>Havne't seen any explanation of why you had no pull in this, after
>saying that you wanted to have WS LD's and DVD's. We all thought your
>merchandise pull was sufficient that you wouldn't have let these new
>LD's go without the WS treatment.

WB is one of those big companies where one branch often doesn't know what the
other is doing. No one told me about the LDs until I heard about it on the
nets, because it never occured to anyone to mention it. (I've since mentioned
it to the folks at Image, so we'll see about the WS stuff.)

What you have to understand is that the video aspect of the show is not
considered by contract a part of merchandising. (I know, doesn't make any
sense, but it's one more way of keeping money out of the hands of the writers
involved. Same with soundtracks, so I don't get a piece off either of those
except for the WGA mandated royalty, which is more or less zero.)

As some note of how far off these things can be, a big full-page ad in Video
Magazine this month for the VHS tapes mentions that the show is now on TNT,
instead of **UPN*** (it began on PTEN, which is WB, as opposed to UPN, which is
Paramount).

jms

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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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PS...just to be clear, btw, the show *is* available in widescreen *right now*,
having worked with the WB high-tech boys to produce these versions over the
last year for HDTV and foreign use. I've seen a couple of the finished
widescreen versions, and they're gorgeous.

jms

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B5 Official Fan Club at:
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