What do you think of the efforts the fans have gone to to save the show?
I went away on the weekend after I'd heard the news about the show being axed and I went through quite a quandary about whether I should stay in town or not. Everyone said, 'look, the show doesn't finishing filming until Wednesday, so go away for the weekend. Come back and come to set on the last night,' - it was either Tuesday or Wednesday, 'and we'll have a proper sort of...'. Whatever it was, we couldn't even call it a celebration.
I was absolutely gobsmacked when I heard that we'd made it onto CNN. I could not believe it - two or three nights. Two consecutive nights, I think, in one week and then the following week. The power of the group astonished me.
I've always been delighted by the Farscape fans when I've met them, but knowing that they were true to their word and would do whatever they could... Just knowing that it was a project that they cared so much about that they were willing to fight for it was touching, to say the least. Sadly now I don't know if there's much that we can do to save Farscape. The sets have all been pulled down, everyone's sort of scattered to the four winds and, if there was a movie... We always joke and say that it would probably be with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts just to get the money for it. Brian says there's no way that that's possible, that it can't be made without us, but I think what we achieved is phenomenal.
I think something like 5 percent of all TV shows around the world make it to a fourth season so we should all be really proud of that. The fans accomplished so much to begin with just by supporting the show the way they did.
Sci-Fi Channel took such a huge gamble making Farscape in the first place. We were lucky that it ever happened. Brian had been shopping around for five years to get someone to buy the concept, so to me it was a blessing to have that marriage with the Sci-Fi Channel. I hope the ratings for the final episodes of season four knock their socks off - knock everybody's socks off!
We've enjoyed incredible success here in Britain, which excites us a lot. I don't know if everyone's aware how much we enjoy hearing that it's doing well here. It means a great deal just knowing that it's being seen, that it's being appreciated beyond the States.
I've been amazed by the support we've had from everyone. All things end in one way or another, and I'm just hoping that all the fans will stick with us and that we'll choose projects that they'll continue enjoying.
[It's] very sad.
