apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\nOn Polaris…we got down to one of three projects of which one or two would be greenlighted for production. It went down to the wire, but finally SFC decided that the premise of Polaris was a little too science fictiony, when they were looking to go for ideas that had more immediate mainstream appeal. So even though they felt that Polaris was the best written of the projects they had in development, they went for a project about intergalactic (not interstellar, intergalactic) vampires called “Bloodsuckers.” It is, to be fair, one of those concepts that, when you hear it, you get it, there isn’t a lot of background needed.<\/p>\n
Yeah. Can’t have any of that “science fictiony” stuff on the SciFi Channel, can we? I mean, that’s the real reason we dropped Farscape<\/i>. We need to go for that mainstream <\/i>stuff, like all the other “intergalactic vampire” shows out there.<\/p>\n
Intergalactic vampires. Yeah, that’ll rock the world.<\/p>\n
As Bugs used to say, “Whadda buncha maroons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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