"Battlestar" Season Three Premiere Date Set
NowPlaying Magazine is reporting that the Season Three premiere of the SciFi Channel's hit show "Battlestar Galactica" will air in OCTOBER 2006! That's right! SEVEN months from now! Nooo!
As the show's fans chomp at the bit for this week's Season Two finale - an extended 90-minute cliff-hanger episode - we must face the stark truth that we will have to wait more than half a year to see what becomes of our favorite characters. The gods must be punishing us - either that or Ron D. Moore and David Eick, the show's creators/exec-producers.
Last year, Time Magazine named "Battlestar" the best show of 2005, describing it as "a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal." With such a long break I'm not sure it'll make the list again this year.
The chatboards are buzzing with the news. A recurring fear is that a seven-month wait will result in a further loss of viewers - the series lost a significant viewership when it went into its mid-season break last Fall. It looks like the producers and channel execs are willing to roll the dice.
Production on the third season begins in Vancouver next month, and 20 episodes of the show have been ordered for the season. The network press release promises "even more of the drama, intrigue, and action that viewers have come to expect from the series." Sigh. To make us wait seven months, it had better.
The season finale of "Battlestar Galactica" airs this Friday (the 10th) at 10pm ET/ 9pm CT. Be sure to check out our sister site, Battlestar Fodder, for news and episode reviews. -- Shannon Nolley
Well, at least I haven't watched the episodes with the Podcast commentaries... I'll have to while away the months scrutinizing FX shots, counting Vipers to make sure there aren't too many for the logistics of the show, and listening to blah, blah, this is how we shot this, blah, blah, this is why we named the other Six "Gina", blah, blah, don't you wish we didn't hate you fans so much that we have to torture you for seven months.
-- Posted by: Three Eyed Toad at March 9, 2006 12:45 PM
Better warm up that DVD player ... it's gonna be a long seven months.
-- Posted by: mac at March 8, 2006 3:44 PM