Caprica News - Woohoo!

'Caprica' to premiere on DVD, download
Friday, February 6 2009, 12:26 GMT

By Simon Reynolds, Entertainment Reporter

Eagerly-awaited Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica will premiere on DVD and download, Universal has announced.

The feature-length pilot will be available from April 21, 2009 in an uncut, unrated version ahead of the series broadcast premiere on the Sci Fi Channel next year.

Mark Stern of Sci Fi/Universal said of the move: "We wanted to give fans a chance to see the pilot in its original form and experience the prequel to the BSG story while that series' finale was still ringing in their ears. It also affords the creative team an unprecedented chance to get viewers' feedback before production on the Caprica series begins this summer."

Caprica executive producer and writer Ronald D. Moore added: "If Battlestar Galactica offered us a way to shatter the conventions of space opera, Caprica will be a show which will challenge the conventions of science fiction storytelling as a whole."

Executive producer David Eick described the series as "part sweeping soap, part meditation on the dangerous moral ramifications of artificial intelligence".

Set half a century before the events of Battlestar, Caprica stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson (Deadwood, ER) and Polly Walker.

That's actually pretty cool. Releasing the pilot on DVD first gives people like me, who don't have cable, an easy way to watch the show.

Now I just have to finish my knit Cylon beanie...