powerofthe media and ofthose who either control or have privileged accesstothe media.

t has typi-cally been on very expensive, one-off dramas on which individual,non-US national broadcasters dislike assuming exclusive risk, prefer-ring instead to share any risk (and of course, reward) with a US entity(Steemers 2004:114–117).Battlestar Galacticarepresents somethingdifferent from this, and we need to understand what the drivers were.

but of the inherentuncertaintyand inevitablevarietyofthe productive and commodity circuits that would unfurl and play outover the intervening years: multifarious circuits beginning and ending atmany different points in time and space, to which money’s circuit couldonly be rendered cumulatively complementary by giving it sufficientbreadth.

we see something different”(70) through each of these windows; and because, as Marx stressed, wecannot properly understand circulation as a whole without examining (allof) its component parts and the specialized roles taken on at differentjunctures by productive capitalists, merchant (commodity) capitalists,and money (finance) capitalists.