Farscape finale update

After the subject of the Farscape miniseries came up earlier this week in comments, it occurred to me that there’s been almost no news of progress on the Farscape mini-series. Even the Save Farscape site is lacking in hard information beyond the “officially unofficial” announcement that the miniseries would go into production in mid-December 2003. The nearest I’ve seen to official word on the production is this report on What’s Shooting in New South Wales:

FARSCAPE MINI-SERIES

TYPE: Telemovies (2 x 2 hr)

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Farscape Mini-Series Productions

PHONE: 8748 9299

START SHOOT: 15/12/03

WRAP: 15/3/04

Against that, there’s this report on Usenet from earlier this week (admittedly, a second-hand source at best) that Henson told a journalist that production hadn’t started yet.

If I were paranoid I might wonder whether the whole project has fallen through, particularly given that the management at Henson have presumably been preoccupied with negotiating the sale of the Muppets to Disney of late. But that’s very much a worst-case scenario. More likely, the silence is due to the production team being too busy working hard in Australia on the set to be spending time chatting with journalists in LA, and once the miniseries is in post-production and broadcast rights have been sold we’ll no doubt start seeing interviews with the show’s stars and writers. I hope.

[NSW Film and Television Office article via James O’Rance]