Final 'Galactica' episodes to be longer?

The Sci Fi Channel has revealed that each of the final 10 episodes of Battlestar Galactica may be extended should the show's bosses deem it necessary.

Speaking to Sci Fi Wire at the San Diego Comic-Con, executive producer David Eick stated: "We're constantly getting into the editing room with ten, 15, sometimes 20 minutes of material that you can't get into an episode.

"[And] the story has become so critical in order to realise the arc of the series that we can't just cut stuff out and save it for later or push it 'til next year... it's all got to be there."

Ahead of next year's broadcast of the last ever episodes, Eick said the crew was "able to convince the network to let us air... long episodes" and "take single episodes and make them double episodes... [and] double episodes and make them quadruple episodes".

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