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Jul 122010
TUESDAY, 31 AUGUST 2010
Caprica cancelled at mid-season? It certainly looks that way.
EDIT: Please, make sure you read the update below for clarification.
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A source confirmed to Matt Mitovich at Fancast over the weekend that Caprica definitely didn’t get renewed in August:
With the ‘Caprica’ actors’ contracts expiring, executive producer David Eick said we’d hear a decision on Season 2 by August 15. It’s now almost September. Is the show canceled? – Pete
That deadline came and went, yes, but a source very close to Syfy’s ‘Caprica’ told me during Emmys weekend that NBC Universal worked out an “extension” that bought them until November to make a call on a pick-up. So hold out hope, Pete.
Of course, all this really means is that the actors’ contracts have expired, that the show definitely didn’t get picked up for a second season, and we won’t be hearing anything else on the matter before the DVDs go on sale (October). A bizarre situation for a show like this one, really, to have its fate sealed after only nine aired episodes, whether we hear about the decision tomorrow or in November.
So as of August 31, 2010, this is it: One season. 18 episodes. Three years to air them. Three separate DVD releases. You’d think anything short of a season two order would be pushing the boundaries on shameless. And yet here we are.
Granted, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this “extension” is real and not just more BS from the network. But if there really is any hope at all for this show, Syfy’s PR people are sure as hell doing a disastrous job selling it.
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UPDATE: Okay, the contract extension has been confirmed by Alessandra Torresani.
SOURCE: http://www.capricatv.net/2010/08/caprica-cancelled-at-mid-season-it.html
Jul 302010
Syfy is working on a new Battlestar Galactica series that will follow the exploits William “Husker” Adama during the Cylon War. According to the Chicago Tribune, the show is called “Blood and Chrome” and will be an online series with about 10 episodes, each around 9 minutes long.
According to Mark Stern, Syfy’s executive vice president of original programming and the co-head of original content for Universal Cable Productions, “Battlestar Galactica” and “Caprica” co-executive producer Michael Taylor will write the the script for the new venture. “Blood & Chrome” is “about a young man’s initiation into war: both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground (and in Battlestars and Vipers), and the somewhat less real version portrayed in the media,” according to Taylor.
“Blood & Chrome” would consist of nine or 10 episodes of nine or 10 minutes each, and it would make use of cutting-edge digital technology and special effects to depict the Cylon War. If it is greenlit to production, it will be filmed using green screens and virtual sets, not unlike Syfy’s “Sanctuary” or James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Before “Battlestar Galactica” ended, high-tech scans were made of all the show’s sets, so that the special-effects team will be able to re-create them (possibly even in 3D).
Taylor revealed some other details to the Tribune:
“I’ve seen the virtual, 3D version of CIC ['Battlestar's' Combat Information Center] and it’s pretty damn cool,” Taylor said. “And yet the movie isn’t confined to Galactica. Far from it. It’s a story that will take us to new corners of the ‘Battlestar’ world (or worlds), and yet it aims to be a very contemporary war movie in a lot of ways. I would say I’m thinking as much of Afghanistan and Iraq–the reality of ‘Hurt Locker,’ Sebastian Junger’s ‘Restrepo,’ and similar movies–as I am about about the largely implied past of ‘Battlestar.’”
If the series is successful, more could follow.
Part 1 Caprica Panel
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Jul 122010
Alessandra shows us how the cast and crew of “Caprica” show their support for breast cancer.
Jul 122010
The cast and creators talk about Caprica’s three-camera shooting style and what kind of look it gives the show.
Alessandra shows you that sometimes it takes a few tries to get something right, this time in an ADR session.
Alessandra shows you that sometimes it takes a few tries to get something right.
