Just saw that Scifi. com has BSG season two start date as July 15. Anyone know how they’re going to do this? Same as before (UK first, then N. America)?
Checked the site and couldn’t find any info up yet beyond the banner.
Probably not.
There wasn’t any plan that they had to premiere it first in the UK, it just happened that way. BSG is a co-production between Sci-Fi and Sky One. They agreed that each company could premiere the show on a certain date or later (I think the date was in October). Sky One decided to go right ahead. Sci-Fi wanted to wait so that the show didn’t got lost in the noise of all the fall premieres on the networks. There was no deamnd that the UK get it first, it was just a matter of the company that had UK rights deciding the iron was hot several months earlier than Sci-Fi thought it would be in the U.S.
Of course, BSG was a much bigger hit (both commercially and critically) than Sci-Fi had expected, so now when scheduling the second season, they don’t care to wait and are going to be putting it up as soon as they can.
–Cliffy