hmm. Ok. Ready for the 1st Cylon War!