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At Dragon*Con over the weekend Aaron Douglas dropped the bombshell that the last ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica, which are currently scheduled to air in January, might be delayed until April. Naturally that resulted in a pretty negative response from all of the geeks gathered here in Atlanta.

Today SciFi Channel stated that those rumors are in fact just rumors:

SCI FI Channel is calling “inaccurate” rumors that the second half of Battlestar Galactica’s fourth and final season will be delayed and confirmed again that the original series will return with new episodes in January 2009.

Several Web sites, including io9 and Galactica Sitrep, have posted the rumors, reportedly based on comments made by Battlestar cast member Aaron Douglas at Dragon*Con.

The reports are erroneous, the channel confirmed to SCI FI Wire. “It is still slated to return January 2009,” a spokesman for the channel said.

I don’t know what they have planned for the ending, but at Dragon*Con Edward James Olmos said that “not many of us survive” and apparently everyone who read the script for the finale was reduced to tears.