Battlestar Galactica Won’t End Until 2009?!

OK, I understand the whole ‘mid-season’ break thing since pretty much every show does it. I expected Galactica to wrap up, at the very latest, Fall 2008. But, we have to wait nearly a year to finish the series? This had better be the greatest series finale ever.

clipped from community.tvguide.com Battlestar Galactica fans are well-advised to sit back and savor this Friday’s midseason finale, because the balance of Season 4 — the series’ last, lest we forget — won’t be hitting the tube until after “the first of the year,” says executive producer Ronald D. Moore. And that’s a best-case scenario. At a Wednesday-night screening of this week’s episode, Moore explained to TVGuide.com that even though they are currently filming the series’ final scenes, the “practical realities” of post-production — coupled with the formidable end-of-year competition presented by new fall series, baseball and football — places the onset of the final episodes at the start of 2009, at the earliest. “Realistically, there’s no way to get back on the air faster,” he apologetically added.