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The interesting thing is that the “in your own lifetime” rule for time travel may bite them a bit.  They can’t really have a younger lead if they want some reach

Sam Beckett was depicted as 36 years old when he started leaping.  If they followed that template, the furthest back in time they could go right now is 1986.  If they used Sam’s daughter, they would have a 55 year old that could hit 1967 right now.

Of course, Mark Harmon was 51 when he started NCIS in 2003, so Bellisario isn’t shy about casting older leads.

Funny how history repeats.  Linked below is an actual 100 year old editorial cartoon following the Spanish Flu pandemic:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KurtBusiek/s … 7695100928

It was a very long time ago, but there was word that Kelsey Grammer was a Sliders fan.  It started with an anonymous poster on the old forums who claimed he had talked to Kelsey, but I believe it was later confirmed in an interview.  No idea where that interview would be.

Danielle Claman Gelber also fits everything Tracy has been saying:

https://www.thewrap.com/dick-wolf-danie … elevision/

She was a Fox Exec from 1995 to 2002; and before that was involved in development of Fox shows ranging from 90210 to X-Files.  She should know Sliders and it’s history pretty well.

Most recently, she’s had a big hand in the various Chicago series on NBC.  Her work on the Chicagos led to a first-look deal with Universal TV, so that’s the current connection and likely why she’s looking at Sliders.

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1891764/bio

Her career in tv is a long one - dating all the way back to The Love Boat.

Here’s an interview from last year:

https://youtu.be/EoGldC4Oe1s

Even Tom Selleck pops up in a bit part!

I always had a fascination with Montague:

When not in class, did he accidentally solve murder mysteries?  I bet he did.

Well, there was the Universal backlot fire of 2008 which destroyed the Chandler Hotel facade:

You can see The Chandler in flames beside that truck.

The fire spread from there to the King Kong attraction and the non-descript building next to it - the film vault.  You’ve actually seen the Universal film vault and may not realize it.  In season five’s “The Great Work”, the great work itself, consisting of a large corridor of shelves, is in fact the interior of the Universal film vault.

We’re told that no film was destroyed in the backlot fire, but they gloss over what happened to the original music masters of the Universal Music Group which were stored in the area of the film vault.  The masters (encompassing material from some 500,000 titles) were destroyed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/maga … dings.html

The collection included a wide range of artists including Louis Armstrong, Buddy Holly, Bing Crosby and Chuck Berry all the way to more modern artists like Eminem, Aerosmith, Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani.

Some shady maneuvers with NBCU and Peacock:

https://9to5google.com/2021/09/28/nbc-y … ck-report/

It does smack of desperation.

Building on the Narcotica comments a few responses up, here is an interesting look at the history of food that offers several points in history which could lead to a change in tastes and status:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2021 … e-luxuries

And now Babylon 5 returns:

https://gizmodo.com/babylon-5-is-gettin … 1847752907

I can see how this could work if you think of it in terms of history repeating itself and a pilot movie do-over.

The series opens on Quinn and Wade’s daughter having discovered something unusual in her search for anti-gravity, but she can’t quite get it to work.  She lives with her father Quinn who is ready to turn the house into a bed and breakfast if his daughter will ever graduate and move out.  Quinn has raised his daughter alone after his wife (Wade) died years ago.

But Quinn had another life his daughter doesn’t know about, and a special anniversary is on the horizon.  Quinn opens the safe in his home and looks at the timer.  He and his companions all agreed to meet again when the timer reached the end of its count, and Quinn calls Rembrandt to see if he’ll be there.

You can see where it would go from there.  Quinn and Rembrandt have no intention of sliding, but Quinn’s daughter and her friends cause things to spiral out of control.  That idea could work, and it would play into legacy ideas like the Ghostbusters reboot.  If Ghostbusters is successful, that could be a selling point for Torme’s idea (if that’s the direction he’s going).

Quantum Leap return in talks?

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/quantum-lea … es-return/

I can’t blame her, and she probably has a good case.  Start looking for pandemic clauses in future contracts; nobody has thought of that before now.

There was a prop Sliders pin that Sliders fans wore in the final episode, “The Seer”.   There would have been many made for the crowd of extras, but probably hard to come by now.

http://web.archive.org/web/200712290848 … derpin.htm

It was a typical, political campaign style button pin.

I never put much effort in finding it, but about 20 years ago one of those home re-modeling shows worked on Sliders writer Paul Jackson’s house.  I think they only did his office, but as part of it created a display case for some memorabilia (including a Sliders timer - either Egyptian or Rickman - can’t remember which).

I’m pretty sure it was an HGTV show - perhaps “Mission: Reorganization”?  But again, never put much effort into finding it.  It wasn’t as easy to find an episode back then (even Netflix didn’t go streaming until 2007, and it was the trailblazer for studios putting their entire libraries online).

Found this interesting:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xw3x/ … lapse-soon

The graphs especially piqued my interest.  They’re a road map for the elements of society that lead to what kind of world we’ll get; and as such show us the factors that could be examined in an alternate history to take us down a certain path.  There’s nothing novel about it; but it gives a focus I hadn’t seen before.

Sounds a lot more positive than I expected.  That’s exciting!

Also glad to see Tracy is looking so well.  After hearing about his previous health issues, I was really worried for him; but he’s looking great!

I don’t understand much about Bitcoin, but it seems pretty dumb.  You set up computers to run complex algorithms in search of an answer which rewards you pieces of coins or something?  It’s basically useless busy work that translates to money?

I remember the idea of lending your idle processing power to help sift through SETI data or the like.  At least that had some value!  But Bitcoin mining seems pointless.

Anyway, never bought a Bitcoin and have no plans to.

Well, I would definitely watch it (and buy a Peacock subscription for it if needed).  I support Tracy and hope he can find success!

Even “The Munsters” is coming back.  THE MUNSTERS!

https://bleedingcool.com/movies/the-mun … confirmed/

Hadn’t thought about this in awhile, but it clicked for some reason this morning.  Near the end of his dream, he said he saw Washington on fire and Trump was nowhere to be seen.  Sound familiar?

Trump told the crowd he would be there with them; but he was nowhere to be seen.

It’s just interesting seeing how this dream did hit on some things that were fairly specific.  Of course, the human mind can play tricks.  The reason that conspiracy theories are attractive is because the brain starts tying all sorts of things together to force a thought to work.  It’s a slippery slope.

Honestly have no idea.  Never paid much attention to his scattering of appearances because it was so overtly political it was a joke.  He was SuperObama.  But at least it would be a half-ass effort of making a new character by providing the name Calvin Ellis and a change in upbringing.

Half-ass is nothing to stand up and cheer about, though.  A lot of people just don’t seem to think they deserve more than that.

Not sure if the broadcast rights could be double dipped, but here’s a new channel to keep an eye on for Sliders:

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/rewind-tv-l … -tv-focus/

The new channel’s parent, Antenna TV, is something in my part of the country, so it could be a regional difference that would allow them to also have the Sliders broadcast rights.  We’ll see

It does seem their focus is comedy, so at most I would only expect something like Sliders once a week (like MeTV does with their Saturday Night Sci-Fi block)

And here we go again:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ms … emoremst3k

Tracy should consider a Kickstarter for Sliders.  Might be a dud, but worth a shot.

Seeing your list of questions, it focused my thoughts on this.  An interesting thing about our world is why items have value.  Gold has been a standard for millennia, but why?  Because it’s pretty?  Because there’s a finite amount that can be difficult to find?

Whatever the reason, the underlying truth is that it has value because everyone believes it has value.  That’s all.  Belief.  We’re having a new examination of this right now with Bitcoin and NFTs. There is nothing physical about them; but more and more people believe they have value, so they do have value.

If we have a world where hemp oils eliminated the petro-dollar, then how would the US prop up its power?

Tweak things slightly and see the US winning World War 2 (much less credit to The Allies). Japan surrendered to us.  As pointed out to 1955 Doc Brown in Back to the Future III, Japan was the leader in technology for some time (and still is in quality if not quantity). What if the US better retained its hold on Japan and cornered technology on the global stage?  What if the dollar is pegged to technology?  The birth of the techno-dollar.

On Hemp World, technology not only has astronomical value, but it’s a status symbol.  When our Sliders land there with digital devices (like their phones and even the timer), the local population assumes they are millionaires; and the Sliders decide to use the opportunity to live the high life for a change.  Of course, they experience the pit falls of that when it starts to become clear the Sliders don’t have anything more than what’s on them.  The population starts out believing the Sliders have value, but that belief starts to fade.

I’m reluctant to do “lost timer” stories, but I do have this vision in my head of the timer components (and active digital countdown) mounted in a clear case on a big gold chain hanging around a famous rapper’s neck.  The beam emitter?  Pointed up at the rapper’s head because he nor anyone around him understand what that thing can do.  The rapper is just using it as bling.

In any case, I think this type of story could be a good examination of why we place value on things.  By extension, it would also look at the fallacy of placing value on people based on the things they hold.

So today, DC Comics hired a new Vice President:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comi … president/

Some are joking that this now means DC Comics will be produced on hemp paper, and that may come to pass.  Hemp paper would have likely been the dominant material in newsprint except for William Randolph Hearst:

http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/pot/blunderof37.html

Just think of the differences over the past century if corporate interests had not crushed hemp.  No reliance on foreign oil.  No gas crisis in the 70’s.  The petro-dollar would never be born thus reducing America’s influence on the world.  DuPont wouldn’t have been as powerful thus reducing chemicals and plastics released into the world. Would pollution look different?  Would mental health look different?

This is where I think Narcotica failed.  It would be much more interesting to look at a modern world that never knew the word marijuana.  But corporate interests don’t fade away due to one lost battle; what would have been attacked instead to prop up an industry and world power?  That would be the key to discover and the vehicle to insert our Sliders into peril.  What innocuous item do they hold that would be demonized on this world?  That would take some thought.