
Alessandra Torresani
Syfy will air the final five episodes of the recently canceled Caprica in January, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Syfy cancels Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica
The episodes are slated to air back-to-back on Tuesday, Jan. 4, starting at 6/5c.
Syfy canceled Caprica last month due to...
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Caprica
What the Frak! Caprica has been canceled.
Syfy announced Wednesday that the remaining episodes of the Battlestar Galactica prequel are being removed from the schedule next week. The final five episodes of the second season will be rescheduled to air in...
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Eric Stoltz
House (Monday, 8/7c, Fox)
Amy Irving makes a rare guest appearance as the patient of the week, a suicidal children's-book author whose puzzling medical conditions may have led to her emotional instability. To crack the case, House looks to her books for clues. Meanwhile, he and Cuddy go on a double date with Wilson and his gal pal Sam (Cynthia Watros). Following House, a new season of Lie to Me gets underway, replacing the unfortunately low-rated Lone Star, the season's first casualty...
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Caprica
Caprica is returning to Syfy sooner than initially planned.
Originally scheduled to come back in January, the Battlestar Galactica prequel, starring Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales, now will kick off...
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Caprica, Esai Morales
Esai Morales wants you to know that Caprica (premieres Friday, 9/8c on Syfy) is no Battlestar Galactica. "BSG is BSG, and we will never touch BSG because we're not in that business. We don't want to be," he tells TVGuide.com of the prequel. "We're trying to show that someone's parents and someone's pre-life is different than their children's." Set 58 years before the post-apocalyptic events of Battlestar, Caprica focuses on the thriving, technologically advanced Twelve Colonies that eventually create the Cylons. Morales plays Joseph Adama, a lawyer and father to BSG's Commander William Adama.
The elder Adama meets inventor Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz) when they both lose daughters in the same terrorist bombing. Graystone attempts to bring the girls back as robots, and it's from there that a "morally gray family saga unfolds," Morales says. Find out what else is in store this season and why the actor thinks the show is similar to The Godfather.
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Esai Morales and Eric Stoltz, Caprica
Twitchy Battlestar Galactica fans can rest a little easier.
The Sci Fi channel has given the green light to Caprica, the buzzed-about prequel to Battlestar, according to Variety. The cable channel has already produced a two-hour TV movie/backdoor pilot, which was set to debut in December, but will now launch the series in early 2010.
The series, starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker, is set 50 years before the Cylon attack ...
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Esai Morales and Eric Stoltz courtesy Sci Fi Channel
Set 50 years before the first Cylon War in Battlestar Galactica, the two-hour TV-movie/series pilot Caprica (airing this fall) is more soap opera than space opera."Caprica is a sweeping, highly emotional relationship drama a Rich Man, Poor Man set in a science-fiction environment," says exec producer and writer Remi Aubuchon (24), who created the prequel with BSG's Ronald D. Moore. "The look is nostalgic, almost 1950s, with the men in hats, ties and stylish suits. It's not about hardware and space battles."Caprica stars Eric Stoltz as Daniel Graystone, a Bill Gateslike entrepreneur and inventor, and Esai Morales as immigrant lawyer Joseph Adama (the father of BSG's William), who hails from the other-side-of-the-tracks planet Tauron. "They're brought together by mutual grief when their daughters are killed in a terrorist bombing," Aubuchon says. But the bond turns sour when Graystone brings back their offspring as robots, creating the ancestors of the Cylons. Also on boa...
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Esai Morales by Michael Bezjian/ WireImage.com
On the heels of the news that Deadwood's Paula Malcolmson had landed the female lead in Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica prequel movie/backdoor pilot, Esai Morales has joined the Caprica cast in the role of Joseph, a "deeply passionate man with a strong sense of justice and someone you wouldn't want as your enemy," says the Reporter. Oh, and Joe's last name is Adama, as in the father of one day Galactica commander William.Morales most recently had a run on Jericho (ah, Jericho
), but I'll always remember him from Bad Boys (the 1983 one).What's your take? A pretty good familial match, eh? MWMRelated: Deadwood's Trixie Inhabits Sci Fi's Caprica Sci Fi Upfronts Delight and Depress Battlestar Fans
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Esai Morales by Jeffrey Mayer/ WireImage.com
No criminal charges will be filed against Esai Morales (Jericho, NYPD Blue), whose ex-girlfriend had claimed he raped her in April 2006, a spokesperson for the prosecutor announced on Friday. "I'm happy that my client was vindicated," the AP quotes Morales' attorney as saying. "He was never questioned by the police, never taken into custody, there were never any charges brought against him."The accuser has also filed a civil suit, charging that Morales raped her and in turn gave her herpes. That lawsuit is awaiting trial and, says the plaintiff's lawyer, might introduce additional evidence that could convince the DA's office to move ahead with criminal charges.Related:• Legal Briefs: Esai Morales Rape Talk, and More
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Esai Morales by Lester Cohen/ WireImage.com
Esai Morales' former girlfriend, Elizabeth Mazzocchi, is holding a press conference Friday morning to "inform the public of previously undisclosed information concerning [Morales'] alleged past acts of rape and sexual misconduct," so that "other potential victims of Mr. Morales will feel empowered to come forward".... TV producer David Russo has sued his former agent, Amy Shpall, claiming she stole his idea for a reality show set in a gym aka Bravo's Work Out. Per the Reporter, Shpall has yet to be reached for comment.
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