Sci Fi fastracks Battlestar Galactica
Now this is truly fast, and it's for a drama. Sci Fi will screen the final series just hours after its US airing, beginning January 31st.
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The Sci Fi Channel has announced plans to fastrack the fourth and final series of the Battlestar Galactica remake to Australian viewers.
It will air S4E13 on January 31st at 9:10pm, just hours after its mid-season return and US screening, preceded by a marathon of episodes 1-12 from 11am.
Premiere episodes will continue each week until its double episode finale on March 21, a same day finale as US viewers.
A second marathon will take place on March 21 of episodes 11 -19 in the lead up to the series finale.
”Fast tracking Battlestar Galactica is a coup for Australian subscription television,” said Sci Fi Channel CEO Peter Hudson. “It’s been done for some reality titles but this is a first for drama. The Sci Fi audience are savvy, enthusiastic and have been waiting for this.”
Eps 1-12 – Season Four Marathon Saturday 31 January, 11am – 9.10pm
Ep13 “The Oath” fast tracked by satellite Saturday 31 January, 9.10pm
Marathon – Season 4 replay of fast tracked eps 11-19 Saturday 21 March, 1.30pm – 9.10pm
Ep 20 – 2 hour finale Season Four Saturday 21 March, 9.10pm
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32 Responses
Was an absolutely fantastic marathon!
Watching SciFi and the new episode right now, the next 2 months will be fantastic!
Plus saving me (and others) much downloading data.
The FTA networks can learn from this example.
Touche 😀
Ah my old mate David you just aren’t any fun anymore and I agree it is a good thing that a network is ‘fastracking a series a dead series, but sadly not free tv, is bringing it to a limited viewing audience in Aus which means a lot of BSG fans will miss out.
Semantics aside, scifi fans are very protective of their genre and don’t appreciate good folks like yourself lumping real scifi into drama, a genre that covers a whole raft of drab and boring TV currently airing in this country.
BTW sarcasm doesn’t become you mate
There’s drab and boring in all genres, and that’s the only lumping here. Some of BSG was the most dramatic, challenging and ‘noir-ish’ television we’ve seen in a long time (thanks Moore/Rymer). Drama and comedy are the foundations of storytelling genres dating back to the Greeks and I see BSG was also nominated in Drama categories at Emmys and Writers Guild of America Awards. This is good news from Sci Fi Channel however you would have preferred it worded.
@ David, it’s scifi first, drama and other later, but aslways scifi first, you got it wrong mate
Not losing any sleep over this mate. I’m glad to have brought the news to those who were happy to hear it than fussin over semantics. The point was also that an Aussie network is fastracking a scripted drama same day, which is extremely rare, and usually reserved for light entertainment or reality.