SCI FI Channel’s Upfront presentation to advertisers in New York unveiled plans to spin a new series off the hit Battlestar Galactica revival. Titled Caprica, the show will go back half a century before the events depicted in Galactica. Development is being spearheaded by Galactica exec producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (FOX’s 24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.
In Battlestar Galactica, refugees from a besieged planet journey through space in search of a new home. Caprica will go back to show how the people of the Twelve Colonies had their peaceful lives disrupted by the emergence of the Cylons, the first robots with true artificial intelligence. The series will focus on two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, as they struggle with societal changes, corporate intrigue and sexual politics.
SCI FI also announced the development of an 8-part limited series titled Motel Man, a one-hour thriller series called Snap and a six-hour miniseries based on Erich von Daniken’s best-selling book, Chariots of the Gods. Described as a cross between The Fugitive and The Twilight Zone, Motel Man from Lionsgate Television will debut in December with the adventures of a detective who uses a motel room key to open a portal to alternate worlds. Snap, from Lost producer Jesse Alexander, will center on a federal agent who takes on a Big Brother-type artificial intelligence. Oscar-winning Rocky producer Irwin Winkler will exec produce Chariots of the Gods, which plays with a theory that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials in ancient times and have been tinkering with human genetics ever since.
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