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BSG Writer-Producer Tells Herc Producers Are Pursuing Spaceship Drama VIRTUALITY As An International Co-Production!!

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If you haven’t been following my twittering, I spoke briefly with “Virtuality” co-creator (and “Battlestar Galactica” writer) Michael Taylor after the Comic Con BSG panel this afternoon and asked if “Virtuality” was well and truly dead at this point.

Taylor said it looked really dead as far as Fox (which aired its excellent but low-rated two-hour pilot in its Friday Death Slot last month) was concerned, but producers of “Virtuality” (co-created by BSG mastermind Ron Moore) were now pursuing the idea of mounting a “Virtuality” series as an international co-production in the tradition of CBS' “Flashpoint,” ABC's “Impact” miniseries and ABC's fast-approaching spaceship drama “Defying Gravity.”

“Virtuality,” said Taylor, requires a broadcast (as opposed to a cable) budget, so the international strategy – which could round up non-U.S. channels as partners – could be the way to make it more financially attractive to U.S. networks.

I’ve watched the pilots for every new scripted series coming to broadcast TV this autumn, and I’m here to tell you the “Virtuality” pilot is better than any of them.

Taylor is currently working with fellow ex-BSG writers Moore and Jane Espenson on Syfy’s “Galactica” prequel series “Caprica.”


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Hopefully it gets picked up...
by TheWaqman
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:11:41 PM
Michael Taylor...
by MajorFrontbum
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:13:38 PM
FOX is teh stupid
by yomomma
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:14:35 PM
Getting the cast back might be a problem.
by tonagan
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:15:47 PM
Please happen!
by Cartman86
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:19:38 PM
Hope so. It was good.
by RICHARD_GERE_RAPED_MY_GERBIL
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:24:16 PM
The pilot was enjoyable
by Amy Chasing
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:25:20 PM
loved the pilot
by Jarek
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:27:30 PM
Way to slow
by Vision
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:32:18 PM
Sunshine was pretentious?
by TheWaqman
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:33:50 PM
Loved this.
by secretcylon
Jul 23rd, 2009
06:48:44 PM
Sunshine - yes, pretentious
by Gherkin
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:15:24 PM
Watched it twice
by doubleARon
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:16:08 PM
Sunshine
by doubleARon
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:18:44 PM
Yeah it was pretty good
by Kobaal
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:18:52 PM
worth it...
by oneletter
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:44:04 PM
worth it...
by oneletter
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:44:06 PM
worth it...
by oneletter
Jul 23rd, 2009
07:44:07 PM
Not getting my hopes up, but yeah, this would be great.
by flickchick85
Jul 23rd, 2009
08:02:52 PM
It was pretty good, but too much conflict from the get go
by performingmonkey
Jul 23rd, 2009
08:35:01 PM
Sunshine is pretentious, but awesome
by nechyv
Jul 23rd, 2009
08:56:15 PM
Something good might happen on TV?
by Crow3711
Jul 23rd, 2009
09:43:10 PM
Drop the talking-to-the-camera-for-folk s-on-Earth
by kabong
Jul 23rd, 2009
09:49:47 PM
don't bother
by Tallguyme
Jul 23rd, 2009
10:03:30 PM
Why?
by Cash907
Jul 23rd, 2009
11:21:24 PM
Better than any of them? Yeesh.
by ar42
Jul 23rd, 2009
11:52:02 PM
Yep, make it happen, please!
by DC Films
Jul 24th, 2009
05:46:30 AM
better than any thing else this season?
by baba-lou2
Jul 24th, 2009
06:27:20 AM
FUCKING FUCKING TWITTER.
by HoboCode
Jul 24th, 2009
09:12:42 AM
Well produced but not very interesting
by Himbo
Jul 24th, 2009
09:23:42 AM
I call it . . . "PHONEETERING."
by kabong
Jul 24th, 2009
10:01:26 AM
is it me or do these international co-productions
by punto
Jul 24th, 2009
03:24:16 PM
"Sunshine"-even with the 3rd act Love It!
by soloaj
Jul 24th, 2009
04:24:42 PM
God I Hope This Gets Picked Up
by fedrich519
Jul 25th, 2009
10:52:15 AM
PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN!
by DJShay
Jul 25th, 2009
07:01:57 PM
Yes, please make this show
by solotwit
Aug 3rd, 2009
12:39:32 PM
Clue: they're not really in space at all...
by DrManhattansUnit
Aug 14th, 2009
08:51:37 PM
'Defying Gravity' did it better --
by Genre_Boy
Oct 25th, 2009
04:09:03 PM

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