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Galactica gets the Greenlight
13/02/2004 . Source: Jessica Martin 
The Battlestar Galactica revival continues as the recent TV miniseries is extended into a full series. The brass at the SciFi Channel has now greenlit production on the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a new original weekly series. Based on the December 2003 miniseries of the same name, the new drama is slated to begin production with 13 original episodes in Vancouver next month.
All principal cast from the mini-series will reprise their roles for the series, including Edward James Olmos (Commander Adama), Mary McDonnell (President Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), and Tricia Helfer (Number Six), among others.
Ronald D. Moore (Carnivale, Mission Impossible 2) returns as executive producer as well as writer. The project will be produced for the SciFi Channel, in association with Sky One. The series will be distributed by USACE, where David Eick, an executive producer of the miniseries, serves as Executive Vice President.
A re-imagining of the 1978 television series, the new miniseries became the highest-rated cable mini in 2003 - delivering more viewers and higher ratings than HBO's Angels in America.
The Battlestar Galactica series is a take on the 70s/80s era adventure of a ragtag fleet of humans, the sole survivors of a devastating attack by the robot Cylons.
Faced with an un-winnable battle against a deadly enemy, they are forced to flee under the protection of their one remaining warship, the outdated Battlestar Galactica. Pursued by the Cylons - some of whom have now taken (sexy) human form - Commander Adama (Olmos) and President Roslin (McDonnell) lead these last remnants of humanity in search of a new home ... a planet called Earth.
Hey, you know the rest.
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