Serenity the Sequel or TV show?
POSTED BY: TragicStory
UPDATED: Monday, April 12, 2004 20:18
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Originally posted by embers:
are we sure Fox owns the rights to a Firefly TV show? I thought that when a network cancels a show this quickly they lose rights and the show belongs to the original producers...
of course I guess these things can differ a lot from one contract to the next..
The FOX network (a.k.a. Fox Broadcasting Company, or FBC) originally aired Firefly. Twentieth Century Fox [Television] was the production studio for the series. FOX and Twentieth are sister companies, both owned by Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp, but they do not work together. A Twentieth show can air on any network, and FOX can air shows from any studio. When you bought your Firefly DVD's, you were supporting Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, not the FOX network.
FOX the network no longer has rights to air the series. Fox the studio does own the episodes. I don't know if Fox would own a return to the series, which could technically count as a different series; I'm not sure how that works.
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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
The story Joss and co came up with was due to run for 5+ years on TV (or else why bother).
Have you ever seen any of Ken Finkleman's TV series. "More Tears," "Foolish Heart," and "Foreign Objects" all only had 6 half-hour episodes each, and were only meant to. Just because something's intended to have a shorter run doesn't mean it's crap. Do you hate miniseries, too?
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Originally posted by InvisibleGreen:Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
are we sure Fox owns the rights to a Firefly TV show? I thought that when a network cancels a show this quickly they lose rights and the show belongs to the original producers...
of course I guess these things can differ a lot from one contract to the next..
The FOX network (a.k.a. Fox Broadcasting Company, or FBC) originally aired Firefly. Twentieth Century Fox [Television] was the production studio for the series. FOX and Twentieth are sister companies, both owned by Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp, but they do not work together. A Twentieth show can air on any network, and FOX can air shows from any studio. When you bought your Firefly DVD's, you were supporting Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, not the FOX network.
FOX the network no longer has rights to air the series. Fox the studio does own the episodes. I don't know if Fox would own a return to the series, which could technically count as a different series; I'm not sure how that works.
As I understand it, Fox still has an exclusive deal with Mutant Enemy on any TV productions. Universal's deal is just for movies.
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Originally posted by TragicStory:
Now two questions:
Anyone know of a series that was turned into a movie and then ressurected as a series?
Now the closest anology to Firefly would be Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Joss first did the movie with Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry that flopped big time and then revamped the show to become the best show on TV (IMO). Now Joss is trying to a reverse Buffy with Firefly.
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...the WB's strategy for revamping their network.
"The WB's strategy for de-vamping their network", surely?
(oh I wish I had something interesting to say... :>)
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Where do you find out who owns what licenses?
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as to ownership of Firefly, I think this has been explained over and over. Fox, the production company, owns Firefly. Fox, the television network, does not. It's that simple. You can watch any network on tv and see that Fox production company logo at the end, it's not tied to the Fox television network.
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*note: by tied i mean compeltely tied to. there is a connection, both owned by the same umbrella company, but no more than that.
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Originally posted by InvisibleGreen:
Have you ever seen any of Ken Finkleman's TV series. "More Tears," "Foolish Heart," and "Foreign Objects" all only had 6 half-hour episodes each, and were only meant to. Just because something's intended to have a shorter run doesn't mean it's crap. Do you hate miniseries, too?
Wow. Misguided anger much?
Maybe I missed the meeting, but Firefly wasn't designed as a mini or maxi series, nor as a "very special television event" as I believe TNT labelled Crusade. It was designed as an ongoing series, and by definition, to last 5 years or more.
Don't believe my post suggested anything like you read into it - if it did, mea culpa. I like a good mini-series - can't wait for Farscape.
"I threw up on your bed"
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Originally posted by pudor:Quote:
...the WB's strategy for revamping their network.
"The WB's strategy for de-vamping their network", surely?
(oh I wish I had something interesting to say... :>)
Actually, "re-vamping" is more accurate, with The WB's new "Dark Shadows series premiering in the fall.
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Originally posted by Misguided By Voices:
Wow. Misguided anger much?
Maybe I missed the meeting, but Firefly wasn't designed as a mini or maxi series, nor as a "very special television event" as I believe TNT labelled Crusade. It was designed as an ongoing series, and by definition, to last 5 years or more.
Don't believe my post suggested anything like you read into it - if it did, mea culpa. I like a good mini-series - can't wait for Farscape.
"I threw up on your bed"
Sorry if I seemed angry. I know that "Firefly" was intended to run more than 15 episodes. And I "Crusade" was a full series, meant to run longer than 13 episodes. There are even three unfilmed "Crusade" scripts.
"Crusade" and "Firefly" actually have a lot of simularities. "Crusade" was shown pretty much completely out of order by TNT, like FOX's airing the pilot last, and both series have a couple of unfilmed scripts.
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