Finally! A Release Date for Season 3 of BSG on DVD!
It’s a Happy New Year for Battlestar Galactica fans, as Universal finally announced a definite release date for the DVDs of Season Three earlier today. The third season of Battlestar Galactica will be out March 25, just in time to create extra publicity for Season Four which will begin airing in April.
It has been a long and winding road for the release date of these Season Three DVDs, which were originally going to be in November 2007. This would have been just in time to create extra publicity for Razor and the original air dates for Season Four, which were supposed to be in January 2008. Then the writer’s strike loomed, and the beginning of Season Four was pushed back to April 2008. The time line became more complicated, as rumors swirled about Universal’s idea to split the fourth and final season of the show into two halves, shelving the end of the series until 2009. Now it seems only half of Season Four was filmed before the strike, so we will have a Season Four and Season Five after all … assuming that the strike does not resolve itself soon, which does not seem likely. Leave it to BSG to create a release schedule that is almost as complicated as the show itself.
But back to the DVD set, which sounds pretty great. There will be twenty-five previously unaired minutes of “Unfinished Business” (also known as the boxing episode) which raises the enticing possibility of more flashbacks to the characters’ time on New Caprica and is potentially some ’shipper’s dream come true. That is in addition to deleted scenes, behind the scenes materials, and other goodies.
Special thanks to Loyal Reader Pam for the head’s up about the news.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
‘Bout time! They shouldn’t have left fans hanging for so long. I wonder if they’ll include ‘Razor’ or if it will still ahve to be purchased seperately?
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