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EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has finalized a 13-episode straight-to-series order to Helix,
a dark thriller from Ronald D. Moore, marking Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer’s return to the network. Steven Maeda (Lost, CSI: Miami) has come on board as showrunner of the project, written by Cameron Porsandeh. Helix, from Sony Pictures TV, where Moore and his Tall Ship Prods are under an overall deal, is about a team of scientists investigating a possible disease outbreak 
Hot In Cleveland) and Maeda executive produce, with Porsandeh serving as co-executive producer. “With its well-drawn characters, taut drama, and incredible production team, we couldn’t be more excited to see this intense thrill-ride of a series come to life,” said Syfy’s president of original content Mark Stern. Helix is expected to begin production early in 2013 to debut later this year. In addition to hit Battlestar Galactica, Moore also co-created and executive produced Syfy’s prequel series Caprica.
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I will definitely be watching. I loved BSG. It is one of my favorite TV series of all time. I am happy to see that Moore is coming back to TV.
Everyone needsa little Steve Maeda.
Congrats to all.
k, let’s see… Ron’s 1st series was full. 2nd was cancelled after 3/4 of a season. 3rd cancelled before airing 1st ep. my guess is this gets cancelled 3 hours from now.
I just hope the suits at Syfy don’t leach out all the creativity to fit the demographic that thinks Haunted Collector is worthy of anyone’s time.
Frakin awesome!
RM–super talented showrunner.
hopefully syfy lets the reigns off , and lets him do what he does best..
BSG….was top 5 sci fi shows of all time…Genius!!
J$
This is great. We haven’t had a remake of The Thing in what, 3 years?
I loved bag until it all fell apart at the end. That starbuck ghost stuff was such a cop out. I can’t even watch the show again.
As expected the morons and idiots always come out of the woodwork to lecture the rest of us on why they hated BSG…and “Caprica”. Personally I don’t give a rat’s ass on all that! I hope the show will prove to be another good addition to the roster of tv shows I watch!
i personally think caprica could’ve grown to be better than bsg, given time, unfortunately it was not.
Battlestar was brilliant, game-changing television. Mr. Moore will do the same with this series.
Wouldn’t it be fun to see 1 or 2 of the BSG cast “resurrect” in this series. If it’s the CDC with Doctors then maybe……..James Callis?
Go RDM!
I’d rather they renewed “Alphas”.
i’d rather they renew Caprica. (but yes, Alphas, also)
For moore, it’s a start. Now go out and get Taylor, Weddle & Thompson and Angeli
If Ron Moore and Naren Shanker are still working on The Wild Wild West:
Kellan Lutz as West, Jake Canuso as Gordon, Mark Povinelli as Loveless, and Michael Madsen as Grant.
To make WWW work Ron Moore, Naren Shanker, or some other producer (Robert Rodriguez, who should have directed the film version, would be good as executive producer and director of the pilot) has to assemble writers who would get the concept potential.
Here is a list of writers that might work:
Joe R. Lansdale could be a good story editor with his genre-bending writing style. Plus, his martial arts background should impress Mr. Conrad as well.
In the tradition of the original show’s Henry Sharp artist-turned-writer:
Ben Edlund (Supernatural and Firefly), Brendan McCarthy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Howard Chaykin (Century West), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Tad Stones (Hellboy Animated), Rob Schrab (Monster House), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Doug Tennapel (Iron West)
Some other possible writers:
Neil Gaiman (Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man), Gavin Scott (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne), Joseph Dougherty (Cast a Deadly Spell), Earl Mac Rauch (Buckaroo Banzai), Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo (The Rocketeer), Peter David (Oblivion), Adam Abraham and Gibson Frazier (Man of the Century), Tim Shafer (Grim Fandango), Mark Zaslove (Mighty Max), Richard Liebman-Smith (The James Boys), Chris Elliott (The Shroud of the Thwacker), Stephen Tobolowsky (True Stories), Michael J. Nelson (Death Rat!), Paul Dini (Mutant, Texas), Terry Jones (Evil Machines), Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Sarah Vowell (The Partly Cloudy Patriot), Adam Reed and Matt Thompson (Archer), J.T. Petty (The Burrowers), Kerry Conran (Sky Captain), Mark Ellis (The Wild Wild West comic book), John Swartzwelder (The Time Machine Did It), John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise), Mo Rocca (All the Presidents’ Pets), Ken Levine (BioShock), Bob Gale (Interstate 60), Errol Morris (Believing Is Seeing), Yahoo Serious (Young Einstein), Michael Nesmith (The Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora), Dooma Wendschuh and Corey May (Assasin’s Creed), and Matt Berry (Snuff Box)
Here are some other possible director names besides those within the writers list above:
John Hyams (Rank), Don Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-Tep), Thomas J. Wright (Millenium), Jay Dubin (Beakman’s World), Alex Winter (Freaked), Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World), Lance Mungia (Six String Samurai), Jeff Tremaine (Jackass), Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone), Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog), Lexi Alexander (Green Street Hooligans), Bryan Barber (Idlewild), Richard Ayoade (AD/BC: A Rock Opera), Savage Steve Holland (Better Off Dead), Markus Rothkranz (To the Ends of Time), Brian Trenchard-Smith (The Quest), Sid Bennett (Mermaids: The Body Found), Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach), Will Vinton (The Adventures of Mark Twain), Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia), Ryan McFaul (NTSF:SD:SUV), Liam Lynch (Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny), Joe Dante (The Second Civil War), Ernesto Díaz Espinoza (Kiltro), Steve Wang (Drive), Neil Marshall (The Descent), Brian Henson (Farscape), Morgan Spurlock (Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?), Richard Stanley (Dust Devil), Stacy Peralta (Riding Giants), and Mike Judge (Idiocracy)