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Current Talk '04 I / Re:But What About The REAL Dark Shadows?
« on: March 24, 2004, 02:43:22 AM »But what about the "real thing" and why hasn't there been a hint of it coming back on a different channel? If Soap Net's working on bringing it back, they're certainly being quiet about it.
I could be wrong, but I've pretty much given up on DS showing up on Soapnet in the near future. If they were supposedly as interested as we'd been led to believe, I'd think they would have worked out a deal with Worldvision by now - particularly when one considers that, since DS ended on Sci-Fi, Soapnet has actually worked out deals to bring two other soaps (Day of Our Lives being one) to the network. (Although, the stumbling block, if there is (was) one and it's not simply a case that Soapnet is waiting to make some big announcement at some point down the road, could be (have been) on WV's end. Before they inked the first deal with Sci-Fi, they'd been asking such a humungous amount of money to release the final year of episodes that even when several different stations tried to band together to get them released, they couldn't even collectively afford them. Of course, that was back when WV still had to pay out residuals for those episodes, but who knows if they might not be pulling the same sort of tactic?)
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I fear my suspicions regarding keeping the original off the air, while the new one tried to make a name for itself, might have been right.
Possibly. But the thinking back at the time the '91 DS was in the works was that the deal to bring DS to Sci-Fi would help both versions. Unfortunately, though, it took so long for Sci-Fi to get off the ground (they announced DS as their first acquisition on May 28,1990, with a hoped for launch on December 31st, but Sci-Fi didn't actually launch until September 24, 1992 and DS didn't debut until the 25th) that the '91 DS had already come and gone...