In the theme of bringing back beloved series that ended too soon, things are gearing up for "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales," a continuation of the Babylon 5 saga.  The Direct-to-DVD release picks up ten years after Captain Skippy became President Skippy and four years after the last made-for-tv movie.  Over at SciFi Channel's website, they had a sit-down with Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins and Peter Woodward about the anthology, which comes to a DVD retailer near you on July 31.

Boxleitner said, "I think the format is interesting. Joe [Straczynski] directed it: Who else would know better? It kind of feels like one of those great, crisp Twilight Zone scripts. All the same story, but two different locations on it—and then they come together. At least that's the way it was kind of explained to me. Joe is such a wonderful writer: It was such a pleasure to have his dialogue again. His imagination. ... To revisit John Sheridan again was absolutely wonderful. He's the best character I ever got to play. I get to return to him again at my own age, his age at that time—this is 10 years after [the series], so it's roughly about the same timing.

Now I get to play the president as a little more seasoned, and weary of the world of politics and interstellar politics. I grew my gray beard back again and wore the old president's suit, and climbed up into the only two shells left of our Star Furies that they found somewhere out on the backlot, all beat up and knocked around."

"I just got to watch [the movie] for the first time yesterday," said Scoggins, "and I have to tell you I'm absolutely crazy about it. It far exceeded my expectations. Even though you know that you're in good hands with JMS, we shot almost exclusively on green screen—which means you basically feel like you're in a huge Sprite commercial set. Everything is green, and the CGI is added in later, and so there's always that tiny bit of doubt that your reactions are as they should be for what's going to be laid in later."

About Woodward's take on his character Galen, he said, "He's deliberately mysterious. He interferes, he interrupts. No one quite knows the extent and range of his powers. No one entirely understands what his agenda is. There are times when you think actually what he's suggesting is something evil. But it usually comes out that he may use evil means, but to good ends. And he always gives humans the choice. He offers them moral choices."