'Battlestar' boss hails writers' strike

Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore has claimed that the writers' strike has helped to improve the show's quality, despite halting production midway through the fourth and final season.

Moore told Underground Online: "The writers had worked out what the arc in the back half [of the season] was already... [but] I think [the writers' strike] actually benefited the show in some ways in that... we started to think about things that we could change, things we could make better. And when the strike was over... we wrote the second half of the season all over again."

The strike, which has now concluded, meant that only 11 out of 20 episodes were filmed before production was put on hold. However, filming is currently underway on the remaining episodes and the final season will be screened in two blocks of ten episodes. The first block will be shown on Sky One from Tuesday, April 8.

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