XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: zxxxc@ee.com   
      
   On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:41:04 -0500, Stan Jensen    
   wrote:   
      
   >Enterprise Won't Be Shopped   
   >   
   >Rick Berman, executive producer of UPN's just-canceled Star Trek:   
   >Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that Paramount is not shopping the series to   
   >another network in the hope that it will remain on the air past its   
   >anticipated May 13 series finale on UPN. The studio considered that option   
   >last year, when the fate of Enterprise hung in the balance, but UPN   
   >ultimately renewed the struggling series for a fourth and now last season.   
   >   
   >"One of the greatest things that Paramount has offered us over the last 18   
   >years has been the kinds of budgets that have allowed us to produce the   
   >show at the quality that it's been done," Berman said in an interview hours   
   >after the official announcement was made by UPN. "The budget that all of   
   >our Star Trek series have demanded are the kinds of budgets that would be   
   >prohibitive on cable. So as of now the powers-that-be seem to feel it's   
   >time to give the franchise a rest, and I think it's most likely a good   
   >idea."   
   >   
   >Sources told SCI FI Wire that the show costs as much as $1.6 million per   
   >episode to produce, for which UPN paid about half. To win renewal last   
   >year, Paramount cut its fee to UPN, which resulted in some cost-cutting,   
   >which included shooting the series on high-definition digital video instead   
   >of film.   
      
      
    "So as of now the powers-that-be seem to feel it's   
   time to give the franchise a rest, and I think it's most likely a good   
   idea."   
      
   Nuff said.   
      
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