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Cleavant returns to Broadway this May, taking over as the Wizard! 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/T … fwI1-3csg8

I FINALLY got onto the live chat for The Prisoner with Cardinal Sin and friends including Mr. T.  At the end I asked about the Sliders Convention.  Tracy reiterated that it would be in June in Long Island, and that Cleavant Derricks had signed on.  Figured JRD would definitely come, and still thinks Sabrina Lloyd lives in Africa!  I corrected him on that.  Said he wasn't sure if Jerry had been asked or agreed yet.  The whole thing remains pretty odd to me, that it remains so unconfirmed, but he said he'd try to have more info for the next time.

Well don't forget Sliders has never had an HD release, and bandwidth is not really an issue for something like Peacock.  You're literally streaming directly off a server, vs. other sources.  Something like Comet is I'm sure compressed badly, as it often was on cable TV.  The DVD's were compressed, with the Mill Creek being hideous.

Didn't Mara and Juke eventually marry and have children?  idk what series that happened in, but I vaguely remember that.  LOL as I said, it's been a long, long, long time.  Heck I read the Shadows of the Empire stuff too when the video game came out!

PS: I find Boba Fett show incredibly dull.

Yes it is, and moreover 25 years ago, most of the QL audience (like myself) wound up easy Sliders fans too.

Here's a thing folks, the ONLY legit attempt at a reboot/return is this latest one from Tracy.  Nobody else has attempted it, which is incredulous but there it is.  Not really counting Jerry's flimsy attempts.

Most series these days do not rely on a "draw" anymore.  Jerry was the kid from Stand By Me and JRD was the guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Sliders premiered.  Most streaming series don't have a single actor you have heard of before.

My nose runs all the time, especially outside in the freezing Northeastern cold.  I wore the KN95 indoors at times during the summer this year at conventions, not comfortable at all.  Eventually ditched them for double play cloth masks although obviously this was in the absence of a surge.  I'm not intending on going anywhere for the next month or so though.

I can't wear a KN95, my face sweats so bad and my nose runs.  Better off double masking with two looser fitting ones I think.

My allergist (MD) has gotten every vaccine on Earth at some point.  Several years ago she had some sort of illness, and ever since then any vaccine makes her ill but she still takes them.  The alternative is not worth it.  This omicron though is of such veracity that really nothing short of an N95 is going to keep you from acquiring COVID if any length of time is spent indoors with multiple people that are infected.  The vaccines/boosters seem to keep you out of hospital though.  The variant is exploding in the NYC-area here, although I have faith our level of vaxxing will keep severe cases down.  In other states such as the midwest, where people are not being vaxxed enough, it will be far far worse.  This may be a disastrous blow to restaurants and event spaces for the next several months.  Several people I know have tested positive from office parties in the last few days.

I had a sore armpit from the booster and flu shot, that was all.

I watched Dead Zone for most of its original run, although I probably missed a lot of episodes.  I enjoyed it, and while the main cast were very good and experienced, it suffered from a few things.  Similar to Quantum Leap, the good guys have to battle the bad guys each episode, although it often became a bit ridiculous over time.  Tru Calling, which debuted during Dead Zone's run, was in many ways, a rip off of it.  Ironically another Vancouver show.  Again, DZ had great actors, but eventually, the Canadian filming locations just didn't work, especially as Stillson became more of a "national" figure.  British Columbia doesn't pass well enough for most of America.  It was often difficult to accept the Illuminati as the show never brought it "to scale."  I mean, how fearful could they be if everything happened in some backwater locale?  Never in a major city?

A mile into this Prisoner episode, Tracy reveals he's currently working with Jacob Epstein on the reboot, the only "holdover" from the original show production wise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVE5xTY2WI

He also jokes about JRD, and that Fox wanted a "hot chick" to replace the "old guy."  Also that they wanted lots of backward hat wearing skateboarders in the background of every episode LOL.  Said JRD he talks to periodically and would be enthusiastic about coming back, but Tracy mentions that because John lives on Isle of Man, he's a bit "off the radar."

Tracy also said he recently found out Kelsey Grammer was interested in the Arturo role, which he never knew about, if true.

On the reboot, said "there's a few things to work out," unfortunately the host stepped right on top of Tracy's comments, and later I think Tracy, when asked about a new home, said "won't be the Scifi Channel."  I think.  Later he mentions that Danielle Claman (longtime studio exec) is the one organizing this reboot deal.  And muttered about the conglomerate that controls Universal TV rights such as Sliders.

I just (independently/ironically) just finished watching last week's The Prisoner chat with Tracy.  I was stunned at the news!  They speak about it at the 1 hour 55 minute mark.

Tracy says there's going to be a "Sliders Convention" in Long Island, NY, in summer 2022, in the "early stages."  It's (thankfully) NOT per Tracy to be run by Creation Entertainment.  Sounds like he will reveal more information later, as it didn't sound like he had it in front of him. 

PS: Tracy later recounted a funny story about a fake Tracy Torme Facebook page doing a Q&A, which he found out about it, and showed up and was kind of turned off on social media by that.  His wife is currently putting something together for him now though.

I slinked onto the TCM App and gave this a watch.  It's a good late 70's style thriller, and Bujold is very good in it.  Didn't really remind me much of any Sliders episodes although like TF said My Brother's Keeper but this one was very sinister.  Much more like The Island.

Sliders related, the creator of the People's Court, died.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a … ge-85.html

I've seen many of the fan Trek films, and for awhile they were really cool.  However, they had too many awful amateur actors in them working with Koenig or Takei or whoever.  There were a few that were REALLY good that only featured working actors. 

Anyway, Cabby I don't think Tracy has trauma from the original run of the series.  He fought with the network quite a bit, and I think he was often kind of like stuck in a crappy job with idiots for bosses.  Like most Hollywood writer/creators he seems to jump around a lot, in fact he admitted to having given up on projects he should have fought for.  That's kind of been his M.O.  Let's hope this reboot isn't one of them, although he doesn't have much of an alternative should NBCU fully deny his project.  They own it.

I do have a long running streak of seeing Bond films in the theater.  I may go after it's been out awhile and I know the theater will be empty.  Ditto for Ghostbusters Afterlife.

Again, I have no problem with your first update on her situation.  And yes, a "What the hell is up with Zoe" thread would have been a more appropriate place for our version of the Nancy Grace Show.  The situation she's in is very concerning/scandalous, and we could probably discuss it for quite some time, but away from THE main thread on the Torme reboot as there's bound to be more news within a few weeks time.  That's why I politely asked to have the Zoe stuff split off, it's a simple admin task.

You can only have so many characters on this kind of show.  There's only so much room on the page, and on camera, not to mention the budget, for actors.  Sliding from world to world makes a large ensemble really impossible.  I'm actually surprised he's expanding to five.  Obviously, if Wade is gone, the now teen child carries that loss, which becomes a tool for writing each episode.  Sort of like Quinn was with his deceased father, again, there's a formula to follow.  Don't think Tracy is opposed to guest appearances, as he said as much.  However, it's clear some characters like Logan for instance, he obviously isn't interested in, nor the Nazi Kromaggs.

The LAST thing any showrunner should do is to take that kind of direct fan input.  Listen, if you loved what he wrote in the first 2+ seasons, then have faith he'll get it right this time.  Besides, those "mistakes" you're worried about came after he left the show, and it was controlled by a total disaster.

Frankly I don't think it's appropriate to even banter about this, and certainly not in the "Return of Sliders" thread.

How high up is this executive?   Can he/she effectively green light?  NBCU/Comcast is a tough nut to crack.  Their original programming on USA, SyFy, and now Peacock are absolutely hideous.

I agree, with a likely situation being the daughter dreams of Sliding and/or is rebellious and doesn't listen to her dad.  She accidentally sets it off or something, and they get sucked in.  Of course, it would only be fitting for Rembrandt to be sucked in as he drives up to their house, in another Caddy!

The way Tracy framed it was he expected they'd take the pitch and be like, yeah go ahead, let's do this.  Nice of him to be that optimistic, because I sure wasn't.  The "time" thing was them asking him, why is now the right time to bring it back?  Obviously he could come up with 30 good reasons, but again this is a company that has no clue what it's doing.  I take that as them saying, why should we care about some show from 25 years ago?  They are that dense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WL55qz8dmk

Here's my synopsis of the chat, which was really great by the way, MSZ and TT really took it over just by themselves.  Obviously reboot-wise sounds like Tracy envisions Quinn and Rembrandt returning with 3 new characters, including a child of Quinn and Wade.  Wade likely has perished but Arturo remains somewhere.  This group has been stuck on a world due to the window being missed and a new window is soon to open.  Very cool!  Unfortunately, NBCU didn't sound super into the timing of it, and they own all the rights.

Tracy curious about MSZ and Peckinpah.  "Wasn't the most pleasant, but they let him have sci-fi writing/re-writing."  Complemented Dial and Black.  Tracy was comforted that Marc was on the staff.  MSZ mentions that Peck bought a "clone script," my guess is My Brother's Keeper, which he said was terrible and not to buy it.  Peck did it anyway and Marc had to rewrite it.  Tracy then repeats the Easy Rider biker nonsense with Peck's girlfriend!  HA HA HA.  The host then interrupted the Peck "love session" LOL.

Tracy later name dropped (badly) Earthprime.com and the old Dimension of Continuity.  Unfortunately, since this damn YouTuber never publicizes the streams, I missed it and could not offer to correct Tracy. 

Marc describes his Twilight Zone book work, and future plans for recently found Rod Serling dictations.  Short discussion on Sliders, where Tracy said that the series, at least on FOX, was shot in 35mm though probably not the effects.  Followed by more Star Trek complaining. 

Back to Sliders, co-host asks about retconning the old show.  Will remove the Kromaggs, even mentioned looking at the Sci-Fi seasons for "rules of Sliding" but doesn't sound like he cares about revisiting what happened.  Marc describes World Killer to them.  Tracy says reboot should be in San Francisco, but would love to shoot in Vancouver again.  Also speaks on Bennish, could bring him back, not sure about Logan.  Said Arturo character in reboot won't just disappear, would be addressed. 

Marc speaks about how he changed Maggie's character to better suit Kari's abilities.  Tracy says he got along with tempormental JRD, really liked him.  Says he's really mellowed, had nice conversations with him.  Marc then talks about the limitations Charlie O'Connell had.  Interesting that Marc never knew Cleavant had a twin brother!  Tracy felt that Rembrandt's character was done improperly, should have stepped in say S4, that they lost the show biz guy and turned into an action figure.

I saw a promo for that during the IndyCar race, looked boring, probably more for women.

Have you seen Future Man (Hulu show)?  It went 3 seasons but has a lot of the kind of Sliders aspects to it.  Small group, constantly hopping timelines to fix it (get home).

https://news.yahoo.com/why-annual-covid … 24502.html

This was who I referenced on the boosters.  My allergy doctor, a long-time immunology professional, told me this guy is one of the smartest there is.

By the way, this study claims that most surgical masks and cloth coverings filter only about 10 percent of exhaled aerosols.  KN95 are 46% while the N95 is 60% effective.  This again goes to my point that most people are using masks that don't do much of anything.

https://nypost.com/2021/08/22/study-fin … oth-masks/

ireactions.....I'm about 99% certain I know the man who spoke of as "Francisco Herrera" LOL as he's pretty active on the Sliders FB group.  I get into it frequently with him, because he's quite the "know-it-all" and his new crusade is to complain about anything woke.  Suffice to say he doesn't have much reverence for any of us who've been in the Sliders online community for over 20 years.  Which is fine.

Moving on, guys the sad fact is you will not find one instance in the history of mankind where an occupying army completely withdraws from a war it has effectively lost, and there is no chaos.  There is always chaos, and there are always huge numbers of people left behind who fought/aided that same army.  It is unavoidable, and is not the fault of the military leadership.  The media is full of Monday morning QB's from right to left, but none of them have a reasonable alternative plan for what's happening there. 

The only alternative is to redeploy probably 100K US forces on the ground, a level we have not had in a decade or more.  Biden is trying to avoid having US Marines having a firefight with Taliban.  That is his goal here, get Americans and Western nationals out.  So that's where we are.  If he can accomplish that to a satisfactory level, great.  Doesn't seem like it right now though.  For those who will start screaming Al Qaeda will return, or they won't let girls go to school, whatever, enough already.  We cannot be at war.  The Afghans largely gave up when Trump made that deal in February 2020, it is what it is.

Not sure how "in" Sabrina might be, with young children and a husband who travels significantly.  Timing/Availability will remain suspect, kind of the same with John Rhys-Davies, who I'm not even sure which country he's in presently.