Question: With the coming of ...
Question: With the coming of the new
Farscape miniseries, and the announcement that miniseries or "movie of the week" installments may be in the offing for the WB's canceled vampire drama
Angel, it seems that a lot of genre TV is coming back from the dead. Considering a great majority of genre fans (and critics, yourself included) believe that shows like
Farscape have been canceled before their time, do you think that the future of genre television will involve a short run, followed by less-expensive-to-produce miniseries offerings? It seems that the networks have less faith in narrow-band projects like genre TV, and don't know how to market them well. Could it be that the future of genre TV will be in bite-sized packages? — Tony R.
Matt:
Like you, I'll take this material however I can get it. And it may make more sense to package these sorts of shows as "event" miniseries or movies, continuing their life without asking for a weekly commitment. But there still needs to be a place for weekly series of this nature. The richness of a Buffy-Angel universe can't be achieved as fully without the weekly canvas a long-running series provides.
