Scifi to Video Blog & Olmos on Season 2

Two new articles to read up on, now that we have just fifteen days until Galactica returns to TV land:

First up:
Sci fi Channel in the US goes the video blog route

Indiantelevision.com Team
(29 June 2005 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Scifi.com which is the web site of American broadcaster Sci Fi Channel, continues to pioneer innovative viewing experiences on the Internet.

Just five months after it became the first television network to offer original content via podcasting technology, Sci Fi now becomes the first television network to launch an exclusive video blog for one of its original series.

Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick will offer viewers an exclusive look behind-the-scenes of one of television's hottest new shows. Fresh three-five minute video blogs will be posted every few weeks. They will give fans never before seen insights into the production of the hit show including candid moments with the series' stars. Visitors will be able to sit in on script meetings with writers and producers and meet other members of the crew and special effects team.
In anticipation of Battlestar Galactica's second season premiere, the broadcaster's site will also begin streaming season one's action filled final episode, Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II. Battlestar's series premiere episode 33 has been viewed more than 100,000 times on the site.
Scifi.com states that it will continue to deliver exclusive online content throughout the production of the second season, which premieres on air on 15 July.

And,

Olmos: 'Galactica's' Second Season More Complex
Author: Wayne Hall
Date: 06-27-2005
Source: Chicago Tribune


According to Edward James Olmos, who plays Commander Adama in the SciFi Channel hit series, "Battlestar Galactica," the show's second season will be "better than the first one -- it's more complex."
That's the word from Chicago Tribune reporter Maureen Ryan in her recent "News you can use ..." column in which she discusses an interview with Olmos.
The actor does express concerns about those who haven't seen previous episodes of the show.
"I'd hate to be a person who saw Season 2 without having seen Season 1," he told Ryan, indicating that keeping up with the show's continuity will be very important.
SciFi Channel is apparently already on the problem. The cable channel will be airing a marathon of the first season of "Battlestar Galactica" on Wednesday, July 6, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
New episodes begin airing on the SciFi Channel on Friday, July 15, at 10 p.m., following the new season premieres of "Stargate SG-1" at 8 and "Stargate Atlantis" at 9.