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Digest - 28 Jan 1996 to 29 Jan 1996 - Special issue

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There are 25 messages totalling 1016 lines in this issue.

Topics in this special issue:

  1. NATPE Summary; Phase 2 Strategy
  2. Help with fiction piece please...
  3. Nick I Am  :)
  4. Ger's Chat
  5. mugs
  6. Who`s sexier? De (2)
  7. Nick nude
  8. Vampires & Flying
  9. Ger Wallpaper (3)
 10. Words from Erin Murphy of OMNI (2)
 11. NATPE Brochures / KK?
 12. NATPE Triumphs, *HEY TONI!*
 13. Playback article - Bedard/Lalonde
 14. Addendum: Thoughts on . . .
 15. Air times this week?
 16. Vampire Flight
 17. War? War? ah, noooo....
 18. Vows Upheld
 19. Tape tree update
 20. Blood Drive?
 21. Some thoughts about NB's post (long)

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Date:    Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:24:47 -0800
From:    LC Fenster <lucienlc@i.......>
Subject: NATPE Summary; Phase 2 Strategy

This post contains suggestions on where we might go from here with the
SOS campaign strategy-wise, based on discussions with a number of
people.  But first, a quick note about our NATPE stand and its impact:

Word has it, from a variety of sources, that we stunned the industry.
Truly STUNNED them.  The independent companies are cheering for us.
TriStar and USA Network are shaking their heads.  The Neilsens were
already under attack, and Forever Knight fandom is being seen as
another serious blow to their credibility.  FK is the talk of all the
coffee clatches at TriStar, AND TriStar (and FK) is the talk of all the
coffee clatches elsewhere in the industry!  :-)

The industry is amazed at our sophistication, professionalism and
organization.  That old shibboleth, about how it is best to appear as
an unorganized group, has been put to rest by our efforts.  Now the
industry is beginning to look at fans as an untapped resource in
selling and promoting their shows.  That has never happened before.
And it is happening because of US.

Best of all, there is now a chance -- just that, a chance, not a
guarantee, but a realistic possibility -- that there will be more FK
after this season.  With or without USA, perhaps movies instead of a
4th series, but SOMETHING.

And that would never have happened if not for the work that every
single one of us has put into this campaign.  And all the other people
who have gotten the word from us and pitched in.  So everyone should
feel very proud of themselves today. :-)

More tidbits from NATPE itself that you may have missed:

Kay Koplovitz was extremely annoyed at her subordinates for not knowing
about us.  She made a call on her cellular phone from the NATPE floor
and reamed someone about these FK people being at NATPE, and why were
they here, and why did she know nothing about it. :-)

People took flyers over to the TriStar booth and asked what was the
story with FK.  People ALSO took flyers over to the USA booth and asked
what was the story with FK, don't you broadcast this show, what's going
on.

People on the NATPE floor were using their laptop computers to dial
into the Save FK web site!

So, where do we go from here?  We've gotten TriStar's attention, in a
big way; but we still have to sell them on the idea of a 4th season.
It now looks like the key is going to be the February ratings sweeps
(yes, I know, everyone is down on Neilsens, but they're still the only
game in town).

Some additional useful information gleaned at NATPE:

* Feltheimer is the right guy to be targeting; it's going to be his
decision.

* The presents received by USA and Feltheimer made a surprisingly
favorable impression.  USA was amazed by the candygrams, and Feltheimer
loved the vampire cookies ("I've got a fan!").

* the industry has been particularly impressed by the long sponsor
lists on the web page, and the fact that we have really been WRITING to
those people

MOST IMPORTANT:
* FK has been generating a 1.7 rating nationwide, and TriStar needs a
"2" rating; otherwise, it loses money on the show.  It needs more money
from syndicators, and they won't pay more unless the show generates a
"2".

So taking all this information into account, where do we go from here?

In my view, our new campaign goal has to be to achieve a 2+ rating in
the February sweeps.  If we can do that, we've got a darned good shot
at a 4th season, imo.  We're even helped in this by the fact that USA
is no longer out there, splitting the market.  And by the prospect of
good episodes, including Janette's return.  However, that probably
isn't enough.  Unfortunately, exhausted though we all are, we have to
redouble our efforts for the month of February.  (After that, though,
it's out of our hands.  For a while, anyway.)

How do we do this?

*Continue writing our letters to Feltheimer at TriStar, and, now that
USA is back in the picture, to Kay K at USA.  When you write, mention
the syndicated station where you see FK; if you don't get it on a
syndicated station, mention that as well.  If you can afford it,
consider sending along a present from your region of the country (we're
trying to make a favorable impression AND show that FK support is
nationwide).  The gift effort for Feltheimer and Koplovitz is being
coordinated by Laura (Apache); please contact her by e-mail for more
information. Her address is: lf@c........

* Continue writing to the syndicators.  If FK is on in a good time slot
in your area, thank them for it.  If it's on in a bad time slot,
respectfully suggest that they move it to a better one.  If you want
demographic information as ammunition (to show them that FK does well
in better time slots), e-mail me, or Diane E. or Toni H. for it.  If
you can afford a small present to your syndicator (flowers and
homebaked cookies worked well for those who tried them <g>), better
still.

* If you happen to know any Neilsens' families (or better yet, if you
are one), make sure FK gets recorded in their book! <g>

* Circulate flyers in your neighborhood, school, wherever.  Make sure
they have three addresses on them:  Jon Feltheimer's at TriStar, Kay
Koplovitz at USA AND your local syndie which shows FK.  If you need
help designing such a flyer, contact Lana Soward lgs@i....... and
ask her; she will customize a flyer for your area and station.

* PUBLICITY: we must continue to strive to attain publicity.  Contact
your local newpaper with our press releases.  Continue to search for
media contacts to the networks, the major national papers, etc.  If we
can gain some national exposure, we'll have people watching simply
because they are curious.  Curious viewers count as much in the
Neilsens as dedicated ones <g>.  Besides, with the promise of good
episodes, curious viewers can become dedicated viewers pretty quickly.


Before NATPE, we barely had a hope of a prayer.  Now, there's a real
chance we can get somewhere.  But only if we keep at it.

Laurie Fenster

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Date:    Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:41:39 CST
From:    L'Phantom <jrarmstr@p.......>
Subject: Help with fiction piece please...

I've started work on a short fiction piece, and I need to know whatever became
of Divia.

Anyone know?

Inside your mind, as always,
L'Phantom
--Cousin-in-training

Help Save Forever Knight!  Ask me how!  jrarmstr@b.......

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Date:    Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:23:00 -0500
From:    Tamatha Williams <sackett@u.......>
Subject: Re: Nick I Am  :)

On Jan 28, 1996 00:55:45, 'Lisa Wolters <MVRJasper@a.......>' wrote:
>Regarding the wonderful "Nick I Am" silliness going on on FKFIC-L (it's a
>gleeful ripoff of "Green Eggs and Ham" for those of you not on the fic list,
>i.e., "I do not drink the blood of man/I do not drink it/Nick I am")...
>Am I the only one envisioning it as an oversized childrens' book, filled with
>pastel watercolor illustrations of happy vampires?  And thinking that this
>is one piece of tie-in merchandise that I would quite possibly kill for?

This is actually very funny to me  -  I just read "Green Eggs and Ham" in
storytime the other day. I could see myself sitting in front of 10-20 3-5 year
olds reading "I do not drink the blood of man/I do not drink it/Nick I am" and
then trying to explain to the parents why I'm reading it - "but he's a good
vampire, trying to regain his mortality and save himself from damnation. Oh
you don't like that - well how about the value of persistence, doing good
works,etc."
--

Tammy Williams  - Cousin extraordinaire/
MFW / assistant FW for Joe, Connor, and Kalas
sackett@u.......
My life is the product of a diseased mind and I love it.

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:57:33 -0500
From:    Maria Vrzoc <vrzoc@u.......>
Subject: Ger's Chat

Will it be possible for the AOL deprived to read Ger's chat from this
Saturday? Is there a possible ftp site?

Many thanks.

M. Vrzoc (vrzoc@u.......)              | Just a little off the top!
                                       | -- A. Boleyn

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:10:33 CST
From:    "OREL, SARA" <FA55@n.......>
Subject: mugs

I have a CERK bumper sticker on my car and I was just wondering if Ron
the Enforcer would be interested in checking out how much it would cost
to do CERK coffee mugs (extra large, as mercs (who actually run the
station) drink lots of coffee).  How about it, Ron?  Count me in for at
least two and perhaps three (one for me at work, one for me at home, one
for my mom, and one for the lovely friend who sent me both a Raven and a
FK shirt for Christmas (a raven shirt, the one with the three vamps on
it).  She loved the bumper sticker, by the way, and would have put it on
the car, but her father totalled her car on the 401 the weekend before
Christmas.  They were very relieved as he was fine, but boy was she
annoyed about the car...
      So, Ron, could you make a mug or two for me????
      I would actually prefer it without a bite taken out.  Black
background would be cool (but white would be okay, too).  Anyone else
want to do this?  You could have one side with the CERK logo and if you
felt ambitious, the Nightcrawler written on the other, or the saying
"merc radio , am 490 (that's right, isn't it?)

 Mercenarily yours (acquisitively yours),
                  Sara

FA55%nemomus@a.......

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Date:    Sun, 28 Jan 1996 22:24:24 -0800
From:    K Swanson <kswanson@d.......>
Subject: Re: Who`s sexier? De

Marina writes:
>>Isn't there a scene in a first season episode in which he doesn't have a
>>shirt on? Okay, there was something draped in the way and your couldn't see

Then Sandra adds:
>That episode with the inspector's wife was Dead Issue (from first season).
>In the *Canadian* version of the flashback, Nick is apparently posing
>nude with a young woman for the painter Bosch.

And let us not forget the brief scene of Nick in his sunbed, wearing only
his shorts, from the opening scenes of Killer Instinct. :-)

Karyn Swanson
kswanson@d.......

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Date:    Sun, 28 Jan 1996 21:46:53 -0900
From:    Muldy Sculler <ffbmh@a.......>
Subject: Nick nude

Nick posing nude for an artist in the Canadian version--yet another
reason why living in Canada sounds interesting.  Oh, that is the Canadian
version of "Dead Issue."
Knight Bites,
Barbara

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:57:43 -0500
From:    Marcia Tucker <ScFiMarci@a.......>
Subject: Vampires & Flying

Felicia Bollin posted on 1/26 that:

>> If that were so, we could all do it.  I could not, for example,
just pick any telekinetic in the world and tell them to go out and fly like
Nick, Vachon, or even Urs. ;-)<<

I wasn't talking about telekinesis as is presently known to occur today,
supposedly, in some individuals with ESP.  That's just the simple and small
scale levitation and spoon bending abilities. Sandra Gray was right in that I
was thinking of telekinetic powers as frequently written about in many
science fiction novels, where it is assumed to be a higher telepathic power
that may occur in humans in the future, or in other sentient species we may
yet encounter.  Vampires are clearly superior creatures, and I would count
their powers as being similar to powers of beings I've read about in the
genre of science fiction.

Science fiction has this way of really expanding one's imagination and realms
of possibility, by the way...  ;D

And Sandra Gray wrote on 1/27:
>> I guess this is the kind of response you can expect from someone who
has an interest in science fiction as well as horror. :)<<

Thanks, Sandra - I take that as a compliment!

Marcia Tucker
ScFiMarci@a.......
Knightie

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:57:51 -0500
From:    Marcia Tucker <ScFiMarci@a.......>
Subject: Ger Wallpaper

From:    Carrie Krumtum <Carrie400@a.......>

>>Can't decide who is more sexy LC or GWD---

GWD, hands down (but the way, his GIF makes great windows wallpaper:))<<

Whew!  I'm glad I'm not the only Ger nut who's done this!  I had to shrink my
program manager to one side to do it, but it's such a nice pic... the same
dreamy Ger pic that's on the Authors and Readers info page of Tangled Web
Audio.

And those audio tapes are so incredibly wonderful...

Marcia, in love with that voice and doesn't mind at all the package that goes
with it.

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:02:19 -0500
From:    Marcia Tucker <ScFiMarci@a.......>
Subject: Words from Erin Murphy of OMNI

Hey, Listpals!

Directly after the Geraint Wyn Davies Conference (yes, OMNI has 45 minute
conferences, and yes, I heartily agree it was too short and I told Erin so)
Erin Murphy, associate editor of OMNI and Ger's "ghost typist", contacted me
to inquire how the conference went over.  Here are her words about her phone
conversation with Ger which I thought you would enjoy (I left out my comments
to her):

"He's a real doll. :) He was a bit distracted, trying to bowl and talk
at the same time. At the end there, he was kissing people good night, and
then he walked out to his car...
and I could hardly hear him because of the wind. He said the temp is 4
below zero there, and with the wind chill, it's much colder. He was sitting
in his car for the last few minutes...
of the chat. He was with several actors from the show. I think they
must be the new cast members and I don't know their names. He mentioned Lisa
and Blue (sp?).
He said he originally met Blu on the set of Robocop, which
I guess he did a guest appearance on, and he said they've been saying, "Oh,
no, it was much colder on Robocop."...
But he says the weather now is making them reconsider. :)
It sounded cold!
He just sounded like he was having a LOT of fun at
the bowling alley, and he was as nice as he could possibly be.
He gave me a running commentary on his bowling, but he admitted he was
fibbing about how well he was doing. ;)"

Erin also gave me this information about the conference log:

"The log is copyrighted by AOL. To actually post it on another service
or a Web site, I ask that people write to me for general permission and also
contact the folks at Center Stage. They can write to Amy Arnold at ...
Center Stage (AmyA) for permission. If you want to distribute it
privately by e-mail or post it on a newsgroup, I think that's OK. I'm
certainly not going to give you a hard time, and AOL seems fairly loose about
that sort of thing."

I'm not sure that "privately by e-mail" means the list, nor the newgroup,
though I could be wrong there.  Anyway, if you want to post it somewhere,
please keep this proper and e-mail Erin and Amy for permission.  Addresses:
ErinM@a.......       and    AmyA@a.......

I've written for permission to post the log (with row comments and the
post-conference get-together in The Morgue private room) to my ftp site where
I have the FK chat logs.  I believe Jamie is going to do the same for the Web
page and Perri Smith for the Knightie home page, both with permission.

(Oh, and NAFPE Strike Force, you're WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!  Thanks for your
incredible efforts!)

Marcia Tucker
ScFiMarci / OMNINexus / TVV Marci@a.......
Knightie

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:23:58 -0800
From:    "Toni C. Holm" <tch@w.......>
Subject: NATPE Brochures / KK?

Angela said:
>All the free stuff bins were hit, as well as any rack that looked
>like it had could contain literature at all. Yes, I made sure to leave
>a particularly large stack <snicker> (where the reps couldn't see them
>but the customers sure could) at the USA booth.

Wouldn't be funny if this was a contributor to KK's reported meltdown??
Angela, you're _all_ Cousin!

                -Toni   <tch@w.......>

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:24:10 -0800
From:    "Toni C. Holm" <tch@w.......>
Subject: Re: NATPE Triumphs, *HEY TONI!*

Swordsister said:
> Toni?  Oh Toooooniiiiiiii!  I know you know who this is, sweetie.  You
>were the one who repeated it to me like five times while I was trying to
>remember.  Speak out to the world!

You rang?

                Sandie Currie

She said she _forgot_ her business cards, but we didn't let that stop us,
now did we?  I did not get her title, just that she was in p.r. and that a
lot of stuff was being routed to her rather than Feltheimer et al. and that
she kept trying to tell them how much stuff she was getting.  So how about
if we send stuff to Jon F. we include a small card or chocolate kissie
*specifically* for her since she's the one having to deal with us??  (might
not be bad to have her appreciate how *nice* we can be -- when we want to....)

                        -Toni   <tch@w.......>

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:26:11 EST
From:    MS LYNNE R ACKERMAN <GNBV32C@p.......>
Subject: Playback article - Bedard/Lalonde

Very, very long post warning.  Article written out because people
asked for it.  My comments are in [square brackets]. Sorry to have so
many - I just couldn't agree with a lot that this guy said.
=====================

Article in Playback magazine - issue of January 29, 1996
by Dr. Robert Gardner

Dr. Robert Gardner is a professor of media writing and chair of the
School of Radio and Television Arts, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto.

PHIL BEDARD AND LARRY LALONDE
THE LIFEBLOOD BEHIND FOREVER KNIGHT

"Drama is comedy without the jokes.  It's all about structure."  Not a
bad line from part of a team of writers who struck me as hybrids.
Phil Bedard and Larry Lalonde are two 39-year old Canadians writing a
series very definitely in the American mode.

They look younger than their years, even though they're rumpled and
touching into exhaustion.  They are quick to point out, though, that
"39 would be old in the States."  In Canada, they're still kids, and
they have the quirky sense of humor and informality that proves it.
At Paragon, working on Forever Knight, a gothic tale about a vampire's
quest for mortality, they're like youngsters at a perpetual Hallowe'en
party.

Bedard and Lalonde started out as standup comics in Montreal in the
70's.  An irreverent comedy series for radio won an ACTRA award and
identified them as "guys who could write".

They've had stints with Royal Canadian Air Farce, My Secret Identity,
Dracula: the Series, Katts and Dog [called "Rin Tin Tin, K-9 Cop" in
the U.S.], and, in 1992, they landed an assignment with Kung Fu: The
Legend Continues, a series they co-produced.  [And Ger's been in all
those series except for the Air Farce -LA.]

The experience at Kung Fu and Warner Bros. was a bit of a trial.  Says
Bedard:  "Nothing was ever done on time.  Sometimes you'd be given a
scene to write and you didn't even know the context of the episode.
Some episodes would be as much as 10 minutes short, and they'd have to
be filled."

Lalonde puts it this way: "Television writing is often 'contained
panic', but there was nothing 'contained' about that particular experience."

Now they're writing and producing on the third season of Forever
Knight, budgeted at $1 million per episode.  [In Canadian dollars -LA.]

In the American system - by virtue of their age and experience -
they'd be show runners.  We ended up talking about this at some length.

What you have to realize (and this is where the Canadian system has
really gone wrong), is that everyone on an American show is a writer,
all the way from the neophyte (likely in his/her early 20's), up
through the story editors, the producer, the executive producer, and
above.  They all know a good script.

That's not true in Canada.  Writers form a sort of perpetual "peon"
class.  They seldom, if ever, move up the ranks.  As a result,
Canadian executives are likely to dress well, "give good meetings",
and they know the jargon, but they're at a loss when it comes to
evaluating a script.

The Americans - for all our tendency to think of them as Philistines -
have a profound respect for the writing process.  That's why the ranks
of the production companies, at the highest levels, are suffused with
writers.  Think of James L. Brooks, Larry David or Diane English.

Bedard and Lalonde are Americanized, too, in the way they understand
the system.

Forever Knight is shot in a former factory up by Eglinton Ave. and the
Don Valley Parkway in Toronto.  The sets - the vampire's lair, a
morgue, a police station, a bizarre nightclub and a rat-infested
basement - all exist in huge work spaces filled with the noise of a
clanking air-conditioning system.  It's quite unlike anything I've
seen in L.A., but it does approximate the huge back lots at Universal
and elsewhere.

Bedard and Lalonde are housed in an office with a garish color scheme.
 Two computers sit on their desks.  The lights are dim and the room
has the look of a den.

They like working on Forever Knight because it is so much less
"scattershot".  I took that to mean that, as writers, they have more
control and that the executive producers are script literate.

In this environment, they can prepare scripts - still under enormous
time constraints - that will adhere to a structure and a concept they
completely understand.  They talked about how they could write in such
a way as to maximize the budget and make the best possible use of the
available sets.

The show's executive producers, in valuing the writers, have created a
process that is creative yet orderly.

Sometimes, in Canada, a type of high-level tension and disorder is
seen as a necessary part of the act of producing television.   The
really experienced people in the States would find that attitude
baffling.  South of the border, a show that's been around for a season
or two has the precision of a Normandy landing.  It struck me that
Bedard and Lalonde, as show runners, are emulating the best of the
American process.

Part of the problem with any TV show is that they often get picked up
by a network late in the day.  And then the scripts have to be written
at incredible speed.  (Apparently, that was part of the problem at Due
South, where Bedard and Lalonde picked up a writing credit.  The show
suffered from an off again, on again syndrome that caused some
problems for the writers.)

But even Forever Knight is facing this difficulty in the current
season.  Because of delays in the pickup of the show, they couldn't
start shooting until July for a September startup.  Says Lalonde,
"Lead time is everything."

Forever Knight, which runs on CTV and is distributed in the States by
Screen Gems, has become something of a cult favorite.  [Oh, really?
(sarcasm mode very firmly on) -LA]  The early shows struck me as over
the top, but recent productions have found a shape and a style that is
somewhere between a cop show and a gothic adventure.

Bedard says one of the problems they faced with the show was
determining "exactly what it was about."  Apparently, Jim Parriott and
Jon Slan, the executive producers, kept asking, "What is the show
attempting to say?"  By that, they meant, "What aspect of human nature
are we talking about?"

Bedard and Lalonde were struggling to base the show in some type of
reality.  In a sense, the vampire dimension of the series is being
pushed further and further into the background.  [Oh, yeah.  That's
why we've had so many new vampires introduced this season - Vachon,
Urs, Screed, Perry and Jody.  Not to mention introducing a whole new
type of vampires (carouches) we'd never even heard of before!  And why
so many of the episodes have focused so much on the vampires instead
of on the police aspect of the show.  I wonder when this guy actually
did the interview? -LA]

The show deals with a soul trying to achieve mortality and peace.
It's not enough to have bats and blood...that will only take you so
far.  The series has to be about the human condition.  [Have you ever
seen a bat on FK?  Yeah, me neither!! -LA]

I asked the writers if the series has assumed a shape that is roughly
the same from week to week.  I've found that writers never like to
admit this, but when pressed there is always an admission that a show
which has been around for some period of time has a roughly similar structure.

We moved to a blackboard in the office to sketch out the show's
essential shape.  For example, there are usually four acts.  For the
uninitiated, an act is bracketed by commercial breaks.  (Sometimes, in
American distribution, there might be five acts, but that's an
artificial and arbitrary editing job over which the writers have no control.)

An act has a regular number of scenes (or beats).  In each act there
will be a "flashback", which serves as a type of subplot to the main
action of the teleplay.

The four flashbacks are linked thematically and normally provide the
hero with some recalled information which permits him to solve his
current dilemma.  [I think he means the four flashback >scenes<. -LA]

Often, once the step outline is prepared, outlining all of the action
of the show, the writers will start with the act break (or the break
to the commercial) and work backwards.

In addition, Bedard and Lalonde will often divide up a show.  One will
write the first half of the episode, and the other will work on the
latter half.  Then they'll switch and rewrite each other's material.

If this strikes the observer as terribly mechanical, I can only tell
you that every experienced writer I've talked to in L.A. and Canada
will instantly recognize this as a necessary element in any TV show.
The underlying shape is almost inescapable.  The trick is to be
creative and original within the confines of this tiny prison.

Bedard pointed out that although the overall shape of the show is a
"very tight structure," the design "isn't written anywhere."  There is
no bible for the show.  It's in the heads of the key people.

Bedard and Lalonde work with the show's executives to write and
rewrite the material in a collaborative process that, again, mirrors
the way the Americans work.

Since the structure of the series is known intimately by the
participants, pitching a show becomes an exercise in shorthand.

Lalonde says last year they wanted to do a show on a near-death
experience.  If they were to pitch that show, it would go something
like this:  "The hero has a near-death experience.  That crisis takes
him back, in his imagination, to the past and the first time, as a
vampire, he almost died.  He has a chance to die - something he has
sought all of his existence.  The show deals with why he chooses to
remain alive even though he is cursed to live as a vampire."

So here they are with a structure that is roughly similar from show to
show, with a prescribed number of beats or scenes, a prescribed number
of flashbacks, a finite number of standing sets, combined with
location shooting and special sets.

They, along with a cadre of freelancers, all write the scripts and
then executive producer Parriott (like his counterparts in the U.S.)
will review the scripts, suggest changes or mark down, "DB - do
better).  Bedard and Lalonde agree that Parriott's instincts are
pretty infallible.

If Canadians truly understood the process, they would be full-fledged
show runners.  In the States, they'd already be training a bunch of
20-year olds to crunch out the words and the situations.  Their proper
role would be to mold and refine the scripts in a type of
apprenticeship we've never had the sense to emulate.

It's clear they love their work.  But they say that a writer has to
have a thick skin.  Scripts are rewritten more than they're written.
That's part of the game.

Essentially, Bedard and Lalonde, two funny and gifted guys from
Montreal, have been allowed to stay in the sandbox long after their
friends have headed off to a much overrated "maturity".  I suspect
they like it that way.  They've developed a skill and a craft that our
industry desperately needs if it's to play in the big leagues.

=======================

Well, for what it's worth, there it is.  I think it's a pretty bad
article (too much pontificating by the writer and talking-down to the
reader, not enough about Bedard and Lalonde), but if anyone wants to
write him the address is:

          Dr. Robert Gardner
          c/o Playback
          000 Xxxxxxxx Xx. X., Xxx. 000
          Toronto, Ont.    Canada
          X0X 0X0

A message from Lynne Ackerman in Toronto (or, as we like to call it,
"Hollywood North"!)    Via Internet:  gnbv32c@p....... (preferred
address) or be028@t.......
           *** Help save Forever Knight!  Ask me how. ***
http://members.aol.com/CuznJamiMR/SaveForeverKnight.html

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 04:20:00 -0500
From:    Cassie Carter <ccarter@b.......>
Subject: Addendum: Thoughts on . . .

Hello List Friends,

I want to thank all of you who have responded (privately and on-list) to
my post about list rules and the "v&v" problem.  (If you don't know what
the "v&v" problem is, you'll have to e-mail me privately.) Now that I know
more about the "v&v" poster and writer, I feel much less ambivalent about
the poster being kicked off the list.  Thanks to all of you who clarified
the details for me.

The reaction to my suggestion that an anti-libel rule needs to be added to
the list rules seems to be unanimous so far.  The general agreement is
that the people on FORKNI-L understand the difference between fantasy and
reality, that they know better than to post libelous messages of the
"v&v" variety.  I agree.  However . . .

The anti-libel rule I am proposing pretty much has nothing to do with the
regular participants on FORKNI-L.  I'm talking about a rule to deal with
situations like "v&v," where the poster knows nothing of how FORKNI-L
works nor necessarily cares.  All it would entail is a statement in the
official FORKNI-L rules that the list will not tolerate libelous posts,
and that the poster of any libelous message will not only be kicked off
the list but will also be solely liable for any legal action taken as a
result.  As an ex-listowner explained to me, Jaye could be held liable
for posts made to FORKNI-L.

An official statement of FORKNI-L's policy against libelous posts would
not only serve to protect the listowner, it might also *prevent* such
posts from appearing in the future, thereby saving potential victims the
pain they might have to endure from such a post.

Now, after reading many responses to my original post, I know you're
asking, "Why do *we* need such a rule?  The V*V post was an anomaly!"
Well, sure.  But I don't think we can assume that the ethical values
currently understood to be in force on this list will necessarily hold
out on their own.  We've been engaged in a MASSIVE publicity campaign for
FK that has included recruitment efforts all over the internet.  We're
getting new listmembers all the time; I, for example, was sort of
"recruited" from an FK newsgroup about a month ago via SOS posts.

Remember in my previous post when I mentioned the state of "entertainment"
commentary standard today?  I was referring in part to print media, and in
part to what's going on on the internet.  The high respect for FK
castmembers on FORKNI-L is definitely *not* standard anywhere else, and
I've heard from several listmembers that the FK spoilers newsgroup borders
on the obscene.  Now think about it: people on the spoilers newsgroup
could be joining THIS list right now.  They're coming from a setting where
FK is not discussed in the same way it is discussed on FORKNI-L.  Do we
just want to *assume* they're going to mind their manners?

Like I said, I came to FORKNI-L from an FK newsgroup only recently.  I am
at a total loss as to what is acceptable and unacceptable on this list.
I'm learning, but only gradually.  Think about it: wouldn't it be a good
idea to protect the list from the ignorance of rabble like me?

Oh, by the way, rabble that I am, I'm thinking about volunteering to
compile a list of unofficial list "rules" (protocol) for new members.
Anyone interested in contributing?

Cassie Carter                   |----------------------------------------|
English Department              |     Visit THE JIM CARROLL HOME PAGE    |
Bowling Green State University  |http://www.bgsu.edu/~ccarter/carroll.htm|
Bowling Green, OH 43403         |*Everything you want to know about JC!* |
ccarter@b.......                |----------------------------------------|

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:14:41 -0500
From:    Todd Cooper <todd@v.......>
Subject: Air times this week?

I missed Sundays episode (broadcast on WFXT Boston 11:30PM Sunday) Can
anyone tell me what the schedule is for USA or WPRI 10 in Providence
is this week?

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:39:15 -0500
From:    Jamie Melody Randell <immajer@p.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire Flight

On Jan 28, 1996 20:01:38, 'zillah <zillah@i.......>' wrote:


>And lets say I wanted to fly to New York because, oh I don't know, I wanted
>to bite Jamie so we could fly around the country bringing FK fans across.
>What would she tell me? I live at such and such street. I will be *way*
>over the street signs, too far to read them...

Actually, I'd tell you...

Follow the Atlantic Ocean coastline NORTH (first face the sunset, then turn
right) until you get to this incredible splotch of bright light in a teeny
tiny area.  That's New York.  The tall skinny island is Manhattan; when you
see that, drop a little lower.  On the right side of the island, count up
four bridges; at the fourth bridge, hang a right (east) and follow the big
street/ribbon of light... you'll be following either Queens or Northern
Boulevard; either one will take you close to Flushing Meadow Park, so look
for a huge silvery globe (the Unisphere from one of the old World's Fairs)
-- stand on top of the globe, orient yourself east-southeast, one quick hop
and you're there.

That's what I'd tell you.

Vampiric navigation isn't such a problem now, in the age of technology...

ObFK: YKYB on the list too long when you've got to be someplace VERY early
in the morning, and you get up an hour early just so you can read your list
mail first...

--
KEEP THE FAITH!
Jamie M.R. --The Illustrated C.O.U.S.I.N. -- Mercenary -- SFK WebGoddess
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/immajer/
THIS IS WAR #6. And this time, it's personal.

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:41:53 -0500
From:    Deborah Menikoff <menikoff@p.......>
Subject: Re: War? War? ah, noooo....

MS CHRISTINA L KAMNIKAR writes:
>with any of these people and can steal one... and someone brought up the
>Next War.

>As in "see you in April"!Yeep! I'm not ready yet! C'mon, guys, I'm still in
>Sleep Deprivation Recovery from the last one! And aren't some of you going

Oh dear. Sorry...I wrote that about April but I promise it had nothing to do
with a war. It's simply tht I am going to California in April and am
dropping in on Dianne for a couple of days while I am there.

Virtual theft....my elbow. I am going *out* there. <vbg>



Cousin Deborah
"I hate when people get away with murder on my watch"
menikoff@p.......
http://www.cup.org/people/homepages/djm/page.html

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 06:58:47 -0500
From:    Jamie Melody Randell <immajer@p.......>
Subject: Vows Upheld

Having succumbed to the inevitable -- and the promise I made while
sleep-deprived -- I wish to announce the meaning of the acronym below.

C.O.U.S.I.N.:

Creative.
Original.
Unpredictable.
Sincere.
Insane.
NATPACKER.


Expressions of amusement, dismay, outrage or relief may be directed to me
at this address.


--
KEEP THE FAITH!
Jamie M.R. --The Illustrated C.O.U.S.I.N. -- Mercenary -- SFK WebGoddess
http://members.aol.com/CuznJamiMR/SaveForeverKnight.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/immajer/
THIS IS WAR #6. And this time, it's personal.

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:02:55 -0500
From:    Lillian Feden <feden@m.......>
Subject: Re: Words from Erin Murphy of OMNI

At 02:02 AM 1/29/96 -0500, Marcia Tucker wrote:

>I've written for permission to post the log (with row comments and the
>post-conference get-together in The Morgue private room) to my ftp site where
>I have the FK chat logs.  I believe Jamie is going to do the same for the Web
>page and Perri Smith for the Knightie home page, both with permission.

Don't you need permission of the folks in The Morgue, not AOL?  Same with
the row comments.

Lillian
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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:44:12 -0500
From:    jennifer matute <jmatute@u.......>
Subject: Re: Tape tree update

please add me to the list..i will be knightless once usa drops it

cousine jeni
jmatute@u.......

On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Nancy M. Duemling wrote:

> Since I've gotten two messages in the last two days, I thought
> it might be prudent to post this again.  I am organizing pairing
> up those who are going to be FK-deprived once (if) USA stops
> airing the show with those willing to dub a copy of those eps
> that will air only in syndication.
>
> So far 16 listmembers have been paired up with folks willing to
> supply the probably soon-to-be deprived with tapes.  If you
> haven't gotten on the list and would like to either receive or
> dub tapes, please email me privately.
>
> And again, to all those kind souls who have volunteered to
> provide copies,  {{{{{{thank you}}}}}}
>
> Nancy Duemling, Knightie and DueSer (NancyD@p.......)
>   "Yon knight doth sit too melancholy"-W. Shakespeare
>       "That was a tree"-OFC to OFM
>         http://www.msen.com/~duemling/
>

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:53:39 -0500
From:    Sandra Gray <TMP_HARKINS@d.......>
Subject: Re: Who`s sexier? De

Karen Swanson writes:
>And let us not forget the brief scene of Nick in his sunbed, wearing only
>his shorts, from the opening scenes of Killer Instinct. :-)

Shorts?  Or do you mean underwear?  That was a pretty distant shot
and again, not full frontal view either.

--Sandra Gray, forever Knightie
--tmp_harkins@d.......

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:05:59 EST
From:    Karen Tobin <ktobin@t.......>
Subject: Re: Ger Wallpaper

On 29 Jan 96 at 1:57, Marcia Tucker wrote:

>> From:    Carrie Krumtum <Carrie400@a.......>
>>GWD, hands down (but the way, his GIF makes great windows
> >wallpaper:))<<

> Whew!  I'm glad I'm not the only Ger nut who's done this!

Absolutely not! I have the shot of him and his bottle as wallpaper.
Too blurry full size, so I tiled it. (That works nicley with the
picture you're using too, Marci!) Also my screen saver is a series of
pictures, mostly from FK. Lots of my sounds are too! (Everytime I
make a mistake, Nick says "Don't mock me."!!!)


Karen, Knightie/Heartbreaker/FFFROG ktobin@t......., KarenT1228@a.......)
Reference Librarian of the Save Forever Knight Campaign
Forever Knight has been cancelled. To help,  email me
and/or visit: http://members.aol.com/CuznJamiMR/SaveForeverKnight.html

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 05:19:32 -0800
From:    LG Soward <lgs@i.......>
Subject: Re: Blood Drive?

At 03:46 PM 1/28/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Dearest, I'd hold my tongue if I were you...
>...wouldn't want to make me..."cranky" for the next war, now would you?

Of course not, my dear.   Only turncoats would tell.  <g>
Lana
lgs@i.......

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:20:09 -0500
From:    Jamie Melody Randell <immajer@p.......>
Subject: Re: Ger Wallpaper

On Jan 29, 1996 08:05:59, someone wrote:


>Whew!  I'm glad I'm not the only Ger nut who's done this!

I'm curious.  Is there anyone out there who has a computer that they are
able to customize, who HASN'T customized it FK?

(I have a graphic bitmap of the FK logo and TO skyline as a full-screen
background, FK icons, .wav files -- am using up 2 meg of space I can't
afford to keep the FK theme as my start-up sound -- AND I found a neat
program that replaces the Windows logo start-up screen with something else,
so the FK logo comes up upon start-up.)


--
KEEP THE FAITH!
Jamie M.R. --The Illustrated C.O.U.S.I.N. -- Natpack -- Mercenary -- SFK
WebGoddess
http://members.aol.com/CuznJamiMR/SaveForeverKnight.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/immajer/
THIS IS WAR #6. And this time, it's personal.

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Date:    Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:53:20 -0500
From:    Jack De Winter <jackdw@m.......>
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about NB's post (long)

At 05:37 PM 96-01-27 -0500, you wrote:
>
>For some reason, the "virgin and the vampire" fiasco continues to gnaw at
>me, and Nigel Bennett's recent response to it has set me to thinking
>about it even more.  I just want to try to express what is bothering me,
>hopefully without sticking my foot in my mouth so far that I can't get it

In the midst of going through all of the mail about saving FK, it seems like
I missed this post.  I caught the post from Mr Bennett(uncle), but not the
original post.  Would somebody be able to send it to me through private
mail?

regards,
cousin jack
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