"Save Family Guy" in Entertainment Weekly?

Mar 9, 2002, 8:48 PM ET2 posts by 2 posters
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Phil7101

planetfamilyguy.com mentions that the save FG campaign was featured in this week's (although it's probably a couple of weeks old by now) Entertainment Weekly, page 82. Anyone read it? What did it say?

Don Del GrandePhil7101

Phil7101 wrote:

It's in the March 1 issue (with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the cover), on age 82, in a story about a number of "save this show" sites (also included are "Once and Again", "The Tick", "Emeril", and "Felicity"). Here's what it says:

FAMILY GUY Site (planetfamilyguy.com) Strategy: Supporters of the decidedly un-PC animated series have promised to boycott all of Fox TV and "every product shown on those stations" until the Griffins get a regular time slot. Signatures: 49,180 (about four times as many as the other four shows listed *put together*, although only 44 names were on the "Emeril" petition and 472 on the "Felicity" one) Outlook: This "Family" campaign verges on dysfunctional Site rating: B- (second only to the B+ for the "Once and Again" site)

However, they didn't mention the over 89,000 signatures on the "Save Futurama" petition, and fat lot of chance that show has of being put back into production. (And, as pretty much anyone who knows better will tell you, online petitions, as opposed to individual letter-writing campaigns, usually don't work, especially after the one to "release the four-hour director's cut of the first Harry Potter movie that has all of the scenes from the book" which seems to ignore the fact that quite a few parts of the book were never filmed to begin with - and what was filmed (and cut) was always intended to be put in the "deleted scenes" section of any DVD release.)

Don Del Grande, [email] "Family Guy, brought to you by the International Toilet Paper Industry; let's see the 'Save Family Guy' people boycott us!"