Luke Pasqualino will play a young William Adama on Syfy's Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome

According to Entertainment Weekly, the pilot movie for Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome has made its biggest casting decision. Namely, they’ve decided who is going to play William Adama as a young man.

In an Inside TV exclusive, James Hibberd announced that Luke Pasqualino (from the U.K. series Skins) will play Adama. Ben Cotton (Hellcats, Riese) is the other lead, playing Adama’s commanding officer.

Here’s a description of the characters:

Pasqualino will star as the young, talented fighter pilot William Adama, a recent Academy graduate who finds himself assigned to the newest Battlestar in the Colonial fleet: the Galactica. Full of ambition and in pursuit of the intense action that the Cylon war promises, Adama quickly finds himself at odds with Coker (Cotton), the battle-weary officer to whom he reports. With 45 days left in his tour of duty, Coker desires an end to battle just as much as Adama craves the start of it. Though they clash at first, the two men forge an unlikely bond when a routine mission turns dangerous and becomes a pivotal one for the desperate fleet.

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome will be set during the 10th year of the first Cylon war. The show will debut with a two-hour pilot on Syfy. No date has been set.

Warehouse 13 follows two Secret Service agents who find themselves abruptly transferred to a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota which houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and preternatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.

The Warehouse’s caretaker Artie Nielsen (Saul Rubinek) charges Agents Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Kelly) with chasing down reports of supernatural and paranormal activity in search of new objects to cache at the Warehouse, as well as helping him to control the Warehouse itself. Allison Scagliotti plays Claudia Donovan, Artie’s apprentice.

With key questions left hanging from the gripping season two finale. Has Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) left the Warehouse team for good? Have we seen the last of villainous H.G. Wells (Jaime Murray)?

If you’re a betting person, I’d wager that the answer to both these questions is “no.”

During its second season, Warehouse 13 averaged 3.43 million total viewers, making it the most watched Syfy series of 2010.

Starring two of the ’80s top pop stars — Tiffany and Debbie Gibson — this film is destined to go down in history as one of the worst.

In their most recent Syfy roles, Tiffany starred in Mega Piranha, while Gibson starred in Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus. While each of those movies was bad, it’s going to take both stars to raise (lower?) this latest Syfy original movie to a new level.

So how do two washed-up pop princesses get down and dirty in their long-awaited smackdown? Here’s a synopsis:

A production of The Asylum, “Mega Python Vs Gatoroid” takes an up-close-and-personal look at the crisis in the Florida Everglades where invasive Burmese pythons are threatening the indigenous alligator population. Gibson portrays a fanatical animal rights advocate who spends her evenings “liberating” illegally imported exotic snakes from pet stores and setting them free in the Everglades, where the pythons grow and thrive.

Tiffany plays an over-zealous park ranger worried about the growing ecological damage. To save her beloved alligators, she’s willing to employ dubious methods, overdosing them with steroids so they grow mega, setting off a war between the species – and putting her on a collision course with Gibson.

Mega Python Vs Gatoroid will premiere on Syfy Saturday, January 29, at 9/8 PM (ET/CT).

Sneak Peek

And for those who can’t wait, here is a clip from the movie:

My exception to this rule are the Syfy original movies, which have made Saturday “The most dangerous night on television.” You know they’re awful. Syfy knows they’re awful. But you know what? We can’t look away.

Syfy is bringing another giant monster to the small screen this week with Behemoth.

Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet.  When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction. Starring Ed Quinn (Eureka) and William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files).

Behemoth premieres Saturday January 15th, at 9/8 PM ET/CT.

Update: Sorry, folks. Syfy removed their trailer for Behemoth.

Caprica promotional poster courtesy of Syfy.

Syfy (formerly known as the SciFi Channel) has given fans a sneak peek at the poster artwork for the new series Caprica.

The poster features Alessandra Torresani as Caprica character Zoe Graystone. The image, showing Torresani bare skinned, is suggestive of the Biblical figure of Eve. The apple with a missing bite represents the eating of the forbidden fruit and humanity’s fall from grace.The tagline reads, “The future of humanity begins with a choice.”

While the poster is sexy and likely to appeal to the geek-boy fan base, there’s more going on here than just an image of a pretty girl. Yes, it certainly caters to those who believe “sex sells,” but it’s also provocative. Simply put, it shows a maturity that is likely to be driving the new series. As with Battlestar Galactica before it, Caprica is likely to use its science fiction setting to address real-world issues, from terrorism to stem cell research.

For those who haven’t seen the Caprica pilot, the series is set in the same universe as Battlestar Galactica, but before the war between humans and Cylons. Caprica tells how humans originally created the robotic Cylons. What the “choice” is, I will not say. Watch the series and see it for yourself.

The two-hour pilot of Caprica is now available on DVD . Caprica debuts on Syfy next year, Friday, Jan. 22.

BSG’s finale was exciting, engaging, and — in the end — heartbreaking. Was it perfect? No. But it was worthy of a series that started strong and managed to give us four years of pretty decent television.

I started watching Battlestar Galactica from the beginning, meaning that I watched the original series back in the 1970s. The original Battlestar Galactica was one of the best/worst sci-fi moments of my childhood, right up there with television’s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and the 1980 film Flash Gordon.

When The SCI FI Channel decided to “reimagine” it with producer Ron Moore, I hated it before it began. Then, as I saw previews, I hated myself for wanting to watch anything that would ruin my nostalgic rememberance of the campy sci-fi show.

After seeing the new BSG’s opening mini-series, I was hooked and hoped SCI FI would see fit to give us a series. When they did, it continued to amaze and delight me. Yes, there were some “soul-sucking” episodes — when the darkness made it more painful than entertaining. But even in its bleakest moments, it stood apart from other television because it dared to be something bigger. Bigger than TV. Bigger than science fiction. Bigger than a story.

As a writer, I strive for such epic grandure in my writing. I am not satisfied to see my story play out on the page. I want my prose to leap off the page, grab the readers, and drag them into my universe — where they wait anxiously for the events to play out, for my characters to live or die, and for the secrets of my world to be revealed.

Last night, BSG held me in a trance as it finished its long story arc and brought it to a satisfying conclusion. It kept me wondering, it made me wish the best future possible for its characters, and it made me want to be a better writer.