Did anybody see this coming? Apparently SyFy is showing a disturbing lack of faith in Sci Fi, the genre it purportedly champions, yet again.
According to AOL TV, Blood and Chrome, the two-hour pilot for a possible series recounting the early days of William Adama and the first Cylon War is nearly complete and has been screened for SyFy execs. But instead of rallying behind the prequel to their critically-acclaimed Battlestar Galactica, word is that they are considering releasing the show on the web instead.
Although it was originally designed to be a series of webisodes to be shot on greenscreen, the production was upgraded to TV movie/pilot status when Syfy’s other BSG-related show, Caprica, was cancelled.
Word is that the script was quite good and there is certainly a lot of interest from the fan community in Blood and Chrome, yet it baffles us that the network does not see a place for it in their television programming schedule amongst their airings of WWE wrestling and SyFy’s own Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus sequels.
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