On Oct 20, 3:01 pm, Josh Hill  wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:50:01 -0400, "Mac Breck"
>
>  wrote:
> >Where this all went terribly, TERRIBLY wrong is when The Sci-Fi Channel
> >didn't go with a re-start of Crusade and instead went for TLaDiS.
>
> >I wish I'd been there to say (Pardon my language.) "What the fuck is
> >wrong with you people?!  WB & Sci-Fi, work something
out!!!" and then
> >I'd have given them all an NCIS-style headslap, hard.  Talk about a
> >missed opportunity!  This was their chance to right a wrong, to correct
> >the problems TNT had wrought, and leave Crusade as a worthy spinoff to
> >Babylon 5.  Instead, Crusade is left *permanently* in broken form on
> >DVD, with all it's TNT-induced problems intact and glaringly apparent,
> >and Sci-Fi goes down the wrong path by picking TLaDiS.
>
> Did they have that option, though?

The other irony is, if someone is picking up a show for guaranteed
audience of a certain number or percent, why start tinkering once it
is in the pipeline? If the folks behind Show A which a channel has
picked up delivered before, and are promising more stuff for a couple
more years with another show, surely they could be picked to know the
audience better than the people at the network which picked them up
for that reason.

Did the AOL takeover of Time Warner have a role in the TNT shakeup at
the time? It sure shook up a lot of other Time Warner projects.

At any rate, without TNT there would have been no Season 5, so I won't
bag on them too bad for that. They did do the Movies of the week,
too.
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