Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by scarface_74 on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:33AM
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And the first 4 seasons it ran on an also ran network - PTEN - that only had 4 TV series during its entire run.
Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by nobody9999 on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:08AM
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>1) The problem with TV is that you have to cough up an episode every single week on the fly. And JMS wrote a huge number of the episodes for Seasons 3 and 4 (I think all of them, but I can't find a citation).
IIRC, JMS says so in one of the DVD extras for Season 3 or 4 (one of the JMS commentary tracks).
Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by enteeentee on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @03:05PM
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He wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of the whole series (and all of 3&4). Practically unheard of or repeated as far as I know.
1) The problem with TV is that you have to cough up an episode every single week on the fly. And JMS wrote a huge number of the episodes for Seasons 3 and 4 (I think all of them, but I can't find a citation).
2) Babylon 5 was specifically engineered to be TV budget friendly and was about $650K per episode. That puts significant limits on what you can do. Contrast to say Farscape at $1M or TNG at $1.5M per episode.