In response to this, J. Michael Straczynski stated, " No, nothing was cut.

Straczynski, who wrote 90 % of the episodes in addition to producing the show, would receive a generous cut of profits if not for Hollywood accounting.

DIC head Jean Chalopin asked Straczynski to take on the task of story editing the entire 78-episode block as well as writing his own scripts.

Straczynski also wrote for CBS Storybreak, writing an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek ).

After leaving animation, Straczynski freelanced for The Twilight Zone writing an episode entitled (" What Are Friends For "), and for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics, adaptating The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award ).

Straczynski made Jessica an instructor in writing and criminology, and he emphasized her role as a working writer, with all the deadlines and problems involved in that profession.

They announced Straczynski was writing Lensman for Ron Howard ( to whom he had sold a screenplay entitled The Flickering Light ), that he was selling another spec, Proving Ground, to Tom Cruise and United Artists.

In the fall of 2009, it was reported that Straczynski was writing a movie titled Shattered Union for Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney.

It was Straczynski who made her an instructor in writing and criminology, and is widely held to have most emphasized her role as a working writer, with all the deadlines and problems involved in that profession.

While writing the episode, series creator J. Michael Straczynski noted the similarities:

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

Straczynski is a graduate of San Diego State University ( SDSU ), having earned a BA with a double major in psychology and sociology ( with minors in philosophy and literature ).

According to Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, Claudia Christian declined to be in the fifth season-according to her they weren't interested in having her.

J. Michael Straczynski considered having their characters interact, but could not develop a satisfactory scene where this could occur logically in the episode's plot.

In The Babylon Files, a Babylon 5 guidebook, series creator Straczynski said he had considered having G ' Kar have a " revolving-door " series of aides, akin to Murphy Brown.

According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text ( see Print below ), Straczynski had a play produced when he was 17, a sitcom produced when he was 21, and sold his first movie script when he was 24.

Straczynski joined Murder for two seasons and wrote 7 produced episodes.

Straczynski also wrote and produced the pilot Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, a pilot for the SciFi Network, and wrote, directed and produced Babylon 5: The Lost Tales as a two-hour direct-to-DVD movie.

Developed by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and executive produced by Straczynski and Sam Egan, the series is loosely based on Belgian writer Hermann Huppen's comic book series, Jeremiah.

The show was initially developed by executive producer Allison Moore and supervising producer J. Michael Straczynski when the series was still being produced by Cannon Television.

Straczynski left at this point and Janson and Menville took on the story editing job for the second network season.

Award-winning writer J. Michael Straczynski was also a noted fan of the show, and at one time Lynch and Crocco were planning a sock puppet character voiced by Straczynski until the show was cancelled.

She met J. Michael Straczynski while they were both at San Diego State University.

* This episode was written by Kathryn M. Drennan, wife at the time of Babylon 5 creator and executive producer J. Michael Straczynski.

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski put it thus: It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of him ; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.

Created at the request of J. Michael Straczynski, it also replaced the Zero-G cargo lifters, which could be seen flying around the Babylon 5 space station during the first few seasons of the show.

" Straczynski further explained that actor Michael O ' Hare's departure at the end of season one did not impair the resolution of the storyline: " The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle of the Line, by episode four, season two.

These properties have included Turner's Fathom which eventually ended up at Aspen Comics ; Joe's Comics, created exclusively for J. Michael Straczynski, which included Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Agency, and Obergeist.

Though it may be related to the fact that J. Michael Straczynski, the creator, main writer and executive producer of Babylon 5 usually ( or at least in the first three years of the show ) deferred to the designers and animators when it came to providing detailed functionality to a model.

After the last three issues of Rising Stars were published under Joe's Comics at the end of 2004, the imprint was defunct until Straczynski announced at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con that he was reviving it as part of his new media company, Studio JMS.

8379 Straczynski ( provisional designation 1992 SW < sub > 10 </ sub >) is an asteroid discovered on September 27, 1992 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory by the Spacewatch project.

Writers at DIC also included Larry DiTillio, Barbara Hambly and J. Michael Straczynski.

In the Season 5 episode " Janine, You've Changed ", it is revealed that her changes were the result of her wishes to a " makeoverus lotsabucks " ( the name likely a swipe at ABC by J. Michael Straczynski ), a demon posing as a fairy godmother ( and even referred to as such by Janine herself ).

Straczynski has been a journalist, reviewer, and investigative reporter, publishing over 500 articles in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Writer's Digest, Penthouse, San Diego Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, the San Diego Reader, the Los Angeles Reader and Time.

Also in 2000, Frank began his first collaboration with J. Michael Straczynski, the acclaimed television writer and creator of Babylon 5, who had created the successful comic series Rising Stars the year before.

One early idea put forward by Straczynski had them attached to rotating doors that would swing a ship outside the station before it detached and moved off.

Straczynski claims to have always intended the Battle of the Line storyline to be resolved in early season two: " I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation where * nothing * is resolved ".

The series was sold overseas and broadcast in the USA, Canada and Australia, and in spite of the very low budget — which meant that sometimes the shadow of a puppet could be seen behind a " TV Screen " before the communication device was supposedly turned on — the show rated strongly with young audiences in many regions ( including New York City ) and garnered a huge following, with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski stating that it was his favourite TV show as a child.

Straczynski participated in online communities on Usenet ( in the rec. arts. sf. tv. babylon5. moderated newsgroup ), and the GEnie and Compuserve systems before the web came together as it exists today.

Straczynski had long participated in many online forums since the 1980s, and is widely credited as being the first notable artist and celebrity to interact with fans online, even before the advent of the world wide web.

Initially wary, Straczynski finally did and was hired on as story editor under Jeri Taylor and David Moessinger.