ATTN JMS: Question regarding a 6th season

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From: Brent Schmidt <TVsBrent at MCS.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 1997 19:27:04 -0400
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J.M.Egolf wrote:
> 
> In article <342F0195.238D26FA at mcs.com>,
> Brent Schmidt  <TVsBrent at MCS.COM> wrote:
> >I know I'm a bit ahead of the game here, but I just read some
> comments
> >from you at a convention on the Spoiler Junkies site, and I had an
> >idea/question for you.  You said that TNT had made comments about
> maybe
> >wanting a 6th season, which of course is a Bad Thing, since B5 is a 5
> >year story.  This of course put you in a bad situation, you said you
> >have fought for years to get it on the air, it would be difficult to
> >turn it down.
> 
> (Brent's suggestion of doing side stories outside the 5-year arc
> snipped)
> 
> It's a good idea, *IF* we don't get _Crusade_.
> 
> Otherwise, to quote a comment JMS seems to be making more and more
> often
> these days:
> 
> "You really are trying to kill me, aren't you?"

J.M.Egolf wrote:
> 
> (Brent's suggestion of doing side stories outside the 5-year arc
> snipped)
> 
> It's a good idea, *IF* we don't get _Crusade_.
>
> Otherwise, to quote a comment JMS seems to be making more and more
> often these days:
>
> "You really are trying to kill me, aren't you?"

[snip]

  Well, I suppose, but if he's got somebody who wants to make some B5
episodes, why not take advantage of it?  Don't screw with the story arc,
but when that is done, why not take some risks and go crazy with some
new ideas.  It doesn't matter (much) if it gets canceled, he's told his
story and can move on.
  Plus, if memory serves, wasn't he ready to run two concurrent series
if _Crusader_ got picked up in the 5 season time span?  I thought I
remember him talking about it.
  All in all, I don't know if it's possible, but I think it would be
wicked cool.
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  Brent Schmidt                 TVsBrent at MCS.COM
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 29 Sep 1997 21:51:35 -0400
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I didn't say it would be difficult to turn down doing a 6th season, but
that the situation would *be* difficult.  Obviously, their first choice
would be to have me do it...but just as obviously I don't want to do a
sixth season, 'cause the story ends in 5, and even TNT has been actively
promoting S5 as the last season of B5.  Now, in theory, WB could do B5
without me, since they own the copyright, and that would be the last bullet
in their gun if I got real difficult about it.

The only other option would be to do a "Tales from Babylon 5" sixth
season, which would be an anthology series, to all intents and purposes,
using our characters almost like a repertory group.

But we'll see...it's still a long way off, and as Ted Kennedy once said,
we'll drive off that bridge when we come to it.


 jms




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