BSG soundtrack creator and Friend of GWC Bear McCreary’s live concert this last week carried-over for additional shows — which still sold-out — and according to GWCers in attendance totally rocked! McCreary himself performed, of course, along with various instrumentalists, and James Callis — Gaius Baltar to BSG fans — emceed. Callis even sang what [...]

The frak-up wasn’t invented yesterday, as this blooper reel from the original Battlestar Galactica series shows. Not to be missed: Richard Hatch’s numerous appearances, Dirk Benedict’s foul mouth, Adama in bed with a daggit, “plot missing,” and “finding earth.”

For those of you watching BSG via SciFi or Hulu’s streaming offerings, here’s the trailer for next week’s episode Ties That Bind that aired on SciFi following this week’s episode.
(Thanks, Lucky!)

It’s Friday night during Galactica season, which means new BSG and frak parties galore. To avoid spoilers, be sure to choose the correct frak party for your viewing time zone:

Here’s the party for those of you who’ve already watched the show via SciFi’s noontime stream. The discussion is raging as it’s a hell of an [...]

Following in the wake of Star Wars Galaxies and a supposedly-coming-soon Star Trek MMO comes Auran Games’ announcement of a BSG MMO which will take place during the first Cylon War. Sleuth site MMOCrunch says Sierra Online will publish, though no dates have been set.
One bit of bad news: you’ll only be able to play [...]

Later this year Fantasy Flight Games will take Galactica from the small screen to the table, creating a board game around the show’s “rich story lines and compelling characters.” The game will feature “cooperative play” and “both political and military conflicts.” Another twist: one or more of the players could be human-appearing Cylons.
As SF Universe [...]

As you can see from this GQ photo, the lovely and talented Grace Park, Tricia Helfer, and Katee Sackhoff can make absolutely anything look good — and remind us that female roles in science fiction have come a long way, baby.
Even GQ recognizes that viewers who succumb to their Y-chromosome and tune in will find [...]

ComicMix just fired off a Q&A with BSG co-executive producer Mark Verheiden. And while thankfully Verheiden doesn’t dish any spoilers, his “A”s to ComicMix’s “Q”s point speculative fans in some interesting directions. For example, when asked why Six can sense the final five while Athena can’t, Verheiden responded:
“It’s important to look back at where we’ve [...]

BSG supervising producer — and Friend of GWC — David Weddle interviewed with SyFy Portal today, offering some insight into how Starbuck’s now-famous mandala rose from apartment art to major plot point. In short: Weddle and partner Bradley Thompson picked up on it when re-screening Valley of Darkness during research for Rapture. They then decided [...]

According to Multichannel News, BSG’s season four premiere opened to strong Nielsen numbers, including ranking first among adults ages 25 to 54, which Multichannel claims is the SciFi Network’s target audience. Other bits of interest:

The show “delivered a 1.6 household rating in the 10 p.m. hour April 4, translating into 2.1 million viewers.”
“The installment also [...]

Though some would consider these spoilers — if very minor ones — the folks over at TV Squad caught a casting call for the upcoming BSG prequel Caprica, and it gives a pretty good indication of how the show will proceed. We’ll leave it up to you whether you click the link below, but here’s [...]

Though they do call the original Galactica series “cheesy,” CBS News does believe that the re-imagined BSG isn’t “just for fanboys.” In their words, it’s an “existential epic.” They also tag Katie Sackoff as maybe “the most charismatic actress on TV,” and author David Edelstein goes on to say that “I know I sound like [...]