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..Fox owns the TV rights for a few more years. A number of years equal to allowing a possible three movies. After that, Universal could very well pick up the series and put it on the Sci-Fi channel, which is owned by Universal.

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Originally posted by PumamanRedux:
here at

http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=19228.216

is a post in thread that describes the situation a little ...

>>Sorry if someone has already brought this up, but wasn't his deal with 20th part of what was precluding the possibility of Firefly returning to television upon the conclusion of successful BDMs? I would think... and I could be wrong, that this would actually help that possibility along a little.

I don't think so. There are two deals with 20th.

1) A long-term development deal for Joss to make new shows in exchange for money and office space.

2) The deals where 20th owns the already developed Firefly, Buffy, and Angel.

Deal #1 is ending, but deal #2 is what is precluding a FF return. 20th sold Universal the movie rights and part of the deal is no FF on TV for so many years.

Additionally, Jewel Staite said at a Con that 20th isn't interested right now in bringing FF back to TV. And why would they be? Joss tried hard to shop it around and the DVD sales probably still aren't good enough by ratings standards (but fortunately are good enough by movie standards).

Plus, before Buffy, Joss wanted to make movies. That didn't work out as he'd hoped, and he went to TV. Then he fell in love with the character development of weekly series. He may spend years doing movies, but I'm sure he'll come back to TV some day.

Hope that helps.

Ying

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