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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:17:19 -0500
To: hyperion@MIT.EDU
From: Carla M Vale <cmvale@MIT.EDU>
Subject: news from jms
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As announced today in a press release from the SciFi Channel, the network
has picked up all 13 episodes of Crusade for broadcast this Summer. This
will be the first time the series has been broadcast since its brief,
original run on TNT. 

On the topic of comics...I will be writing a one-off B5 Graphic Novel for
Wildstorm that will
debut later this year. I figure on writing it as soon as I get out from
under my current deadlines. 

And finally...yes, it's true, B5 will be coming out on DVD starting with
The Gathering and In the Beginning, to be released in July. The series will
start soon thereafter. I've been going over the artwork and related issues
for WB Home Video, and though at this time there's no supplementary
material involved, at least as far as I know, it should be pretty cool.
(Don't know yet which aspect ratio they'll be using, but my *guess* would
be widescreen, now that WB is correcting the earlier versions.) 

All of that said...as noted well above, there's some substantial TV-related
news sitting out there waiting for me to talk about it as soon as I'm given
the go-ahead to do so. Suffice to say that one very large deal has now been
set and closed, another is in heavy negotiations (with money now on the
table from those involved), and a surprise third project is also coming up
fast and furious. 

More on these when I'm allowed to talk about them. Probably sometime next
week. 

                   jms