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For those of you already stocking up on popcorn and beverages for this friday's 90 minute season two finale of "Battlestar Galactica", which we've already done a thorough job spoiling right here, this might not be the news you'd like to hear. For reasons that that still are a bit murky the show will break ranks with the two "Stargates" and the tripple Sci-Fi Channel whammy on Friday nights.

Production on the third season will commence in April in Vancouver, Canada. But the word is that it will not begin airing until October, four months behind the usual schedule.

There are mutterings that one reason could be that parent network NBC is considering lifting the critically acclaimed show from the smaller niche channel to NBC proper, as there's a dearth of promising new shows in the pipeline, according to SyFy Portal.

NBC has already tried to rebroadcast specific episodes, including an abbreviated version of the pilot, of the show to expectedly low-ratings results. Of course, those were expected because the episodes already aired. But given the mainstream critical acclaim of the series, as well as its tremendous popularity in iTunes downloads (as well as continued illegal downloads), there is some chatter that NBC Universal -- which owns both SciFi Channel and NBC -- could be considering moving the series to NBC.

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Good God. Waiting till Oct is bad enough. Moving BSG to NBC, however, I suspect would gut the show. Ron Moore already talks about conflicts with SciFi over runtime and the overall dark themes of the show. There is no way in hell the suits at NBC are going to let him do the things he has already aired. Moreover, it would become subject to the will-o-wisp scheduling that NBC already runs and lose its prime leadins with the not-what-it-used-to-be SG1 and the getting-better-but-still-not-great Atlantis.

BSG would become the new West Wing -- might have a couple of good years, but eventually the bastards will run off all the people that make the show great and then they will hand it over to Michael Bay or some crap.