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thewayneA very seminal science fiction series from the '90s was removed from Tubi and is now available on YouTube starting February 10 this year. They are releasing an episode a week from the beginning, encouraging people to view it at a leisurely pace just like when it originally aired.
With 110 episodes aired, it'll take two years to be fully released. I really enjoyed this show and might re-watch it. I don't know that I've seen the entire series, I think I've seen most of it. LOVE Walter Koenig's character!
The one thing that I wish the article mentioned was whether or not these are the remastered editions. I would expect they are, but who knows. I don't have time to be digging into YouTube right now.
And an interesting trivia fact about the show - which I've mentioned before within the last year - was that all of the space and battle effects were rendered on Amigas! I think that's pretty cool. Not the first use of CGI, but perhaps the first television use of CGI rendered on computers that could pretty much be bought by anyone!
https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
In sad news, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, tentatively titled Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, is currently dead. The rights are still held by Hulu, so there's always a possibility that they might get a shot at another pilot.
One of the main reasons for its failure to fly: the Hulu executive WAS NOT A FAN OF THE SHOW AND NEVER WATCHED IT. Also, it's possible that Hulu was expecting Sarah Michelle Geller to be the star of the remake and they didn't realize that it was to launch a new generation of scoobies with Buffy putting in occasional cameos. False expectations plus a hostile exec in charge = DOOOOOOM.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/buffy-reboot-dead-why-hulu-killed-sarah-michelle-gellar-chloe-zhao-series/ar-AA1YVIZX
In the good news department, Firefly is (theoretically) returning to our TVs again! Nathan Fillion's production company is producing an animated series: the first script is complete, they have the blessing of Disney (the rights holder), and the ENTIRE crew is on board with it! With one exception. The character Shephard Book will be there, but the actor has to be recast as the original actor, Ron Glass, passed away over a decade ago.
This series will be set between the end of the original and the Serenity movie.
Joss Whedon has no involvement in this production, nor did he have involvement in the Buffy relaunch.
As of the Parade's article writing, about two weeks ago, the series was being shopped around for a network home.
Shiny!
https://parade.com/news/firefly-coming-back-as-animated-series
With 110 episodes aired, it'll take two years to be fully released. I really enjoyed this show and might re-watch it. I don't know that I've seen the entire series, I think I've seen most of it. LOVE Walter Koenig's character!
The one thing that I wish the article mentioned was whether or not these are the remastered editions. I would expect they are, but who knows. I don't have time to be digging into YouTube right now.
And an interesting trivia fact about the show - which I've mentioned before within the last year - was that all of the space and battle effects were rendered on Amigas! I think that's pretty cool. Not the first use of CGI, but perhaps the first television use of CGI rendered on computers that could pretty much be bought by anyone!
https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/
In sad news, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, tentatively titled Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, is currently dead. The rights are still held by Hulu, so there's always a possibility that they might get a shot at another pilot.
One of the main reasons for its failure to fly: the Hulu executive WAS NOT A FAN OF THE SHOW AND NEVER WATCHED IT. Also, it's possible that Hulu was expecting Sarah Michelle Geller to be the star of the remake and they didn't realize that it was to launch a new generation of scoobies with Buffy putting in occasional cameos. False expectations plus a hostile exec in charge = DOOOOOOM.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/buffy-reboot-dead-why-hulu-killed-sarah-michelle-gellar-chloe-zhao-series/ar-AA1YVIZX
In the good news department, Firefly is (theoretically) returning to our TVs again! Nathan Fillion's production company is producing an animated series: the first script is complete, they have the blessing of Disney (the rights holder), and the ENTIRE crew is on board with it! With one exception. The character Shephard Book will be there, but the actor has to be recast as the original actor, Ron Glass, passed away over a decade ago.
This series will be set between the end of the original and the Serenity movie.
Joss Whedon has no involvement in this production, nor did he have involvement in the Buffy relaunch.
As of the Parade's article writing, about two weeks ago, the series was being shopped around for a network home.
Shiny!
https://parade.com/news/firefly-coming-back-as-animated-series
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Date: 2026-04-01 03:22 pm (UTC)That's what Buffy called all the people who hung around her, the scoobies.
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Date: 2026-04-01 04:57 pm (UTC)[grins] It would certainly be Xander or Willow.
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Date: 2026-04-01 03:28 pm (UTC)Sorry, brain dead. Not picking up a name from this.
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Date: 2026-04-02 03:49 am (UTC)Interesting. I didn't know he was involved in that. I just pulled up his Wikipedia page and read about it.
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Date: 2026-04-01 01:47 pm (UTC)First the Oscars and now Babylon 5? :o
Disney gave the okay for Firefly, but haven't taken the airing rights? :o
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2026-04-01 03:24 pm (UTC)Outside of Marvel and Star Wars, Disney doesn't seem to be hugely interested in science fiction (IMO).
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Date: 2026-04-01 04:57 pm (UTC)Yeah, they'll still probably get a piece of it. Which sickens me.
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Date: 2026-04-01 02:26 pm (UTC)I bought the latest box set of B5 on blu ray when it came out a little while back. They finally scaled the CGI elements properly and it looks so much better than the earlier DVD releases.
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Date: 2026-04-01 03:27 pm (UTC)One thing that I really like about the series was how tightly Straczinski maintained script control/quality throughout. IIRC, the network kept jerking him back and forth on whether there'd be a fifth and final season, so he tried to wrap up everything at the end of S4, then when S5 happened he was kind of at loose ends.
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Date: 2026-04-01 09:20 pm (UTC)Re: Babylon 5
Date: 2026-04-01 09:44 pm (UTC)Reboot of Babylon 5? I hadn't heard of that, though they did an animated film that released in '23. I haven't seen that, or hardly any of the post-series material.
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Date: 2026-04-02 05:13 am (UTC)But I also found this channel which has what looks like the original formats for free viewing (with ads of course.) There's a bunch of non-B5 videos as well, so whoever looks will likely need to do a search on the video page.
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There's at least a few videos. I don't know if that's what your article was supposed to link to; since I just got a "this video is private" message when I clicked it.
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Date: 2026-04-03 04:36 pm (UTC)A Firefly animation series seems like being able to tell the stories they wanted to, so it could be good, but also, the things that have Joss's heritage are all kind of sus, even if Joss isn't directly involved with them.