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It's the same we've had from the start. Some say yes, some say
no, and the press usually reports the no's because they're more
interesting than the yes's.

jms

Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com> asks:
> Oh, btw, will TNT also show the "The Gathering"?

Yes, TNT will show the pilot movie. The theory is to do the
prequel first, then the pilot, then the series through one run at
least, then the second original TV movie to freshen the cycle, then
onward.

jms

Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
> Had you or anyone else thought about getting TNT to fund the re-
> editing of that movie the way you originally wanted it?

We've talked with them about it, and there's still nothing set
yet. We think we may be able to get this reworked to some extent, at
least re-edited, with some new CG, but it isn't final yet.

jms

Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
> Do you have all the scenes you shot for the piolit on disk
> somehwere? One other thing I just thought of, how long do you keep
> the shots from the episodes on disk?

We don't keep them on disk after we finish editing; in the case
of the pilot we're redigitizing dailies to go in and make our changes.

jms

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TNT will begin showing B5 after it's finished.

Crusade is in development, and will take place within the B5
universe, but with a distinctly different plot.

jms

SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
> Does that mean you are definitely rediting the pilot or that's
> what you'll do if you get the go-ahead?

We've got a definite maybe, but we can't wait until the last
moment to begin digitizing stuff.

jms

Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything you shoot is stored
> digitally for final mixing and the CGI effects to be added,
> right? So, what are dailies and how are the stored?
> And what happens to the data after the episode is sent off?

Dailies are the actual film, developed overnight and
transferred to video. The videotapes are then digitized, and dropped
into the editing machines. Once editing is finished, the main disks
containing the digitized dailies are wiped; we only keep the list of
shots and frame counts for the supercomputer to use in assembling the
film.

jms

Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
> Does that mean UPN will not be showing reruns?

UPN has nothing to do with B5.

jms