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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Comic Initial Print Numbers

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, May 15, 2006
Source: Dynamite Entertainment

The initial print run for the launch of Dynamite Entertainment's all-new Battlestar Galactica comic has been set at over 175,000 copies.

"We're obviously very happy with the reception #0 has had in all aspects of the marketplace," explained Dynamite spokesperson J. Allen. "And the outreach and promotional opportunities we're working on with Universal, SCIFI and others are sure to help drive customers into their local comics shop - for not only the specially priced #0 issue, but the ongoing series as well."

The number is a bit staggering. 175,000 copies! To be fair, the book is selling for only 25 cents, but still ... 175,000 copies is 175,000 copies.

We will have to wait and see if the series has continued success. Also, I have to say that I can't stop starring at the cover.

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• May 15, 2006, 04:43am •
25 Cents a copy!! HAHAHAHAHA!! They practically have to give this comic book away, that's based on an imposter BSG show, which is bombing in the ratings and on life support. I wonder how many of those 175,000 copies SciFi Channel bought back, in order to get those numbers. It certainly wouldn't be the first time Ms Hammer has been caught with her hand in the cookie jar, in a lame effort to get ratings:
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(AP) The Sci Fi Channel has admitted that it lied in claiming it was at odds with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan and was making an unauthorized biography about his "buried secret."

The hoax was part of a "guerilla marketing campaign" that went too far, network president Bonnie Hammer said.

It was all a lie, and there is no buried secret, Hammer said.

"Perhaps we might have taken the guerilla campaign one step too far," Hammer said. "We thought it would create controversy and it probably went one step too far."

Hammer said she had been in on the hoax from the beginning and took responsibility for duping the public. Sci Fi, which is available in some 83 million homes, has recently been taken over by corporate parent NBC Universal.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/20/entertainment/main630733.shtml

• May 15, 2006, 04:45am •
Glen Larson speaks out against SFC's molesting his BSG source material!

‘Battlestar Galactica’ returns
But fans of original are wary of remake


Updated: 1:15 p.m. ET Dec. 9, 2003

A few years ago, fans thought they’d get the continuation saga they’d clamored for when Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, the director-writer team behind “X-Men,” hooked up with original “Galactica” creator Glen Larson to develop a project at 20th Century Fox.

When that deal fell through, Universal TV chief David Kissinger brought in executive producer David Eick and Moore to rework the franchise for Sci Fi.

“We want the fans to embrace what we are doing,” says Sci Fi President Bonnie Hammer, “but if you produced now what was produced then, it would feel like old TV. We wanted to make it more relatable, even in terms of the stereotypes of characters.”
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“I understand they’re trying to do a modern version,” says Larson. “But change for the sake of change — it’s taking the title and exploiting it.”
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660380

• May 15, 2006, 04:47am •
Apparently, SFC has an infamous record of molesting the source material of authors, against their wishes. BOYCOTT SCI FI CHANNEL!
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A Whitewashed Earthsea

How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books.
By Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, at 6:14 AM PT

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, which were published more than 30 years ago, are about two young people finding out what their power, their freedom, and their responsibilities are. I don't know what the film is about. It's full of scenes from the story, arranged differently, in an entirely different plot, so that they make no sense. My protagonist is Ged, a boy with red-brown skin. In the film, he's a petulant white kid. Readers who've been wondering why I "let them change the story" may find some answers here.
When I sold the rights to Earthsea a few years ago, my contract gave me the standard status of "consultant"—which means whatever the producers want it to mean, almost always little or nothing. My agency could not improve this clause. But the purchasers talked as though they genuinely meant to respect the books and to ask for my input when planning the film. They said they had already secured Philippa Boyens (who co-wrote the scripts for The Lord of the Rings) as principal script writer. The script was, to me, all-important, so Boyens' presence was the key factor in my decision to sell this group the option to the film rights.

Months went by. By the time the producers got backing from the Sci Fi Channel for a miniseries—and another producer, Robert Halmi Sr., had come aboard—they had lost Boyens. That was a blow. But I had just seen Halmi's miniseries DreamKeeper, which had a stunning Native American cast, and I hoped that Halmi might include some of those great

• May 15, 2006, 04:48am •
actors in Earthsea.

http://www.slate.com/id/2111107

• May 15, 2006, 04:49am •
http://mboard.scifi.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1700088&an=0&page=4#

1700088


http://www.astro.cornell.edu/~springob/bsgratings.html

Season one’s premiere "33" averaged US Nielsen Ratings of: 2.6

Season one’s Finale "Kobal's Last Gleaming: Part 2" averaged US Nielsen
Ratings of: 2.5

Season two’s premiere "Scattered" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.6

Season two’s Finale "Pegasus" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.0

Season 2.5's premiere "Resurrection Ship pt.1" averaged US Nielsen Ratings:
2.1

Season 2.5's finale "Lay Down Your Burdens: Part II" averaged US Nielsen
Ratings: 1.9
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Galactica miniseries average rating between parts 1 & 2: 3.5

Season 1

33/Water..................= 2.6 January 14, 2005
Bastille Day..............= 2.3 January 21, 2005
Act of Contrition.........= 2.5 January 28, 2005
You Can't Go Home Again...= 2.5 February 4, 2005
Litmus....................= 2.5 February 11, 2005
Six Degrees of Separation = 2.2 February 18, 2005
Flesh and Bone............= 2.5 February 25, 2005
Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down..= 2.1 March 4, 2005
The Hand of God...........= 2.2 March 11, 2005
Colonial Day..............= 2.3 March 18, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.1= 2.2 March 25, 2005
Kobol's Last Gleaming pt.2= 2.5 April 1, 2005
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Average Ratings of........= 2.16

(If "33" and "Water" are concidered 2.6 each then the average is

2.19)

Season 2.0

Scattered.................= 2.6 July 15, 2005
Valley of Darkness........= 2.0 July 22, 2005 That’s a 23% plunge in one episode!
Fragged...................= 2.0 July 29, 2005
Resistance................= 1.9 August 5, 2005
The Farm..................= 2.0 August 12, 2005
Home pt.1.................= 2.1 August 19, 2005
Home pt.2.................= 2.1 August 26, 2005
The Final Cut.............= 2.0 September 9, 2005

• May 15, 2006, 04:49am •
Flight of the Phoenix.....= 1.9 September 16, 2005
Pegasus...................= 2.0 September 23, 2005
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Average Rating of.........= 2.06

Season 2.5

Resurrection Ship pt.1....= 2.1 January 6, 2006
Resurrection Ship pt.2....= 2.0 January 13, 2006 [The last time GINO made 2.0]
Epiphanies................= 1.9 January 20, 2006
Black Market..............= 1.8 January 27, 2006
Scar......................= 1.9 February 3, 2006
Sacrifice.................= 1.8 February 10, 2006
The Captain's Hand........= 1.7 February 17, 2006
Downloaded................= 1.8 February 24, 2006
Lay Down Your Burdens Pt1 = 1.8 March 3, 2006*
Lay Down Your Burdens Pt2 = 1.9 March 10, 2006*
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Average Rating of.........= 1.87

In essence [from the mini debut of 3.5 to the season finale of 1.9] GINO has managed to retain only 54% of it’s original audience, which is an overall drop of 46%!

tacid • May 15, 2006, 05:10am •
Good Morning Spider how was your weekend? Get laid? Oh wait I forgot who I was talking about. We all know you have no life.

• May 15, 2006, 05:27am •
Ahhhh, if it isn't my old nemesis, GloryWhole (Crazyrabbits, Jim634) from the imdb.com board... Hey, that would have been a nice cut, if we still in the 5th grade.

• May 15, 2006, 05:35am •
p.s. I forgot your other alias handle (JamesDmill)

tacid • May 15, 2006, 05:41am •
Actualy my handle on IMDb is Xyon and it has been for many years and we have never talked there. As for 5th grade when you make it there you let me know.

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