Tribune stakes out 'Battleground Earth:' Roddenberry project for first-run is budgeted at $1 million per episode. (Tribune Entertainment Co., science fiction TV series for first run syndication based on Gene Roddenberry scripts)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 1996 by Littleton, Cynthia

Roddenberry project for first-run is budgeted at $1 million per episode A new sci-fi drama series from the oracle of the Enterprise is headed for the first-run marketplace next fall. Battleground Earth is based on scripts and story outlines written in the mid-1970s by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who launched his unparalleled TV franchise 30 years ago this month on NBC.

The writer/director's widow, Majei Barrett Roddenberry, is an executive producer of this latest series, to be produced and distributed by Tribune Entertainment. Battleground Earth is set in the immediate future, at a time when an alien force has appeared on Earth to help humans wipe out cancer, AIDS, political strife and other global problems. As skeptics begin to suspect that...

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