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Battlestar Galactica's David Eick has claimed that new prequel Blood & Chrome was never intended for television. The producer told sciencefiction.com that Syfy's decision not to pick up the project for a full series should not be considered "some kind of rejection or failure". "It was originally developed as an online project," Eick insisted. "It was a little frustrating for me a few months ago when I saw the headlines that the Blood & Chrome project had somehow been rejected or was a failed pilot or wasn't gonna make it on the air and all those kinds of things. "It was never intended to be a traditional pilot, so to speak, such that Syfy not picking it up in a traditional manner to an episodic series was some kind of rejection or failure. It was (more) »
- By Morgan Jeffery
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