It actually wasn’t the SciFi channel that resurrected it….per se.
It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.
But someone gave him a set of the original BSG series and as he was watching it he thought to himself “Wow, this is stupid and campy, but the story has incredible potential.”
Where upon, he approached the Sci Fi channel with the outline for the mini-series.
I think the thing that’s most amazing about the series is not that Sci Fi agreed to re-hash it but, that they didn’t insist on changing it and making it campy like the original…….that’s something they seem to do with everything they produce.
The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.
It was a producer from one of the worst shows ever: Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I watched an interview with him where he said once he was done with DS9, he was done with Science Fiction for good.
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The writer stuck to his guns, determined not to let the new BSG turn into a insipid, childish series like DS9.
That makes BSG even more amazing. DS9 was weak, among the Star Trek series, but to my mind, the weakest had to have been Voyager; the totally PC Star Trek. At least DS9 had the Ferengi, the original party animals. Making money, gambling, naked females; those guys know how to live.