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>, KalElFan
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> wrote:
> "Garondo Marondo" <Classic.Mr.Hole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
I found this just now. Even the fanatics at
http://savejourneyman.net/2008/04/02/the-news-we-have-been-dreading/
who have been campaigning past the point of sanity for a Journeyman
pickup, have given up. Their reasons are stated at the link, but they
include Falls's departure and a complete lack of interest by either NBC
or Fox in reviving the show. It seems convincing to me.
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