Battlestar Galactica: Clips and news
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The good folks at SciFi continue to provide us with preview clips, today one from tonight’s episode, “Escape Velocity”:
And I never got this one up, the recap of “Ties that Bind”:
Meanwhile, there’s been lots of news lately on the brilliant men who bring us the brilliant Battlestar Galactica, and I’ve been lax in reporting on it, so I’ll make it up to you now.
• First off, Ronald Moore and Michael Taylor (he wrote the Razor telemovie and is a producer and writer on the series) are teaming with Lloyd Braun (a former exec at Yahoo and ABC) and Gail Berman (former exec prod on Buffy and Angel, among others) to executive-produce Virtuality. The show, a two-hour “back-door pilot” for Fox, is, according to Variety, about:
12 astronauts who are sent on a 10-year journey to find a distant solar system. The explorers pass the time by hooking up to advanced virtual reality modules to explore self-created worlds. But they discover someone has downloaded a computer bug into the system — and one of them may be the saboteur.
The space voyage, on the show, is funded by a reality show. Video of the trip is then streamed back to Earth, and will be translated into webisodes we’ll be able to see. They’d like to star shooting this summer for a February release.
• Moore, speaking of, also has signed up with United Artists to create an original sci-fi triology. This would be for the big, not the small screen.
• Then, we have David Eick, who recently signed a two-year, seven-figure deal with NBC Universal, which owns SciFi and other networks. TVGuide.com said he’s working on a “family adventure” that’s been given an oh-so-Hollywood description of “Little Miss Sunshine meets Thelma and Louise,” as well as something else described as a “sort of modern-day Hart to Hart,” plus “an adaptation of an existing Universal property, the title of which is top-secret until rights are secured.”
• And finally, because I think Tricia Helfer just may be the most overlooked actress of her generation, here’s a link to an interview she did with IGN. (Did you know she’s doing voice-over work as Black Cat on The Spectacular Spider-Man?) In this blurb, she talks about how one of the Sixes she portrays (the one in the red dress) won’t get much more screen time:
Well, “Head” Six or “Chip” Six, or whatever she is, after the next couple of episodes she kind of disappears to some extent, and it’s really because Baltar is starting to believe in his role, instead of faking it because Six is making him. He’s really starting to believe that he has a role – he doesn’t necessarily understand what it is, but he’s trusting in himself. So Six’s work is sort of done, but what we’re filming now, she does come back. I can’t really tell you why… [Laughs] But I know there’s going to be something happening with her towards the end. We’re going to figure out something. I don’t know what it is yet, because I haven’t seen the scripts for those episodes, but she definitely is taking on more of an angelic sort of guiding role than necessarily a manipulator or sexual predator so to speak [Laughs].
And, finally, who knew Tricia Helfer was a crazy cat lady? She has (coincidentally enough) six. She and her “kids” are in the April issue of PawPrints magazine.
“I don’t know what it is, but I feel a real affinity toward cats. I feel like I have a personality that’s very cat-like. If they don’t want to be held, then they don’t want to be held. And I kind of feel the same way; I don’t want to be touched all the time. I have different moods. And my Chinese sign is the Tiger!”
She also is bikini-clad, along with Katee (Starbuck) Sackhoff and Grace (Sharon Valerii) Park in the May issue of Interview magazine.
And come back tonight, about a half hour to 45 minutes after Escape Velocity airs, and I’ll share my thoughts with you.
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