 After viewing the pilot, executives at the WB television channel  decided not to put the series into production and it was shelved.  The pilot only saw the light of day when it was "leaked" onto the  Internet and distributed using the Bittorrent protocol (incidentally  the first time an unaired pilot television program was released to  the public in this way). Despite campaigning from fans, the WB stuck  by the decision to pass on the series.