Battlestar New Cast member Accounced.

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SCI FI CHANNEL’S ‘BATTLESTAR’ GETS LAWLESS

Lucy Lawless Joins the Cast of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ For 10-Episode Arc in Its Upcoming Third Season

New York, NY – February 6, 2006 – SCI FI Channel has added Lucy Lawless to the cast of its white-hot original series ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ Lawless will reprise her role as D’Anna Biers in a 10-episode arc in the show’s eagerly anticipated third season, which begins production in Vancouver in April.

Originally appearing in the episode “Flight of the Phoenix,” D’Anna Biers arrived on the Galactica as an investigative journalist doing an expose on alleged crew misconduct that resulted in the death of four civilians. Surprisingly, her documentary generated sympathy and respect for the battlestar’s crew – healing the growing rift between the civilian and military populations within the fleet. Eventually, the audience learns that D’Anna was actually one of the deadly human-looking Cylon agents, who was sent to Galactica on a covert reconnaissance mission.

Lawless’ second guest appearance will air on Friday, February 24, in the episode, “Downloaded,” which gives viewers their first real glimpse into the Cylon world. The second half of season 2 of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ premiered January 6.

Best known to audiences as the fierce and beautiful ‘Xena: Warrior Princess,’ Lucy Lawless has also appeared in ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Tarzan,’ ‘Bernie Mac,’ ‘Two and a Half Men,’ ‘Less Than Perfect’ and ‘Just Shoot Me.’ She recently starred the television movies ‘Locusts’ and ‘Vampire Bats.’ Lawless also played a memorable role in the feature film ‘Eurotrip’ and appeared in a cameo in Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man.’ She will next be seen in the psychological thriller ‘The Darkroom.’

Lawless joins Battlestar Galactica’s stellar ensemble cast, led by Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. The series is executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick – who was instrumental in originally casting Lawless in the role of Xena.

Battlestar Galactica is from NBC Universal Television Studio.

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[Garibaldi]

Another great actor added to an already unbelieveable show and story arc!!! icon_punk.gif

[Anonymous]

Also Dean Stockwell will be on when the Third Season begins in August…

[spoiler:8b5ea37ff0]He will be another Cylon model…[/spoiler:8b5ea37ff0]

[Garibaldi]

Do you know when the full season 2 DVDs are set to be released?

[Anonymous]

It should be out in Aug or Sept. I hope they do the entire Season 2.

[Garibaldi]

I would hope so too, I think they will

[Anonymous]

That’s a good move for The Sci-Fi Channel. Ratings should continue to do well as long as the writing stays good.

[Garibaldi]

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That’s a good move for The Sci-Fi Channel. Ratings should continue to do well as long as the writing stays good.

Exactly, have writing and the fans will follow. I think the strong cast is also very important, which they already have and the addition of Lucy can only serve to strengthen it even further. Ron Moore has created an excellent new imagination of this classic series, I hope it continues to prosper for many years to come!

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Ron Moore

Is that the RON MOORE of TNG fame?????

[Anonymous]

Yes, the Same one

[Anonymous]

Thanks bodyslide.

[Garibaldi]

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Is that the RON MOORE of TNG fame?????

Yes it is, he’s had quite the amazing career eh?

BTW Yoda I know you’ll enjoy this – I was watching a TNG episode yesterday and Data said “the enterprise’s systems…” WHAT!?!?! Wow they really messed up on that one, Data can’t use possessives like that!! 😯

[Anonymous]

Was it after the first season??? The first season wasn’t 100% on that. But those times we catch it after the 1st season are big no-no’s.

[Garibaldi]

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Was it after the first season??? The first season wasn’t 100% on that. But those times we catch it after the 1st season are big no-no’s.

No this was at least 4th season, actually I think the episode was Remember Me if I remember correctly

[Anonymous]

Ohh big booboo then

That was the dalen quaice episode right? Where she gets sucked into a thought warp bubble

[Garibaldi]

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Ohh big booboo then

That was the dalen quaice episode right? Where she gets sucked into a thought warp bubble

Yep, with The Traveler, the guy who almost got cast as Data w00t.gif

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