10 Most Notorious Battlestar Galactica Urban Legends
1. Was Blood & Chrome Always Meant As A Web Series?
To date the most recent TV entry in the BSG Universe, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome focuses on Commander Adama in his youth and just after he graduated from flight academy. It was first released as a ten-episode web series on the now defunct Machinima, Inc. This was not, however, the path that Blood & Chrome was always going to take.
Syfy first made the announcement in 2010 that a two-hour pilot had been greenlit for production. A year later, their president of original programming, Mark Stern, suggested that the show could in fact be a web series instead of giving it a more conventional TV slot. Deadline confirmed in March 2012 that the series would be online only, despite Richard Hatch and Jane Espenson, a writer on the reimagined series, both saying that they believed a TV deal was still on the table.
It was not to be, and while Blood & Chrome was certainly not always envisioned as an online release, that is ultimately how it ended up. Still, all the episodes were later combined into a movie which was broadcast on Syfy in February 2013. DVD and Blu-ray releases of the series followed shortly after.