BSG has octagonal diskettes.

[conuly]

Wow. And, like, other stuff.

I'm starting to suspect, though, that this show shouldn't be crammed into an hour. It makes it all feel rushed. Maybe an hour and a half, break with TV tradition a little?

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[chalybeous.livejournal.com]

I quite agree. I like the new BSG, though I haven't seen as much of it as I'd like. I already found one break with TV (or at least, TV sci-fi) tradition - there are a couple of episodes where characters actually do go to the bathroom. (Take that, jokes about the lack of toilets on the USS Enterprise!)

Given how networks work, in scheduling advertising and programming slots, I'd say BSG could do something so groundbreakingly cool by scheduling a season of half the length, but in a two-hour "movie of the week" slot. (90 minutes is nigh on impossible; as far as I can tell, from my limited knowledge of US TV, only sitcoms and cartoons fit into a 30-minute slot, so you'd have to run The Simpsons afterwards, or maybe Joey if you want to nauseate the viewing public)
Then when the BBC wants to pick it up and wants to put it in a one hour slot, it just needs a little "last week on Battlestar Galactica" reprise at the beginning of the second part.

Not quite what you had in mind, I know, but I've never seen a format-breaking US show. Over here, programs are commissioned to a specific length and the schedules get juggled (the BBC has a lot of flexibility and tends to shuffle things around a bit - like one of the 1980s seasons of Doctor Who, which ran 50 minute episodes instead of 25, whereas the channels that buy in American shows tend to plug them into fixed blocks) but as far as I can tell, that happens a lot less in US syndication.

Anyway, end of pointless waffling. I'll have to check back here and maybe find some more places to start an intelligent conversation... either that or spend the next week making "Katee Sackhoff is Love" banners ;-)

[conuly]

(90 minutes is nigh on impossible; as far as I can tell, from my limited knowledge of US TV, only sitcoms and cartoons fit into a 30-minute slot, so you'd have to run The Simpsons afterwards, or maybe Joey if you want to nauseate the viewing public)

After BSG they repeat the earlier lineup, starting with SG1 and ending with BSG. THey could easily boot it all ahead half an hour - they'd ultimately end up losing only one hour-long show.

[chalybeous.livejournal.com]

Or I guess there's always, say... the news, or Entertainment Tonight, or the kind of 20-to-30-minute fillers that Sci-Fi always comes up with.
But what a really neat idea, two showings per day! Or, perhaps, start the lineup early with last week's episode for the hopelessly tardy (or those unable to program a VCR) and end with this week's.

I take it that you're a fellow sci-fi geek?

[conuly]

I think the double showing is because it shows simultaneously all over the country, so that both the east and the west coast have a 10:00 showing. That's why they wouldn't alter the show.

[chalybeous.livejournal.com]

I quite agree. I like the new BSG, though I haven't seen as much of it as I'd like. I already found one break with TV (or at least, TV sci-fi) tradition - there are a couple of episodes where characters actually do go to the bathroom. (Take that, jokes about the lack of toilets on the USS Enterprise!)

Given how networks work, in scheduling advertising and programming slots, I'd say BSG could do something so groundbreakingly cool by scheduling a season of half the length, but in a two-hour "movie of the week" slot. (90 minutes is nigh on impossible; as far as I can tell, from my limited knowledge of US TV, only sitcoms and cartoons fit into a 30-minute slot, so you'd have to run The Simpsons afterwards, or maybe Joey if you want to nauseate the viewing public)
Then when the BBC wants to pick it up and wants to put it in a one hour slot, it just needs a little "last week on Battlestar Galactica" reprise at the beginning of the second part.

Not quite what you had in mind, I know, but I've never seen a format-breaking US show. Over here, programs are commissioned to a specific length and the schedules get juggled (the BBC has a lot of flexibility and tends to shuffle things around a bit - like one of the 1980s seasons of Doctor Who, which ran 50 minute episodes instead of 25, whereas the channels that buy in American shows tend to plug them into fixed blocks) but as far as I can tell, that happens a lot less in US syndication.

Anyway, end of pointless waffling. I'll have to check back here and maybe find some more places to start an intelligent conversation... either that or spend the next week making "Katee Sackhoff is Love" banners ;-)

[conuly]

(90 minutes is nigh on impossible; as far as I can tell, from my limited knowledge of US TV, only sitcoms and cartoons fit into a 30-minute slot, so you'd have to run The Simpsons afterwards, or maybe Joey if you want to nauseate the viewing public)

After BSG they repeat the earlier lineup, starting with SG1 and ending with BSG. THey could easily boot it all ahead half an hour - they'd ultimately end up losing only one hour-long show.

[chalybeous.livejournal.com]

Or I guess there's always, say... the news, or Entertainment Tonight, or the kind of 20-to-30-minute fillers that Sci-Fi always comes up with.
But what a really neat idea, two showings per day! Or, perhaps, start the lineup early with last week's episode for the hopelessly tardy (or those unable to program a VCR) and end with this week's.

I take it that you're a fellow sci-fi geek?

[conuly]

I think the double showing is because it shows simultaneously all over the country, so that both the east and the west coast have a 10:00 showing. That's why they wouldn't alter the show.