In what may end up being another example of how rapidly the media is changing due to the internet, the producer of the Global Frequency pilot has been posting on his blog about the leaked copies that are currently being downloaded by the thousands (Ellis, the creator of the comic, has taken another route, pointedly reprimanding people who write him asking what his thoughts are on the current state of affairs). Rather than condemn the filesharing networks (though he’s been careful not to flat out laud them for getting his creation out to the masses), John Rogers has beentalking about the show with it’s growing fanbase . While stopping short at actually promising anything, he’s been talking about the very, very long shot of using this example of interest in the property to try to leverage some sort of deal to create and distribute more episodes. Of course, since this means getting DC and WB to actually think forward, the odds are heavily stacked against such an outcome. Still, it’s nice to dream and nicer still to see things move forward yet another step.

I assure all of you, I will call all the cast members over the next few days and convey to them your wonderful reactions, the genuine enthusiasm their performances created. (I think Josh and Jenni would like to know that a night under the rain machine wasn’t a total waste) I’ll also call Nelson McCormick, the director and let him know that on several counts he was right and I was wrong, and I owe him a beer. They made the show, you like the show. We executive types need to get the hell out of the middle of that relationship.

2.) I’m completely slammed on a deadline here, so I can’t give this the full attention I’d like to, at least not for the next week. I’ve got one first draft of a film I’m writing and three others in active about-to-get-a-director mode.

But you know what? I bitch and moan about how all this emergent technology is going to change the entertainment industry and nobody’s taking advantage of it. And here I have, well, unless I’m mistaken, a fan base which exists and is trying to organize for a show which has never appeared on television. Not a cancelled show — a show which has literally never aired on broadcast television. This is BoingBoing and Wired’s frikkin’ dream. Seeing as I was planning on writing a book on this stuff, I’d be insane not to follow up in some way.

And, maybe it’t the old stand-up comic in me, but to try nothing would be disrespecting you, the audience. I can’t bring myself to do that.

I’ll see if we can figure out what the next step is. I’ve got a light back half of 2005. Maybe it’d be fun to play Pancho to you fans’ Quixote.

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