Glen here...

...with some news that has been a long time coming.

Even as the Babylon 5 franchise faces an apocalypse of bad luck and lousy timing (specifically: lagging ratings, the implosion of its spin-off series Crusade, and the endangerment of the eagerly awaited Babylon 5 flight simulator game) - there is indication that some life may yet be left in The Little Station That Could.

THE BIG PICTURE DVD web site recently conducted an interview with the development team at Warner Bros. Home Video.

In short, the interview reveals that Warner Bros. DOES have plans to issue Babylon 5 on DVD. When asked whether or not the DVDs would be issued in the series' organic "aspect ratio" (each episode of B5 and Crusade is filmed in a special widescreen ratio which will ultimately accommodate their transition to HDTV broadcasting), the team indicated no decisions have been made about this factor yet.

Whether or not this news is happenstantial, coincidental, deliberately scheduled, or just plain welcome - one thing is for sure: this is a good, good thing to the hordes of B5 fans who have been holding off on buying laserdisc and video releases of the series' episodes in the hopes that the show would one day be blessed by the glories of DVD.

To read the good news for yourself, CLICK HERE to jump to The Big Picture web site. This has been a long time in the making, and many folks have waited very patiently to see such a hope realized.

While this is a magnificent start, I personally won't be happy at all until I plop a disc into my player which is letterboxed in the correct ratio. Then, I couldn't be held accountable for my bodily emissions...