If Blake's 7 can come back, why not Firefly? by Shiny

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If Blake's 7 can come back, why not Firefly?

POSTED BY: SHINY
UPDATED: Monday, July 28, 2003 19:13
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Monday, July 28, 2003 5:05 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3102295.stm

I only hope Firefly doesn't take 20 years to make it back to TV! (Incidentally, I thought Blake's 7 was a really cool show for its time)

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Monday, July 28, 2003 6:48 AM

JOHNNYREB

Wasn't "Monk" cancelled and brought back too?

Viva Firefly!

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Monday, July 28, 2003 7:27 AM

BRTICK

Monk? with Tony Shaloub?
no, I don't think that was ever cancelled. it got huge promotion from USA and did great in the ratings...

Keep Flying!

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Monday, July 28, 2003 8:15 AM

TRAGICSTORY

Actaully Monk was cancelled or should I say never really picked up by ABC. The producers shopped around and found a new home at USA.

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Monday, July 28, 2003 8:20 AM

BRTICK

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Actaully Monk was cancelled or should I say never really picked up by ABC. The producers shopped around and found a new home at USA.

are you sure? I thought some episode were shown on abc as a cross promotional thing, at the same time new epsidoes were shown on USA....
unless you mean the pilot was produced with abc in mind and later bought by usa. that kind of thing happens quite often, however. it's not really the same as being cancelled...

Keep Flying!

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Monday, July 28, 2003 9:32 AM

-=ZERO=-

Monk was originally produced for ABC, but they passed on it. Later it got picked up by the USA network, and became a hit. ABC wanted it back but couldnt get it, so they settled for reruns behind USA. I think its pretty funny considering the kind of tv that ABC gets; a bunch of crappy shows and ill-fated programs. Then a show like Monk comes along and they pass! Sucks to be them.

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Check me out on WinMX, I have all Firefly episodes in SVCD format.

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Monday, July 28, 2003 10:49 AM

TRAGICSTORY

May God smile and grant Firefly the same fate!

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

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Monday, July 28, 2003 1:58 PM

BLACKSTAR

If I recall, wasn't JAG cancelled for a while (or at least on a long hiatus) after one season and has now gone to be a very successful franchise for CBS, with a spin-off in the works and everything?

Oh, MY GOD! WHO'S FLYING THIS THING!!! Oh, yeah...

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Monday, July 28, 2003 7:13 PM

QIXOTL

To be blunt, Blake's 7 has not come back yet. This news is nothing new. Paul Darrow and Andrew Sewell have been in "pre-pre-production" of the revival for a few years now. They still don't have a script, financial backing or a network to air the program according to the revamped website. They don't even know if they want to make a mini-series, TV-movie, or a full series (live-action or animated). The website relaunch and media hype appears to be just a ploy to find backers for the proposed project. AFAIK, the Firefly feature film is already a more certain proposition.

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