Would Hensons' ever consider making another science fiction show like Farscape?
Absolutely. I would love us to do another sci fi show. We don’t, at the moment, have anything that showcases the work of our Creature Shop in the way that I would like, and we’re certainly always looking at material to find the next thing that would be good for us to do as a company.
One of the joys of Farscape was producing it in Australia. When you see the show, you can see that it’s well produced and that the money’s on the screen, but it’s not until I went a couple of years ago to Australia [that I] saw the sets and the extraordinary way the show was put together.
[With] the collaboration of the cast and the crew and Ben Browder crossing between lead actor to writing episodes to wanting to direct episodes, it was like a family living in Sydney making this show. There were hundreds of people involved in it and I think that [in] Sydney, [although] of course there are lots of features filming there, a lot of people are hurting because [Farscape’s] no longer in production. It was a huge huge piece of the Australian TV business.
So are Hensons' planning something else in the same line as Farscape then?
We’re in the process of acquiring some interesting books and we will be developing from those books. There are two or three writers that I’ve always been passionate about, not authors but screen writers, that we are talking to about developing new things with.
