Dark Shadows in TV Guide

[DLA75]

They have a Dark Shows story on the soaps page in the new TV Guide. I'm not sure if they have facts staight. They make it sound like Jonathan Frid has been takeing part in the Big Finish Audio Dramas witch I as fas as i know is not true and that Jim Pierson readying the 1,225 Dark Shadows episodes for DVD which was already done years ago. It also says about the half hour of lost footage will be on Night of Dark Shadows DVD. I'm assuming it means the restoration not bonus features deleted scenes. Jim Pierson also told TV that all involved with the movie wan Frid to have a cameo. (I think he would make a great Eagle Hill caretaker warning Willie to leave the dead alone)

[Midnite]

Here are two other posts (from yesterday and earlier today) about that TV Guide article:

It didn't seem to be on the TV Guide site but in next week's TV Guide on the Soaps page there's an article about the new DS movie.  The article quotes Jim Pierson as saying "...if all the supernatural forces are in order, production will start at the end of 2010" and "Everyone involved wants Frid to do a cameo.  The bite goes on!"  (Rolling my eyes at that last sentence -- LOL!) The article also states that HODS and NODS will be on DVD for the first time, although it doesn't say when, and says that NODS will have 30 minutes of never-seen footage -- is that official now?  Sure hope so!

The new TV Guide article (from their soaps column) has a line about Frid still playing Barnabas 39 years after the show went off the air on the Big Finish recordings.

My guess is that this statement, which is completely untrue, came out from the reporter visiting a website and looking at the first CD, which I think did have a picture of Jonathan (as Barnabas, of course) on the cover, even though his voice did not appear on the recording.

We do live in the age of spin but implying, as the statement does, that Jonathan Frid has continued on playing Barnabas for the last 39 years is extreme, even by the standards of today.