Caprica to Air 01/22/10

According to the Science Fiction Buzz page

• Syfy has announced the US air date for its Battlestar follow-up, Caprica... Friday, January 22nd 2010. Caprica will start with a two hour premiere.
  

The program will take the usual late Friday slot.

Caprica's storyline follows two rival families – Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz) and Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) - but as far as I can see the Adama name and Caprica are the closest ties we will see to the BSG series.

Caprica Pilot Under Way

Mark's SF/Fantasy blog has some BSG/Caprica news:

A two-hour back-door pilot for Caprica, a series set in the Battlestar Galactica universe at least fifty years before the events shown in the current series, was greenlit last week by the Sci Fi Channel and is already in preproduction after two years in development. Sci Fi has made only a partial commitment to the series (and will most likely) pick up the series only if the ratings on the pilot are solid. The reluctance stems in part from creator Ronald D. Moore's intention to make Caprica heavily dependent on long story arcs, which networks tend to fear repel new viewers.