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Caprica roundup: new showrunner, shorter season

Nov 23, 2009 12:04

Jane Espenson stepped aside as showrunner "to focus more on the writing". At the beginning of season 1.5, she was replaced in that position by newly-hired executive producer and self-professed BSG geek Kevin Murphy, a writer, producer and composer who had previously worked on "Desperate Housewives", "Reaper" and "Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical ( Read more... )

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noybusiness November 23 2009, 16:50:49 UTC

I'm a little disappointed they're not going with Roger R. Cross as Tomas Vergis as originally planned, but I guess it must be a question of actor availability.

entheogeneric November 23 2009, 20:07:01 UTC

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pedda November 23 2009, 23:35:42 UTC

That, or Cross' performance as Vergis was one of the reasons why they dropped the entire subplot...

noybusiness November 23 2009, 23:55:51 UTC

Maybe. I just know I liked his performance as Joshua in First Wave. I wasn't knocking John Pyper-Ferguson, but I didn't recognize the name. I've only seen him as Stinger, which wasn't a lot of screen time or emoting, but they wouldn't have cast him as Vergis if he wasn't good in the role.

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dissention_1 November 24 2009, 01:16:56 UTC

Sounds like the rumors of the show being a complete mess are true.

muldfeld November 24 2009, 04:45:52 UTC

This news kinda pisses me off. First, if Ronald D. Moore had stayed involved, everything would be even better because he's an amazing writer and rewriter ( ... )

muldfeld November 24 2009, 04:49:37 UTC

I do think that cutting the show by one episode shows that Mark Stern and the rest of the studio care about "Caprica"'s quality because they found a lot of scenes were being forced into interior, money-saving backgrounds. To their credit, they preferred to side with quality over quantity. Well done.