The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Battlestar Galactica’s final season, long believed to be starting in January, won’t be hitting the small screen until April:
Ronald D. Moore, the executive producer who runs “Battlestar Galactica,” is gearing up for the long goodbye by taking on a new task. He will step into the director’s chair for the first time next season as his dramatic reinvention of the hokey 1970s’ space opera treks toward the end. The final 20-episode run will kick off in — you read it here first — early April.
Moreover, it seems like SciFi is still debating the idea of breaking Season Four into two parts to be broadcast in 2008 and 2009:
Moore’s episode, however, won’t air until after the show takes a midseason break and will kick off the remaining episodes in “Battlestar’s” four-season run. Sci Fi Channel executives have not yet determined whether the final season will all air next year or be spread over 2008 and 2009.
“I’d probably prefer to see the entire thing air next year to maintain the momentum, to build excitement as it pushes to the end,” Moore said, “not to mention it means less chance of spoilers getting out.”
Guys, don’t try to pull a Soprano’s here. Just air the season.
December 9th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Is this still in effect? Does anyone know how many episodes have already been filmed, or how many season 4 episodes have been written?
I hope they dont try and break up the season into 2 parts. They killed Lost and Jericho this way, it is just a sorry attempt to drag out content longer.