Yeah, that's it.

My iBook locked up and now I can't find the link where I read that.

No, really.

Here you go: [link]

Oh yeah, I found that. Was trying to figure out where I got the wrong info from: [link] (interview of BSG composer Bear McCreary - interesting).

I misinterpreted the following:

Bear: It's still pretty early to say. Season Two features the first piece of music written by someone other than me or Richard (or Stu Phillips' original BSG theme). I performed a solo piano piece composed by Phillip Glass for episode 02. Should be interesting.

Aah. So it's a cover!

I wonder why. For lower royalties?

I just listened to a downloaded clip of that song (Glass's version), after just having rewatched the ep, and I couldn't tell the difference.

So now I can buy the Glass album, as I don't own it (or if I do, it's on LP or tape, not CD).

eta: From the McCreary interview:

Obviously the score started with the ideas laid down in the 2003 miniseries by composer Richard Gibbs for whom I was working at the time. From there, I've had the opportunity to develop those concepts and explore them more thoroughly over the first 13-episode season. From the very beginning, the producers always wanted the music to be subliminal, psychological. In general, I try not to score specific action and moments, but rather concepts, story lines, character arcs - let the music speak for the subtext of the story and not necessarily the obvious actions happening on screen. They wanted to avoid the typical orchestral bombast of Star Trek and Star Wars so my challenge is to create a score that is emotional, subtle, at times grand and sweeping, all without the tried and true instrumentation of the "Hollywood Orchestra."

in'eresting....

For lower royalties?

The reverse, I'm sure.

Huh? I'm talking the royalties they'd have to pay Mr. Glass. Are you talking about the royalties they'd make on selling the CD?

I did a search and couldn't find any mention of it, so I guess I'm the first to say anything about it.

Charlie Jade is a Canadian/South African co-production, filmed in Cape Town.

Charlie Jade (Jeffrey Pierce, The West Wing, JAG, Boston Public) is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. When Charlie sees the corpse of a beautiful young woman he realizes she embodies the impossible: she has no identity, something inconceivable in Charlie's world.

While tracking her suspected killer, the trail leads Charlie to a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him into a parallel universe, our own chaotic twenty-first century world where he is both baffled by its differences and seduced by its similarities. Charlie is soon drawn into a conflict that not only involves his home universe and the one he now inhabits but also includes another, a pristine pacifist universe with unsuspected terror at its heart.

Three worlds... One hope

Created by Robert Wertheimer (Due South, RoboCop: Prime Directives) and Chris Roland (Stander, Man to Man, The Bone Snatcher), the series is written by Guy Mullally (The Lost World, Little Men), David Cole (Cold Squad, Due South) and Stephen Zoller (Super Rupert, Anne of Green Gables). Executive Producers are Robert Wertheimer, Chris Roland, Izidore Codron (The Bone Snatcher, Stander), Robin Spry (Big Wolf on Campus, The Lost World), and Jacques Pettigrew (Galidor)

Bitmetv.org has the first 16 episodes to download. I've only seen the first episode so far but it is interesting enough to make me download the rest of them over the next few weeks.

Is it just me or does the guy that plays the Chief in BSG look like a young Brian Dennehy?

Is it just me or does the guy that plays the Chief in BSG look like a young Brian Dennehy?

A bit, yup.