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A 2-hour fully realized glimpse into what could have been one heck of a series.

If you watched Fox's TV movie Virtuality on Friday and want more, well, like the ill-fated Commander Pike, you shouldn't hold your breath. The sci-fi pilot, from Battlestar Galactica producers Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, crashed and burned in its only outing, drawing only 1.8 million viewers and scoring a wan 0.5 adult demo rating, The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed column reported:

This will probably be the last article I’ll need to write on Virtuality. The two-hour premiere of Ron Moore’s sci-fi pilot drew only 1.8 million viewers to rank it as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network on Friday night. With Virtuality completely dependent on high ratings to turn around Fox’s decision not to green-light the [...]

If you've seen ads and heard descriptions for Fox's Virtuality and still aren't sure if it's a made-for-TV movie, the start of a new series or something else entirely, fret not: Creator and executive producer Michael Taylor is only too happy to classify the two-hour opus for you. "It's not a movie; it's not a single-serving film," Taylor said in an exclusive interview Thursday night in Los Angeles. "It is a two-hour backdoor pilot. That is what it is, and it makes no attempt to answer any of the questions it raises."

Michael Hinman takes a spoiler-free look at Fox's Friday movie.

Clea Duvall and Sienna Guillory talk green screens, gay characters and the environment.

Fox has posted a 12-minute preview of Virtuality, its upcoming two-hour sci-fi movie, which you can view after the jump.

Fox has bumped up the air date and released a few gallery images of the cast for its upcoming Virtuality TV movie, which was originally a pilot for a sci-fi series, from Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore. You can see more after the jump. The movie will air on Fox at 8 p.m. on June 26 (not July 4, as originally scheduled), and will be available as an HD broadcast as well.

First CG supervisor Doug Drexler shouted from the rooftops that “Virtuality” was alive (although he would later backpedal and say there was no word on a series) but now there seems to be even more life in a possible “Virtuality” series: Fox has moved the airing of the pilot away from a holiday to a Friday night. New press materials being released by Fox has “Virtuality” airing as its Fox Movie of the Week special airing June 26 at 8 p.m. ET. that’s a huge change from the originally reported scheduled airing on July 4 — a Saturday and a holiday which likely would mean almost no viewers. The pilot was developed by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor, who both have roots in the Star Trek series as well as SciFi Channel’s hit series “Battlestar Galactica.” It stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, …

When Fox scheduled the pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s “Virtuality” series to air on July 4 — not only a Saturday, but a holiday — it was believed this show was as good as dead. But not so fast. Fox has apparently decided to spare the series, and it’s believed that plans are made to put additional episodes into production. “We got the word that a show we through was dead is now on the fast track,” said Doug Drexler, the CG supervisor for the pilot, wrote in his blog. “It’s Ron Moore’s ‘Virtuality.’ It just goes to show you how this business goes. It was dead, dead, dead … now it’s alive, alive, alive … and they want it now, now now!” This is great news for Moore, who now will be heavily involved in two series that were originally left for dead. He’s currently in production for …

As a strong network followup to “Battlestar Galactica,” Ronald D. Moore had pinned his hopes on a Fox series that would take science-fiction fans to the stars. But now, it looks like “Virtuality” will be nothing more than a standalone movie, and a look of what could’ve been. Fox, according to The Futon Critic, plans to air the pilot July 4, a Saturday night and on a holiday … not exactly the timeslot one would think a tease for a new show would go. It’s not a surprise, however, as reports last December said Fox had ordered a number of changes to “Virtuality” in an effort to make it more “mainstream.” Airing “broken pilots” during non-peak seasons are a way for a network to make some of its investment back during pilot season. It had commissioned “Virtuality” last summer from …

Fox apparently isn’t happy with how its proposed science-fiction series “Virtuality” is turning out, and it could face either death or a complete reworking. The series from “Battlestar Galactica’s” Ronald D. Moore set on a long-range starship isn’t turning too many heads at the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and is looking to either air the backdoor pilot Moore recently filmed in May, or hold the series long enough to allow some retooling to make it more “mainstream.” But what does that mean? io9 writer Charlie Jane Anders speculates that could mean the removal of the show’s gay married couple, played by Jose Pablo Cantillo and Gene Farber. “Apart from that, what do you do?” Anders asked. “The current fad seems to be for shows that appear to be realistic dramas at …