{"id":1533,"date":"2005-06-14T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/14\/does-that-seem-low-to-you\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T04:31:00","slug":"does-that-seem-low-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/14\/does-that-seem-low-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Does that seem low to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Sci Fi Channel has bought exclusive cable rights to &#8220;Firefly&#8221; from Twentieth TV for a total license fee of about $450,000 in a deal that includes three episodes Fox never ran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117924446?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1&amp;s=h&amp;p=0\">&#8220;&#8216;Firefly&#8217; spreading wings&#8221;<\/a>, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Variety<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On second thought, I suppose it&#8217;s all gravy at this point&#8211; FOX has already made a boatload of money from selling advertising for the original airings, plus the sales 0f 200,000+ DVD box sets.  It just seemed odd at first, since there was a lot of hubbub about how <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Firefly<\/span> cost so much (roughly $1.5 million per episode) to produce, which is why Sci Fi couldn&#8217;t pick it up as another original series, like they did with <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Stargate SG-1<\/span> after Showtime dumped it.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/its-global-frequency-now.html\">Global Frequency<\/a> don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; TV network&#8211; this thing practically distributes itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sci Fi Channel has bought exclusive cable rights to &#8220;Firefly&#8221; from Twentieth TV for a total license fee of about $450,000 in a deal that includes three episodes Fox never ran. &#8212; &#8220;&#8216;Firefly&#8217; spreading wings&#8221;, Variety On second thought,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}