"I think the key is how much it costs to make a "good" TSCC series. TSCC has some special effects, prosthetics and explosions and such, but not really a whole lot of it, and some special sets.

So much of what I liked about the series was provided by the acting and writing. If you get good people and be smart about what you're doing, you don't need to spend a lot of money.

A low budget approach could put the series back on the air without really compromising quality. This contrasts with what we had before with a high budget approach that couldn't pay for itself.

For T5 and T6, I personally think the story is critical. The Terminator premise does not need to have huge special effects; the action can be human-scale. Just look at T1 -- a real work of art without much more than prosthetics and one exploding tanker truck.

At the other end of the scale, you could have more of T4. Exotic sets, lots of explosions, and all kinds of robot getups (Harvester, T600 endos, T800 endos, flying HKs, flying prisonor transports, hydrobots, motobots, geez.) Not that I didn't enjoy seeing all those robots, but much of it wasn't necessary for the story development, meager as THAT was. I felt that T4 was given too much budget and felt obliged to spend it all.

So, yeah, maybe it is better that LionsGate gets TSCC. Better a lower budget series on the air than a high budget series that stays canceled."

"It did not cost WB 3m an episode to make TSCC or 200m to make T4. It cost the Halcyon company those sums. WB did pay for the rightsto distribute both within the USA. The Halcon Company paid WB rent to use their facilities.

LionsGate have bid for future Terminator films and TV shows etc, not existing ones. T:SCC is an existing show. It still will remain Halcyon 's.

A new TV show would put the finalnail in T:SC's coffin. There'd be no chance of it coming back.

if Lions Gate were successful in buying the Terminator franchise future rights and it did want to bring T:SCC back, it could, if it struck a deal with Halcyon. WB's distribution rights probavly revert back in the event a year goes by without any original terminator show being aired in the USA. it cold be made for 1m an episode shot in Canada.Halcyon's unlikley to bring T:SCC back themselves."

"A new series of an existing show is not a new TV show. A new T:SCC seepisode or t:SCC DVD movie is not part of the deal that deals with new future product only.

It cost Halcyon Co 3m an episode to make series 2/season 2 of T:SCC. How much WB paid to distributethe rights, how much Halcyon paid in rent to WBs, and how much Fox paid for each episode isn't known . It did leave Halcyon' $20m out of pocket.

James Middleton ExecutiveProducer for T:SCC employed by Halcyon put thte T:SCC DVD together. WB had no input into its content.. Don't letthe badge on theDVD fool you."