Letting go of 'Battlestar' Producer: 'Time is now' to wrap By Kimberly Nordyke
June 4, 2007
Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, executive producers of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica," said they took their cues from the series' story lines in determining when the time would be right to end the show.
As reported last week, "Battlestar's" upcoming fourth season, set to debut early next year (a special two-hour episode airs in November), will be its last, and the producers said during a conference call with reporters Friday that the time was right to wrap up the story of humanity's struggle for survival.
"This is a decision that took some time to arrive at," Eick said. "There was a number of questions internally and a creative agenda we wanted to serve, and we all had to collectively decide when to be definitive about it, and that time is now."
It's high time Organ Grinder paid tribute to Battlestar Galactica, the truly great sci-fi drama that has been rivalled only by The Wire in attracting criticial praise since it launched in 2004.
BSG, as we fans call it, is coming to an end when its fourth series finishes next year, producers confirmed this week.
"This show was always meant to have a beginning, a middle and, finally, an end," executive producers Ronald D Moore and David Eick said in a joint statement. "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." They promised to sign off "with a bang".
Letting go of 'Battlestar' Producer: 'Time is now' to wrap By Kimberly Nordyke
June 4, 2007
Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, executive producers of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica," said they took their cues from the series' story lines in determining when the time would be right to end the show.
As reported last week, "Battlestar's" upcoming fourth season, set to debut early next year (a special two-hour episode airs in November), will be its last, and the producers said during a conference call with reporters Friday that the time was right to wrap up the story of humanity's struggle for survival.
"This is a decision that took some time to arrive at," Eick said. "There was a number of questions internally and a creative agenda we wanted to serve, and we all had to collectively decide when to be definitive about it, and that time is now."
