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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Thoughtcancer: [QB] This is what Warren Ellis (if you don't know who he is, I'm not going to tell you here, except to say he writes funny books) had to say about it: Two events of note in genre TV this week. WITCHBLADE, based on the Top Cow comics series, got shitcanned by TNT in the States, despite apparently healthy ratings but in the face of star Yancy Butler's treatment for alcoholism. I've only seen a bit of the pilot, but more than one wag in the TV/film business has suggested to me that, if they had to work with those scripts, they'd be drinking too. It'll be on reruns here in Britain soon enough, and I'll probably take a look at it then. And sci-fi leatherqueen BLAKES SEVEN/ BUCK ROGERS rip FARSCAPE -- in space, no-one can hear you speak with an Australian accent -- has evidently also been shitcanned, and confusion seems to reign as to why. I've seen several episodes, and it's a wildly uneven piece of work. It has some good gags, some good dialogue, and some hard-working actors, but it's eaten up by its own continuity and the usual mediocre tangle of soap-opera elements to the point where later episodes are unintelligible. That sort of situation means that by season three or four you're writing for the fans, and the series concept doesn't allow for closure. If the crew aren't running away from bastards any more, there's no series. This does presumably free up some money at Sci-Fi Channel to do something new. They've shown signs of serious ambition of late - their massive DUNE adaptation was, I think, a case of their reach exceeding their grasp, but it was nice to see them try. It'd be good to see them try either more novels-for-television or a serial with an more extensible concept. It must be tempting to go back to the old saw and launch a new spaceship drama, but cable provides a kind of aesthetic protection, the same environment that allows a SOPRANOS or a Larry Gelbart movie at HBO, and I'd really like to see them use it. -- W [/QB][/QUOTE]
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