It is very good
One of the original cast memebers, who played Lee Adama, in the 70s is one of the producers.
He really wanted to resurect the franchise, but did not want to do a poor job of it, and so he waited till it could be done right.
There is some excelently written charachters, well scripted and believable plots. There also seems to have been a lot of research into military life, attitudes, internal politics, leadership (good and bad), prejudice, drinking, and they have even got around the problems of bad language in the military. They have invented a swear word of thier own "fack", and so we have: 'frack this', 'frack that', 'you fracker', 'fracking unbelievable'. Well you ger the frakin' idea.
The Batlestar Galactica new series is fracking good.