Virtual season
A Virtual Season or Virtual Series is a fan-driven continuation of a television program. While they are typically written for cancelled programs, they sometimes run concurrently with programs that are still airing original episodes. Virtual Seasons can be written by a single author, by several collaborating authors in a fandom, or even reproduced episodically in a single video or series of videos. These series can be written in screenplay or prose format.[1][2][3]
Examples
- One of the first virtual seasons was for the TV series Forever Knight, which was cancelled in 1996 and followed by a virtual fourth season ('V4S').
- There are websites that collate many different Virtual Seasons into one place, a "Virtual Network", such as MZP.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel have spawned many different Virtual Seasons, such as the MZP Buffy Virtual Continuation and MZP Angel Virtual Continuation
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which was cancelled in 1997, spawned several virtual seasons, continuing the trend. The Unaired Fifth Season ('TUFS') and Season 5 ('S5') each "aired" on Sunday nights during the 1997/98 television season, while 'Season 6' followed during the 1998/99 season.
- Millennium was cancelled in 1999, six months short of its millennial climax, so a Virtual Season 4 completed the storyline for fans. In 2005 Virtual Season 5 aired, produced by a different creative team, but using the Virtual Season 4 as canon. A Virtual Season 6, by another creative team, is currently in production.
- Night Stalker, which was cancelled in 2005, had a Virtual Series Continuation that finished off the rest of Season 1 with 10 new episodes in screenplay format, and then a 20 episode Season 2.
- JAG spawned a Virtual Season which was designed to give the fans something to do and read during the summer hiatus. It ran from 2000-2005.
- A small group of fans for The Pretender (TV series) created The Pretender Virtual Season in 2001-2002, ignoring the two TV movies that followed and extending the story through two seasons, two "movies", and an epilogue.
- Voyager Virtual Season Project ran for 2 years, starting in 2001 and ending in 2003, extending Star Trek Voyager's story an extra two years and into yet another "Lost in Space" adventure.
- Still Flying was a Firefly continuation which began airing in 2005, continuing the story from where the first season left off.
- Some fans go so far as to produce fan films like Star Trek, New Voyages.
- The television series Supernatural has spawned six thriving Virtual Series: The Supernatural Virtual Seasons; Multus Tempestas; Sam the Series; Diversus Semitas; Carry On; and Redemption Road.
- The television show X-Files was followed up by The X-Files: Fight the Truth, a scripted 5-part mini-series set in the year 2012.
See also
References
- ↑ "Virtual Season", Fanlore
- ↑ "Continuation Fic", TV Tropes
- ↑ "Script Fic", TV Tropes
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