Sam Esmail's Peacock Battlestar Galactica reboot may mix the binge and weekly release models

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"For me, it was like, ‘Let’s get in there and tell the right story and it will tell us how many episodes,'" Esmail tells Collider. "We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that." Esmail adds that before signing on for the reboot, he reached out to the original Battlestar Galactica reboot creator Ronald D. Moore, and they determined that Esmail's version won't be a reboot of Moore's version.