Caprica's Episode Order Shortened : Movie Sites

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They'll be a bit less Caprica than expected. The Battlestar Galactica prequel series has had its first season shortened by one episode, reports Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan. True Blood DVD Box Set

Ryan spoke to Mark Stern, True Blood DVD Box Setexecutive vice president of original content for Syfy, who said the decision to reduce the order for Season 1 from 20 to 19 episodes was a financial one, which resulted from the series in general being more expensive than originally expected. The X Files DVD Box SetStern said that Caprica is "a more elaborate production" than Battlestar Galactica, noting that the spaceship-set BSG mostly filmed inside soundstages and on pre-existing sets, while the planet-bound Caprica has required a lot more on-location shooting. Battlestar Galactica 1-4 DVD

"We always knew it would be a challenge to bring it in on budget, and the deeper we got into it, the more we realized that if we [stuck to the budget too closely], it was not going to be satisfying," Stern told Ryan.The X Files DVD Box Set "We were cutting corners and we weren't happy with that and the executive producers weren't happy with that." Stern says the show's executive producers didn't feel they could comfortably cut two episodes from the season, but were able to reconfigure the end of the season to cut one. Battlestar Galactica 1-4 DVD

As to rumors of trouble behind the scenes at Caprica, Naruto DVD Box SetRyan says Stern and other sources tell her there have been the normal "creative growing pains associated with any first-year program." Jane Espenson, a Battlestar and Buffy alum, is executive producing the series, along with Ron Moore and David Eick and early reports indicated the plan was for Moore and Espenson to somewhat run the writers room together, with Espenson gradually taking the reins. The X Files DVD Box SetRecently however, Desperate Housewives veteran Kevin Murphy joined Caprica as an Executive Producer, and has "been taking the lead on breaking stories," says Ryan. Battlestar Galactica 1-4 DVD

But Stern notes, "Ron, Jane and David are still very much in that mix.Naruto DVD Box Set Every show has to find its voice and figure out what it wants to be. True Blood DVD Box SetEvery show has to find out which characters pop and which story lines play. There were some growing pains as they found the right balance of stories and characters."

Caprica debuts January 22nd on Syfy.