It was expected. Farscape fans are like no others, they are so loyal and did everything they could to keep the show on the air.

Yet I think, and I was always very honest about this, once the show had been cancelled it would be very difficult to bring it back. Once a network makes its mind up that it�s going to move forward in a different direction, it�s very hard to bring that show back to life because the actors have moved on, a lot of the writers have moved on. I think we as a company in some ways have moved on.

That�s not to say that Farscape is entirely dead, we�re planning to continue the franchise but in different ways. So what we�d like to do is a movie, either a TV movie [or a cinema release] at some point. We get calls all the time from � I can�t go into any of the names � but from billionaires and some large corporations who are saying �You can�t let it die, what are you doing? What can we do to help?� which is great.

So it�s a bit like Doctor Who. I don�t feel Doctor Who has ever really died. I mean, it continues in different guises and I think that that will happen with Farscape too.

So a movie is planned?

I wouldn�t say it�s planned, but we are thinking about it and looking at how we could do it and what the economics would be, and thinking about whether we will do that.