So, Caprica’s been on the air for a while now – it’s well into its run in the United States. Have you been happy with how it’s performed?
Yeah, I think we’re hoping that we get slightly better numbers. There’s been a nice trend in the past couple of episodes where the ratings have been going up and we’ve had a strong response from the critics, so hopefully that combines to get better and better as time goes on.
Is the network factoring in time-shifted viewing?
Yeah, we have a big time-shifted factor.
Caprica has had a lengthy production process from its conception to actually being on the screen. Were there any points where you thought that it might not make it to series?I always kind of believed that there would be a series, but it did take a long time. They also took a long time from the point where we wrote the pilot to the point where they picked it up to even make a pilot. So the whole thing has always been drawn out.
Would you say that the Writers’ Strike actually helped with the show being greenlit?
I don’t know; that is when they picked it up for pilot, in the middle of the Writers’ Strike. So I suppose the strike gave them time to sit around and think about what they wanted to do, and ask “Oh, what’s that thing over there on the shelf?” and picked it up.
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