29 Sliders News
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This article is from the Sliders FAQ, by Ed Hall sliders@nym.alias.net with numerous contributions by others.
29 Sliders News
19 May 2001
news.answers approval for 2nd Edition of FAQ
9 January 2001
Updated version of Sliders FAQ released on Usenet
21 May 1996
SLIDERS' THIRD SEASON ANNOUNCED!
Fox announced SLIDERS will return next fall in its usual Friday night at
8PM timeslot. A full slate of twenty-five episodes have been ordered
making the third season SLIDERS first full season.
1 March 1996
SLIDERS' SECOND SEASON BEGINS!
31 January 1996
SLIDERS TO AIR FRIDAYS AT 8:00 BEGINNING MARCH 1
Thirteen new episodes of SLIDERS will return to Fox starting March 1st at
8pm. The first episode aired will be "Into the Mystic" will will resolve
the first season's cliffhanger.
10 December 1995
NO AIR DATE YET
Fox Broadcasting has still not selected an air date for the second season
of SLIDERS. Since they've waited so long, it's now only 50% likely that
new episodes of SLIDERS will begin to air in January as had been
previously announced here. If SLIDERS doesn't begin in January, it will be
delayed until March of 1996.
SLIDERS COMIC BOOK SERIES
A three-part SLIDERS comic book mini-series, targeted at adults.
Acclaim/Armada Comics was behind this project with the full backing Tracy
Torme and the SLIDERS creative team. D.G. Chichester was the writer, comic
book legend Dick Giordano was on the pencils, with the inks being done by
Mike DeCarlo.
Look forward to plot lines which just can't be done on television due to
budgetary limitations.
14 November 1995
D.G. Chichester (dgchi@aol.com) posted the following to alt.tv.sliders:
> To coincide with the new episodes, Acclaim/Armada comics will be doing a
> special two part comic book featuring the characters and concepts from
> the show (plus a few that were developed and haven't yet been approved
> for on air)! This will not mirror the new programs (not just
> adaptations) but will be all new adventures, and is being done with the
> cooperation and supervision of the Sliders' creative head honchos. If
> response warrants, this would lead to an ongoing Sliders comic.
>
> Hopefully this will be as succesful as the X-Files comic books so
> Sliders can get a little more exposure.
13 November 1995
The exact air date for the first episode is still up in the air. It most
likely will be a Sunday in January but which one is unknown until an
offical date is set. I've heard anywhere from the 7th to the 21st of
January mentioned.
Filming of "Time Again and World" has been completed. Filming of "El Sid"
has begun.
1 November 1995
Filming for the second season of SLIDERS begins on schedule.
29 September 1995
Filming for the second season of SLIDERS is scheduled to begin on
Wednesday, November 1st. A *tentative* airdate for this episode has also
been scheduled: Sunday, January 21st 1996.
The Executive Producers for the second season of SLIDERS are Tracy Torme,
Jacob Epstein and Alan Barnette.
18 August 1995
Robert K. Weiss, Executive Consultant of SLIDERS, reports that all four
principal actors (Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks, and
John Rhys-Davies) will be returning for the second season of SLIDERS.
29 July 1995
Robert K. Weiss announces that the Executive Producers of SLIDERS
(himself,
John Landis and Leslie Belzberg) have all stepped down from that post.
Weiss will be remaining at St. Clare Entertainment with the title
Executive
Consultant.
26 June 1995
Fox issues a press release which makes it official: Sliders has been
picked up as a 1995-96 mid-season replacement series!
16 June 1995
Fox Broadcasting ordered thirteen new episodes of SLIDERS as a mid-season
replacement. The new episodes will begin filming in October of 1995 with
an
expected air date of early 1996.
Congratulations to everyone who took the time to tell Fox that you wanted
to see more episodes of SLIDERS!
1 June 1995
Fox announced that SLIDERS re-runs will be aired starting Sunday June 25th
at 7PM (6PM Central.) Repeats will continue until a new series, SPACE,
ABOVE AND BEYOND takes over the timeslot in the fall. Fox also said "a
decision on SLIDERS as a fall backup is still pending."
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