Andrew Swallow wrote to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Subject: Show   
   Babylon 5 on TV   
      
    AS> On September 2, 2013 JMS wrote on his Facebook channel [quote]   
    AS> To the online backinh and forthing...some hard facts. Because   
    AS> Babylon 5 isn't on the air in the US anywhere, it's impossible for   
    AS> the show to add new viewers except one at a time, friend to friend,   
    AS> or if you've heard about it enough to want to shell out the money   
    AS> for the DVDs. Casual viewers can't stumble across it while channel   
    AS> surfing. (As we all know, after Trek was canceled for poor ratings,   
    AS> it found its audience in syndication.) So in answer to the photo   
    AS> below, either WB has to be convinced to release the show somewhere,   
    AS> or a network like Syfy or Chiller or another along those lines has   
    AS> to be prompted to pick it up. If not, quite honestly, and without   
    AS> any way to add new viewers, the show will eventually slide into   
    AS> obscurity. This ain't something I can do, or even directly   
    AS> participate in. It's up to the fans now. [/quote]   
      
      
   I don't belong to them, but isn't Babylon 5 and Crusade available from   
   NETFLIX?   
      
      
   I went for the DVDs so I can watch it whenever I want to.  Currently a   
   friend of mine and I am watching DS9 which also has never been picked up   
   for sundication.  We are up to season 4 disc 5 and he has discs 6 and   
   7 now to watch.  Then he gives them to me I watch them and send them   
   back and two more come.  I expect that at the speed he gets them and   
   we watch them we'll finish the whole 7 years by the by the end of the   
   year.   
      
   After that it will be time for me to pick up B5 and watch it through again,   
   (I have all the years plus the movies, plus the Lost Tales).  My friend   
   wants to watch B5 so I'll lend him my set to go through.   
      
   After that we may do Crusade from NETFIX but that's a quickie since it   
   only ran one season, (and I thought was not as good as B5).   
      
   TOS, TNG, VOY and Enterprise all run on TV somewhere so we can look at   
   that when we want.   
      
   I don't watch B5, then watch it again and again ECT.  I put it down for   
   some time then go though it again and let it rest.  This will be about   
   the fourth time I've been fully though the DVDs since it went off TV.   
      
                                                                           
    -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-   
      
   Works for me!   
      
   Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 14-Nov-2013 at 9:46.   
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   .!. "Drop the guy with the devil ears." -- NBC, June, 1965.   
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