{"id":3474,"date":"2009-04-21T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:15:57","slug":"david-hewlett-retakes-control-of-starcrossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/david-hewlett-retakes-control-of-starcrossed\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hewlett Retakes Control of &#8220;Starcrossed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a question posed to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Craigatscifi\">a SyFy representative<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>, David Hewlett has revealed he is taking back the rights to his sci fi comedy concept, <em>Starcrossed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>David declared (see<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dhewlett\"> his Twitter page<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">SyFy tells me that they&#8217;re going to give the Starcrossed rights back to us&#8230;once paperwork clears we shoot it!<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few minutes later, in response to another question about whether it will still be a made-for-web series, David said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"entry-content\">really depends on what SyFy allows with the paperwork&#8230;I want a 2 hour pilot!<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Starcrossed<\/em> grew out of Hewlett&#8217;s movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adogsbreakfastmovie.com\">A Dog&#8217;s Breakfast<\/a>, which featured a character playing an actor on a science fiction space opera.<\/p>\n<p>Sci Fi Channel announced they would make the concept into a web series, <a href=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/hewletts-starcrossed-to-be-web-based-on-scificom\/\">as we reported here<\/a>. The idea of the show is to take a comedic look at the backstage happenings of a TV science fiction production.<\/p>\n<p>We hope David will get to take <em>Starcrossed<\/em> before the cameras soon, and that we&#8217;ll see some familiar faces in the production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a question posed to a SyFy representative on Twitter, David Hewlett has revealed he is taking back the rights to his sci fi comedy concept, Starcrossed. David declared (see his Twitter page): SyFy tells me that they&#8217;re going to give the Starcrossed rights back to us&#8230;once paperwork clears we shoot it! A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/david-hewlett-retakes-control-of-starcrossed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Hewlett Retakes Control of &#8220;Starcrossed&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-david-hewlett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}