While we don’t yet know if we’ll get a second season of “Caprica,” we do know that we’ve got another half of the first season to go on the freshman series.
SyFy announced today that the second half of season one would return in January of 2011.
Here’s the official press release:
CAPRICA RETURNS TO SYFY IN JANUARY 2011
New York, New York – July 21, 2010 – Syfy has announced the highly-anticipated return of critically-acclaimed series Caprica. The second half of season one premieres in January 2011 (date TBA), and kicks off with a thrilling pace as the citizens of Caprica deal with the chaotic aftermath of the mid-season finale’s harrowing events.
In season 1.5, the once idyllic world of Caprica – as well as life across the colonies – falls prey to an explosive chain reaction of consequences set off by the characters’ many questionable actions in the season’s first half. Tensions rise, power shifts and the line between reality and the virtual world becomes increasingly blurred as everyone struggles to learn – and conquer – the stakes in this volatile setting. As the season races towards its stunning conclusion, events of each episode lay the framework for the inevitable (and brutal) clash between the newly-created Cylon race and their human creators.
An all-new trailer for season 1.5 will premiere at Caprica’s Comic-Con panel on July 23, and before landing on Syfy.com, it will be available exclusively on Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace on Xbox LIVE and Windows PCs through the Zune PC software available for free at www.zune.net. (July 26).
Caprica stars Eric Stoltz (Daniel Graystone), Paula Malcomson (Amanda Graystone), Esai Morales (Joseph Adama), Polly Walker (Sister Clarice Willow), Alessandra Torresani (Zoe Graystone), Magda Apanowicz (Lacy) and Sasha Roiz (Sam Adama).
Caprica/em> is a prequel to the award-winning series Battlestar Galactica. The series is from Universal Cable Productions, and is executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. Jonas Pate serves as co-executive producer and director.
Universal Cable Productions creates quality content across multiple media platforms for USA, Syfy and other networks. A leader in innovative and critically acclaimed programming, UCP is the studio behind USA’s Royal Pains, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Psych, In Plain Sight, Covert Affairs and Facing Kate, as well as Syfy’s Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Caprica. The studio also produced the long-running series Monk and Battlestar Galactica. UCP is a division of NBC Universal.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
eric says
2011?! So, all in all, the first season will have taken over 1 whole year to air. Here’s a tip, Syfy: cut down on the time we have to wait between episodes, that way viewers don’t lose interest in your ‘critically acclaimed’ series.
CW says
Given the return date, I think its fairly safe to say that Caprica will only get one season.
Gazerbeam says
I’d totally forgotten about the show. Way to keep the viewer coming back, SciFi….
Arkle says
January? JANUARY?!? MOTHER F***ING JANUARY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Colin says
The show was really staring to find it’s legs at the end of the first half and now we have to week six months? Come on!
Mic7 says
January is long to wait…not a good thing to leave it on the back burner so long.
Sam Sloan says
Sounds typical. Anyone remember how long it took to get 4 seasons of BSG done?
Danny says
I hope they at least play all of the first half before they start the second half, since we all forgot what was going on… oh wait, they won’t do that they’ll sell us a DVD of the first half!
Emily says
Why does Syfy do this to themselves? *shrug*
Lee in WV says
Maybe Bonnie Hammer just has it out for scifi fans.
Robin says
I… uh… what? But it’s Friday night partner show SGU is coming back in the Fall. I understand that they’re moving everything off of the Friday night lineup to make room for yet more wrestling (ptooey!), but they seriously couldn’t find an open slot on their Fall schedule? They couldn’t have pushed back something else, like say, Ghost Hunters: Antarctica?
Michael Hickerson says
Part of this comes from the fact that SyFy is going to do the big switch in October and show wrestling on Fridays instead of their genre programming. (We covered this a few weeks back on Slice…I can’t recall which episode).
So that means we have a more limited number of slots for the original shows they air.
SGU was getting better ratings, so it will come back first.
I have a bad feeling the long gap between season (esp. since we were initially promised Caprica would be back this summer) means that we won’t get a season two of this one.
jay says
“Why does Syfy do this to themselves? *shrug*”
as is everything, I disagree with, it’s a conspiracy. SyFy is owned by Universal. We all know that the cost to produce Caprica is astronomical compared to the Reality crap the networks prefer to air.
So by slowly depriving SciFi fans of any meaningful content, they are trying to push them into the Reality world. So that they don’t have to make this “expensive, quality, crap” anymore.
I suppose SGU will be back in March 2011.
Kurt in St. George says
“I have a bad feeling the long gap between season (esp. since we were initially promised Caprica would be back this summer) means that we won’t get a season two of this one.”
I sadly agree with your analysis.
We all know that the cost to produce Caprica is astronomical compared to the Reality crap the networks prefer to air.
So by slowly depriving SciFi fans of any meaningful content, they are trying to push them into the Reality world. So that they don’t have to make this “expensive, quality, crap” anymore.
I also agree with this but I would add “or attract new viewers who don’t like to think, only watch TV.”
Emily says
Jay–I am not saying it’s a conspiracy, and I am sure it’s really not that big a deal for them. I doubt they will really loose alot of thier core audience. But it’s keeping that casual viewer that they will always have trouble with. Personally, I am a casual and indifferent viewer. I could care less what happens to Caperica 🙂
With the exception of Warehouse 13, that’s kind of how I am with all of their shows.