Firefly Time Line - There Will Be A Quiz

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Friday, May 27, 2011 12:13 PM

So that we do not forget, I am re-posting this message from 2006.
Reference http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc/message/5634?var=1
www.fireflymovie.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1654&sid=fa09d88961d10
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www.serenitymovie.org/browncoats/forums/viewtopic.php?t=998

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Jeremy
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Joined: 29 Dec 2005
Posts: 14
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: Real world timeline (updated)
Hi all, here's a sneak preview of the interactive timeline:

We're putting the finishing touches on some of the DVD special features for our documentary Done The Impossible and I've typed up a real-world timeline, I've updated it with a bunch of information from various fans. Please look this timeline over and see if you see any mistakes or blatantly missing events. (Due to length, there are many events I chose to not include, but hopefully these are some of the most important highlights. I also plan to flesh out many of the details, I just wanted to get the events down.)

Firefly Fan Events Timeline for the Interactive Timeline

December 2001 - Gail Berman, the newly appointed Fox Broadcasting TV president, orders 13 episodes of Firefly, part of a $20 million deal with Joss. Gail was an executive producer on Buffy and was the person who originally convinced Joss to create a TV show out of Buffy. Gail and Joss were good friends at the time.

January 2002 - Fox gives Mutant Enemy a record breaking $10 million to create the pilot. Pre-production starts on Firefly.

February - March 2002 - Firefly cast announced.

February 2002 - First known Firefly Fan site: www.fireflyfans.net goes live.

March 12, 2002 - Actress originally hired to play Inara, Rebecca Gayheart, is fired. Morena Baccarin is hired in her place a few days later and starts filming the day after her audition.

March 20, 2002 - Firefly begins it's first day of shooting with the full cast.

May 3, 2002 - Fox TV rejects original 2 hour pilot 'Serenity', claiming it was too slow and too long. Somehow forgetting they originally ordered and paid for a two hour pilot. Joss and Tim Minear scramble to create a 'new' pilot 'The Train Job'. While simultaneously addressing all feedback on 'Serenity'. TV network never looks at updated 'Serenity'. This is considered by many to be strike one for the show.

May 15, 2002 - Fox TV announces Firefly will be delayed till Spring 2003 and Dark Angel will return for season 3 in Fall 2002

May 16, 2002 - [Yes, the very next day] Fox formally announces Firefly at the 2002 TV "upfronts." However, very cheap to produce reality TV makes a big showing across the board at the 2002 upfronts. Firefly will replace Dark Angel in it's Friday night timeslot, Dark Angel is canceled (and many a Firefly-hater is born). Friday night is often called the "death slot," this was strike two for the show.

May 24, 2002 - Official Fox Firefly website goes live, including it's message board, now known as the "OB" or original board. At the time of this publishing, millions of messages have been exchanged on 'the OB' and it remains the most popular Fox TV message board, despite the fact that Fox doesn't even link to it anymore.
[Anybody know where this site is archived, internet archive is incomplete?]

Summer 2002 - Fox starts airing a few ads for Firefly. It's already obvious that Fox doesn't 'get' the show. It airs a truly horrible teaser featuring the song "Walking on the Sun" by Smash Mouth. Insiders now say that Sandy Grushow, Chairman of Fox Television Entertainment Group, didn't get the show and wanted to kill it as quickly as possible. Poor marketing was a good start.

August 3, 2002 - Comic Con: Fox shows segments from Firefly to the public for the first time.

September 8, 2002 - Firefly is snubbed by Fox Executive, Gail Berman, she talks about all of the other new Fox shows in an interview for Ac

LWAVES

Friday, May 27, 2011 3:22 PM

Have you played Portal by any chance?

That's an informative timeline with a lot of details I either didn't know about or didn't have enough details.
Thanks for posting it.

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