'Bred Crumbs

Convention Update

The only big announcement at the Farscape convention was that a big announcement could not yet be made. But it was all the stars and producers on hand could do to keep from blurting out the news that is about to be unveiled regarding the series' resurrection. The actors often lapsed into future tense with big grins, and we were repeatedly reminded that the show's ringleader, David Kemper, wasn't able to be with us because he was in Australia working on "a very important project."

At first, not getting the official word was disappointing. But as the convention progressed, much humor was derived from hinting and teasing about what became known as The Australian Project That Cannot Be Talked About. Claudia Black opened her appearance on stage by agonizing about how hard it is for her to keep secrets, and mentioned passing up a job offer to take part in ... something. Then Ben Browder riffed a kind of top-five list of reasons the announcement could not be made at the convention (since the news came from the other side of the dateline, announcing it would cause a rift in spacetime, etc.) If the real news weren't due very soon, the conspiracy might have been torturous; instead, it gave the gathering a nice bit of electricity. Hope will do that.

More L.A. notes, from within the convention and without, later.

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