Caprica

Caprica comes out on DVD and digital download next week, and the PR for the show is ramping up. AMC's Sci-Fi Scanner Blog interviewed Caprica EP Jane Espenson.

Josh Awtry of The Salt Lake Tribune has a review. ScreenRant writer Bruce Simmons reviews Caprica as well, concluding:

If you enjoy true character driven stories, you won’t be disappointed. It’s like Moore and Eick practiced with BSG and used their honed skills on Caprica. It’s believable and if you’re inclined to purchase this gem of a DVD, I think you will be pleased with this product.

It’s dark and desperate, on a completely different level than BSG was. Where society was running for its life in BSG, these Caprica families desperately pursue misguided dreams that make society what it will be. I think the casting of many of the characters was dead on and that makes this experience complete. Both Stoltz and Morales are Greystone and Adama. Additionally, I think this could have been a stand alone movie and that it would have been incredibly satisfying. And yet, they have 20 more episodes. I find that enticing and I can’t wait until it airs in early 2010.

SF Universe asks if Caprica can franchise BSG.

A copy leaked to the nets a bit early, leading to other reviews coming online.

Gizmodo and io9 note a technical item from the Caprica script about downloading human consciousness.

Market Watch reports that 'Galactica's' legacy is not lost on NBCU exec Jeff Gaspin, president and chief operating officer of NBC Universal.

And the upcoming Caprica event at the Paley Fest at the Arclight Cinema is all sold out.

Caprica will have its broadcast premiere on SyFy in 2010.

Also, explore "Discover Caprica" to watch an exclusive clip and help fans reveal additional video by removing pixels one by one.

Caprica is available on DVD and Digital Download 4/21. Win a copy here.

SYNOPSIS:
An astonishing breakthrough is taking shape on the planet Caprica. The rapidly evolving spheres of human and mechanical engineering have collided, along with the fates of two families. Joined by tragedy in an explosive instant of terror, two rival clans led by powerful patriarchs, Joseph Adama (Esai Morales, Jericho) and Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz, The Butterfly Effect) duel in an era of questionable ethics, corporate machinations and unbridled personal ambition as the final war for humanity looms. The latest phenomenon from the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick), set in a time over 50 years earlier, Caprica is entirely its own world - provocative, thrilling and startling relevant to our own.

BONUS FEATURES:
* Feature Commentary with Director Jeffrey Reiner and Executive Producer/Writer Ronald D. Moore and Executive Producer David Eick
* Deleted Scenes
* Video Blogs
* What the Frak is Caprica?
* The Director's Process
* The V Club
* The Birth of a Cylon