JMS CIS Digest: 15-Jan-96 18:50:10 through 16-Jan-96 17:30:03 (4 msgs)

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J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
15-Jan-96 18:50:10 through 16-Jan-96 17:30:03 (4 messages)

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        B5 Novels
        Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?

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Date: 15-Jan-96 18:50:10
From: John M. Kahane <102664.773 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 Novels
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.432782 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.431161 at compuserve.com>

     Hullo, Joe,

<  What happens is that the company waits until they know if the
series is picked up for the next season before issuing more books;
once we're picked up, they assign more books to writers, so
there's always a delay. >

     Hmmm, which doesn't happen with the STAR TREK or the STAR
WARS books, simply because they're proven ground with the readers.
B5 isn't that yet, with the novels.  I can well understand this,
even if I'm not happy with it, but it doesn't really do a lot to
promote a *line* of books, does it?  And it sure doesn't make me
feel any more confident that there will be B5 novels in future.

     Mind you this does bring a question to mind:  Will there,
assuming the series reaches the end of Year 5 on tv, and there are
novels during this period...will there be novels in the B5
universe *after* the series has come to its end?  Is this
something that you wouldn't mind, or is it sometning that you
wouldn't want to see, because of the continuity headaches and the
creation of new material that likely would fall outside the
context and scope of the series and the "B5 Bible"?

        jmk

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Date: 16-Jan-96 17:30:00
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: John M. Kahane <102664.773 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 Novels
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433351 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.432782 at compuserve.com>

      It's something I really haven't had time to consider at this
point.

                                                                  jms

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Date: 16-Jan-96 14:31:06
From: Laurence Moroney <100546.50 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433201 at compuserve.com>

Todays TV Zone mentioned that with the "unprecedented success" of
the third year of Babylon 5 that a movie is on the way to be
released directly onto Videotape. Is this true?

More importantly is season 3 meeting with this success?

What I have heard of the rescheduling to Midnight in many areas
suggests otherwise?

What is the line from the horses mouth if I may ask?

BTW, Bought the soundtrack CD and you were right - I cannot find
my socks anywhere <G> Laurence

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Date: 16-Jan-96 17:30:03
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433353 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.433201 at compuserve.com>

     There've been discussions about a DTV project, a one-off, but
nothing's set yet.  The ratings are doing well; the reason some (not
many) stations have time-shifted the show to later hours is that
independent stations only have 2 hours per night of prime time, 8-10
p.m., doing news at 10.  More and more they're tied up with pre-set
agreements with Fox, UPN and WB, so anything else has to get put into
later slots.

                                                                  jms


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