Farscape (Kinda) Returns

westlake writes "In a weekend press tour, Sci Fi announced that Farscape would be resurrected on-line in ten short webisodes to be produced by the Jim Henson Company. There are hints that Ben Browder and Claudia Black will both be both "available." Browder has another project to keep him occupied, at least part of the time: Sci Fi also announced that it had picked up Going Homer, a miniseries he developed with "Farscape" director Andrew Prowse. Greek and Roman deities walk among us, but only 12 year old Homer Ulysses Jones can see them for what they truly are. When Homer and his father are forced to flee a custody battle that would likely separate them, they journey from Los Angeles to the home of their ancestors — in Ithaca, N.Y."

Comments

hmm.

[apodyopsis]

Why do I have this ghastly, ghastly feeling that this will do for Farscape, what "Crusade" and "Legend of the Rangers" did for Babylon5.

I feel a grave disturbance in the.......

*sigh*.

Am I alone in saying bring back Firefly, bring back Farscape - but do it with the same creative team and format or just let them well alone.

Re:please no!

[enjerth]

Perhaps this might be a trial to see if there's an audience for a full restart?

Re:please no!

[changling bob]

It worked for Dr. Who

Re:Jim Henson Company

[zippthorne]

Broder and Black can't get a break. First Farscape, now Stargate. And what did they cancel stargate in favor of?

• Some crappy British serial treknobabble-comedy trash whose principle virtue I can discern so far is that it's "been on the air a really long time"?
  
• A "mutant X" ripoff complete with it's own ubiquitous and unquestioned racial epithet?
  
• A "Friday the Thirteenth: the series" ripoff with (ok, it would be hard to ripoff that series without improving it...)?
  
• Wrestling? wtf? how scifi is wrestling? They don't even dress like KISS anymore.
  
• Ten dozen random giant snake/crocodile movies? You'd think one film would be sufficient to cover the subject.
  

I'm all for ending shows with dignity, but Scifi's choices are completely irrational. I mean, if they really are having money troubles, they should go back to how they built the damn channel in the first place: showing old scifi and "b" movies. There are plenty of terrible scifi films, they don't need to go out of their way to make their own...