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<p><dt>July 10, 2007<dd>	Administrative note: I will be on vacation when	<a href="guide/118.html">"The Lost Tales"</a>	is released. I'll have net access so please send in your comments, but	don't be surprised if it takes me a little while to update the guide	page.
<p><dt>June 1, 2007<dd>	<a href="http://babylon5.warnerbros.com">Warner Bros.' official B5 site</a>	has a trailer for	<a href="guide/118.html">"The Lost Tales"</a>	(Flash required; click on "Main Menu" then "The Lost Tales Movie.")
<p><dt>April 24, 2007<dd>	<a href="guide/118.html">"The Lost Tales"</a>	is now available for	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PHX8RA?ie=UTF8&tag=thelurkersguidet&linkCode=as2&camp=211189&creative=374929&creativeASIN=B000PHX8RA">preorder</a>	from Amazon.com.
<p><dt>April 23, 2007<dd>	<a href="guide/118.html">"The Lost Tales"</a>	will be released on July 31, according to	<a href="http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7211">tvshowsondvd.com</a>	(which also has a picture of the cover art).
<p><dt>December 2, 2006<dd>	Principal photography on the first disc of the new DVD series	has finished. There is now a	<a href="guide/118.html">guide page</a>	dedicated to it.
<p><dt>July 25, 2006<dd>	<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=168268569&s=143441">Season 1</a>	is now available for purchase on	<a href="http://www.itunes.com/">iTunes</a>.
<p><dt>July 24, 2006<dd>	Ain't It Cool News has <a href="http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23963">more	details</a> about the announcements at JMS's Comic Con presentation.
<p><dt>July 23, 2006<dd>	<a href="http://jmsnews.com/forums/showpost.php?p=29206&postcount=27">Lots of JMS news</a>	from San Diego Comic Con, including more details on "The Changeling" and	news of an anthology of B5 short films to begin shooting later this	year.
<p><dt>June 28, 2006<dd>	Ain't It Cool News	<a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=23720">reports</a>	that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("The Da Vinci Code," "Apollo 13," "A Beautiful Mind") is looking at directing JMS's script "The Changeling."
<p><dt>April 18, 2006<dd>	Windows XP users can now	<a href="http://television.aol.com/in2tv/heroes_horror_tv?defaultLevel=0&defaultItem=1">watch season one episodes</a>	for free online.
<p><dt>March 1, 2006<dd>	Jerry Doyle is hosting a	<a href="http://www.910knew.com/pages/onair.html?feed=122998&article=400764">radio talk show.</a>
<p><dt>March 1, 2006<dd>	<a href="http://www.andreaskatsulas.com/index.htm">Andreas Katsulas' web site</a>	has information about memorials.
<p><dt>February 14, 2006<dd>	Andreas Katsulas has	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=34628">passed away</a>	at age 59. Our sympathies to his family. Information on memorial	services will be posted here as it becomes available.
<p><dt>February 6, 2006<dd>	B5 writer Marc Scott Zicree is selling	<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4831021832">an	actual G'Kar prosthetic head</a> from the show on eBay.
<p><dt>January 24, 2006<dd>	<a href="guide/117.html">"The Legend of the Rangers"</a>	will be released on DVD on March 14. It is now available for	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CEXFYW/thelurkersguidet/102-3336090-0681703?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=1789&link%5Fcode=xm2">preorder</a>.
<p><dt>January 6, 2006<dd>	The B5 Scripts site has	<a href="misc/b5scripts2.html">changed</a> the proof-of-purchase	procedure for getting the bonus volume at the end of the series.
<p><dt>November 3, 2005<dd>	Here's a	<a href="misc/b5scripts.html">message</a>	to people who signed up for babylon5scripts.com's alert service --	an email snafu might cause alerts to go out to some people who	later unsubscribed.
<p><dt>October 30, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="<a href="http://babylon5scripts.com/">The babylon5scripts.com site</a> is now	online and taking orders for JMS's B5 script books.
<p><dt>September 12, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17383">All of JMS's B5 scripts</a>,	including some rare drafts never before published, will be available in a	series of trade paperbacks later this year. People who buy the whole set	will get an additional volume with a ton of bonus material, including the	original outline of the five-year arc written before the show went into production.	You can sign up for the availability announcement at	<a href="http://babylon5scripts.com/">babylon5scripts.com</a>.

<p><dt>April 13, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	JMS is cleaning house and has started auctioning off some of his	<a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfrppZ50QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQrdZ0QQsassZbabylon5auctions">rare memorabilia</a>	on eBay.
<p><dt>February 25, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17289">JMS has confirmed</a>	that the deal to produce	<a href="/lurk/guide/116.html">"The Memory of Shadows"</a>	has fallen through.
<p><dt>February 24, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/050225b.php">Dark Horizons	reports</a> that Mira Furlan told a recent convention audience that	<a href="/lurk/guide/116.html">"The Memory of Shadows"</a>	is no longer being made.
<p><dt>February 13, 2005<dd>	<a href="http://www.richardbiggs.com/">A Richard Biggs Memorial Show</a>	will be held on Saturday, March 19 in N. Hollywood, CA. Most of the B5	cast will be in attendance.
<p><dt>February 2, 2005<dd>	The	<a href="/lurk/making/cast.html">Cast</a>	page has been updated to note the death of Tim Choate (Zathras) last	September.  Since the filmographies on that page were well out of date,	they've been replaced with links to IMDB.
<p><dt>January 29, 2005<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.keepb5alive.com/">A campaign is underway</a>	to ensure that Warner Bros. does not force the original cast members	to be replaced in	<a href="/lurk/guide/116.html">"The Memory of Shadows."</a>
<p><dt>December 8, 2004<dd>	Newsflash: 	<a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7515">ComingSoon</a>	has some information about the story of	<a href="/lurk/guide/116.html">"The Memory of Shadows."</a>
<p><dt>November 26, 2004<dd>	Midwinter's web server is now a	<a href="http://bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a>	seed for the freeware fan-created	<a href="http://ifh.firstones.com/">Babylon 5: "I've Found Her"</a>	space combat game. If you're running Windows,	<a href="/lurk/misc/ifhsetup.exe.torrent">Download it</a>	and try it out! (And then please leave your BitTorrent client open for	a while so others can download it more quickly.)
<p><dt>November 1, 2004<dd>	Newsflash: Mira Furlan (Delenn) joins Daniel Dae Kim (Matheson from	"Crusade") on the November 17 episode of	<a href="http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index.html">"Lost."</a>
<p><dt>July 13, 2004<dd>	The guide page for	<a href="/lurk/guide/116.html">"The Memory of Shadows"</a>	is updated at long last.
<p><dt>June 2, 2004<dd>	A college fund for Richard Biggs' sons has been established. See	<a href="http://www.richardbiggs.com/memorial_service_information.htm">his official web site</a>	for more information.
<p><dt>May 22, 2004<dd>	<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20040522182556.22491.00000701%40mb-m27.aol.com&rnum=1">JMS reports</a>	that Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin) has passed away. Our	condolences to his family -- he will be missed.</td></tr>
<p><dt>May 20, 2004<dd>	All five B5 movies are coming on DVD on August 17, according to	<a href="http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/">TVShowsOnDVD.com</a>.
<p><dt>December 1, 2003<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl2140420723d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=20031130053357.16792.00001170%40mb-m07.aol.com">A new B5	project is in the works</a> according to JMS. Also, DVD sets of	the B5 TV-movies and "Crusade" are due next year.
<p><dt>September 19, 2003<dd>	Newsflash:	According to <a href="http://tvshowsondvd.com/">TVShowsOnDVD.com</a>,	the season four DVD set will ship on January 6, 2004.
<p><dt>May 25, 2003<dd>	Newsflash:	The season-three <a href="misc/dvd.html">DVD set</a> is available for	<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009OOFK/thelurkersguidet">preorder</a>	from Amazon.com and other retailers.  It ships on August 12, 2003.
<p><dt>January 7, 2003<dd>	Newsflash: <a href="http://www.thedigitalbits.com/">The Digital Bits</a>	reports that the season-2 DVD set will be released on April 29.
<p><dt>October 30, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: The Region 2 edition of the	<a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">season one DVD set</a>	is reportedly available now in stores in the UK.  The US release is	still scheduled for November 5.
<p><dt>August 14, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: Warner Home Video has put up a	<a href="http://www.whvdirect.com/babylon5/index.html">Web site</a>	(Flash required) for the season-one	<a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">DVD release</a>.
<p><dt>August 2, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: The season-one <a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">DVD release</a>	is now available for	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006HAZ4/thelurkersguidet">preorder</a>	from Amazon.com and other retailers.
<p><dt>July 15, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: <a href="http://www.thedigitalbits.com/">The Digital Bits</a> says	the season-one <a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">DVD set</a>	will be out on November 5.  The box set's cover art is	also available there.
<p><dt>June 27, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: The season-one <a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">DVD release</a>	will include audio commentary tracks from JMS on	<a href="/lurk/guide/013.html">"Signs and Portents"</a>	and	<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>	as well as cast and crew interviews.
<p><dt>June 9, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: <tr valign=top><td><nobr>June 9 - </nobr></td><td>	JMS has posted more	<a href="/lurk/misc/dvd.html">information</a>	on the upcoming B5 DVD release.
<p><dt>February 27, 2002<dd>	JMS's new show	<a href="http://www.jeremiah.tv/">Jeremiah</a>	premieres March 3 on	<a href="http://www.sho.com/">Showtime</a>.
<p><dt>January 25, 2002<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.thedigitalbits.com/">The Digital Bits</a>	reports that the complete first season of B5 will be released on	DVD this fall.
<p><dt>January 3, 2002<dd>	Newsflash: <a href="http://www.conjose.org/">ConJose</a>,	the 2002 WorldCon, will present a special	<a href="http://www.conjose.org/wsfs/wsfs_web.html">Best Web Site</a>	Hugo.  If you're planning to attend or join, remember to nominate	your favorite SF sites by March 31 (whether this is one of them or not.)	If you're not already eligible, you must join by January 31 to submit	nominations.


<p><dt>December 25, 2001<dd>	<b>We're back!</b>  After an extended hiatus, www.midwinter.com is	online again.  If you're curious,	<a href="/lurk/misc/outage.html">here's what happened.</a>	If you run into any glitches, please	<a href="mailto:koreth-lurk@midwinter.com">let me know.</a>

<p><dt>August 3, 2001<dd>	Newsflash: Amazon.com is listing a December 4 release date for the DVD	of	<a href="/lurk/guide/000.html">"The Gathering"</a>	and	<a href="/lurk/guide/111.html">"In the Beginning"</a>.	They are accepting	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NTNP/thelurkersguidet">preorders.</a>
<p><dt>June 21, 2001<dd>	TV Guide Online has a short	<a href="http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/010621c.asp">article</a>	about the new movie. 
<p><dt>June 12, 2001<dd>	SCI FI will be airing a promo for the new B5 movie during its	rebroadcast of "Dune" tonight through Wednesday night.
<p><dt>April 9, 2001<dd>	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/">The Sci-Fi Channel</a>	now has a section of its site dedicated to	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/crusade/">Crusade</a>.	If it looks familiar to you, not to worry; I knew about it well	in advance and everything is above-board and legit.
<p><dt>March 20, 2001<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2001-03/20/15.20.sfc">A new B5 TV-movie</a>	is in the works and will air on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year.	It may lead to a new series.
<p><dt>March 13, 2001<dd>	Newsflash:	The DVD releases of	<a href="/lurk/guide/000.html">"The Gathering"</a>	and	<a href="/lurk/guide/111.html">"In the Beginning"</a>	will be delayed until around August in order to use the updated	version of "The Gathering" rather than the original version,	according to JMS.
	<p>	"Crusade" begins on	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/">The Sci-Fi Channel</a>	on April 9.
<p><dt>January 25, 2001<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.thedigitalbits.com/">The Digital Bits</a>	reports that Warner Bros. plans to release B5 DVDs later this year.
<p><dt>January 21, 2001<dd>	Newsflash: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette	<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/20010120owen4.asp">reports</a>	that a new B5 movie, as well as "Crusade" reruns, may be on the	way from the Sci-Fi Channel.  (Scroll down to the third item in the	article.)
<p><dt>December 15, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: JMS has	<a href="/lurk/misc/widescreen.html">commented</a>	on the problems with the Sci-Fi Channel's widescreen broadcasts.
<p><dt>November 30, 2000<dd>	Netter Digital Entertainment's equipment (used in B5's production)	will be	<a href="http://www.rabin.com/Site/ProdCat.nsf/896ff8b3473ef6018525662c004c0eab/b75dbd7e0c3a0a588825699000710dca?OpenDocument">auctioned</a>	on December 7.
<p><dt>November 6, 2000<dd>	The	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345427203/thelurkersguidet">third book</a>	in the Centauri trilogy is out.
	<P>	Updated the	<a href="/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html">US schedule page</a>	with Sci-Fi's planned broadcasts of the five B5 movies.
<p><dt>October 2, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: Sierra is offering fans   	<a href="http://www.sierra.com/b5/">free promotional merchandise</a>	produced for the cancelled B5 game.  
<p><dt>September 30, 2000<dd>	A new page describing	<a href="/lurk/misc/jms.html">JMS's current projects</a>	has been added.
<p><dt>September 15, 2000<dd>	Reminder: The	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/">Sci-Fi Channel</a>'s	widescreen broadcast of B5 begins September 25.  There are reliable	reports that the B5 episode of "Sciography," originally scheduled to	air just before B5's premiere, has been delayed.
<p><dt>August 17, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: JMS's "Rising Stars" comic	<a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000816/en/film-rising_1.html">may be coming to a theater near you.</a>
<p><dt>August 12, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: The rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated newsgroup should be	back online by the end of next week, according to its moderator.
<p><dt>August 6, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: A new novel by JMS, "Tribulations," is available for free	online reading at	<a href="http://www.bookface.com/">Bookface</a>.	Also at Bookface is an unproduced "Crusade" script by Fiona Avery,	featuring the return of a B5 character.
<p><dt>July 27, 2000<dd>	New on the	<a href="/lurk/resources/cons.html">Conventions</a>	page: Details about the "Crusade for a Cure" convention in September.
<p><dt>July 11, 2000<dd>	Newsflash:	<a href="http://www.the11thhour.com/">The 11th Hour</a>	has an	<a href="http://www.the11thhour.com/archives/072000/features/jerrydoyle1.html">interview</a>	with Jerry Doyle, in which a possible followup series to B5 is	discussed briefly.
	<P>	Newsflash: Sci-Fi Channel's run of B5	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-sfc.html?2000-07/12/10.00.sfc">will be	shown in letterboxed format.</a>
<p><dt>July 7, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: JMS will be chatting live on	<a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a>	on July 10 at 7PM Eastern (4PM Pacific).
<p><dt>June 13, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: The producers of Sci-Fi Channel's "Sciography" are looking	for B5 material: behind-the-scenes photos and video and particularly	video of the Wolf 359 conventions.  They'd also like to interview some	ardent B5 fans in the Southern California area.  If you can help,	send mail to	<a href="mailto:jwwolterman@hotmail.com">jwwolterman@hotmail.com</a>.
<p><dt>June 6, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: The teleplays for two unproduced "Crusade" episodes, as	well as an original JMS short story, are available from	<a href="http://www.bookface.com/">Bookface</a>.
<p><dt>May 21, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: Season 5 starts in	<a href="/lurk/countries/se/eplist.html">Sweden</a>	on May 28.
<p><dt>May 19, 2000<dd>	Correction:	<a href="http://tnt.turner.com/">TNT</a>	will be reshowing all five seasons.	The first three episodes of season one will be shown in a	three-hour block at 6AM on May 20.  After that, episodes will air	<b>Monday-Saturday</b> at 6AM starting May 22.
<p><dt>May 16, 2000<dd>	Newsflash:	The Sci-Fi channel is looking for B5-related material for a new	documentary series.	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-05/16/12.18.sfc">Details.</a>
<p><dt>April 4, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: The US	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/">Sci-Fi Channel</a>	will show all five seasons of B5, plus the movies, starting in September.	<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-04/04/13.00.sfc">Details.</a>
<p><dt>March 3, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: Stephen Furst is slated to provide one of the voices in the	upcoming "Buzz Lightyear" cartoon.	<a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000303/en/television-lightyear_1.html">Full story.</a>
<p><dt>January 20, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: Daniel Dae Kim (Lt. Matheson) guest stars on this week's "Star Trek: Voyager."
<p><dt>January 1, 2000<dd>	Newsflash: JMS will be appearing on 	<a href="http://www.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,142059-311,00.shtml">CBS News Sunday Morning</a>	on January 2.  Check your local listings for times.
	<p>	Happy New Year!  Only 242 shopping years left till the Earth-Minbari	War.
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