On September 2, 2013 JMS wrote on his Facebook channel
[quote]
To the online backinh and forthing...some hard facts. Because Babylon 5
isn't on the air in the US anywhere, it's impossible for the show to add
new viewers except one at a time, friend to friend, or if you've heard
about it enough to want to shell out the money for the DVDs. Casual
viewers can't stumble across it while channel surfing. (As we all know,
after Trek was canceled for poor ratings, it found its audience in syndication.) So in answer to the photo below, either WB has to be
convinced to release the show somewhere, or a network like Syfy or
Chiller or another along those lines has to be prompted to pick it up.
If not, quite honestly, and without any way to add new viewers, the show
will eventually slide into obscurity. This ain't something I can do, or
even directly participate in. It's up to the fans now.
[/quote]

On Twitter people are using #FreeBabylon5

Andrew Swallow
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On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:37:46 PM UTC-4, Andrew Swallow wrote:

On September 2, 2013 JMS wrote on his Facebook channel

[quote]

To the online backinh and forthing...some hard facts. Because Babylon 5

isn't on the air in the US anywhere, it's impossible for the show to add

new viewers except one at a time, friend to friend, or if you've heard

about it enough to want to shell out the money for the DVDs. Casual

viewers can't stumble across it while channel surfing. (As we all know,

after Trek was canceled for poor ratings, it found its audience in

syndication.) So in answer to the photo below, either WB has to be

convinced to release the show somewhere, or a network like Syfy or

Chiller or another along those lines has to be prompted to pick it up.

If not, quite honestly, and without any way to add new viewers, the show

will eventually slide into obscurity. This ain't something I can do, or

even directly participate in. It's up to the fans now.

[/quote]

On Twitter people are using #FreeBabylon5

Andrew Swallow

Will do. It would seem a natural for SyFy or and would be competitor.
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Once Upon A Time,
David E. Powell wrote:

It would seem a natural for SyFy or and would be competitor.

With it being regularly bashed on mega-hit The Big Bang Theory, I seriously doubt Babylon 5 will ever be able to generate enough new fans with which to revive it in syndication. Millions of people are hearing bad things about
the show. People who have seen it know that Sheldon has his head up his ass, but those who haven't will probably be disinclined to question his judgment, and take it as a given that Babylon 5 "fails as drama, science fiction and is hopelessly derivative."



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Captain Infinity
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On 12/10/2013 04:26, Captain Infinity wrote:

Once Upon A Time,
David E. Powell wrote:

It would seem a natural for SyFy or and would be competitor.

With it being regularly bashed on mega-hit The Big Bang Theory, I seriously doubt Babylon 5 will ever be able to generate enough new fans with which to revive it in syndication. Millions of people are hearing bad things about the show. People who have seen it know that Sheldon has his head up his ass, but those who haven't will probably be disinclined to question his judgment, and take it as a given that Babylon 5 "fails as drama, science fiction and is hopelessly derivative."

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Captain Infinity

There is an old rule in Hollywood - there is no such thing as bad publicity.

This primary applies to actor's sex lives, we will see if it applies to
TV programmes.

Andrew Swallow
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On 10/11/2013 10:26 PM, Captain Infinity wrote:

Once Upon A Time,
David E. Powell wrote:

It would seem a natural for SyFy or and would be competitor.

With it being regularly bashed on mega-hit The Big Bang Theory, I seriously doubt Babylon 5 will ever be able to generate enough new fans with which to revive it in syndication. Millions of people are hearing bad things about the show. People who have seen it know that Sheldon has his head up his ass, but those who haven't will probably be disinclined to question his judgment, and take it as a given that Babylon 5 "fails as drama, science fiction and is hopelessly derivative."

But Sheldon is the only one that doesn't like it, IIRC. Leonard does
for sure. That alone might draw people to see who's right.
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Andrew Swallow wrote to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Subject: Show
Babylon 5 on TV

On September 2, 2013 JMS wrote on his Facebook channel [quote]
To the online backinh and forthing...some hard facts. Because
Babylon 5 isn't on the air in the US anywhere, it's impossible for
the show to add new viewers except one at a time, friend to friend,
or if you've heard about it enough to want to shell out the money
for the DVDs. Casual viewers can't stumble across it while channel surfing. (As we all know, after Trek was canceled for poor ratings,
it found its audience in syndication.) So in answer to the photo
below, either WB has to be convinced to release the show somewhere,
or a network like Syfy or Chiller or another along those lines has
to be prompted to pick it up. If not, quite honestly, and without
any way to add new viewers, the show will eventually slide into
obscurity. This ain't something I can do, or even directly
participate in. It's up to the fans now. [/quote]

I don't belong to them, but isn't Babylon 5 and Crusade available from
NETFLIX?


I went for the DVDs so I can watch it whenever I want to. Currently a
friend of mine and I am watching DS9 which also has never been picked up
for sundication. We are up to season 4 disc 5 and he has discs 6 and
7 now to watch. Then he gives them to me I watch them and send them
back and two more come. I expect that at the speed he gets them and
we watch them we'll finish the whole 7 years by the by the end of the
year.

After that it will be time for me to pick up B5 and watch it through again,
(I have all the years plus the movies, plus the Lost Tales). My friend
wants to watch B5 so I'll lend him my set to go through.

After that we may do Crusade from NETFIX but that's a quickie since it
only ran one season, (and I thought was not as good as B5).

TOS, TNG, VOY and Enterprise all run on TV somewhere so we can look at
that when we want.

I don't watch B5, then watch it again and again ECT. I put it down for
some time then go though it again and let it rest. This will be about
the fourth time I've been fully though the DVDs since it went off TV.

Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

Works for me!

Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 14-Nov-2013 at 9:46.
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