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JBONETATI

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Aug 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/9/99
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<<.. and biggest of all, I just this week closed a deal to develop another new
series, this one totally outside the B5 universe. >>

JMS,

That is good news although I'll certainly miss the B5 universe...

Can you tell us what 'development' entails? Obviously from your post it doesn't
mean that it's a done deal and waiting for a time slot to be announced.

Is this the idea you just had a week or two ago? Wow.

Thanks,

Jan


Jms at B5

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Aug 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/10/99
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>Can you tell us what 'development' entails? Obviously from your post it
>doesn't
>mean that it's a done deal and waiting for a time slot to be announced.

Every series goes through development; it's the process by which one first
hooks up with a studio or another production entity, then gets the network to
commission a pilot script, then to produce the pilot script, then to go for the
series.

So we've got a long road ahead of us, but it's already moving a hell of a lot
faster than B5 did in its development.

jms

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Michael J. Hennebry

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Aug 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/10/99
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In article <19990810024233...@ng-ck1.aol.com>,

Jms at B5 <jms...@aol.com> wrote:
>Every series goes through development; it's the process by which one first
>hooks up with a studio or another production entity, then gets the network to
>commission a pilot script, then to produce the pilot script, then to go for the
>series.

In other words, development is what happens with a new series up until a
network or whatever buys it or not as the case may be.

Correct?

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Edward Haas

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--Soooo, is this a scifi series, or are we talking sitcom or something
else??
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Ryan Bloom

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On 10 Aug 1999 00:43:08 -0600, jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:

Could you possilby tell us what genre this Series will be?


>>Can you tell us what 'development' entails? Obviously from your post it
>>doesn't
>>mean that it's a done deal and waiting for a time slot to be announced.
>

>Every series goes through development; it's the process by which one first
>hooks up with a studio or another production entity, then gets the network to
>commission a pilot script, then to produce the pilot script, then to go for the
>series.
>

Jms at B5

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>Could you possilby tell us what genre this Series will be?
>

If it goes, it's about 98% mainstream and 2% speculative fiction...kind of an
Ivory Snow mix....

Kurtz

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Aug 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/11/99
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Jms at B5 <jms...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:19990810204449...@ng-fa1.aol.com...

> >Could you possilby tell us what genre this Series will be?
> >
>
> If it goes, it's about 98% mainstream and 2% speculative fiction...kind of
an
> Ivory Snow mix....
>
> jms
>

How would you break down the numbers for B5 and Crusade?


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