Babylon 5 Creator Says a Single Warner Bros. Executive Stopped the Show’s Comeback for Close to 20 Years (www.ign.com)

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Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has revealed that a single executive put Babylon 5 on the back burner... but now they've retired, the "floodgates opened".

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[-] NukeminHerttua@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Watched B5 in around 2010 and it's easily one of the best series ever created.

Having one guy refusing breath more life into the series is absurd but not unheard-of. Didn't Doctor Who face similar problems when it ended in late 1980s? It took them almost 20 years to bring the series back...

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