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It’s a case of bad news/good news for Battlestar Galactica fans who have been flocking to the Web to watch an unauthorized trailer for the long-in-the-works offshoot Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome over the past 36 hours. After lengthy deliberations, Syfy has decided not to go forward with the project, about the young years of William Adama, as a regular TV series. Blood & Chrome, initially envisioned as a Web series, was greenlighted as a two-hour TV pilot in October 2010. Because of intensive post-production, including special effects, the pilot was not delivered to Syfy until last November. As of January, Syfy president original programming Mark Stern was quoted as saying that he the network brass were “trying to figure out the economics right now” and that he hoped those would be figured out. Now, the network has passed on the project as a regular series but is looking to do it as a digital one, while airing the already produced pilot on the network as a movie. “Though the vision for “Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” has evolved over the course of the past year, our enthusiasm for this ambitious project has not waned,” Stern said in a statement today. “We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen. The 90-minute pilot movie will air on Syfy in its entirety at a future date.”
Despite the lengthy production and decision-making, the buzz about Blood & Chrome never died among Battlestar fans. It went into overdrive over the past couple of days following a WonderCom panel over the weekend with Kevin Grazier, the scientific adviser for Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica series, where he screened what was described as a trailer for Blood & Chrome. That trailer, to Trent Reznor and Karen O’s cover of “Immigrant Song” for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, found its way to the Web on Monday night and has gone viral — garnering some 100,000 views in 24 hours. The problem was that this was not an official trailer but a demo reel not intended for public consumption and thus not put through the process of clearing music and other rights. It is still unclear how the video made its way to WonderCon, but NBCUniversal today moved swiftly to take down the multiple copies that had popped up on YouTube. Universal Cable Prods, which produces Blood & Chrome, may still shop the project to other networks. Michael Taylor wrote the teleplay from a story by Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick, Taylor and Bradley Thompson & David Weddle.
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I wasn’t particularly interested in this project and definitely can’t see myself watching it online. BSG was awesome, and the only good thing that Syfy has produced, in my opinion, but it’s time to move on and create something original. The pilots in development sound pretty interesting. Hopefully some of them go forward.
The show appears to be CGI heavy, shot against green screens instead of using physical sets. It would be an inexpensive show to make, which may interest other networks to pick it up.
Because something is VFX heavy and not created with traditional sets by no means makes it “cheaper”. I am a professional 3D & VFX Artist and some scenes/situations require far more “manpower” and time (and pay) than creating traditional sets… case in point Avatar – a traditional “live” action movie by today’s standards can sometimes be shot and produced in a matter of months, while VFX heavy shots can sometimes take MUCH MUCH more time to produce, ESPECIALLY when it has to be composited realistically with live action actors. Avatar took 15 years to get into production, and actually 4 years to create. There is also the situation of having to farm out various post-production work to different studios around the world which may each specialize in various areas of CGI work. In many cases certain popular Pixar films have taken 4-6 years to create.
I have to agree.
I don’t do the VFX work, but I do make digital 3D-models (which I suppose are then used by VFX artists, but a lot of them get turned into decorations for people’s houses – long story).
But I know that 3D modeling is not always “inexpensive.”
I know that there are some things we can do with 3D work that just can’t be done physically (reproducing 1,000 times a prop or character that itself would be very expensive to make physically), but the set-up for rendering is Frakking expensive as all Frak (to put it in BSG vernacular)…. And by no means a low-labor job (taking hundreds of specialized workers: Matte Painters, modelers, painters/texturers, 3D set-makers, prop-makers, virtual lighting, and so on…)
You realize that that isn’t pure green screen. They definitely have a set. Or had. It’s not the same galactica set as BSG, which was destroyed, but looks similar and I’m sure they have a physical location.
Agreed. BSG is the only good thing SyFy has ever shown and it is very disappointing that “Blood and Chrome” will either be a digital series or canned altogether. Guess I will not be watching SyFy channel ever again.
Netflix should forget about Terra Nova and pick up Blood & Chrome instead.
I think Netflix is forgetting about Terra Nova either way…
True dat! But B&C would be the kind of sci fi that people might seek out, vs a failed broadcast show.
Agreeded. They already know Terra Nova isn’t viable.
Terra Nova, was purposefully an incomplete equation on the pivotal day of inception. But they went ahead and made it anyway.
They already have
…. or maybe Apple TV???
The stupidity of the science adviser (Is this even a real job and not some consultant for free credit job?) to show a demo reel to the public and leak it out to the internet without music rights shows his lack of show business savvy. I’m amazed SyFy doesn’t get sued for music rights over this.
I highly doubt this was all a seed by Kevin. He works for NASA, and is hired on as a science consultant (He’s worked with BSG for years and years.)
Get the facts before you start pointing fingers at people and insulting them.
Kevin is not employed at NASA. He was fired by JPL/NASA. He got the BSG science advisor credit and milked it to death. The show has been off the air for years and he is getting as milage out of it as possible. If he really understood the business, he would have not leaked something that was only for internal use. Someone else mentioned a director who did that at Comic Con, but that was the director who was showing the trailer for his own film. Very different situation.
I’m guessing both of these shows would be too expensive for Netflix.
Netflix has committed $60 million to Kevin Spacey’s crappy show. The show could be done in the British manner: 6 to 10 episodes.
The trailer was AWESOME.
Kevin Spacey is a two time Academy Award winner and David Fincher is directing.
That’s a big difference.
This tv movie is amazing!! It is the spinoff BSG fans have been craving. Please tune in and watch it so Syfy adopts it to a web series at the very least!
It’s time to put the world of BSG to bed for another 20 years…
We had some yuks, shed some tears, but it’s time SyFy move forward.
By move forward you mean it’s time the world abandons science fiction except for crappy Dr. Who which is utterly boring.
Syfy is not a science fiction network. It hasn’t been for years. The last science fiction show on it was BSG. Yes I’m aware of Caprica and SGU, both sucked.
“not put through the process of clearing music and other rights.” Ummm, apparently NBCu has never been on YouTube. I think 95% of YouTube content would fail the music clearing rights thing. NBCu yanked the videos down because they didn’t want thousands of fans comparing any future projects to that clip.
Im fan of BSG and SGU. I was hoping as a dedicated fan that Blood and Chrome would of got picked up so people in my age group 21-25 could follow up. Itd been awesome to get the Pre Story line. Also i liked SGU the story had its faults but My friends an I were into it. We wanted them to go further though show the Nox again and introduce the Furlings but alas no go. They could of went alot further then the Ship Turmoil that is what i think killed it. Dropping that Show and Not picking up BSG agian piss’s me off. Terra Nova was good as was Harsh Realm back in the day. In truth ever since i was 16 ive watched SYFY do so many good things and drop them for what appears no good reason. MY past decade of following ive decided ill now cancel my service and just watch fn netflix where atleast they put the good old shows.
It’s weird that the VERY enthusiastic reaction to the trailer has prompted them to rule out doing a cable series? SyFy needs a scripted hit or two badly and yet they’d rather just pump out more Ghost Hunters and god knows what else…
Ghost Hunters is cheap, B&C is not.
Ghost Hunters is crap, B&C is…probably crap, too, but better than Ghost Hunters.
Yeah, look at how that crap zombie sci-fi show on AMC is doing. What’s it called? “The Walking Dead”?
It’s ratings are just terrible. 9 million viewers. Yeah, no one likes sci-fi.
Where did the poster mention that nobody likes sci-fi? And btw, Walking Dead is horror.
Horror is a mixed genre with scifi, broseph. Every zombie story that has any flimsy explanation whatsoever, short of “Teh zombies came out of teh graves!” is science fiction. The zombie outbreak in TWD had science, in Season 1. It still kind of has science. So it’s both horror and sf.
Bottom line, reality shows can be made for next to nothing, B&C would cost money, and many more would watch B&C, the economics make reality the way to go, and if no one watches, who cares..it isn’t costing you.
Jon Favreau did the same thing when he showed the preview of Iron Man at Comic-Con in 2007. He had the Black Sabbath song and said he didn’t have the rights to it yet, but asked the crowd if he should get it.
It’s a pity Syfy is so tone-deaf to the overwhelmingly positive reaction the sizzle reel got at WonderCon and across the web.
In 90 seconds, that reel undid much of the damage Syfy self-inflicted on the franchise with Caprica. So why immediately crush fans’ hopes by ruling out a series before at least airing the pilot, and seeing what the numbers look like? It’s not like Syfy’s other stuff is exactly setting the world on fire.
(And it’s obvious from the reel that there’s no way this could be done on a web series budget, so why blatantly blow smoke? Though it’d be cool to see Netflix or Hulu step up.)
Syfy had a huge opportunity to ride this viral wave of buzz, and announce an air date. Instead, they frakked up.
Sad.
Very well said.
SyFy has been on a downward spiral since well before the name change, and they keep screwing the pooch harder and harder. The channel exists for one reason only – to cater to the SciFi community. GhostHunters, endless low-rent disaster movies and “Sharktopus” sequels is NOT what any of us want to see. The critical and ratings extravaganza that was the BSG reboot was not a fluke. Well-written, well-produced shows will hit the mark and find their audience. That the heads of SyFy (Mike Stern and Dave Howe primarily) should both be reassigned to another Universal brand with a lower profile, where their bottom-feeder mentality would not screw up a potential goldmine.
The other thing I want to note is that the BSG reboot was initially co-funded by Universal and SkyOne, the UK equivalent of SyFy. It was a HUGE win for both companies. Why isn’t that option being explored now, and why wasn’t it even discussed for ‘Caprica’?
BSg was many things, but a ratings extravaganza it was not. It started out with very decent ratings for SyFy (which are not decent ratings for a major network), but normal deterioration turned serious in the third season. By the fourth season, the ratings were generally poor to mediocre. It would not have been renewed for a fifth season, which is why Moore decided to end it in four.
Caprica came along and achieved far worse ratings than the fourth season of BSG. Scripted, green-screen shows are not cheap, and rihtly or wrongly, SyFy doesn’t believe the audience is there for Blood and Chrome. But that’s not an obviously idiotic conclusion when you look at the history.
And yes, most everything else SyF does sucks. But they suck cheaply, which matters.
SyFy balls up Carpica completely. They messed with the showing – the pilot nwas put out 6 months before the satrt, then they stopped and started several times with weeks between episodes on some occassions – and then put the whole of the second half of the season on one day 4 months later. There are very few shows that could cope with that sort of crazy programming. The show deserved a better chance than it got – and with some effort begind it, the stronger story line would likley have pulled more viewers in (from different demographics). The truith is that SyFy should not have bought the series in the first place, they made it obvious (and several rumours came out also) that they had no interest in it – much cheaper if the dealflounders due to rating than a second series is bought when there was no interest in the first. An what replaced it? A cop show that lasted even shorter – and then cooking!
Your entire comment is stupid. Do you understand how many millions of viewers watched Galactica? How many other pseudo-fans watched it and gave up? That is most definitely an obviously idiotic decision. Everyone over the age of 13 can tell you that syfy is despicably god awful. Those of us who have been watching/reading/whatever scifi for the past 30 years on TV can tell you that sci-fi is by far the most worthless joke ever. Who aired Star Trek for 18 years straight? Not the scifi channel. BSG easily had the most widespread and positive reception from the world as a whole, out of all the scifi series on TV in the past 40 years, and we’re just talking about the remake. Admittedly no one liked the original, because it was ridiculously stupid, and that’s how scifi shows go.
Sky One is not “the UK equivalent of SyFy”. Sky One is the UK equivalent of Fox (sort of).
I liked Caprica.
SyFy could make 100 Sharktopuses for this cost of this.
So sadly they probably will.
Exactly Brian, exactly.
I’m holding out for another installment of Chupacabra.
Actually, Syfy Original Movies have a budget of $2.5mil. Blood and Chrome was $6million for the pilot, but episodes would come in about $2.5, now that most of the CG assets are built. Most series on Syfy are that same budget. So in theory for $2.5 original movies are providing two hours of content, while $2.5 provides one-hour of their original series. That said, original series make more money in the long run if they are successful because of syndication domestic and internationally, while movies make more money in the short run, because believe it or not they are among the highest rated programming on Syfy. Point is… they aren’t making original movies because they cost less. Matter of fact, they are two different departments and decisions in one don’t influence decisions in the other. Except in strange cross over situations like Red Faction.
Ok so I have just seen the trailer / not trailer… whatever and it looks wonderful. So now I read that some executives don’t know if they want to green light it, I mean really they need to connect with that part of the brain called common sense. Anyone can tell that they have a winner here. I don’t really care if it on TV on over the Internet, just make the fraking thing
It’s so funny. Syfy gets blasted for not picking this up to series, blamed for putting Caprica on the air and no credit for actually being the only place on TV (at the time) where Mr. Moore’s BSG could exist. Bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. This is why so much genre TV dies so quickly and why no network will pay attention to fans anymore. They’re never happy.
Next someone is going to say they frakked up for not picking up Firefly.
To be fair, you are right. However, when they aired BSG, they were still the Sci-Fi channel. Many changes have occurred since then, the biggest one being the name change, SyFy. Since this channel is owned by NBC-U it does not come as a shock that they would not go forward with something people would actually watch. Maybe they should produce something called “Law & Order: BSG”. NBC would go for that.
Maybe they should produce something called “Law & Order: BSG”. NBC would go for that.
They did. It was called Caprica
That’s funny.
I honestly don’t understand how people can question the decision to cancel Caprica. Setting aside whether it was good or not, its ratings were horrifically bad. SyFy gave it a chance and it failed miserably. Life goes on.
If you want to question something, question how Ron Moore, Jane what’s-her-name, and the SyFy brass managed to produce a product that failed so completely with every meaningful demographic. But you have to be seriously obtuse to question the actual decision to cancel it. That was a foregone conclusion. No network keeps a ratings crater on their schedule.
I refute that SyFy gave it a chance – they bought it, but I think they had no interest in it – they did not want to see the franchise move ship, there were several interested parties at the start. The pilot was put on 6 months ahead. The first half of the series was put on late in the year and with crazy programming saw time and day differences and several large gaps between episodes – then the farse of the secoind half all on one day 4 months later. No, I entirely refute they gave it any real chance – I believe it was only aired at all due to agreements and the need to prove it was a ratings killer and give them a get-out-of-jail card on the contract.
I disagree that it’s the only place BSG could have been on, showtime and HBO have a tendency to do similar shows as well. And actually I think it may have been a better fit, particularly for Caprica which always had the feel of being held back by the FCC.
I can see SyFy execs in a dark room casting D20′s to determine their scheduling… Blood & Chrome or pro wrestling…
I can assure you the Syfy execs have absolutely no clue what a D20 is.
Or a d6. Or what wrestling is, apparently, otherwise YOU WOULD NOT PUT PRO WRESTLING ON A SCIENCE FICTION CHANNEL. No seriously, HOW? Who made that decision? You couldn’t play the TONS of scifi content that floats around? They would have maybe gained viewers by airing something like Ghost in the Shell even, or plenty of actual science fiction movies. They could have tried to get MST3K back (not that rifftracks would have agreed) even. There is an abundance of sci programming, even though a lot of it sucks, there’s no excuse for their network.
Now there’s an idea. We put the whole of the SyFy network on as a giant MST3K episode 24/7. Imagine Sharktopus with our favorite robots ripping it apart. Now that I’d watch.
Does BSG have much of a fan base outside the US? The 2004 reboot was a co-production with a UK channel, was it not? Perhaps the unfortunate “economics” of the situation are that there have never been enough overseas buyers/viewers to justify the budget. Or maybe SyFy, like AMC, is just too cheap.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Economics, namely they are too cheap to produce anything of quality. I think that is why we are awash in stupid reality show. They are produced with a shoestring budget, and they don’t pay the stars.
Remember, this is run by NBC/Universal. They’re not exactly swimming in revenue. As hard as it is to accept, they had to put WWE on SyFy in order to save SyFy. They desperately needed ad revenue and that’s how they got it. Yes, science fiction has a VERY vocal minority of fans, but at the end of the day, it is still a small minority. Be happy for what you have, because you could have nothing.
And if a la carte ever passes in Congress, we will have nothing. Only shows with a fan base of 10 million viewers will survive on TV. We’ll have to pay directly for our shows, and download off the internet.
Yes It does in Canada for sure many of my friends and I have been hoping for Blood and Chrome we all watched the web series, and are quite disapponted that it is not being picked up.
When I first heard about this project it seemed like a cynical attempt to pump blood from a stone. Hadn’t most of this back story been established already? Like in the show? And that tv movie where they showed that time period? But after seeing that fake trailer my blood got pumping. It’s battlestar galactica! Not well meaning but pretty tedious Caprica. Frakking BSG! Like others have said, SyFy should have used this buzz to greenlight a series or at least to announce an airdate and create some fireworks to go with renewed interest. Instead they seem determined to deflated any interest whatsoever. Why would I bother watching an impressive pilot when I know the full series is going to have it’s budget slashed to ribbons so it can go on a web service my country won’t allow me to see?
Well, Bryan Singer is already developing a Battlestar Galactica movie who is not based on the reboot serie, but on the 1970´s show, so probably they don´t wanto two separates version of Galactica mithology at the same time cause it happened with “Superman Returns/”Smallvile”(Bryan Singer again), so theey sacrifice the tv show for the most abitious movie project.
I have absolutely no faith that this movie will be anywhere near what RDM created. I fear that once this is unleashed, the BSG franchise will be finished for good.
I find it amusing that all the New BSG fans are getting a taste of what the Classic BSG fans were saying. As for me I do hope the Bryan Singer movie buries the RDM version for good.
What a load of bollards…I was a fan of the Original but the new show blew that piece out of the ball park….laughable!
Actually, that’d be a “load of feldercarb”, but yeah, after watching RDM’s BSG, I went back and caught portions of the original, which I believe was admitted to be a complete ripoff of Star Wars and was infamous for trying to hit all of the crazes at the time, i.e. Disco, cheesy freeze frame smile poses at the end, etc. Many of those same traits were carried forward to other Larson extravaganzas such as Buck Rogers, The A-Team and Quantum Leap (which by the way was supposed to be the actual sequel to the original Battlestar with Apollo as Scott Bakula’s character, in this case chasing Baltar and his scheming self throughout time with Starbuck as the holographic character feeding him information to stay on task and correct history, not completely change it).
Seriously, I enjoyed the original BSG… when I was a child. RDM’s was meant to be an adult show and dealt with adult issues, and did it quite well overall. Yes it was not perfect, yes, there are severe holes in the story, especially the last season, but still fantastic acting, still groundbreaking in so many ways and most of all, was the pinnacle of SciFi’s offerings (even more so when following Doctor Who on Friday nights).
The problem with SciFi and its handling of subsequent shows isn’t the content of the shows. Many of the shows, Caprica included would’ve done well if they’d stuck with what worked. However, it seems odd that they keep putting shows they’re trying to save on nights when there doesn’t seem to be a lot of geek eyes available to enjoy the shows. At least with Eureka, they’ve admitted this is the last season and it was quite nice of them to even fund Amy Berg’s and everyone’s efforts. However, I fear the Monday placement will condemn it in the ratings race and fans will be left with a marathon later in the year starting while they’re at work and running far into the night, as they’ve done with other shows.
It’s gotten to the point that I more like the SciFi I see on BBC America, anyway.
It’s going to be garbage. Now, I’m an open minded person. I watched the original BSG after the reboot. It sucks balls, The acting is just Star Wars Ep. 4 bad, the uniforms are lame ass (not the jumpsuits but the Malcom Reynolds looking junk. And Malcom Reynolds makes it look good.), the special effects were illogical, and because of that NOTHING made sense. Fifteen raiders destroy an entire fleet of Battlestars in the pilot episode. I’m sure it was meant to be like 10000 raiders but all they had to do was say “Thousands” and that would have cleared it up. One raider single handedly destroys a BS. It’s absurd. The story was good but it honestly needed to wait 20 years to be made, and I think BSG as a franchise would be a lot better off for it, with only one failure under its belt (Caprica) as opposed to three (BSG, BSG1980, and Caprica).
So it’s possible the new movie, which will never happen, could be half decent. I doubt it though. Lasers got old a long time ago, and old battlestar has lasers.
A new film with the Battlestar Galactica name would only bring more attention to a series with the same name, even if it’s wildly different. People will compare and if both are good, fans of the one will refer each other to the other project. People don’t just want to watch one thing, peolpe want more of the kinds of things they liked. In this case, one is a series and one is a film, so logically, fans of the series will give the film a shot to see if they like it, and fans of the film will find out about the series and give that a shot.
What you said makes absolutely no sense from a business point of view.
Yeah, that worked soooo well for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator: Salvation, didn’t it? TV series, which was brilliant, gets dumped, theatrical film strangles on its dumb plot and dies in the theaters. Let’s not have THAT again.
It will be wiser to wake stargate from the dead and put bsg to sleep in place of it.
It’s going to be garbage. Now, I’m an open minded person. I watched the original BSG after the reboot. It sucks balls, The acting is just Star Wars Ep. 4 bad, the uniforms are lame ass (not the jumpsuits but the Malcom Reynolds looking junk. And Malcom Reynolds makes it look good.), the special effects were illogical, and because of that NOTHING made sense. Fifteen raiders destroy an entire fleet of Battlestars in the pilot episode. I’m sure it was meant to be like 10000 raiders but all they had to do was say “Thousands” and that would have cleared it up. One raider single handedly destroys a BS. It’s absurd. The story was good but it honestly needed to wait 20 years to be made, and I think BSG as a franchise would be a lot better off for it, with only one failure under its belt (Caprica) as opposed to three (BSG, BSG1980, and Caprica).
So it’s possible the new movie, which will never happen, could be half decent. I doubt it though. Lasers got old a long time ago, and old battlestar has lasers. As for stargate, it’s dead. Like permanently. SGU was a shitfest and got deservedly boxed. Stargate Extinction got boxed, permanently. Stargate will never come back. MGM may pretend they want it to live but they don’t care. As with Star Trek, they’re kind of low on something different that can be done and still succeed. SGU tried to branch out like Voyager – minus anything good and good plots and good acting and sticking to the same formula – and unlike Voyager it failed hardcore. What’s left for them to do? Stargate: [insert Daedalus class ship here]? They could branch out and maybe expand on things like maybe they could show the Asgard when they were still human, or maybe they coul dhave a show set in ancient times when the Go’auld were on Earth and there could be some rebellion. Maybe they could have a stargate focus on the Lucian Alliance plot, or even the Jaffa. Who knows, but it won’t be coming back.
Of course Stern fails to mention that the lateness of delivery was due to SyFy trying to make up their minds what to do with the cut. The whole VFX team was laid off for 6 weeks! Insiders say It was an ego fight between the Execs and Eick.
Seems like SyFy had buyer’s remorse almost immediately. On the one hand, it’s a name that still has brand recognition and a small group of devoted fans (plus, the re-imagined “Battlestar” was critically acclaimed). On the other, the franchise was unlikely to attract many new fans (a problem with these ongoing sagas, which generally can only lose viewers, while potential new viewers feel it’s either not for them or that there’s an impediment to joining late).
It’s a shame, because I was a devoted fan of both “Galactica” and “Caprica,” and I’ll watch this new one if I get a chance.
I understand the re-imagined BSG series benefitted well from some unique perspectives it was given early on. It may be a good idea if the devoted fans could help encourage more of these going forward.
Everyone who watches Sci Fi….Syfy or whatever the hell they call themselves now better get used to the idea that they are getting away from scripted shows and into reality based programming as fast as they can. It is cheaper and it makes them a ton more money than something like BSG: B&C would….lets face it, BSG: B&C would hemmorage money because if it was done properly would take so much CGI just to make it look believable. A
As far as I am concerned BSG was possibly the last great show on Syfy…..
That’s not exactly true. While unscripted programming is cheaper to produce, it doesn’t bring in the international sales revenue that scripted fare does.
Yea Seven you clearly miss the point that this ISNT what science fiction is about. Science fiction is plot. And special effects. Reality has neither of those. There’s no such thing as a science fiction reality show BECAUSE REALITY ISN’T FICTION. Herp derp. Leave your “I’m the counterbitching troll” costume at home and don’t even make pointless troll comments like that.
Perhaps Blood and Chrome was too expensive for Syfy? Maybe Starz should pick it up? They spend big money on their shows. Why not limit the seasons to 10 episodes and go from there??
Stars can perhaps work a deal with BBCA to air it after they are done. Like the deal DirecTV and NBC had for FNL..
Although Ronald D. Moore is a singular kind of writer to match both political insight and dramatic realism in an entertaining fashion, Michael Taylor did fantastic work in that vein on “Virtuality”, some of the best episodes of “Battlestar Galactica” and surely the only great work on “Caprica” after Ron Moore’s pilot.
This is a massive screw up by Syfy. I’ve no interest in a digital series or any of that web series crap. Make a damn TV show, for crying out loud. First, they force Ira Steven Behr off of “Alphas” and now this? I thought Syfy would make BETTER decisions with Mark Stern’s promotion — not worse ones by killing off any potential political insight into our world. Mark Stern is a smart man and I’m disappointed. I guess the lousy economy is part of the reason, but fans have too long not done their part in watching stuff live when they have Nielson boxes, which really hurt things.
I’m hoping for a change of heart. Michael Taylor deserves it and we need a smart political, original show. I’m very upset by this.
I think you can blame the whole people not watching shows live on the way jobs are being scheduled nowadays. It’s not just 9-5 anymore. More and more people are getting jobs that schedule them to work during primetime hours, which means shows are getting recorded. I think that perhaps it’s time that networks stop focusing on the traditional ratings system and start focusing on the systems that take into account what people record and watch later, when they have the free time to do it.
God, I hate SyFy. They axe so many great shows, that I hate them with a passion right now.
I hope they die off due to their stupid decisions.
I can’t help but think there’s some reason outside of the 90 seconds shown in the “trailer” that SyFy passed. I’m thinking it’s gotta be really really bad, and they’re just using the money as an excuse.
Well yes, they passed on the full show, not the 90 second trailer. But why in the world would they need an “excuse” beyond badness to not pick up a show?
I was going to say “If it was really, really bad, they wouldn’t even show the pilot”, but then I thought to myself: Sharktopus, Megashark vs Giant Octopus and Ice Spiders.