Babylon 5 - Season 2 news

This is a post from J. Michael Straczynski from the Babylon 5 newsgroup.

>Indications are that Warner Home Video is happy enough
>with the sales of S1 that beginning with S2 they won't be
>waiting for sales reports on each set before starting work on
>the next.

I don't know that they've committed to that extent, but they are very happy with the sales, and are accellerating things.

Interviews for year 2's DVD have been set, or already conducted, with Stephen Furst, Andrea Thompson, John Iacovelli, Anne Bruice-Ailing, Jerry, Claudia, Bruce, me, John Copeland, Doug Netter and others.

In addition, I'll be doing commentaries on "The Coming of Shadows" and "The Fall of Night," and there will be a bonus group commentary by Bruce, Claudia and Jerry on "The Long, Twilight Struggle."

There's talk about a special musical sequence for the season 3 DVD, with Chris re-scoring 2-3 episodes end to end with non-stop music, future segments on "The Future According to Babylon 5" with NASA and JPL guys (btw, James over at a certain House subcommittee, if you're reading this and could drop me a note, that'd be great). I'd like to see the final bonus section on year 5 be about the fans of the show.

Point being...they're putting a LOT of energy and work into this to make each set better than the one before.

(And yes, still writing my brains out here this weekend, except for a brief Bejeweled break where I finally broke 400,000 points.)

jms

Looks like there will be more extras on the second set. I hope they can improve the quality of the video as well.