Syfy Slates New Battlestar Installment

NEW YORK: A greenlight has been given to Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the latest installment in the hit Syfy saga.

Universal Cable Productions will produce the two-hour pilot with Syfy. The series is set in the tenth year of the first Cylon war, as the battle between humans and the robot race rages across the 12 colonial worlds. Ensign William Adama finds himself assigned to be the newest battlestar in the Colonial fleet the Galactica and takes on a dangerous top-secret mission that has the potential to turn the tide of the decade-long war.

"The ‘Galactica’ universe as re-imagined by Ron Moore and David Eick is rich with possibilities and back story," said Mark Stern, the executive VP of original programming at Syfy and co-head of content for Universal Cable Productions. "We jumped at the chance to revisit the William Adama character and explore this exciting chapter in the BSG narrative, which falls between the events of the original series and the prequel, Caprica, currently airing on Syfy."

"While maintaining the themes of politics, social propaganda, and the timeless question: what does it mean to be human?—Blood & Chrome will also return us to the authentic, relentless depiction of combat and the agony and ecstasy of human-Cylon war, which was the hallmark of Battlestar Galactica‘s early seasons," added executive prodcer David Eick.