'Battlestar' Guru Brings 'Virtuality' to FOX
from zap2it.com

FOX has greenlit the two-hour back-door pilot "Virtuality" from Ronald D. Moore.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Moore wrote the "Virtuality" pilot with fellow "Battlestar Galactica" writer-producer Michael Taylor. The pair will produce along with former ABC and FOX execs Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman through their BermanBraun shingle.

Set up through Universal Media Studios, "Virtuality" focuses on the 12-member crew of Phaeton, a starship that leaves Earth on a 10-year exploratory mission. The ship has been equipped with state-of-the-art virtual reality modules that let the crew escape their constrained surroundings. Of course, when things start going wrong with the virtual reality, there are serious repercussions.

BermanBraun has a first-look deal with NBC Universal, but the trade paper says NBC felt "Virtuality" was "too sci-fi for the network."

This is FOX's second starship-themed project of this development season. The network has greenlit the comedy "Boldly Going Nowhere" from the team behind "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." That pilot wouldn't be shot until the fall after post-production on the latest "Philadelphia" season is completed.

Flop on the way. This sounds a lot like Firefly. Maybe Nathan Fillion can be involved.

I'd love for this show to be like Firefly and battlestar Galactica. It may only last half a season, but at least it will be great while it lasts. That is worth infinitely more to me as a viewer than most of what TV offers.

As I said in the other thread, it has a rejected sci fi network feel to it. It won't make it on FOX. Smart move on FOX only making a two hour backdoor pilot and not the time sending it to series.

I thought the definition of "backdoor pilot" was a pilot that gets aired on the network before any decision about a series is made (either as a movie or as part of another series). So are they airing this as a TV movie or something? Article never says that.

2 hour TV movie.

It will probably go to series regardless of ratings, though, just as Knight Rider was set to go.

Virtuality just signed on the star of New Amsterdam as the ship's captain.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/tel...2077ef121649d5d8b733

"Virtuality" sounds like my kind of show...quite an ingenious concept.

I'm sure if the pilot is done well, it will be held as a two-hour premiere of the series.

A new show in my beloved scifi genre, that stars the smokin' hot Nikolaj Coster-Waldau? I'm in!

Of course you know it'll be canceled after the first commercial break and replaced with a crappy game show.

I'm interested. I'd watch at least the pilot. FOX's schedule does look pretty full, other than summer or replacing a show (fingers crossed either the two comedies or a reality show), I'm not sure where it could go. Is FOX getting ready to make to leap to adding an extra hour of programming to compete with ABC,NBC, and CBS at 10/9c?