Battlestar Galactica’s hot shot star fighter jock Apollo is about to land his ship in Auckland.
Jamie Bamber, who played Captain Lee “Apollo” Adama in the show based on Glen A Larson’s 1978 version, is guest of honour at A Night With Apollo at the Pullman Hotel, Auckland, tomorrow.
“Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke,” said Time magazine when it named the new version of the show the top television show of 2005. “The rest of you have actually watched the show . . . a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal . . . Laugh if you want, but this story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good.”
Bamber, did not expect the critical acclaim that followed his signing up for the Battlestar Galactica mini-series in 2003 and the four seasons that followed.
“I would never have expected it to have been Time magazine’s top TV show and be called the best show of all time by The Guardian over here in England, “
