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VH1 Classic is growing up. On Monday, the classic music channel will expand its programming from 12-hours to a full 24-hour cycle. To deliver more of the concerts, videos and music specials, the channel has inked an exclusive programming deal with the BBC. As of September 2006, BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test anthology series and concert footage from artists such as Tom Petty, The Police and Lynyrd Skynyrd will begin airing on the network. They will be part of its Classic in Concert original series. New VH1 Classic franchises set to debut soon include the weekly Rock and Roll Picture Show (May 6), the monthly Class Of ... (June), the 27-episode Classic Albums (Fall 2006) and the Classic Artists documentary series (Fall 2006).

New projects for Sci-Fi Channel include:

• Caprica – set 50 years before the events in Battlestar Galactica, the people of this society are dealing with a technology breakthrough that marries artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot, a Cylon.
  
• Snap – a one-hour thriller about a Federal agent who uncovers a deep, growing conspiracy about the internet infiltrating every aspect of our lives manipulating humans toward some large unknown agenda.
[The internets are evil and we should be paranoid! Featuring storylines ripped directly from movies made circa 1995!]

• Persons Unknown – several strangers find themselves in a deserted town with no recollection on how they arrived there with no escape. [Wow, stuck in a deserted area with a bunch of strangers, trying to survive. It must be terrible, being lost like that.]
  
• Untitled Ministry of Unknown Science Sketch Comedy Series – a magazine show format that features mockumentary segments, commercial parodies and other comedy sketches.

Comments

[brandawg.livejournal.com]

They're already doing a Battlestar Galactica spin-off? I think the show is awesome and I'm only on the first season of DVDs through Netflix, but the entire show serves as an allegory for today's murky political climate of a people feeling as if their constantly under attack. I don't think that same vibe can translate to a prequel series.

Plus, I'm always curious if Battlestar Galactica is just set so far in the future that Earth is forgotten and purged from the record books or if it's just a completely different universe where no Earth actually exists. They never reference actual history. Also, I don't even know if you watch that show, so this is all just moon-man gibberish to you, right?

[physhtanks.livejournal.com]

I dunno...if they run it the same way as the last BG back in the 70s/80s, the events that you see in the TV show are current day - in the old series, they eventually find Earth, but it is 1982 Earth, and they can't do crap against Cylons...

Interesting thought on the prequel spin off, but I wonder how much they can get out of that? The most I can see is same material from the first couple episodes of the Animatrix....


BTW, hi C!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Hi Rick!

[brandawg.livejournal.com]

MAN! I messed up on a totally different "their/they're/there"!