Paramount wanted the show to end after S4. Akiva & Co. weren't anticipating it.
That’s what I thought.
Paramount wanted the show to end after S4. Akiva & Co. weren't anticipating it.
Not them, CBS. They said "we want to cancel the show". Akiva and Henry asked for a fifth season of six episodes and CBS said okay.If they were planning to end, and not cancel, the show at the end of season 4, why did they need 6 more episodes?
Not them, CBS. They said "we want to cancel the show". Akiva and Henry asked for a fifth season of six episodes and CBS said okay.
Yeah, I missed her post. I didn't see it until after I responded.Yes, @Danja made that clear.
…maybe, but I can’t help feeling that might feel a bit too fan-video, you know? Like the Trek equivalent of some 90s BBV thing. (Not that I hated BBV’s work.)I honestly think Star Trek should test the waters with a "where are they now" anthology show, but with the understanding it will be a low-budget outing only catering to hardcore Trekkies.
You'd need to very much minimize the use of custom sets - which likely means not having a ship-based show on a bridge or something. But you could have "away missions" filmed in/around Toronto, for example, or go the TOS route and find some excuse to otherwise use standing sets on a backlot.
Most of what die-hard fans want is just to see the characters interact and hear what they're doing now, which is pretty cheap compared to action or VFX.
…maybe, but I can’t help feeling that might feel a bit too fan-video, you know? Like the Trek equivalent of some 90s BBV thing. (Not that I hated BBV’s work.)
Sorry! BBV Productions was, and apparently still is, a company that made a bunch of low budget, very frequently Doctor Who-related audios and videos in the 90s — these were often productions where they, say, got the rights to make something “From the World of Doctor Who” starring the Sontarans or whoever, or else were we’re-not-quite-calling-them-Doctor-Who stories starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Alfred (for example), and also original stuff that still often (usually?) featured actors from DW in new roles. A good example of this would be the series The Stranger, which starred Colin Baker and started off seeming to be DW-with-the-names-changed before morphing into something rather different, if still in the same wheelhouse.BBV = ?????
! BBV Productions was, and apparently still is, a company that made a bunch of low budget, very frequently Doctor Who-related audios and videos in the 90s — these were often productions where they, say, got the rights to make something “From the World of Doctor Who” starring the Sontarans or whoever, or else were we’re-not-quite-calling-them-Doctor-Who stories starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Alfred (for example), and also original stuff that still often (usually?) featured actors from DW in new roles. A good example of this would be the series The Stranger, which starred Colin Baker and started off seeming to be DW-with-the-names-changed before morphing into something rather different, if still in the same wheelhouse.
I view this stuff in a matter of degrees. Many cancellations occur with neither any form of forewarning, nor the opportunity to go back and adjust anything. That’s the norm.
The 90s La Femme Nikita was cancelled, in pretty much exactly the same way SNW was.
Blake’s 7, despite having what now seems an emphatic and thematically appropriate ending, was cancelled — the final episode apparently wasn’t intended to be.
Other than Jack, how many would make the transition to series?
Yeah, I remember. And in a move that feels familiar, it was a short wrapup season — by the standards of the day. One might might look up Season 5 and object that this “short” season was eight episodes, as long as or longer than many regular seasons today; but that was coming after a 22-episode Season Four, as was pretty standard for a season length back then.That was a rollercoaster.
USA Network cancelled it abruptly.
The fans launched a campaign. They sent in hundreds upon thousands of sunglasses -- Nikita collected sunglasses -- to the network asking for another season (they got another season to wrap up the storyline).
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