SciFi network will post the first in a series of Battlestar Galactica webisodes right here, tonight at midnight:
The 10 Web segments, each just a few minutes long and viewable on devices ranging from iPods to laptops to desktops to full-size television sets, feature characters from the television show. And they have the same dark feel of broadcast episodes of "Galactica," a post-apocalyptic survival tale of humans on the run after their home planets have been destroyed.
The mini-episodes will go online, one at a time, on Tuesday and Thursday nights until "Galactica's" season premiere on Oct. 6. They focus on two soldiers in a new city built by humans fleeing Cylons, a race of machines that has wiped out human civilization elsewhere.
Link to NYT story. Series 3 of the broadcast edition airs on October 6. New webisodes go online every Tuesday and Thursday until then.
Looks like the Times got one detail wrong: the BSG webisodes are only available on the network's "Sci Fi Pulse" — a Flash-based broadband site. They're not made available for viewing on iPods due to legal restrictions, according to a SciFi spokesperson. Of course, determined and tech-savvy users could certainly hack the content for that purpose if they really wanted to.
