583: Could They Reboot 'Supernatural'?

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this flash episode we discuss the head-scratching news from two of our favorite franchises, as the prodigal showrunners have returned! First it’s the news that Russell T Davies, who brought “Doctor Who” back in 2005, is reuniting with his producers from that era to produce and write the show. Then came the announcement that J. Michael Straczynski has been contracted with The CW to write a pilot for a rebooted “Babylon 5.” Can you go home again? Will they play the hits or strike out in new directions? Just a reminder, nobody is going to delete your favorite old...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 5003, October 2021.
0:11.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.5	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.5	This episode's a little bit different.
0:15.8	It's a flash podcast, a current events podcast, about a thing, two things that have happened in the last week
0:24.3	or so that I wanted to get the band back together and talk about them. By the band, I sort of
0:31.8	mean the audio guide to Babylon Five. But I also mean various fans of Doctor Who because we're going to be talking about two big news
0:44.9	stories and also maybe some things, big picture things related to that.
0:48.5	It's the incomparable.
0:49.4	You know, we're going to scratch our chins and wonder about what this all means.
0:53.6	The two pieces of news, of course, being that the prodigals showrunners have returned.
1:01.0	Russell T. Davis, who brought back Doctor Who in 2005, is going to be in charge of
1:06.4	Doctor Who again.
1:08.0	And Jay Michael Strzinski, who created Babylon 5 in 1993, is apparently working on a reboot of it for the C.W.
1:20.4	So all your favorite TV shows, I guess, are going to come back with the same people producing them again.
1:28.1	Strange times we live in, but it's peak TV, people.
1:31.0	This is what happens.
1:32.0	So let me introduce those people that I just, if you listen to the audio guide to Bablon 5,
1:36.8	you know exactly who I'm going to introduce right now.
1:38.3	Chip Sutterth is here.
1:39.1	Hello.
1:39.8	I have always been here.
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