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   Common sense has prevailed for a change ... although they're still   
   trying to sell the garbage to someone else.   
      
   Despite the usual media idiocy of calling everything a "reboot", the   
   new show was planned as a spin-off / sequel to Moore-Ron's idiotic   
   barely-recognisable reboot.   
      
      
       'Battlestar Galactica' Reboot No Longer in the Works at Peacock   
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       The long-gestating reboot of "Battlestar Galactica" is no longer   
       in development at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively.   
      
       The project was first announced back in 2019 ahead of Peacock's   
       official launch as part of the streamer's initial slate of   
       original programming. It was never formally ordered to series,   
       though, and has been in development ever since. Exact story   
       details never emerged, but the show was said to be set in the   
       same continuity as the 2003 "Battlestar Galactica" series.   
      
       The reboot was a passion project for Sam Esmail, who was   
       executive producing via Esmail Corp. under the company's overall   
       deal with studio UCP. Chad Hamilton of Esmail Corp. was also an   
       executive producer. Michael Lesslie had originally come onboard   
       as the writer of the reboot in 2020, but it was reported that he   
       left the project in 2021. Most recently, it was reported in   
       January that Derek Simonds was attached to serve as writer,   
       executive producer, and showrunner.   
      
       According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, UCP   
       will shop the project to other outlets.   
      
       Peacock has aired very few sci-fi series to date. The NBCUniveral   
       streamer has previously found success with shows like the   
       mystery-of-the-week series "Poker Face" starring Natasha Lyonne   
       (which is prepping it second season), a prequel series to Seth   
       MacFarlane's "Ted" films (also prepping its second season), and   
       the live-action take on the "Twisted Metal" games (again,   
       prepping a second season). On the horizon, Peacock has shows   
       coming like "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist," which   
       boasts an all-star cast that includes Kevin Hart, Samuel L.   
       Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, and Don Cheadle.   
      
       The original "Battlestar Galactica" was created by Glen A. Larson   
       and featured cast that included Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict,   
       Lorne Greene, and Maren Jensen. It aired for one season in 1978   
       on ABC, which was followed by a short-lived continuation called   
       "Galactica 1980." The original also inspired a series of comic   
       books, novels, and both board and video games.   
      
       Ronald D. Moore and the Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy) then rebooted   
       the series back in 2003 with a three-hour miniseries, whose cast   
       included Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, and Katee Sackhoff.   
       The success of that project led Syfy and Sky Television to   
       commission a new series with the cast of the miniseries returning.   
       That show proved incredibly popular, running for four seasons and   
       also spawned two TV movies, wrapping up in 2009. A prequel series,   
       "Caprica," aired on Syfy for one season in 2010.   
      
       In "Battlestar Galactica," humanity has been engaged in a   
       devastating war with a race of sentient robots known as Cylons.   
       After the Cylons destroyed much of the human population living in   
       a series of colonies in a distant star system, survivors aboard   
       civilian ships and the titular battleship strike out to find a   
       long forgotten colony called Earth.   
      
      
      
      
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