The SciFi Channel scored big time last year with STEVEN SPIELBERG's "Taken" winning the Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries. Now, they're bringing back a blast from the past with an updated version of "Battlestar Galactica," in which a ragtag fleet of human survivors fights to defeat the robot Cylons.
But this isn't Count Baltar's "Galactica." In the all-new mini-series, premiering Monday, Dec. 8, at 9 p.m., it's 40 years later, the Cylons are no longer a recognizable enemy -- well, not all of them -- and Starbuck is a woman -- but she smokes a cigar just like her predecessor. What hasn't changed is that the series still explores what happens to people in the face of an unimaginable catastrophe. In the post-September 11 world, though, the series has a difference resonance for the audience that witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon. There is a much stronger connection now to people facing a world that has changed forever.
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