XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: nightspirit1701@yahoo.net   
      
   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.   
      
   Translation "I will not take a paycut!"   
      
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