Bamber snippet
Aw, Jamie Bamber is adorable! In a little snippet of an interview on digital spy he claims that BSG could have been as big as Doctor Who if it weren't stuck on Sky:
"Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Bamber has claimed that the show could have become a huge mainstream hit like Doctor Who if treated differently.
Bamber, who plays Lee 'Apollo' Adama in the critically-acclaimed drama, told Metro: "[Battlestar] is only cult because it's been stuck on Sky One and not pushed. In America it's on the Sci Fi Channel, which has a stigma to it. If it was on a mainstream channel it would be as big as Doctor Who or Lost. I take 'cult' to mean not mainstream or readily available."
The British star, currently filming ITV's Law & Order: London, added: "Everyone who matters has seen it. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and the Wachowski brothers are fans. I just don’t get people shouting ‘Oi Apollo’ at me in the street.""
I'd like to say - amen to that. If only the BBC hadn't abandoned their BBC2 cult strand (which brought the likes of Buffy, Sliders, various Star Treks and Farscape to us poor people without satellite tv), BSG would have been perfect! It might not have reached the stratospheric popularity of Who, but perhaps a similar level of popularity to Buffy or Stargate, both of which are well known in the U.K.
ETA: The full interview is actually from the Metro - nothing groundbreaking about BSG but he does talk a little bit about Law and Order:London.
"Battlestar Galactica actor Jamie Bamber has claimed that the show could have become a huge mainstream hit like Doctor Who if treated differently.
Bamber, who plays Lee 'Apollo' Adama in the critically-acclaimed drama, told Metro: "[Battlestar] is only cult because it's been stuck on Sky One and not pushed. In America it's on the Sci Fi Channel, which has a stigma to it. If it was on a mainstream channel it would be as big as Doctor Who or Lost. I take 'cult' to mean not mainstream or readily available."
The British star, currently filming ITV's Law & Order: London, added: "Everyone who matters has seen it. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and the Wachowski brothers are fans. I just don’t get people shouting ‘Oi Apollo’ at me in the street.""
I'd like to say - amen to that. If only the BBC hadn't abandoned their BBC2 cult strand (which brought the likes of Buffy, Sliders, various Star Treks and Farscape to us poor people without satellite tv), BSG would have been perfect! It might not have reached the stratospheric popularity of Who, but perhaps a similar level of popularity to Buffy or Stargate, both of which are well known in the U.K.
ETA: The full interview is actually from the Metro - nothing groundbreaking about BSG but he does talk a little bit about Law and Order:London.