Syfy Digital Press Tour report: Moore & Eick on Caprica 1.5

Ron Moore and David Eick attended the Syfy Digital Press Tour in Orlando earlier today and the first reports are in. There is still no word on whether Caprica will get a second season, but Ron Moore is still confident that it will, and Syfy's Mark Stern says that the decision will be made by November 15.

Snippets below are from Zap2It:

In the second half, we'll see more momentum and focus on certain storylines. There will be more tie-ins with the "Battlestar Galactica" mythology. Eick says this is when they're "unapologetically" connecting to its origins instead of trying to establish its own identity. So more "BSG" tone, suspense, action, etc.

Moore says that they have a creative road map for the second season, should they be picked up. It's a fairly detailed plan with several points out on the horizon. So creatively they're ready to go, but just waiting for the green light. It'll almost feel like a fresh start, so you won't be bogged down with the mythology, launching that AI or sentience, from Season 1.

Continuity isn't too difficult because much of the story was created while "BSG" was still going on. "Caprica" pretty much has its own stand-alone mythology. During "BSG's" fourth season, they tried to not mention the origins of Cylons that much in order to give more freedom to the "Caprica" story. In fact, they had to cut a line from Adama who refers to his father.

And there is a short clip from the panel, uploaded by ash0283 here.

Synopsis for Caprica 1x11, "Retribution," and some cast updates

Here is the synopsis for "Retribution," which airs this Tuesday at 10 on Syfy:

Lacy botches an operation launched by Barnabas, and the Adama brothers begin a campaign of coercion against Daniel's former colleagues while Amanda tries to cope with her losses. - TV Guide

The episode was written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman and directed by Jonas Pate.

Ron Moore, David Eick and Syfy's Mark Stern will be at the Syfy Digital Press Tour this weekend. You can find more details about the panels at Airlock Alpha and follow Michael Hinman on Twitter for updates in real time.

A round of cast updates:

SpoilerTV has a teaser for Glee 2x04, "Duets," directed by Eric Stoltz, which airs this Tuesday at 8 pm on Fox. If you want to hear the songs from the episode, they have them too - here. And file this under "rumour" for now, but daddy Graystone has been spotted around the set of Off the Map, Shonda Rhimes' new show currently filming in Hawaii, so possibly another directing gig to look forward to in the not-so-distant future (mid-season).

TheTVEvent has more details about Paula Malcomson's appearance in The Event 1x06, "Loyalty." The episode was directed by Jonas Pate and will air on Monday, October 25 at 9 pm on NBC.

John Pyper-Ferguson will appear on Castle, episode 3x08, "Murder Most Fowl," which airs on Monday, November 8.

Sanctuary, with Ryan Robbins, returns for a third season this Friday (Oct. 15) at 10 on Syfy. SpoilerTV has a clip from the season premiere.

James Marsters was at the New York Comic Con this week. You can find some clips from the panel at Buffyfest. Among other things, he talked about his character on Hawaii Five-0, Brainiac 5 on Smallville, and whether or not he will be back on Torchwood. He also gave away a few details about his character in Three Inches in this clip. His episode of Smallville also airs this Friday (Oct. 15) at 8 pm on the CW network. SpoilerTV has a preview and the teaser.

Also airing on Friday (at 9 pm) is CSI: NY 7x04, "Sangre por Sangre," with Battlestar's Edward James Olmos. The teaser is here.

Katee Sackhoff will make an appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on Thursday, October 28 at 9 pm in episode 11x06, Cold Blooded. She posted a picture from the set on Twitter the other day. :)

Patton Oswalt guest stars on Bored to Death tomorrow (Sunday at 10 pm on HBO). You can see a sneak peek here. You can also watch last week's episode of Community, in which he appeared as Jackie (male nurse) on Hulu.

If you didn't see the last episode of Hellcats, Aaron Douglas was back this week. You can catch it on Hulu (as soon as they upload it). It's episode 1x05, "The Prisoner's Song."

More updates hopefully coming before Tuesday.

New video blog and previews for Caprica 1x11, "Retribution"

Syfy has posted five new clips on the official site. One is a scene from last night episode, "Unvanquished," with Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales and Sasha Roiz. The second is a video blog called "Caprican Evolution." In it, Caprica writers and producers David Eick, Jane Espenson, Clara George, Michael Taylor, Ron Moore and visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel discuss the worldbuilding aspects of the show (with special emphasis on Tauron culture) and working with the U-87. The next two clips are sneak peeks from episode 1x11, "Retribution," both involving Lacy (Magda Apanowicz) and her dealings with the STO. From the looks of it, Barnabas (James Marsters) will be back in next week's episode. The last clip is the teaser for "Retribution." The clips are embedded below.

The podcast for "Unvanquished," with David Eick, Eric Stoltz and Tom Lieber, has been posted. You can find it here, as usual.

Alessandra Torresani was on Attack of the Show yesterday. You can see the clip here.

Bear McCreary has a new post up about the music in "Unvanquished." You can read it here: Caprica: Season 1.5.

Patton Oswalt confirmed that he will make an appearance on Community tomorrow (Thursday, Oct. 7 at 8 pm on NBC) and said that his episode of Bored to Death airs this Sunday (Oct. 10 at 10 on HBO).

The clips:

Poll: Caprica 1x10, "Unvanquished"

If anyone is still looking for a place to crash and discuss tonight's episode, the comments section is all yours!

Synopsis:

As the scheming Sister Clarice, pitching a vision of virtual resurrection to her monotheistic acolytes on Gemenon, Polly Walker upstages the brooding male anti-heroes (Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales) as this dense Battlestar Galactica prequel returns to finish up its first season. This sci-fi parable, located at a deadly crossroads of politics, religion and futuristic technology, is for hardcore genre fans, a lot darker and heavier than the Syfy norm these days. -- from Matt Roush

You can rate the episode here:





And since there haven't been any polls around here until now, here is another one:

Caprica returns tonight: Cast interviews, videos and updates

A final round of updates before the show returns tonight at 10 on Syfy:

Magda Apanowicz will be doing a live chat at Syfy Connect tonight at 8:45 pm EDT. [Update: The chat has been cancelled.]

Caprica's science advisor Malcolm MacIver has an excellent new post at Discover Magazine: Caprica Puzzle: If a Digital You Lives Forever, Are You Immortal?

Eric Stoltz has posted a few more pictures from the set of "Unvanquished" here. His episode of Glee airs next Tuesday at 8 pm on Fox.

Los Angeles Times has a short interview with Polly Walker here. Snippet:

"I'm not a technical person ... I do well to send an e-mail. But it is interesting that I play a character who wants to create a digital heaven."

Walker, who does believe in God but is not a "particularly religious person," didn't do any specific research for the role.

"Like any actor, I just translated what was put in front of me," said the actress.

Walker also tells us that for this second half of the season, "fans are definitely going to see the action quotient go up. Characters are more active, and Clarice graduates beyond the school."

She will also guest star on Sanctuary this fall.

Paula Malcomson, still a regular on Sons of Anarchy, will make an appearance in The Event, episode 1x06, "Loyalty."

Ausiello at EW says that Ron Moore has a new project in the works, a remake of the ’60s classic The Wild Wild West.

Battlestar's Aaron Douglas tweeted that he starts filming an episode of Eureka tomorrow.

Magda Apanowicz will play Ashley Tisdale's rival on Hellcats later this season. She mentioned it in an interview with Homorazzi.com:




Magda also talked to TV Squad in recent days. The interview is here. Snippet:

They have a life-sized Cylon on the 'Caprica' set. They didn't have one for 'BSG.' Apparently they'd talked about it for so long, but supposedly it's really expensive to create, so they couldn't do it. I think it's so crucial – I can't believe they went so long without one. There are so many scenes when Eric [Stoltz], Paula [Malcolmson] and Polly [Walker] and I were all talking to the Cylons, and you need something there.

Like the infamous tennis ball on a stick?
Yep, we have one of those. There are many times when – sorry if I'm ruining anything for your readers – but I've been in a room before where they literally had a whole bunch of poles that are supposed to symbolize Cylons. That's where imagination comes in, but I find it easy to get lost in the 'Caprica' world, so it's not that big a problem for me. So there's the pole Cylon, the real Cylon, and then there's the cut-out Cylon.

Which do you use?
I usually have the pole. We drew straws and I lost. Eric gets the cut-out. (...)

As a viewer, I felt badly for Lacy, but also wanted to give her a shake. She just seems so meek.
Again, I don't want to ruin anything, but in this second half of the season there is some serious growth of character. Lacy goes on a journey, and she's constantly thrown into these absolutely awful situations and decisions. It's really cool where she goes, and I'm really satisfied... the finale is amazing.

Syfy has posted a fan Q&A with Alessandra Torresani and Sasha Roiz:



Wired has a new bonus clip from the Caprica Season 1.0 DVD, "Making Caprica’s Gritty New Cap City" here.

Serge Graystone is tweeting again.

And The Caprican has an article with a major spoiler for tonight's episode here.

More updates on Twitter as they come. If you haven't signed up there yet, this would be a really good time. ;)

Caprica is back tomorrow (Tuesday at 10 pm on Syfy)

With Caprica season 1.5 premiering tomorrow, there's been a bunch of updates over the last couple of days. In random order:

Episode 1x10, "Unvanquished," was screened yesterday at the Globe Theatre at Universal Studios, with Alessandra Torresani, Esai Morales, Sasha Roiz and executive producers Ron Moore, David Eick, Jane Espenson and Kevin Murphy in attendance. There is a short clip from the event on YouTube and Caprica Hub has a fan report. If you don't understand what is being said in the clip, let The Wall Street Journal explain it to you: Syfy Relies on Social Media for "Caprica" Screening Event.

Caprica Season 1.0 is out on DVD tomorrow. The DVD is currently at #3 on Amazon's list of Bestsellers in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Io9.com has posted new interviews (including video clips) with Alessandra Torresani, Sasha Roiz and Magda Apanowicz. Check them out here: Caprica's stars talk gay gangsters, robot love stories and New Cap City nights!

SpoilerTV has posted a transcript (embedded below) of the conference call Sasha Roiz did with the press the other day. Tons of interesting stuff inside, including some new spoilers for the rest of the season.


Caprica - Q&A transcript with Sasha Roiz -

Other updates:

• SpoilerTV also has song previews for Glee 2x04, "Duets," directed by Eric Stoltz, which airs next Tuesday (October 12) at 8 pm on Fox. If you're not on Twitter, he posted a new pic from the set yesterday. Also, before I forget: if you're in or near Indianapolis, you can catch a screening of Fort McCoy at the Heartland Film Festival later this month. You can find the schedule here.
• Patton Oswalt mentioned doing ADR for this Thursday's episode of Community. The show airs at 8 pm on NBC.
• Sasha Roiz posted a picture from the set of House.
• Bear McCreary did an interview for The Walking Dead podcast. If you're a fan of the comic book, you'll definitely wanna hear it. The show kicks off on October 31 on AMC.
• Airlock Alpha has an article about possible time jumps in Caprica's storyline which is pretty interesting now that the show is returning.
• Battlestar Blog has discovered a behind-the-scenes photo from episode 1x15, "The Dirteaters," with Aleks Paunovic, Alison Araya and the kids playing the young Joseph and Sam Adama.

Finally, you can catch up with episodes of other shows in which the cast guest starred this week:

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 11x02, "Pool Shark," with Sasha Roiz - CBS
Hellcats 1x04, "Nobody Loves Me but My Mother," with Teryl Rothery and Ryan Kennedy - CWTV
Fringe 3x02, "The Box," with Hiro Kanagawa - Hulu
The Good Wife 2x01, "Taking Control," with Scott Porter - CBS


More updates tomorrow, before the show returns.

Caprica executive producers on where the show is headed

Syfy has posted a new exclusive clip (embedded below) from the Caprica Season 1.0 DVD. In it, executive producers Jane Espenson, Kevin Murphy and David Eick talk about where the show is headed in the second half of the season. It’s a short clip, but it might bring up some of the old controversies from the Battlestar Galactica series finale. There is also a brief glimpse of Sam and Tamara Adama in V world in one of the upcoming episodes.

Make sure you also check out the new behind the scenes clip at AirlockAlpha.com.

On other fronts, Alessandra Torresani tweeted that she will be on Attack of the Show on October 5, Sasha Roiz is doing a conference call with the press today, and Starry Mag is talking to Magda Apanowicz.

Other cast updates:

• Hollywood Life has a bunch of pics of Eric Stoltz on the set of Glee and PDN Pulse has an article about Untitled, the short film he did last year that's part of MoMA's New Photography exhibition.
• King of the Avenue, with Esai Morales, will be out on DVD on October 26, and Cherry is getting screened at a bunch of festivals this month. You can find the schedule on Facebook.
• A Night for Dying Tigers, with Leah Gibson and John Pyper-Ferguson, will be screened at the Vancouver Film Festival. You can find the details here. Conviction, also with Pyper-Ferguson, will get a limited release on October 15.
• Patton Oswalt will guest star on Bored to Death again one of these Sundays. He was also cast in Jason Reitman's Young Adult earlier this week.
• SpoilerTV has the first pics of James Marsters in Smallville 10x04 here. Battlestar's Michael Hogan will also guest star in at least two episodes of the show later this season.
• The season premiere of Human Target (with Tahmoh Penikett and Jorge Montesi guest starring in episodes 2x01 and 2x04 resp.) has been pushed back to November 17.
• The final season of Friday Night Lights, exec produced by Jeffrey Reiner, with Scott Porter returning in episode 7, will premiere on October 27 on DirecTV.
• The Walking Dead, scored by Bear McCreary, will premiere on Sunday, October 31.

The "Where We're Headed" clip: