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Farscape is Back
cioxx writes "FilmForce has substantiated rumors of Farscape, widely popular TV miniseries, returning as a standalone project with no new episode commitment attached, independent of Sci-Fi Channel." Previously, some rumors had been flying around that the original series would be finished off in this way, but many Farscape fans are just happy to see more of the show on the way.
Earlier this week, Dark Horizons reported that he had learned the production office is open, but that he was unable to learn anything else. SOMETHING is going on but that article simply seems to be plagiarizing the Dark Horizons article.
There was a Henson press conference set for Thursday according to savefarscape.com but it was cancelled which leads me to beleive that perhaps whatever deal they had fell through.
There is a fan convention going on this weekend, so if there is an anouncement look for it soon.
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If it was widely popular, why does it have to be resurrected?
;).
Because its cancellation was all about money and ownership of the show, not its popularity. (Kinda like the original Battlestar Galatica).
SciFi Channel (owned by USA networks) did not own the rights to the show as it was made by the Jim Henson company (who is owned by a German conglomerate whose name escapes me now). When the USA network changed leadership, they wanted shows that they made and produced to be shown so that all the monies from said show would go to them. Since this was not the case with Henson-owned Farscape, and the fact that the show was not cheap to make, USA (and SciFi) opted out of the 5th season. So now, all you get is USA network made crap programming on the SciFi channel as if the entire USA Network itself wasn't bad enough
Support bacteria! It's the only culture most people seem to get.
- Stephen Baxter's Ring, Manifold:Time, Anti-Ice
- Greg Egan's Quarantine, Diaspora, Distress, and Permutation City
- Ian MacDonald's Terminal Cafe and Evolution's Shore
- Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space
- Rudy Rucker's Software and sequels, which are the weirdest fiction I've encountered since Phillip K Dick
- S.M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time
- Harry Turtledove's Guns of the South, Agent of Byzantium, and World War series
- Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
- Robert Charles Wilson's Chronoliths and Bios
- David Zindell's Neverness
For short stories, the Year's Best SF series edited by David Hartwell is quite good. Stephen Baxter and especially Greg Egan have amazing short story collections fo their own. If you know a good used bookstore, I'd also highly recommend John Varley's short story collections (most published under several titles). He's not a bad novelist, but he's incredible in short fiction.