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This Just In: See Gaga Sing on Gossip Girl
• Gossip Girl: Don't want to wait until Monday to see Lady Gaga's guest gig on Gossip Girl's "Last Days of Disco Stick"? Press play above for a sneak peek of the showy pop star's big musical number.
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: As it turns out, super-Jew Larry David is 37 percent Native American, or so say the geneticists employed by the Lopez Tonight show.
• Private Practice: Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice boss Shonda Rhimes announced that Kate Walsh has joined Twitter, if you're into that kind of thing. You can follow her at @k8_walsh.
• Charlie's New Angels: This sounds strangely fun. Sarah Connor Chronicles boss Josh Friedman and multihyphenate cutie Drew Barrymore are collaborating on a possible new Charlie's Angels series for ABC. Got any sexy casting ideas?
• Caprica: The Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica has been cut back by one hour to save money. The series, which stars Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales, premieres Jan. 22 on Syfy.
Have We Really Seen the Last of Battlestar Galactica?
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Battlestar Galactica and Caprica series masterminds Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson, and BSGverse stars Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales (plus, surprise guest Grace Park!), gathered at Comic-Con this morning to share some great news with fans about the prospects for more of the critically acclaimed sci-fi saga.
Want to hear Edward James Olmos' pitch for the next Battlestar Galactica movie?
Wanna know when Caprica is finally premiering on your TV after a years-long gestation?
Or would you care to hear how Caprica is catnip for the Buffy fans of the world? Read on...
Caprica Is Coming: The Stars Spill Secrets
Caprica is coming. Yay!
The pilot of the Battlestar Galactica prequel premieres on DVD and digital download April 21, and you can check out the trailer above for a sneak peek of the heartbreaking drama of families destroyed by terrorism. (It's bad juju, but darn good-looking TV!)
Want more? Of course you do. Luckily, then, we have scoop from stars Esai Morales, Paula Malcolmson and Polly Walker about who they're playing and what they're up to...
When Will Caprica Premiere?
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"Well, if there's anything I can do to lower your expectations, that would probably be for the best." That's Eric Stoltz deftly managing fan excitement over the coming Battlestar Galactica spinoff, Caprica.
But expectations for Caprica—an atmospheric epic about cyborgs and broken hearts—can hardly be diminished when the cast includes such lights as Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcolmson and Polly Walker. For that matter, fans are atwitter at the news that Caprica will be executive produced by noted Buffy and BSG alum Jane Espenson.
Good thing then for the fans that Universal Media muckety-mucks have just released the news of where and when you can get your Galactica on after the current series ends on March 20. We've got the dish...
Frak Yeah! BSG Spinoff Caprica Goes to Series
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As Battlestar Galactica begins the countdown to its series finale, there is new life in the franchise!
Sci Fi Channel announced today that it's picking up Caprica, the spinoff series set 50 years before the Cylon attack that sent the ragtag fleet on its mission to Earth. The series is a family drama about the Adamas (as in Admiral Bill and Major Lee Adama) and the Graystones, during the era when computer engineers were brainstorming the first Cylon technology.
The series stars Esai Morales as Bill Adama's father Joseph; Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcolmson as wealthy capitalists Daniel and Amanda Graystone, parents to Zoe Graystone (Alessandra Torresani); and Polly Walker as the imperious headmistress at Zoe Graystone's school.
But how many episodes of life in the pre-apocalypse Twelve Colonies will we get?
And when does the show premiere?
Battlestar Prequel Finally Taking Off
Battlestar Galactica is going back to where it all began.
Nearly two years after the idea was first a glimmer in a galaxy far, far away, Sci Fi Channel announced Tuesday that it has given the go-ahead for production to begin on Caprica, a two-hour prequel set 50 years before the Cylons annihilated the 12 Colonies of Kobol.
"We couldn't be more excited to see this long-anticipated project get off the ground," Mark Stern, Sci Fi's executive VP of programming, said Tuesday during the network's upfront presentation in New York.
"It's an amazing script and, though clearly inspired by the Battlestar mythology, it is not just a pale spinoff. This is a smart, thought-provoking, emotional and compelling character drama in its own right."
The Peabody Award-winning Battlestar Galactica, itself a reimagining of the original 1978 series, is heading into its fourth and final season on Sci Fi Channel, five years after the Galactica's search for the whispered-about 13th colony—Earth—first began with a three-hour miniseries.
Networks execs first announced plans for a prequel in April 2006 (also at the upfronts, when the networks pitch their jazziest shows to sell ad time), but with red tape being what it is, it took awhile to put the requisite pieces together.
Caprica will follow the stories of two powerful rival families, one of which owns the computer corporation that builds the first Cylons. Production on the prequel, which originally sprang from the minds of BSG creators Roanld D. Moore and David Eick as a potential separate series, is set to begin this spring in Vancouver.
Last summer, when the fate of Caprica still hung in the balance, Eick and Moore told E! Online's TV blog that they certainly hoped Sci Fi would find a place for it.
"It would take the stories that we came to discover on Battlestar Galactica and go all the way back to their embryo and the discovery of the technology that will link to the Cylons specifically," Moore said. "It’s a tremendously arresting idea that was really beautifully executed, and we're anxious to have any opportunity to pursue it because we really think it’s a special project."
"It’s not on the immediate front burner, but I don’t think anyone has said to us that it is definitively dead," Eick added. "And we continue to hope that there will be an opportunity in the forum and a programming need for it.
"It is certainly something we believe in and something we think would not only capture the Battlestar Galactica fans, but would open up a whole new audience to this mythology because it’s a very different show."
To whet fans' appetites before the season-four premiere, originally scheduled for February but ultimately postponed to April 4 because of the writers' strike, Eick and Moore helmed the TV movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor, which focused on a young rookie Adama during the First Cylon War and premiered in November. (For a reminder of key plot points, jump to Watch with Kristin.)
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