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Subject: Re: Need early B5 scripts for Captioning (re-send)
Date: 10 Jun 2002 19:30:03 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

> (it's a matter of how much time and energy I can give to it
>given
>> that there's no fees involved
>
>They're not paying you, ...anything?  ???

No.  It's WB's policy that they don't pay to have people do commentaries.  The
problem here is that there's so *much* that they want...an on-camera interview,
two to four full commentaries, and further analyses on the races, technologies,
politics, all that stuff...it's a huge amount of work.  But their response was
that if it wasn't done for free, across the board, they'd just deliver a
foreshortened version, little to no extras, no publicity, little to nothing
without my commentary, which they feel is essential to the set.  Rather than
have a lesser version go out to the fans, I figured I'd just bite the bullet
and do it.

 jms

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