Hot on the heels of the news that Drive won’t see its final broadcasts comes this equally depressing update:
The Adventures of Apocalypse Al, the twenty part series of five minute radio plays we produced last year (written by none other than J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame), will NOT be aired nationally anywhere on CBC Radio.
It had been delayed several times, and even forgotten about, so this isn’t really shocking news. And all hope may not be lost—it’s been sold to other broadcasters including NPR and BBC, and may be released on CD “eventually”—but it’s still quite disappointing that it’s not going to be broadcast here.
SFFaudio.com has started a campaign to get one of the regions to broadcast Al; we’ll see if it has any effect. For what it’s worth, I submitted Joe’s post to Tod Maffin at Inside the CBC, but it apparently didn’t make the cut (odd, since Tod had recently complained about it being a slow news week).
Huh? I must have missed that in my email. Wasn’t deliberate.
No worries. For whatever reason my email seems to get flagged by a lot of spam filters—ironic, really, since I’ve got several things set up so that tools can verify that mail with my domain on it comes only from me.