David wrote:
> from the hollywood re****ter
>
> 'Virtuality' takes off at Fox
> By Nellie Andreeva
>
> Fox has given the green light to "Virtuality," a two-hour back-door
> pilot from "Battlestar Galactica" mastermind Ronald D. Moore.
>
> The sci-fi project, from Universal Media Studios and producers Gail
> Berman and Lloyd Braun, is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first
> star****p. It revolves around its crew of 12 astronauts on a 10-year
> journey to explore a distant solar system. To help them endure the
> long trip and keep their minds occupied, NASA has equipped the ****p
> with advanced virtual-reality modules, allowing the crew members to
> assume adventurous identities and go to any place they want. The plan
> works flawlessly until a mysterious "bug" is found in the system.
>
> "It's very much about what's fantasy and what's reality; what we do to
> escape our lives and what actually institutes our lives; are these
> things very different," UMS president Katherine Pope said.
>
> "Virtuality" is a brainchild of Braun, who shaped up the idea with
> Berman, his producing partner at BermanBraun.
>
> The two approached several writers, including Moore, who sparked to
> the premise and quickly developed it into what became the concept for
> "Virtuality." He brought in with him "Battlestar" writer-producer
> Michael Taylor. The two penned the script and are exec producing the
> project with Berman and Braun.
>
> Under BermanBraun's first-look deal with NBC Universal, "Virtuality"
> was pitched to UMS and NBC. UMS, which produces "Battlestar," quickly
> came on board. After NBC passed on the project, considered to be too
> sci-fi for the network, it was taken to Fox.
And they didn't take it to The Sci-Fi Channel?
> "For all the times we've read that a project has a 'unique point of
> view,' it rarely applies," Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly
> said. "This time it does ... in spades."
Maybe he never saw TNG.
> In Fox and UMS, "we are confident that 'Virtuality' is in the right
> hands," Berman and Braun said.
LOL Silly, silly people.
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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls? They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.
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