"Battlestar" gets grounded by Sci Fi
By Nellie Andreeva
Yesterday at 1:27 am
The upcoming fourth
season of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica" will be its
final one after all.
After months of speculation, the show's producers are set
to make the announcement at a press conference Friday.
Ending "Battlestar" with the upcoming 22-episode fourth
season was a creative decision made by the hit show's executive
producers Ronald Moore and David Eick.
"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle
and, finally, an end," Eick and Moore said in a statement
Thursday. "Over the course of the last year, the story and the
characters have been moving strongly toward that end, and we've
decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the
show on our own terms. And while we know our fans will be
saddened to know the end is coming, they should brace
themselves for a wild ride getting there -- we're going out
with a bang."
The fourth and final season of "Galactica" will kick off in
November with "Razor," an extended two-hour episode, with the
rest of the season slated to run beginning in early 2008.
Sci Fi executive vp original programming Mark Stern said
the channel's brass "respect the producers' decision to end the
series."
For months, Sci Fi had dispelled rumors about "Battlestar"
ending its run after the fourth season.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the show's stars, Edward
James Olmos, was quoted as saying that the upcoming batch of
episodes were definitely the last ones. Sci Fi issued a
statement denying such a decision had been made.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
So goodbye favorite show!
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