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You can find details of the upcoming features in the UK B5 Magazine on
this page.
Is B5 becoming another "Deep Space Franchise"? Read JMS's view here.
B5 won an Emmy for the season 4 episode "The Summoning" for "Outstanding Make-up for a Series".
You can find a pretty comprehensive list of awards that B5 has received at the Zocalo site (a UK site).
According to Channel 4, the average viewing figure for programmes in Season 3 in the UK was 1,844,000.
B5 has won the Space Frontier Foundation Award for Best Vision of the Future, and an award from the American Cinema Foundation for presentation of values in a dramatic television series.
B5 was nominated for the American Cinema Foundation's 1997 E Pluribus Unum Awards. The awards honor a creative or performing talent in the industry whose body of work best uses film to "positively address values crucial to the civic health of America." it carries a $10,000 prize. Other nominees include "A Family Thing," "The Birdcage," Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman," "7th Heaven," "Dave's World," and many others.
There's villainy afoot: read on about JMS and his Close Shave..
Startling new evidence of Shadow intervention in Earth affairs has been uncovered in the ancient Book of Kells.
Check out this, erm, unusual Lurker's Guide episode page.. :-)
I have a great report and photos from Bruce Goatly summarising his trip to the B5 set while he was in California, towards the end of filming of season 3..
I also have on-line a
copy of the registration form
for the Official Babylon 5 Fan Club, plus some good
news for 1997 resubscriptions. (Please note that I'm nothing to do
with the Club myself!).
Hugo Awards
The season 5 episode, "Sleeping in Light" has been nominated for a 1999
Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation.
B5 did not get sufficient nominations for any one episode to make it to the short-list for the 1998 Hugos.
B5 won the 1997 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation for "Severed Dreams" - you can find out more, including the results when they're out, on the WorldCon Web site.
B5 was nominated again in the Best Dramatic Presentation category (283 ballots):
The second season episode, "The Coming of Shadows", has been awarded the 1996 Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1 Sept 1996). This episode was top of the B5 poll for a long while until challenged by "Severed Dreams".
Here's a picture of the Hugo winners with their awards, blatantly stolen from the WorldCon Web pages:
The voting for those nominees went:
Nom Final 1st "The Coming Of Shadows" (B5) 93 457 2nd "Apollo 13" 122 355 3rd "12 Monkeys" 59 160 4th "Toy Story" 79 76 5th "The Visitor" (ST:DS9) 30 60 6th No Award 15 "Nom" is the number of nominations received. "Final" is the final number of votes cast.
"The Fall of Night" (closing episode of season 2) received enough votes to be nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation, but the producers declined its nomination in favor of "The Coming of Shadows", the other Babylon 5 episode nominated. According to jms, this decision was taken to avoid splitting the B5 vote between 2 episodes. Last year, although B5 received sufficient votes to win the award, they were split between 2 episodes.
Highest Quality Shows Qualitative
Rating (1-10)
1. Law & Order........................................8.90
2. ER.................................................8.80
3. Homicide...........................................8.80
4. NYPD Blue..........................................8.70
5. Party of Five......................................8.50
6. Murder One.........................................8.30
7. The X-Files........................................8.30
8. Grace Under Fire...................................8.10
9. Frasier............................................8.0
10. Friends............................................7.7
11. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman..........................7.70
12. Chicago Hope.......................................7.70
13. Touched by an Angel................................7.70
14. Seinfeld...........................................7.60
15. Mad About You......................................7.60
16. Babylon 5..........................................7.60
17. Highlander.........................................7.60
18. Murphy Brown.......................................7.50
19. Star Trek: Voyager.................................7.50
20. Picket Fences......................................7.50
21. Nowhere Man........................................7.50
22. New York Undercover................................7.50
23. Strange Luck.......................................7.40
24. Cybill.............................................7.30
25. Lois & Clark.......................................7.20
26. Star Trek: DS9.....................................7.20
27. The Simpsons.......................................7.20
28. Space: Above and Beyond ...........................7.10
29. Due South..........................................7.00
30. Roseanne...........................................6.70
31. Dave's World.......................................6.70
32. Home Improvement...................................6.70
33. Almost Perfect.....................................6.60
34. The Nanny..........................................6.50
35. Ellen..............................................6.50
VQT also now endorse B5 as a "quality programme". Which is nice for B5..
The published lists were top tens. The top 5 from each of the TV categories is included (except The Worst category which was topped by ST:Voyager and Space Precinct):
Babylon 5 won 4 out of the 5 "Best" TV categories. Babylon 5 also won the Best SF/Fantasy-related Theme Music & Best SF/Fantasy TV Show or Film Opening Credits categories. Congratulations!!!
(Information forwarded by Mark Rigby-Jones
I don't normally keep jms quotes, however this one seemed of some
interest..:
Various folk have remarked how much foreshadowing is actually present in
the first season episodes - you can read
JMS' take on the arc and the difficulties in writing that way.
B5 was nominated for 3 Emmy awards in 1995:
Previously, B5 has had a nomination for the pilot (and won) and two nominations for the
first series (and won one). Special effects & direction nominations were not forthcoming
this year, perhaps due to the pilots of ST: Voyager, etc.
First of all, check out the events to be held under the
Babblings
banner - I also have a
uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social
newsgroup for the latest info.
For people in the Leeds area of the UK, there's a bunch of "crazed maniacal
Babylonians" [ed: their words] who periodically meet, talk B5 (and other,
more general topics), drink fluids [ed: it must be hot in Leeds!] and fall
down [ed: no doubt heat exhaustion!!].
Understanding the problem of finding a solitary 'anyone fancy meeting at
the xxx on yyy' posting in the sprawling mass of B5 postings (and assorted
off-topic trivia), a small private mailing list has been set up so that any
news of these wet and wild "Leeds Gurglings" parties can be dropped directly
into your mailbox.
To be added to the list, please send a grovelling e-mail to the maintainer,
Gareth Edwards, at
config@ultim.demon.co.uk.
He'll reply instructing you to buy him a beer for his services :-)
Andy Thomas at Durham Uni. has a page of
1995 Wolf 359 ("The Gathering")
convention photos, including piccies of JMS ("The Great Maker"),
Michael ("Sinclair") O'Hare and Ed ("Boo Hiss, Morden") Wasser!
James Petry has
a site
with more photos from the 1996 Wolf 359 "The Encounter" convention and from the
1996 Babcom summer event.
Finally, you can find a great selection of shots from various events on
Mel's B5 pages.
Also see the main News page for more news & info...
Be sure to check out the
B5 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages
for the UK B5 Newsgroup (
uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5) which I also hold, and which contain a lot
of additional information, especially on
merchandise and up-coming
conventions.
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s appropriate.
ie Don't take any data without asking & don't then blame me if it's not what you were after!
Arc Spoiler!
The following might be considered a spoiler as to the shape
of the 5-year story arc in general. You have been warned..!
(Note that the "mini-arc" is the split from Earth in "Messages from
Earth" to "Severed Dreams").
Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in the
storyline. The third starts with the last episode of this season, going into
the fourth year. Then you've got one more big turn about the last quarter or
one-third of year four, and then a bit of a flip at the end.
jms
(The first turn came at the end of Season 1 / beginning of Season 2 with
Delenn's transformation and the reasons for the end of the Earth/Minbari
War.)
Here's some more interesting information on the timing of the tail-end of
the series (spoiler material!):
The fifth season ends in 2262.
The telepath war: 2264/5.
Crusade: 2267.
jms
("Crusade" is the follow-on series from "Babylon 5").
Babylon 5 * The Geometry Of Shadows * Syndicated * Babylonian Productions, Inc.
John C. Flinn III, ASC, Director of Photography
Babylon 5 * The Geometry Of Shadows * Syndicated * Babylonian Productions, Inc.
Traci Smithe, Key Hairstylist
Babylon 5 * Acts Of Sacrifice * Syndicated * Babylonian Productions, Inc.
John Vulich, Everett Burrell, Supervising Makeup Artists; Cinzia Zanetti,
Key Makeup Artist; Ron Pipes, Greg Funk, Fionagh Cush, John Wheaton, Nik
E. Carey, William Huff, Tania Wanstall, Mike Measimer, Makeup Artists]
Events to Come
This section deals with Babylon 5 'informal' events in the UK that are coming up.
The difference between 'informal events' and 'conventions' (for which there are
more details on the
FAQ pages)
is somewhat hazy, so check both sections!
Events Past
For a catalogue of misdemeanours and embarassing photos from previous events,
check out my
Babblings pages!
Some obligatory links:
"Babylon 5" is copyright the Prime Time Entertainment Network.
Jeremy Morley / jmorley@ge.ucl.ac.uk
Dept Geomatic Engineering / University College London
29 April 1999