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Theta Sigma
13-01-2007, 16:32
http://www.movieweb.com/tv/news/73/16973.php
"SCI FI Channel has greenlit production on Flash Gordon, based on the popular comic strip franchise, it was announced today at the Television Critic's Association tour. Production on the 22 one-hour episodes begins in Canada in early 2007. The series, produced by Reunion Pictures, is slated to debut on SCI FI in July of '07, with a broadcast syndication window to follow.

Under an agreement with property owner King Features Syndicate, the new series is being produced by RHI's Robert Halmi, Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr. (Tin Man, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Ten Commandments), who previously produced SCI FI's popular miniseries event Legend of Earthsea.

Ming, Dale Arden, and Dr. Hans Zarkov are among the many beloved characters returning to television in this contemporary retelling of the intergalactic exploits of Flash Gordon. Stellar adventures and heroic battles mark this inventive new take on the perennial science fiction classic. The Flash Gordon comic strip was created in 1934 by legendary comic-strip artist Alex Raymond and is still distributed internationally today by King Features Syndicate."

Theta Sigma
25-05-2007, 15:38
Found out that it was reported last month that the new Flash Gordon is Eric Johnson. His most well known role prior to his casting was that of Lana Lang's boyfriend Whitney Fordman.

The series will start in the US on August 10.

Theta Sigma
10-04-2008, 01:18
Flash Gordon has been cancelled:
Flash Gordon: Sci Fi Quietly Cancels Adventure Series TV Series Finale (http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/flash-gordon-sci-fi-quietly-cancels-adventure-series/)
"The latest TV series to be based on the classic comic strip Flash Gordon has gone where many sci-fi series have gone before — the cancellation galaxy. It turns out that Flash’s greatest nemesis this time around wasn’t Ming the Merciless but a lack of viewers."