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echo: babylon5
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from: John W. Kennedy
date: 2008-01-06 17:31:00
subject: Re: WGA Strike News - And ONLY WGA Strike NEWS

Mike McDonald wrote:
> Independent video is next.  JMS can kiss off the studios and produce his 
> own material and sell it directly.  As Warner Wolf says, "The future is 
> NOW!"

Yes and no. Even with a cast and crew working for free, a single
television episode of barely-adequate quality, shot single-camera on
location, costs about $30,000 to make. (I speak from experience, though
I imagine a three-camera, one-interior-set production would be cheaper.)

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of 
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