Peacock’s long in development Battlestar Galactica project has crashed.
Variety is reporting that the show, which would have been set in the same continuity of the 2003 series reboot that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, is now dead at the streamer.
The Battlestar Galactica project was first announced in September 2019 when NBC Universal first unveiled their plans for the Peacock streaming service. It joined a number of other announced projects including revivals of two sitcoms – Saved By The Bell and Punky Brewster – the third season of the comedy A. P. Bio as it migrated over from NBC proper and Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, a TV movie spunoff from the popular USA Network cable outlet series.
Battlestar Galactica centers on a small group of human survivors of a devastating attack on their twelve worlds by a robotic race known as the Cylons. The humans are fleeing across space with the cylons in pursuit, hoping to find refuge on a mythical thirteenth world known as Earth. The series was created by Glen A Larson and aired for a single season on ABC in 1978, during the height of the post-Star Wars science-fiction craze.
This particular iteration of the franchise was being developed by Sam Esmail, who created the hit series Mr. Robot for Universal.
Variety reports that Universal will be shopping the project to other outlets.
A separate big screen adaptation of the franchise has also been in development.
