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Global Frequency was a television project based on Warren Ellis' popular Graphic Novel franchise of the same name, about a clandestine group run by Miranda Zero which used connectivity to cure the ills of the world. Kinda like a wiki. With guns.

A pilot episode was produced and completed and the show was scheduled to premiere in the Spring of 2005 on the WB television network.

The series was executive produced and had a pilot written by John Rogers (The Core, Catwoman, Transformers), with many high-profile names attached on the production staff, including J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), Diego Gutierrez (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Ben Edlund (Angel, The Tick), and David Slack (Teen Titans). Nelson McCormick (Alias) directed the series pilot.

Everything about the graphic novel and the pilot rocked.

It never made it to the air, of course. The long and short of it was the initial pilot made it onto torrent networks and the sheer speed at which the geeks of the world acquired it scared off Ellis and the networks. In a sense, it died because it really was too good; the sheer brilliance of the pilot prompted too many people to tell the network that they'd seen it and loved it, despite it not being released yet.