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Re: The \"SCI-FI\" Channel One of the tricks is to have hidden microphones scattered around to pick up the audience before the show begins and show's "listeners" pick up on tidbits that are passed on to the host. Not saying this happening, but could.

KoshN wrote: "Yeah, those damn pesky people (the customers) who watch their channel. How dare they want to see "sci-fi" on "The Sci-Fi Channel." Whatever could they be thinking?" Yep! But that's life.

Re: The \"SCI-FI\" Channel KoshN wrote: "Well, what did you expect? It is "Sci-Fi Magazine." They are going to be blowing their own horn alot. Strange, they didn't use more than 2 pages." Most likely because 2 pages covered all they could really blow about without making the article a total lie.

Excellent letter, Channe.

Thanks, Joe. Saw the same on SciFi Schedulebot but was hoping there might have been a snippet of information somewhere. I have tapes but will rerecord if they show it again, this time editing out commercials "on-the-fly" since it is a real pain to edit the commercials out. I'm transferring...

Does anyone know if SciFi is going to run Crusade again? And, if so, any news on when?

Re: \"Rangers\" to air again in September I suspect they picked Thirdspace and River of Souls because they ran In the Beginning and Call to Arms the last time they ran three B5 movies. It is interesting they a rerunning TLaDiS with Thirdspace and River of Souls. That doesn't look to me like...

Same as ChiLlBeserker. Nothing happening so nothing to post.

I've preordered several books, tapes, etc from them and they didn't charge until they shipped, then sent me an email telling me they had charged me.

Joseph DeMartino wrote: "Actually JMS quote ratings from two or three individual west coast markets - he never said that the average west coast rating was in that range. Ratings can vary enormously from city to city, so the movie could have pulled a 3.6 in San Diego and a 1.0 in Burbank. The...

KoshN wrote: "BTW, on the west coast, didn't it get a 3.2 or 3.4?" I had to go back and check but you are right. According to JMS TLaDiS received 3.2 to 3.6 in west coast markets, with viewers coming in and staying once they saw the movie. However, the East & Central markets were so poor...

KoshN wrote: "Well, maybe not "cut budgets" but rather didn't establish a sufficient budget in the first place. In any case, it's a self-fulfilling prophesy." Agree to an extent. There was also that TLaDiS ran against the NFL playoff game. Even so, TLaDiS received an overall rating (IIFC) of...

KoshN wrote: "If that's the case, then they're not trying to grow the show, to expand it past it's established fanbase. Essentially they've given up on it and are looking strictly at short term profits." Unfortunately, probably right on the money.

KoshN wrote: "No time. No money. No sets. Gees, sounds like a rushed production to me. They weren't ready, and weren't given enough time and money to get ready." While only supposition, I think it was Scifi didn't want to spend big bucks on sets/CGI until they saw how the pilot went. Which, of...

KoshN wrote: "Then why go for the re-run rights to either Babylon 5 or Crusade??? Sci-Fi's actions just don't make any sense." My guess is because the price is right and those have an established fan base who will rewatch.

Hypatia wrote: "If old "Andromeda" is still popular with its anti-arc mentality, though, I just don't know if there is even hope anymore." I believe there is a place for a Scifi series that follows an "arc." I wish I could find out more about "Polaris" because that might just be the next...

I was thinking more along the lines that with JMS at the helm of an extended series the plots and threads would follow a coherent arc even though he didn't write all the eps himself.

LightNZ wrote: "as for thought through - B5 was in the works since the late 80's i don't think jms will be doing something quite so thorough again" I believe he would, if given the opportunity. I also believe that if Rangers had gotten the go-ahead we would have seen characters & threads...

Hypatia wrote: "Maybe TLaDIS really was made just a bit too quickly. From time to time it really does sound as if it was not thought through in terms of B5." It could have followed B5 a little more closely but it was (as I understand it) intended to be a whole new series with only minimal...

You're right. Now that you mention it I remember that scene and Marcus's escape took place about six years before TLaDiS.