Posted on 02/13/2007 5:45:01 PM PST by KevinDavis
SCI FI Channel announced that it has renewed its Peabody-winning original series Battlestar Galactica, ordering 13 new episodes. Production will resume this summer in Vancouver, Canada, with an eye toward a January 2008 premiere.
The decision comes after the series' successful move to a new 10 p.m. timeslot on Sundays. Since moving, Battlestar Galactica's audience has grown over its third-season average by 8 percent in total viewers, by double digits in female viewers, by 19 percent in the show's target demographic of adults aged 18-49 and by 14 percent in adults 25-54. The Jan. 28 episode, "Taking a Break From All Your Worries," delivered 2.5 million total viewers and 1.6 million adults 18-49, the largest audience for any episode since the season-two premiere.
"We're thrilled to bring Battlestar back for another season," Mark Stern, SCI FI's executive vice president of programming, said in a statement. "This series has delivered on every level, from the writing to the acting to the production values. SCI FI is proud to be the home of the best show on television."
The series is from NBC Universal Television Studio and is executive-produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. Its cast is led by Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. Battlestar recently returned with the second half of its third original season, immediately following SCI FI's newest original series, The Dresden Files.
"While we never had any doubt that SCI FI would get behind a fourth season of Battlestar, it's thrilling to finally make it official, and for Ron and I to continue using this great genre to investigate the darker corners of society, politics and humanity," executive producer David Eick said in a statement.
I guess they can't all be Scar.
That's alot of men living in their Mom's basements
Shhhhhhh..... keep that under your hat. ;-)
Or "The Dance".
"Works for me - man what a twist on the Baltar/6 line last sunday. - I didn't see that one coming..."
It already happened before on an earlier episode.
and 1.6 million adults 18-49
Wow! Good show when American Idol has 35 million viewers an episode....sarc.
Yeah, not every episode can be Galactica falling from the fracking sky.
Interesting that only 13 episodes were ordered for next season. I actually do hope that the show ends in the next season or two.
To each their own.
I hate that they are delaying it so that Moore can work on 'Bionic Woman' for NBC, but at least they renewed it.
They just better actually show reruns during the gap. That was their big mistake that cost them ratings for this season, giving the time slot to a different show allowed people to forget about the show. If you go through all the trouble of creating "appointment TV", especially on a not always easy to find cable channel, you need to keep that appointment. You at least want people to look at the schedule and see which episode is being re-run and decide if they want to watch it again. DVD sales are nice but you don't want to sacrifice the ratings for the DVDs, higher ratings means more seasons and more DVDs later.
ping with a v & orange dry
p.s. happy heart day
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