Battlestar Galactica (upcoming series)

Battlestar Galactica is an upcoming television series in production for NBC's Peacock streaming service. It is set within the universe of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica series, but in its own place and time. In 2022 the series was announced to be sharing a universe with the upcoming film.
==Production==
The series was greenlit for production sometime in 2019 and made public in September of that year. The project was initially led by producer Sam Esmail, who met Ron D. Moore for guidance as to how the series would work. Showrunner duties however fell to Executive Producer Michael Lesslie, who had familiarity with drama with military and political themes with The Little Drummer Girl. Lesslie did, however, drop out of the project in March 2021 to focus on an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam. As of 2024 the series is now under the supervision of Derek Simons alongside Esmail.
Written with Streaming in mind from the ground-up, this series will not have all episodes capped at 42-minutes in length, and episodes that can tell a whole story in 30 minutes will be released as such without complicated editing and filler. The series is also intended to be a long-running episodic series, rather than a "ten-hour movie" akin to serialised shows made for Netflix. Writing for the series was not yet complete in time for the 2023 writers' strike, though work resumed immediately following the strike's conclusion.
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