B5 Crusade
This came down in my JMS on Compuserve digest this morning.
Thought you all should know....
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#: 61336 S2/Bab 5: General
26-Feb-99 13:12:04
Sb: #Crusade Gone For Now
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Well, we took our best shot. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
The SciFi Channel programming guys wanted the show; they wanted it a
lot. They crunched numbers for almost two weeks trying to make it work.
But at the end of the day, the problem was that they had already allocated
or spent their budget for the year, and couldn't come up with the huge chunk
of change necessary to get an entire season. Had this come up prior to
January 1st, things would almost certainly have gone differently. But they
have their budget, as we have ours, and it was already allocated.
So TNT will now air the full 13 produced, and that's the end of it for
now. I say for now because WB has told us to fold and hold all the sets,
rather than scrap them, because they believe strongly in the show, and feel
that when the ratings come in we may well be able to pick up a second
season. We'll see.
Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off, and deciding which of a number of
offers from networks and studios, sitting on my desk since B5 finished, to
pick up. I had declined to go that route so I could do Crusade and keep
playing in this universe, but absent that, there's no reason not to go back
to the networks and apply there some of what we've been able to do in B5
and Crusade.
My thanks to all those who wrote, and called, and emailed, and lent
their support to the process. And I think that when you see the show,
you'll be quite pleased by what we did. We're all very proud of it.
jms
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Philip Ayres
E-Mail: payres@
Web Site: www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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Thought you all should know....
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#: 61336 S2/Bab 5: General
26-Feb-99 13:12:04
Sb: #Crusade Gone For Now
Fm: J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Well, we took our best shot. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
The SciFi Channel programming guys wanted the show; they wanted it a
lot. They crunched numbers for almost two weeks trying to make it work.
But at the end of the day, the problem was that they had already allocated
or spent their budget for the year, and couldn't come up with the huge chunk
of change necessary to get an entire season. Had this come up prior to
January 1st, things would almost certainly have gone differently. But they
have their budget, as we have ours, and it was already allocated.
So TNT will now air the full 13 produced, and that's the end of it for
now. I say for now because WB has told us to fold and hold all the sets,
rather than scrap them, because they believe strongly in the show, and feel
that when the ratings come in we may well be able to pick up a second
season. We'll see.
Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off, and deciding which of a number of
offers from networks and studios, sitting on my desk since B5 finished, to
pick up. I had declined to go that route so I could do Crusade and keep
playing in this universe, but absent that, there's no reason not to go back
to the networks and apply there some of what we've been able to do in B5
and Crusade.
My thanks to all those who wrote, and called, and emailed, and lent
their support to the process. And I think that when you see the show,
you'll be quite pleased by what we did. We're all very proud of it.
jms
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Philip Ayres
E-Mail: payres@
Web Site: www.netcomuk.co.uk/~payres
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