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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

1269.0. "White Dwarf" by CSOA1::LENNIG (Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO) Tue May 09 1995 03:05

    Anyone heard anything about a new series called "White Dwarf"?
    
    Saw part of an ad the other night; other than it being SF-ish,
    I didn't really catch much... It premiers on Fox on May 23rd.
    
    Dave
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1269.1OOTOOL::CHELSEAMostly harmless.Tue May 09 1995 17:471
    I recall a "name" producer, I just can't recall the name.
1269.2NETRIX::thomasThe Code WarriorTue May 09 1995 18:531
Francis Ford Coppola
1269.3CSOA1::LENNIGDave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYOWed May 10 1995 07:589
    Was that _this_ one? I do remember seeing some ads for some TV SF by
    F.F.Coppola a while back, but I thought it was for a made-for-TV movie.
    
    Anything on the newsgroups?
    
    (I'm going to be out of the US on a business trip around then, and 
     want to program the VCR accordingly.)
    
    	Dave
1269.4CSOA1::LENNIGDave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYOWed May 10 1995 23:136
    Hmmm... Now I'm confused; just saw another ad, and it said 'motion
    picture premiere'. I could have sworn the other ad said series...
    
    Well, that'll make programming the VCR for my absence simpler :-)
    
    Dave
1269.5Thanks for the tip, DaveMUNDIS::SSHERMANSteve Sherman @MFR DTN 865-2944Fri May 12 1995 14:116
Hey, neat.  I'm arriving *in* the US on 22 May, so for a change I'll
actually get to see something I read about in here.

Any more info about this?  Made for TV movie?  Series pilot?

Steve
1269.6OOTOOL::CHELSEAMostly harmless.Fri May 12 1995 18:205
    Re: .4
    
    Pilots are sometimes announced as motion pictures (of the made-for-TV
    variety), and of course they're premieres.  Perhaps they're trying to
    make it more of an event.
1269.7CSOA1::LENNIGDave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYOWed May 24 1995 15:188
    I thought the movie was quite well done and interesting...
    
    They've put together a rich tapestry for a series.
    
    BTW, I saw reference to FOX having a new unnamed SF series this fall
    in one of the newsgroups; I suspect this is it...
    
    Dave
1269.8Give My Regards To *OLD* Broadway?LJSRV2::FEHSKENSlen - reformed architectThu May 25 1995 14:3912
    
    Saw it, it felt a bit Jack Vance-ish to me (which is a feature).
    
    My only "oh come on" reaction was repeated reference to songs that
    would have been what, two thousand years old by then?; a bit difficult
    to imagine why just songs from the 20th century would be so nostalgically
    popular.
    
    Still, much better than a lot of other TV fare under the SF rubric. 
    
    len.