ATTN JMS: Crusade - The Whole Story

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From: earlej at hotmail.com
Date: 12 Sep 2000 18:30:05 -0700
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jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5) spewed:

>>If I understood you correctly, B5:Crusade is never going to be made
>>because TNT is holding the rights and won't sell them in a reasonable
>>price, thus not allowing anyone else to make it
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>No, that's not quite it.  WB owns the rights to Crusade, not TNT.  SFC wanted
>the rerun rights to B5 *as well as* Crusade because it seemed counter
>productive to have the one without the other.  TNT, not wanting Crusade to
>succeed elsewhere -- in the past movies they'd passed on went on to earn emmys
>elsewhere, something that annoyed them no end -- asked for a huge sum of money
>to pry loose the reruns of B5, far more than anyone would pay.  That was the
>final sticking point in the deal, not the Crusade part.

But, SFC *has* B5 airing rights now, does that also imply that they
now have the rerun rights to Crusade?

Could you please reexplain this deal 'cause I'm certainly
misunderstanding something.


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 12 Sep 2000 18:36:35 -0700
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>But, SFC *has* B5 airing rights now, does that also imply that they
>now have the rerun rights to Crusade?
>

No, because they are two different shows with two different contracts.  SFC
would have to separately purchase the rights to rerun Crusade.  They're two
different shows.

 jms

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