OT: Babylon 5

Byte · #1 August 1st, 2002, 12:20 PM

I think i found some DVD preorder site that had it tho i dont remember right now, some search on google might be good.

Ironchicken · #2 August 1st, 2002, 02:59 PM

B5 in November.

JMS let slip a while ago that he had been employed to narate the extras.

I do not know of any firm info on release though.

oleg · #3 August 1st, 2002, 04:11 PM

Any information whether B5:legends of rangeres series have been canceled or not ?

Atrocities · #4 August 1st, 2002, 07:21 PM

OK, I just got some info from the Warner Bro's Babylon 5 forum.

Quote:

The entire first season is scheduled to be released in a 6-disc boxed set this fall. October 14th in the UK, November 5th in the U.S. Not confirmed yet but Australian sites are reporting a tentative date of November 1st in region 4. The MSRP is $100 USD and most places seem to be selling it for around $80 USD or the equivalent. JMS has recorded commentary tracks for "Signs and Portents" and "Chyrsalis" an on-camera introduction to the series, and an on-camera interview for the set. Several other cast and crew members have also recorded new on-camera interviews, and there are expected to be a few more extras that haven't been announced yet.

Val · #5 August 1st, 2002, 10:40 PM

From what I heard on the Boards and from Sci-Fi channel, Legends of the Rangers is not going to be produced right now, Sci-Fi has put their $ into Farscape and Stargate and didn't need another space show and the rating weren't good due to competition with some major football game that same night. They have reshowed it with some good Ratings, so it isn't totally out of the realm of what's possible, maybe if the DVD sales are good they will do something.

I'm actually working on fixing up the Shadow set to be more Shadow specific, unless someone else wants to do it - any takers

Would be nice to get the shows on DVD for some captures for events and race pics.

Atrocities · #6 August 2nd, 2002, 12:01 AM

Stargate is produced by Showtime. They signed a five year agreement. Oh wait... It has already been five years. ****.

gregebowman · #7 August 2nd, 2002, 02:41 AM

I haven't been watching SG-1 too much, especially after I found out that due to whatever arrangement that Showtime did to get that series, the creators couldn't do a planned trilogy of films. They wanted to to 2 more films but couldn't. I'd have rather seen the movies than the series. I think the 2 other stories were written out as novels, but I haven't read them. Can't wait to get my hands on the B5 DVD set, even though I might have to scrounge up the dough for that set. What with Star Trek TNG and X-Files box sets out there, it's hard for a cash strapped sci-fi fan to get everything all at once.