TRANSCRIPT OF
OUR LIVE CHAT WITH BONNIE HAMMER
MODERATOR: Welcome everyone. We've
got a special treat tonight! Bonnie Hammer, President of Sci-Fi Channel,
and world reknown
Science Fiction Expert has flown in for a Live Chat with us,
about Sci Fi's newest production, Battlestar Trek.
Hi Bonnie! Thank you so much for stopping by tonight. BTW,
nice broom! Is that a Nimbus 2000?
BONNIE: :) Hi. No, are you kidding, a
2000? This is a Mercedes 2002. (pause) 2000, how pedestrian... Hi Everyone!
MODERATOR: So Bonnie, what can you tell
us about Battlestar Trek?
BONNIE: Well, I'm very excited about
this new production. It's so different than anything else we have ever done.
It is a complete, and total
re-imagine
of the Old show Battlestar Galactica. Ranald D. Moore, the man credited with
saving the Star Trek franchise was my
first choice
to come aboard to Helm this ambitious venture. The script he has penned is
exactly the direction I wanted to go in...
MODERATOR: Really? Wow! What can you
tell us about the new show?
BONNIE: I can tell you this, it is going
to be the most exciting thing Sci-Fi Channel has ever done. It's younger,
hipper, and so more happening
than that previous
drivel. We've systematically gone through and eliminated everything I personally
didn't like about the Old show,
which I'm happy to
say is most of it. We've started assembling a Cast worthy of this new, fresh,
and happening production. I can
tell you a little
secret, my flying monkeys, ah, I mean staff, just finished inking the contract
with Britney Spears just as I was heading
over here.
MODERATOR: Really? Wow! What can you
tell us about her part?
BONNIE: Well, it was my feeling from
the beginning, that we needed a strong female lead to really head up the
cast. One of the changes we made
from the Old show
was this idea that Athena was the Bridge Assistant, and Apollo was the Warrior.
Now, it will be Apollo who will spend
most of his time
on the Bridge, and Athena will be the one blasting around the Galaxy in her
slick Runabout Shuttle, saving the Universe.
Ronald, of course,
agreed with me completely on that.
MODERATOR: Really? Wow! So Apollo will
have a smaller part in this new show?
BONNIE: That's what I just said, isn't
it?
MODERATOR: Well, don't you think the
fans will be upset by that, after all, one of the things that seemed to really
peg the meter in all the marketing
research about Galactica was that relationship between Apollo
and Starbuck?
BONNIE: Screw the Fans! We're not making
this show for the Fans of that old drivel. We're making this show for the
new Fans, and of course, for
merchandising. Besides,
Sci Fi fans for the most part are malcontent little weasels that need to
grow up and get a life. I mean really, As If
I would really do
anything based on what the "Fans" want. Seeing as I am President of
the Sci-Fi Channel, I am infinetly more qualified to
know what Sci-Fi
is, than Fans.
MODERATOR: Really? Wow! Who else is going
to be in the show?
BONNIE: I can't tell you all of them
yet, but we are in talks with Justin Timberlake and Will Wheaton. I feel
that they'll be the best one to really breath
life into the Starbuck
and Apollo characters. I can give you a little hint about their relationship
in the new show, this will be the first time
Sci-Fi Channel has
delved into this particular kind of relationship before...
MODERATOR: Really?
Wow! How is the production moving along so far?
BONNIE: Thankfully, we're
right on schedule. In fact, I've got to wrap this up, I've got somebody waiting
on the rack, oops, I mean in my Office
regarding some ridiculous
Union Pay Scale thing. Trust me, he'll see the error of his ways.
MODERATOR: Really?
Wow! OK Bonnie, we've just got one last question
from someone in our chatroom. Go ahead with your question Seymore...
SEYMORE - TUPELO, MS: Hi Bonnie, I'm
your bigest fan in the whole world! My qustion is this, is Batlestar Trek
going to be kool?
BONNIE: Yes! Goodnight Everyone!
MODERATOR: Well there you have it everyone,
it's going to be kool. My special thanks to Bonnie Hammer for stopping by
to talk with us. Don't forget
to mark your calendar for next Tuesday night, when we'll have
Jack Meoff, Producer and Director of the new reimagining of that favorite
old series Gilligans Island!
Goodnight Everyone!
