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  • Sci fi Channel in the US goes the video blog route

    Sci fi Channel in the US goes the video blog route

    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.

  • CBS lines up sci fi-legal drama for mid season package

    CBS lines up sci fi-legal drama for mid season package

    MUMBAI: American broadcaster CBS has announced that a legal drama set in 2030 Century City will form a major part of its mid-season package. It debuts on 16 March.

    In the future, lawyers at the firm of Crane, Constable, McNeil and Montero find that while the laws change, people remain the same. Judges can now go before lawyers as holograms. The firm has its hands full taking on morally and ethically ambiguous cases such as parents suing their doctor for withholding critical results of their unborn child s genetic mapping.

    Another case involves a man accused of robbery when he steals back his identity from his ex-fiancé who has uploaded his presence onto all of her electronics. As this diverse group of attorneys find themselves in uncharted legal territory, their cases provide a look into issues confronting society in the not-so-distant future.

    The next season of the more conventional legal drama The Guardian with Simon Baker returns for another season on 27 April. In India, the show airs on Hallmark. CBS has also thrown in a comedy The Stones into the mix. The show deals with the crazy reality of two adult children living in their childhood home with their divorcing-but-friendly parents. The show debuts on 17 March.