There is a new Babylon 5 movie, called To Live and Die in Starlight, which will serve as the pilot for a new series Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers.

The official announcement was made yesterday on http://www.scifi.com and comfirmed by the series creator, jms.

You can read jms's comments on the website http://www.jmsnews.com ...

Anyone else as excited as I am? :) :) :)

I'd be more excited if I didn't already feel that JMS had over-extended himself writing 15 different projects at once. At this rate, he'll never finish "Rising Stars" (the comic or the proposed television series), "Midnight Nation," the new Spiderman comic, the new JMS "universe" of related books, let alone a new Babylon 5 series. The man's plate is just TOO FULL. There's no way he can pull off all these projects and keep a modicum of quality in each.

Ever hopeful, I'm always excited by the prospect of another new SciFi space series.

I worry tho, that the story of the Rangers is going to bring out the jingoistic and macho-posturing side of JMS, which is always a bit lame... And I pray he has someone else writing the dialog.

But I'll be there!

Great news! I don't doubt that this may not be as
fine a series as B5 was but still I'm sure it will
be superior to most televison series at the very
least.

Psyched beyond words. Will probably be a better offering than a new Star Trek show.

Rising Stars is coming along nicely, and I had not heard it was going to be a TV show? He did write a movie script for it though.

Amen. There is a God.

JoeC

Actually Rising Stars is being developed as a movie (or series of movies) not a tv show.

Most likely JMS won't be writing every single episode of the show as he did with most of B5. If he could pull that off (which is essentially a script a week) and still maintain the quality he did, I think he can pull all this off.

Kelric - if I haven't mentioned this before, I like your signature. Great writing that it came from and all.

Thanks. One of my favorite lines from the series.

Kelric - I noticed in the Best TV opener, you picked my second favorite. I can't tell you how much better that sounds with surround speakers. Quite, cool....

Very cool. Did you know Crusade was actually mixed in 5.1 in preparation of the day when shows are broadcast that way? I would really like to hear that.

Kelric - hell, I'd love to see the sci-fi channel back Crusade and let Joe tell that story. Gary Cole was just perfect as the lead on that. That guy has the most amazing glares.

WOO HOO!!!!! I can't wait! Anything JMS is great! I even have a copy of one of his scripts from V around somewhere. Hopefully this will help B5 make it to DVD quicker.

astroknight - sometime this summer I believe will see B5 on DVD.