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Skriven 2006-05-24 16:44:00 av Robert E Starr JR (680.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: JMS: Anything new goi
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"John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Joseph DeMartino wrote:
> > Did you read any of the posts above?  You can't do a TV series
without
> > a network willing to run the show.  You can't publish a book without
a
> > publisher willing to buy the rights and then pay the writers and
> > produce the books.  It is NOT a matter of showing up at the front
gate
> > of Warner Bros. with a sack full of money.
>
> Well, it would take a /lot/ of money -- a subsidy of a hundred million
> or so would allow WB to sell it at a price that a network could hardly
> refuse.
>
> Or I suppose you could approach (say) the Sci-Fi Channel and guarantee
> them a ripe commercial income up front, then try to sell the
commercial
> time yourself....

Or simply pay the Sci-Fi Channel to air the show (100% covering the
costs of their airtime) and then they can sell the commercial time
however they please and keep all that money as well.  Where's the
downside for The Sci-Fi Channel?  They make money no matter what, and
it's not like they're so chock full of good, high ratings programming
that they can't find a primetime slot or even a weekend slot for the
show.


> (Neither scheme would work, of course, if the show were a ratings
> stinker; but that doesn't really apply here.)
>
> As I have said many times before, I doubt that JMS is remotely
> interested in "finishing 'Crusade'" with novels. He didn't conceive
the
> story that way.

Not then (Sept. 2000), but now (May 2006), that's probably the only
avenue that's even remotely left.

09/10/2000:
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-159
"No, no novels are planned, because I wanted Crusade to be a TV story,
and
again, WB owns the rights, which is standard for all TV series."


07/09/2002:
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-16612
"Nope, nothing's on the boards, and I think Del Rey's license has either
expired
or is about to expire, so any other company could certainly come in and
make a
case for picking up the license."

01/28/2003:
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-16760
"All that's required is for a publisher to make a deal with WB."


Sometimes it seems that a gazillion dollars are necessary to reduce
networks and studios risk to manageable levels and get them to finish
the story they started, and even then they have to be dragged kicking
and screaming to do it, and will hate themselves in the morning after
they've done it, no matter how big a profit they end up making.  Ever
feel like almost the entire universe is against a project?  That's where
Crusade is.

We have to be satisfied with that we have, because that's all we're ever
going to get that's canon.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.
                
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