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"Battlestar Galactica&amp;#039;s David Eick has claimed that new prequel Blood &amp;amp; Chrome was never intended for television. The producer told sciencefiction.com that Syfy&amp;#039;s decision not to pick up the project for a full series should not be considered &amp;quot;some kind of rejection or failure&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;It was originally developed as an online project,&amp;quot; Eick insisted. &amp;quot;It was a little frustrating for me a few months ago when I saw the headlines that the Blood &amp;amp; Chrome project had somehow been rejected or was a failed pilot or wasn&amp;#039;t gonna make it on the air and all those kinds of things. &amp;quot;It was never intended to be a traditional pilot, so to speak, such that Syfy not picking it up in a traditional manner to an episodic series was some kind of rejection or failure. It was always developed, at least from my point of view, as a project for an online environment.&amp;quot; The prequel - which stars Skins actor Luke Pasqualino as a young William Adama - is now debuting on Machinima&amp;#039;s premium YouTube channel, Machinima Prime and will air on Syfy at a later date. Eick continued: &amp;quot;There were discussions about [a television pick-up] but for a variety of reasons - I think not the least of which was because there was a genuine feeling that we had really designed something altogether groundbreaking from a visual effects standpoint - [Syfy decided to] stick with the original plan.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Battlestar exec teases Blood &amp;amp; Chrome &amp;gt; Syfy announces Caprica cancellation Watch a trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Blood &amp;amp; Chrome below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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