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Sci Fi Channel President Dave Howe: Lunch at Michael's (But at A Voce)
Dave Howe
By Ed Martin
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It is a measure of the success of Sci Fi Channel that the season premiere of its signature series Battlestar Galactica on April 4 is stirring the kind of media interest and Internet buzz generally reserved for the biggest broadcast shows or blockbuster motion pictures.
What's behind the burgeoning enthusiasm for this show by viewers and critics alike, especially given the unusual history of the Galactica franchise, which began 30 years ago this September as a prime time series on ABC that was too cheesy to be believed, even amid the disco music and leisure suits of the Seventies? The new and vastly improved Galactica “is about characters and issues we can all relate to, whether it's religious fundamentalism or genocide or internal conflict within the confines of a community,” Sci Fi Channel president Dave Howe told Jack Myers and myself last week over lunch at midtown Manhattan restaurant A Voce.
“There are a lot of things in it that have nothing to do with science fiction and everything to do with human nature and human relationships and the struggle for survival,” Howe explained. “What's great about Galactica is it transcends the genre, irrespective of whether you really enjoy science fiction fantasy. It functions at a level that makes the trappings of science fiction irrelevant. It's a very intense, emotional character drama. The show tackles those everyday themes that we're all living through now.”
The first ten episodes of Galactica's fourth and final season will play out in April, May and June. (SciFi.com will stream the season premiere at 12 p.m. ET on April 4, nine hours before its television debut.) “We haven't decided yet where we'll schedule the final ten,” Howe said. “It could be later this year or very early in 2009.”
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