- July 22, 2023
-
A guide page for
"The Road Home"
is available.
- July 10, 2007
-
Administrative note: I will be on vacation when
"The Lost Tales"
is released. I'll have net access so please send in your comments, but
don't be surprised if it takes me a little while to update the guide
page.
- June 1, 2007
-
Warner Bros.' official B5 site
has a trailer for
"The Lost Tales"
(Flash required; click on "Main Menu" then "The Lost Tales Movie.")
- April 24, 2007
-
"The Lost Tales"
is now available for
preorder
from Amazon.com.
- April 23, 2007
-
"The Lost Tales"
will be released on July 31, according to
tvshowsondvd.com
(which also has a picture of the cover art).
- December 2, 2006
-
Principal photography on the first disc of the new DVD series
has finished. There is now a
guide page
dedicated to it.
- July 25, 2006
-
Season 1
is now available for purchase on
iTunes.
- July 24, 2006
-
Ain't It Cool News has more
details about the announcements at JMS's Comic Con presentation.
- July 23, 2006
-
Lots of JMS news
from San Diego Comic Con, including more details on "The Changeling" and
news of an anthology of B5 short films to begin shooting later this
year.
- June 28, 2006
-
Ain't It Cool News
reports
that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("The Da Vinci Code," "Apollo 13," "A Beautiful Mind") is looking at directing JMS's script "The Changeling."
- April 18, 2006
-
Windows XP users can now
watch season one episodes
for free online.
- March 1, 2006
-
Jerry Doyle is hosting a
radio talk show.
- March 1, 2006
-
Andreas Katsulas' web site
has information about memorials.
- February 14, 2006
-
Andreas Katsulas has
passed away
at age 59. Our sympathies to his family. Information on memorial
services will be posted here as it becomes available.
- February 6, 2006
-
B5 writer Marc Scott Zicree is selling
an
actual G'Kar prosthetic head from the show on eBay.
- January 24, 2006
-
"The Legend of the Rangers"
will be released on DVD on March 14. It is now available for
preorder.
- January 6, 2006
-
The B5 Scripts site has
changed the proof-of-purchase
procedure for getting the bonus volume at the end of the series.
- November 3, 2005
-
Here's a
message
to people who signed up for babylon5scripts.com's alert service --
an email snafu might cause alerts to go out to some people who
later unsubscribed.
- October 30, 2005
-
Newsflash:
The babylon5scripts.com site is now
online and taking orders for JMS's B5 script books.
- September 12, 2005
-
Newsflash:
All of JMS's B5 scripts,
including some rare drafts never before published, will be available in a
series of trade paperbacks later this year. People who buy the whole set
will get an additional volume with a ton of bonus material, including the
original outline of the five-year arc written before the show went into production.
You can sign up for the availability announcement at
babylon5scripts.com.
- April 13, 2005
-
Newsflash:
JMS is cleaning house and has started auctioning off some of his
rare memorabilia
on eBay.
- February 25, 2005
-
Newsflash:
JMS has confirmed
that the deal to produce
"The Memory of Shadows"
has fallen through.
- February 24, 2005
-
Newsflash:
Dark Horizons
reports that Mira Furlan told a recent convention audience that
"The Memory of Shadows"
is no longer being made.
- February 13, 2005
-
A Richard Biggs Memorial Show
will be held on Saturday, March 19 in N. Hollywood, CA. Most of the B5
cast will be in attendance.
- February 2, 2005
-
The
Cast
page has been updated to note the death of Tim Choate (Zathras) last
September. Since the filmographies on that page were well out of date,
they've been replaced with links to IMDB.
- January 29, 2005
-
Newsflash:
A campaign is underway
to ensure that Warner Bros. does not force the original cast members
to be replaced in
"The Memory of Shadows."
- December 8, 2004
-
Newsflash:
ComingSoon
has some information about the story of
"The Memory of Shadows."
- November 26, 2004
-
Midwinter's web server is now a
BitTorrent
seed for the freeware fan-created
Babylon 5: "I've Found Her"
space combat game. If you're running Windows,
Download it
and try it out! (And then please leave your BitTorrent client open for
a while so others can download it more quickly.)
- November 1, 2004
-
Newsflash: Mira Furlan (Delenn) joins Daniel Dae Kim (Matheson from
"Crusade") on the November 17 episode of
"Lost."
- July 13, 2004
-
The guide page for
"The Memory of Shadows"
is updated at long last.
- June 2, 2004
-
A college fund for Richard Biggs' sons has been established. See
his official web site
for more information.
- May 22, 2004
-
JMS reports
that Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin) has passed away. Our
condolences to his family -- he will be missed.
- May 20, 2004
-
All five B5 movies are coming on DVD on August 17, according to
TVShowsOnDVD.com.
- December 1, 2003
-
Newsflash:
A new B5
project is in the works according to JMS. Also, DVD sets of
the B5 TV-movies and "Crusade" are due next year.
- September 19, 2003
-
Newsflash:
According to TVShowsOnDVD.com,
the season four DVD set will ship on January 6, 2004.
- May 25, 2003
-
Newsflash:
The season-three DVD set is available for
preorder
from Amazon.com and other retailers. It ships on August 12, 2003.
- January 7, 2003
-
Newsflash: The Digital Bits
reports that the season-2 DVD set will be released on April 29.
- October 30, 2002
-
Newsflash: The Region 2 edition of the
season one DVD set
is reportedly available now in stores in the UK. The US release is
still scheduled for November 5.
- August 14, 2002
-
Newsflash: Warner Home Video has put up a
Web site
(Flash required) for the season-one
DVD release.
- August 2, 2002
-
Newsflash: The season-one DVD release
is now available for
preorder
from Amazon.com and other retailers.
- July 15, 2002
-
Newsflash: The Digital Bits says
the season-one DVD set
will be out on November 5. The box set's cover art is
also available there.
- June 27, 2002
-
Newsflash: The season-one DVD release
will include audio commentary tracks from JMS on
"Signs and Portents"
and
"Chrysalis"
as well as cast and crew interviews.
- June 9, 2002
-
Newsflash: June 9 -
JMS has posted more
information
on the upcoming B5 DVD release.
- February 27, 2002
-
JMS's new show
Jeremiah
premieres March 3 on
Showtime.
- January 25, 2002
-
Newsflash:
The Digital Bits
reports that the complete first season of B5 will be released on
DVD this fall.
- January 3, 2002
-
Newsflash: ConJose,
the 2002 WorldCon, will present a special
Best Web Site
Hugo. If you're planning to attend or join, remember to nominate
your favorite SF sites by March 31 (whether this is one of them or not.)
If you're not already eligible, you must join by January 31 to submit
nominations.
- December 25, 2001
-
We're back! After an extended hiatus, www.midwinter.com is
online again. If you're curious,
here's what happened.
If you run into any glitches, please
let me know.
- August 3, 2001
-
Newsflash: Amazon.com is listing a December 4 release date for the DVD
of
"The Gathering"
and
"In the Beginning".
They are accepting
preorders.
- June 21, 2001
-
TV Guide Online has a short
article
about the new movie.
- June 12, 2001
-
SCI FI will be airing a promo for the new B5 movie during its
rebroadcast of "Dune" tonight through Wednesday night.
- April 9, 2001
-
The Sci-Fi Channel
now has a section of its site dedicated to
Crusade.
If it looks familiar to you, not to worry; I knew about it well
in advance and everything is above-board and legit.
- March 20, 2001
-
Newsflash:
A new B5 TV-movie
is in the works and will air on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year.
It may lead to a new series.
- March 13, 2001
-
Newsflash:
The DVD releases of
"The Gathering"
and
"In the Beginning"
will be delayed until around August in order to use the updated
version of "The Gathering" rather than the original version,
according to JMS.
"Crusade" begins on
The Sci-Fi Channel
on April 9.
- January 25, 2001
-
Newsflash:
The Digital Bits
reports that Warner Bros. plans to release B5 DVDs later this year.
- January 21, 2001
-
Newsflash: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
reports
that a new B5 movie, as well as "Crusade" reruns, may be on the
way from the Sci-Fi Channel. (Scroll down to the third item in the
article.)
- December 15, 2000
-
Newsflash: JMS has
commented
on the problems with the Sci-Fi Channel's widescreen broadcasts.
- November 30, 2000
-
Netter Digital Entertainment's equipment (used in B5's production)
will be
auctioned
on December 7.
- November 6, 2000
-
The
third book
in the Centauri trilogy is out.
Updated the
US schedule page
with Sci-Fi's planned broadcasts of the five B5 movies.
- October 2, 2000
-
Newsflash: Sierra is offering fans
free promotional merchandise
produced for the cancelled B5 game.
- September 30, 2000
-
A new page describing
JMS's current projects
has been added.
- September 15, 2000
-
Reminder: The
Sci-Fi Channel's
widescreen broadcast of B5 begins September 25. There are reliable
reports that the B5 episode of "Sciography," originally scheduled to
air just before B5's premiere, has been delayed.
- August 17, 2000
-
Newsflash: JMS's "Rising Stars" comic
may be coming to a theater near you.
- August 12, 2000
-
Newsflash: The rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated newsgroup should be
back online by the end of next week, according to its moderator.
- August 6, 2000
-
Newsflash: A new novel by JMS, "Tribulations," is available for free
online reading at
Bookface.
Also at Bookface is an unproduced "Crusade" script by Fiona Avery,
featuring the return of a B5 character.
- July 27, 2000
-
New on the
Conventions
page: Details about the "Crusade for a Cure" convention in September.
- July 11, 2000
-
Newsflash:
The 11th Hour
has an
interview
with Jerry Doyle, in which a possible followup series to B5 is
discussed briefly.
Newsflash: Sci-Fi Channel's run of B5
will be
shown in letterboxed format.
- July 7, 2000
-
Newsflash: JMS will be chatting live on
Yahoo
on July 10 at 7PM Eastern (4PM Pacific).
- June 13, 2000
-
Newsflash: The producers of Sci-Fi Channel's "Sciography" are looking
for B5 material: behind-the-scenes photos and video and particularly
video of the Wolf 359 conventions. They'd also like to interview some
ardent B5 fans in the Southern California area. If you can help,
send mail to
jwwolterman@hotmail.com.
- June 6, 2000
-
Newsflash: The teleplays for two unproduced "Crusade" episodes, as
well as an original JMS short story, are available from
Bookface.
- May 21, 2000
-
Newsflash: Season 5 starts in
Sweden
on May 28.
- May 19, 2000
-
Correction:
TNT
will be reshowing all five seasons.
The first three episodes of season one will be shown in a
three-hour block at 6AM on May 20. After that, episodes will air
Monday-Saturday at 6AM starting May 22.
- May 16, 2000
-
Newsflash:
The Sci-Fi channel is looking for B5-related material for a new
documentary series.
Details.
- April 4, 2000
-
Newsflash: The US
Sci-Fi Channel
will show all five seasons of B5, plus the movies, starting in September.
Details.
- March 3, 2000
-
Newsflash: Stephen Furst is slated to provide one of the voices in the
upcoming "Buzz Lightyear" cartoon.
Full story.
- January 20, 2000
-
Newsflash: Daniel Dae Kim (Lt. Matheson) guest stars on this week's "Star Trek: Voyager."
- January 1, 2000
-
Newsflash: JMS will be appearing on
CBS News Sunday Morning
on January 2. Check your local listings for times.
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