Originally posted by Jan
I believe Norwegian TV2 got hold of the rights in '95, and started airing early '96. As far as I can remember, they purchased the right to air the whole thing twice - and only twice. What they did was air the "new" episodes each Sunday at around 16:00 (IIRC), and the reruns started a few weeks later, on Saturdays (around 12-13:00). This meant that Babylon 5 aired twice each week here, first the "old" (two-three weeks) episodes on Saturday, then the new ones on Sundays.
However - the only break that was made, IIRC, was a very short one between seasons 4 and 5. Other than that, they aired continuously from '96 (season 1, two years behind the US) to '98 (season 5, one or two weeks behind the US). I once mailed TV2 to ask if they could broadcast it again, but then they informed me that they had only bought the rights to broadcast each episode two times.
Anyway - back to my "dream". I see there are certain.... "reservations", shall we say?... to my idea. Now, as far as I can figure, a re-render of all the CGI in B5 wouldn't even scratch the lower end of the costs to make a movie. Remember, the scripts are already there, no actors need to be cast (or paid), no wardrobe, no sets, no director, no lighting, no cameras, FFS... Besides, a lot of the CGI in the episodes were "stock", and to be perfectly blunt, the amount of different models for the space-ships were not massive. With that said, I perfectly understand that one would want the original effects, for reference, and, I suspect, for nostalgic reasons. Be assured that if this had been the original DVDs, I'd be 100% opposed to throwing out the effects already there.
Now, however, we have the original effects (well, two thirds of them, due to the cropping... *sigh*) on DVD. I'm talking about a "High-Definition Special Edition". But until I get the money to get it done......

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