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Buck Rogers

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This television drama serial has already a large following of supporters, fans and enthusiasts, not to mention the Emmy nominations in its belt for writing and directing. With several Emmy Awards for Visual Effects and a Peabody Award for overall excellence in its name, Battlestar Galactica is now one of the things one has to see to prove that he belongs to this generation. This series first aired in a three-hour mini-series on the American Sci-Fi Channel last December 2003. Included in the cast were Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos and actress Mary McDonnell. But this celebrated series wasn't always like this. In fact, this was already somewhat of a revival of a seemingly dead concept.

During 1977, Century Fox's film Star Wars hit critical acclaim, and due to this success, the science-fantasy series of Universal Studios was finally produced. Despite the original conception of the series, called Adam's Ark, Executive Producer Glen Larson believes that this series is very promising. However, a case for copyright infringement was brought by Century Fox, claiming among other things that Universal Studios stole almost 34 ideas, elements and concepts from the movie Star Wars. Universal Studios answered with a countersuit, claiming that it was Fox who copied ideas of from the 1972 Silent Running film and the 1940's Buck Rogers.

What most people remember from the initial episodes was not the show itself but the almost 60 minutes of interruption, blocking for a significant time most of the television broadcast. On September 17, 1978, the first episode was shown but about an hour of showing the episode, there was an announcement of the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords signing. This interruption caused a negative impact on the success of the series. ABC eventually cancelled the series, citing loss of ratings and revenue as reasons. Launching again the series was discussed by executives of ABC with Galactica's creator Glen Larson, but they needed a new concept to keep the viewers' interest. While the storyline was great, the project failed to achieve the popularity expected of it, bringing upon it cancellation.

After all the failed attempts, Galactica was re-imagined by Ronald D. Moore with David Eick, and released by Universal Television. The whole franchise works from the same universal premise: a war between the civilization of humans living on the Twelve Colonies and a group of cybernetic humanoids known as Cylons is in progress. Due to the interference of one human, the Cylons got an edge and used it to launch an ambush on the human colonies. Human survivors embarked on ships, fleeing into space. The only military ship to apparently survive the attack was the Battlestar Galactica, and this ship leads all the humans in search for the so-called Earth, a region claimed by fable to exist.

The creative forces behind the new release of this science fantasy drama series worked to the benefit of those in production and the viewers as well. The previous attempts at bringing this series to the television were met with disappointment and lack of enthusiasm for many different factors. With the new cast, storyline and direction, this series is now on its fourth and last season, garnering well-deserved praise and anticipation.

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