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Farscape to enter syndication Fall 2005!

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:59 AM

SABACEANBABE


From an article in Variety magazine:

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Posted: Tue., Nov. 16, 2004, 10:00pm PT

'Farscape' plots first trek into syndication
Most expensive cabler series enters reruns

By JOHN DEMPSEY

Debmar Studios is offering the sci-fi series 'Farscape' for weekend play in fall 2005.

"Farscape," which ran for 88 episodes on the Sci Fi Channel from 1999 to 2003, is blasting off into rerun syndication for the first time.
Debmar Studios, headed by Mort Marcus and his partner Ira Bernstein, has bought the domestic rights to "Farscape" and is offering the series to TV stations for weekend play in fall 2005. Stations won't pay cash but will set aside seven minutes within each hour for Debmar to sell to national advertisers.

"Farscape" was one of the most expensive cable-original series ever mounted, filmed in New Zealand by Jim Henson Prods. and Hallmark Entertainment at a cost about $2 million an episode.

Debmar calculated the release date of September carefully, counting on lots of openings in stations' weekend schedules. Tribune Entertainment, the most active producer of syndicated sci-fi series ("Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda," "Mutant X"), has no new ones on the drawing board, and three Twentieth TV off-network shows -- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel""Angel" and "The X-Files""The X-Files" -- are slated to disappear from weekend syndication following the 2004-05 season.

"Farscape" "generated a strong following on the Sci Fi Channel," said Bill Carroll, VP and director of programming for Katz TV, the reprep firm. "That usually translates into lots of male viewers when the show goes into syndication."

Debmar was energized by the average of 1.9 million viewers who tuned in to the four-hour concluding "Farscape" movie on the Sci Fi Channel over two nights last month (Oct. 17 and 18). But Debmar's contract with Henson and Hallmark covers only the 88 episodes, not the four-hour finale.
Date in print: Wed., Nov. 17, 2004, Los Angeles



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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:50 AM

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But Farscape was filmed in Australia, not NZ.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:22 AM

SABACEANBABE


Yeah, I know, but what can you do? New Zealand and Australia are two different places, but sometimes people just don't see that. Hopefully, that doesn't mean that the rest of the article is suspect. Fact checking is a very important thing.

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