Battlestar Galactica

Jamie Bamber for Body of Proof

Wow, Jamie Bamber is picking up the US based acting gigs this week isn’t he. This time he’s signed on as a love interest for Dana Delaney in her show “Body of Proof”. He’ll be playing the character of Scott from next month, for a minimum 3 episode run. Yesterday Bamber had also snagged a...
By Angela Share

Battlestar Galactica’s ‘Apollo’ heads to House

Jamie Bamber – star of “Battlestar Galactica” and “Law & Order: UK” – has a new gig, a guest spot on “House”. He’ll be playing a patient of House and the team, a well respected professional who the team discovers is hiding more than a few secrets, in the episode titled “The Confession”. Sounds like...
By Angela Share

Tricia Helfer snags TNT drama pilot lead

Ahh Tricia Helfer, a geeks dream come true. The lady of geek TV has snagged a new pilot lead in TNT’s K-9 search series “Scent of the Missing”. The pilot is based on the Susannah Charleson book and sees Helfer playing a rescue volunteer working with a K-9 (dog squad) partner, name of Puzzle. Helfer...
By Angela Share

Anna Torv deserves an Emmy

Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re thinking “Angela weren’t you just saying John Noble deserves an Emmy?”, yeah I was, and now I’m saying his co-star and fellow Aussie actor Anna Torv does too. It pains me that shows in the science-fiction / drama genre aren’t recognized generally for the actors within them, “Battlestar Galactica”...
By Angela Share

Showtime series Dexter snags Edward James Olmos

  The upcoming season of “Dexter” just got a whole lot more interesting, with the casting of meastro Eddie Olmos. Yes the “Battlestar Galactica” alum will appear in “Dexter” season 6 in a season-long arc as a theology professor somehow mixed up in Dexter’s shenanigans. Also set to guest star in the new season is...
By Angela Share

Katee Sackhoff snagged for A&E drama Longmire

  “Battlestar Galactica” star Katee Sackhoff has landed a role in A&E’s cop pilot “Longmire”. The show stars Robert Taylor as a silver-tongued Wyoming sheriff named Walt Longmire, thus the title. Sackhoff is going to play one of Longmire’s deputies, along with Bailey Chase, from “Saving Grace”. Also cast thus far is Lou Diamonds Phillips...
By Angela Share

Ron Moore’s 17th Precinct grabs another Battlestar Galactica actor, this time Tricia Helfer

Ron D. Moore’s new pilot “17th Precinct” is really nabbing those “Battlestar Galactica” actors huh? Joining Jamie “Apollo” Bamber and James “Gaius” Callis is Tricia “Number 6″ Helfer. Yes the lady in the red dress is back with her fellow cast mates. Now if only they’d cast Mary McDonnell instead of Stockard Channing, this would...
By Angela Share

Apollo and Baltar together again as James Callis joins 17th Precinct

Sounds like Ron D. Moore likes working with Jamie “Apollo” Bamber and James “Baltar” Callis, as they’ve both been cast in Moore’s upcoming supernatural / magic infused cop show “17th Precinct”. Jamie Bamber had already been cast in the show, along with “Mad Men” star Matt Long, “The Whole Truth” star Eamonn Walker and “The...
By Angela Share

No Ordinary Family snags Lucy Lawless

  Lucy Lawless, in the world of geek TV, the woman can pretty much do no wrong. She is of course most famous for playing “Xena: Warrior Princess” and at present plays the rather saucy Lucretia in “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” spinoff series “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena”. Now Lucy Lawless is heading back to...
By Angela Share

Casting news Luke Pasqualino is young William Adama

This has got to be one of the strangest casting pieces of news I’ve ever written, but here goes. Luke Pasqualino from the UK version of “Skins” has been cast in “Battlestar Galactica” spinoff “Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome” as the young William Adama. Young Bill was played by actor Nico Cortez in the webisodes...
By Angela Share

Ron D. Moore’s fantasy cop show 17th Precinct greenlit

  Sounds like we might be in for more Ron D. Moore goodness, well I say goodness, but his last few shows have been axed. Maybe the presently titled “17th Precinct” will be the turning point and get us back to the good ole days of “Battlestar Galactica”. The new show has had pilot pickup...
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Caprica ends with a bang, not a whimper

The Caprica finale has now aired and I have to say, it was rather awesome wasn’t it? The episode had so much crammed into its 44 minutes or so, it was very impressive. Caprica “Apotheosis” managed to resolve most of our questions and did so for the most part without interfering with Battlestar Galactica canon....
By Angela Share

Caprica Here Be Dragons thoughts

It’s almost all over for Caprica, which totally sucks, because the show is truly just finding its stride. SyFy really blew it with this one. “Here Be Dragons” is the latest episode and the second last episode of the now axed series and wow it was a doozy. Please note, the next bit will feature...
By Angela Share

Guillermo del Toro and David Eick redoing The Hulk?

Sounds like David Eick has moved away from Battlestar Galactica buddy Ron D. Moore and is now working with Guillermo del Toro on a new Hulk television series. The re-imagined series “The Hulk” will come to us via ABC, who are said to be pretty much signing on the dotted line as I type. It...
By Angela Share

Ron D Moore sells The McCulloch to NBC

Sounds like there’s hope for Ron D Moore’s new show “The McCulloch”, with NBC picking it up from Sony Pictures Television. The show “The McCulloch” will follow the crew of a coast guard vessel as it travels the world having various adventures. Given the overall premise sounds kind of familiar, the crew of a ship,...
By Angela Share