BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME To Premiere February 10

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME, prequel to popular blockbuster franchise BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, will have its world television premiere as a 2-hour full-length TV movie on Syfy on Sunday, February 10, 2013 from 9 to 11PM ET/PT.

This highly anticipated chapter in the Battlestar Galactica saga from Universal Cable Productions originally debuted as a weekly web series on YouTube’s premium channel Machinima Prime, drawing upwards of 8 million total views. On February 10, fans will get to see it for the first time in its film version entirety, including additional scenes not included in the online release. The unrated edition from Universal Studios Home Entertainment will then be available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on February 19th.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME Premieres November 9 On Machinima

Universal Cable Productions (UCP) will launch for the first time a three-tiered windowing strategy including online, TV and home entertainment, for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME, a spinoff of the blockbuster BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series franchise.

Fans will first view BLOOD & CHROME when it premieres exclusively on Machinima’s premium channel, Machinima Prime (YouTube.com/MachinimaPrime), beginning November 9. The initial online debut introduces the latest segment of the revered TV series franchise to a new generation of fans while also launching the multi-platform strategy.

NEWS: Daytime Disaster, Publicly Funded Soaps, BATTLESTAR

Get used to seeing Twitter hashtags on your TV screen
GLEE this week put a "#Glee" at the bottom of the screen to urge viewers to tweet with one unified word.

Daytime Disaster! Did ABC Have to Kill ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE?
Ed Martin writes: "As for the all too convenient excuse of low ratings, I'm not buying it. Ratings for daytime and primetime programming are, at best, inaccurate. Further, there are many other compelling reasons to keep programs alive beyond numbers, accurate or otherwise. If there weren't, most of NBC's primetime shows would have been canceled years ago, most basic cable networks would run only movies around the clock, and The CW would likely have been terminated during its infancy!"

Our Dying Soap Operas Deserve Public Funding
David Ozanich says, "I would like to suggest that the federal government step in and subsidize this art form in the way they fund public broadcasting or the NEA. I realize that this is a pipe dream in our current political climate, but what would EASTENDERS be without the BBC? Personally, I would rather see ONE LIFE TO LIVE on PBS at lunchtime than the usual Charlie Rose repeat. The government funds all sorts of dead art forms that no one cares about like ballet, theater and opera, why not soap operas? What’s a $50 million production budget compared to the billions we spend on Medicare?"