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Production of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome began yesterday up in Vancouver. Blood & Chrome represents a return to the action-oriented storytelling that helped make Battlestar Galactica a success, and what many fans felt was lacking in the followup prequel, Caprica.

It takes place in the 10th year of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds, a young, talented fighter pilot, William Adama (Luke Pasqualino), finds himself assigned to one of the most powerful Battlestars in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly find himself at odds with Coker (Ben Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 47 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.

Another cast member was added as well – Lili Bordan (Cherry) will play Dr. Beka Kelly, a Ph.D. who worked for Graystone Industries that created the Cylon robots. Currently assigned to a secret military mission, Beka and Adama quickly establish a rapport.

Players can get into the open beta for the upcoming browser-based MMO Battlestar Galactica Online starting February 8th by visiting Syfy.com and Syfy.co.uk, for a one week period. Also available to players only at Syfy.com – and international Syfy Universal websites – are a frakkin’ awesome set of Syfy-inspired Viper and Raider designs, which players can choose to represent them in the on-going battle between the Colonial and Cylon fleets.
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Syfy announced today two actors signed to appear on the upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome series, including the highly anticipated role of William Adama. Luke Pasqualino (Skins) will play the young Adama, while Ben Cotton, who has appeared in Caprica, Stargate Atlantis and also as Herrick in Riese: Kingdom Falling, will play Adama’s commanding officer Coker, who is a battle-weary officer near the end of his tour.

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Fifth Doctor Peter Davison will join former Tenth Doctor companion Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) and Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama, Battlestar Galactica) on the cast of ITV’s Law & Order: UK, the British version of the long running NBC franchise. Davison will play Henry Sharpe, the new head of the CSP, during the upcoming fourth series now currently filming.

With Battlstar Galactica: The Exposition opening today, Syfy announced that they have ordered a new pilot, called Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, which follows Bill Adama during the Cylon War.

No word on a second season for Caprica yet, but a decision should be made by November 15th.

Update: Lots more info here.

Syfy Ventures, a relatively new division created during the rebranding of Syfy as part of breaking out of the cable channel constraints and become a true transmedia, tech savvy destination, announced jointly with actress Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars) during the Digital Press Tour on Monday that Syfy Ventures would join forces with Eckstein’s Her Universe brand of female genre merchandise, to produce Syfy branded merchandise under the Syfy Gear label.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Exposition opens in a couple weeks (Oct. 22-24) at the Science Fiction Museum, and they’ve just announced the stars who will be appearing for the premiere weekend, including Edward James Olmos, Michael Hogan, Tahmoh Penikett, Richard Hatch, Kate Vernon, and producers Ronald D. Moore and Glen Larson. Read on for more details on additional events added as well.
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We mentioned this back in June, but we’ve got some updated info on it (full release below), plus a couple new things: a trailer for the exhibition (also below), as well as a contest to win a trip for 2 including airfare to the exhibition! Contest closes September 10th.
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Syfy is currently developing a new web series spinoff of Battlestar Galactica called “Blood & Chrome”. Although it is not yet received a green light, it is planned to run from 9-10 episodes of 9-10 minutes each (making it about the length of a TV movie…), it would follow the young William Adama during the Cylon War. It will be “about a young man’s initiation into war: both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground (and in Battlestars and Vipers), and the somewhat less real version portrayed in the media,” according to co-exec producer Michael Taylor. They will also take a page from Sanctuary using virtual sets – and maybe it will also take another page from Sanctuary and make the move to television…