Below The Beltway

Battlestar Galactica may be leaving the air in March, but it’s story will continue:
Sci Fi Channel has greenlit “Caprica,” the much-anticipated prequel to hit series “Battlestar Galactica.”
“Caprica” will star Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker, and will be set 50 years prior to “Galactica’s” seminal attack on human civilization by those dreaded [...]

H/T: Extreme Mortman

The final half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica will start on January 16th:
The final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica have been wrapped up and sitting in a can somewhere for months now, and still we’ve been forced to wait for the Sci Fi Channel to announce when they’ll air on television.  The show’s [...]

Which movie (or television) President was best in a crisis?
It was a tough choice, but in the end I had to go with David Palmer over Laura Roslin.

Salon wraps up the last Battlestar Galactica until sometime in 2009:
While the teasers told us over and over again that “All will be revealed,” here we are on a radioactive landscape, with more questions than answers. How did this happen? Where is the final member of the final five, and was he or she somehow [...]

I love you for giving us an episode tonight that brings the entire series into focus and answers all our questions.
Almost.
I hate you for the fact that you left us hanging for at least the next eight months.
It’s a plot by Brother Cavil to drive us all nuts, right ?

All those rumors about the ScFi Channel splitting up the final season of Battlestar Galactica into a “season” that spans two years are apparently true:
Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday’s midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 — the series’ last, lest we forget — won’t be hitting [...]

With only hours to go until the premiere of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica, here’s a recap of the past three seasons, condensed into eight minutes:

Now that the SciFi Channel has decided to move forward on the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, details are starting emerge on what the show will be all about:
* DANIEL GRAYSTONE is literally the father of the Cylons, a fortysomething “spectacularly wealthy” computer designer.
* ZOE GRAYSTONE, Daniel’s hot 16-year-old daughter, dies in a suicide bombing. Daniel [...]

Along with the question of exactly what kind of Earth we’ll see when Galactica actually gets there, the identity of the final Cylon is the one remaining mystery of Season Four, and Ron Moore gives us a little hint:
[T]hanks to a recent issue of TV Guide, predicting the identity of the final Cylon just got [...]