Ever since this happened last month:

To answer all the questions, yes, it’s true, Babylon 5 is in active development as a series for the CW. We have some serious fans over at the network, and they’re eager to see this show happen. I’m hip deep into writing the pilot now, and will be running the series upon pickup.

— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) September 27, 2021

There’s been a low level simmer among the B5 fandom.

Now, given the enormity of today’s entertainment landscape, and with the MCU dominance, the continual profit-harvesting from Star Wars, and the now never-ending supply of short-season series on every possible digital outlet, I’m not sure a B5 series on the CW network can make much of a splash.

With Warner being merged with Discovery, there will likely be a new streaming service (to replace Discovery’s already existing service, which is no where near as popular with the major streaming outlet.)

I presume that if the merger creates such a new streaming service, the real home of any new B5 series will be such a service.

Because CW is the death of shows. CW is hardly watched by anybody. I’ve never even tuned in a CW station (back when I had a TV.) These days the only show it airs that can entice me is Penn and Teller and I can find their shows available online.

But what I find downright silly are all the whiners doomsaying about how “woke” this series will be.

AS IF the originator and apparent future show runner, JMS, somehow did not create the most “woke” series in broadcast SciFi already.

B5 explicitly was anti-fascist. It also had subplots of homosexuality, unusual sexual practices, non-gendered identities, socialism vs. capitalism, racism, etc.

B5 was an ideological show from the start.

If JMS can pull off a reboot, I fully expect him to explore all sorts of issues that will make the throwbacks very unhappy.