"Garondo Marondo" <Classic.Mr.Hole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Apr 3, 4:36 pm, "KalElFan" <kalel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> One of the Save Journeyman sites re****ted yesterday that Kevin Falls
has
>> signed a development deal with another company, presumably one of the
>> major studios but I can't find anything online as to which one.
>>
>> What I found most curious was the site took this news as definitively
>> ruling out any possibility of Journeyman continuing. That's bizarre
>> logic, because NBC didn't pick it up and the producers, Fox, had
>> terminated Kevin Falls' deal under the force majeur clause during the
>> strike. That was back in January.
>>
>> So if anything, the doom and gloom on these sites should have been
>> back in January, not now. At least now, if Falls has found a new home,
>> there's the possibility that his new studio might buy out Fox's
interest
>> in
>> Journeyman the way Universal bought out Fox's Firefly and did the
>> Serenity movie. Maybe Falls has told these sites that he or his new
>> studio have no interest, but that's not the rationale the site is
giving.
>> What did they think? That Falls could finance production of more
>> Journeyman in some form himself? Unless they have more information,
>> there's no way that Falls getting a new deal -- that fact alone -- can
>> be bad news for Journeyman. Yet they're treating it that way.
>
> I knew it was done back in December, it sucks, it was my favorite new
> show but I know its never coming back...
Discussions like this are littered with people claiming a show is done,
but
there seem to be more and more examples of that not being the case. It
may reflect the 300-channel universe and need for programming, but a
show like Friday Night Lights makes a deal with DirecTV, or Scrubs
gets picked up, and another CBS show (a comedy I can't recall which
one) is ready to get picked up if CBS doesn't renew it. Meanwhile the
Jericho showrunner said before CBS's cancellation that the possibility
of a new home was still there. These are just very recent examples and
there are several past ones.
In any case, my post was mainly questioning the doom and gloom over
Kevin Falls signing a new deal, with Sony I learned from a search just
now. Apparently Sony has hired several TV showrunners recently, and
they'd certainly have the resources and worldwide marketing clout and
experience in foreign sales and syndication to make Fox an offer and
get Journeyman going again if they and Falls wanted to.
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