Article on CNN.com about 'Continuing Mission'

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Prooth and co-executive producer Andy Tyrer plan to serve up their pilot episode "Ghost Ship" on Christmas Day, after 10 weeks of painstaking production via the Internet from the UK and five U.S. states.

Tyrer comes to the project after producing "WhoUniverse," a podcast about the long-running BBC TV series "Doctor Who," and Prooth after working on the technology podcast "Global Geek."

"The Continuing Mission" centers on the adventures of the USS Montana, a starship similar to Kirk's famous USS Enterprise of the original 1960s TV series.

Despite Prooth's distractions from his day job at a printing shop and Tyrer's gig as an IT consultant, they've produced a slick, professional-quality drama in a genre that's threatening to give mainstream TV studios a run for their money.

To prove the point, an online "Star Trek" video series called "New Voyages" shocked Hollywood this fall by winning TV Guide's 2007 Online Video Award for best sci-fi Webisode -- defeating Sci Fi Channel's better-funded "Battlestar Galactica."

"I think it shows what can be done on a limited budget on the Internet," said "Battlestar Galactica" producer/writer Ronald D. Moore. "The bar to distribution is much lower than it was in the past. People can, on their own, start doing programming out there that is of a quality that approaches what we can do on air -- not maybe at the moment, but if you compare those 'New Voyages' episodes to the original series, they're in the ballpark with what the original series was able to do."

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I don't know if there's been any info on this production posted here in the past (though I think I have read about it here), but it sounds like it will be quite a Christmas!

 

[TRP]

Nice nod to New Voyages there as well . . .

 

[USS Intrepid]

No mention of Section 31 Files or any of the the other established audio series though? Why snub those and feature something that hasn't even been released yet?

 

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Good question.

I quite enjoyed (and still do) The Section 31 Files.

 

[ozgood1701]

It is to bad that a lot of the other established Pod cast dramas did not get mentioned but from this fan productions are really starting to get noticed. Fan now who never knew about New Voyages may now start viewing them. After that they may discover some of the other great productions out there like Intrepid, Hidden Frontiers or Exeter.
Just because a productions name did not make it in the atrical will not mean it will go undiscovered.
Tv Guide got a positive word out and that is a good thing for everyone.