Has anyboy thought about the right words to tell Fox that we love the show and don't want them to cancel it?
I want to get several people to write a letter to Fox, but english is not my mother language so I think i might not get the right words for adressing business people.
So is there already such a letter out there I can base my own on?
"Michael Herzog" wrote:
There are no words. If Fox decides to cancel it, it's cancelled. The die-hard fans don't count - only the ratings do. In the end, they have years of experience in the business and they won't change their decisions just because of a few fans.
"Martin Schmidt" schrieb
Be a little more optimistic. If you don't try, you've already lost.
"Michael Herzog" wrote:
Why being optimistic? Let's rather be realistic. We Bundy fans have been through thid already five years ago - and nothing worked. And better and end like this than a disaster like "The Simpsons".
It should be given a better timeslot.
Now that X-Files is dead (and good riddance), they can put Futurama where it belongs -- following the Simpsons.
Malcolm & KOTH can go in the 9:00 slot, perhaps
"Martin Schmidt" schrieb
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I don't want a neverending story. I only want the writers to know that it will be the last Futurama season they will write, so they can care about the loose ends and go off the air with a bang.
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Believe me, I want Futurama alive, but I don't see a chance that *we* can achieve this. :-(
fry wakes up in the year 2002 to realize how shi**y fox programming is and changes the channel to nbc.
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:12:08 +0100, "Martin Schmidt" spewed forth:
Didn't this idea work with Family Guy a year or two back ?
Yep... for awhile, anyway :)
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Good point, but Futurama seemed to be hindered on purpose. There's no justice in that.
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This is not exactly true. The original Star Trek was to be cancelled due to suboptimal ratings. But Star Trek had already a very obnoxious fan base back then, so they decided to give it another try. Was it worth the effort? I guess so. Futurama�s problems seems to be that the fans are not pesky enough. Perhaps some of the guys from d.r.t.f. should harass Fox. Some of them are *really* anal and obnoxious, they might have more success than the rather polite people in a.t.f.
My 0.02?
Patrick
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You are a bitter man, Patrick.:)
I am truly amazed that the FUX whoores wouldn't give it another year and a half to reach the "syndie favored" 100 episode mark.
Then they could whoore it around the world mon-fri as well on on DVD, etc.
Bastardos!!! COMPANEROS!!!!!
In alt.tv.futurama, on the "Re: What are the right words to tell Fox that we love the show and don't want them to cancel it?" thread, Patrick Walz-Damidaux wrote:
Actually, it's not what you say that counts in a grass-roots "save the show" campaign, but how many people you have saying it. In "Star Trek's" day, letter-writing campaigns were still novel, so it really stood out in the minds of the network execs. (Or that's the impression I get, anyways.) Now, just about any show with even a smidgen of critical merit gets this sort of treatment. For instance, right now there are letter campaigns to save "Once and Again," and "Roswell" (Again. I hear it's on the bubble). So, to save "Futurama," you'd have to marshall great hordes of people -- but of course the problem in the first place is that there aren't enough people watching, so who will you get to write?
Nah. "Futurama's" problem is that the fans are not *plentiful* enough. That, and the parent network doesn't like it, but that's another story.
Not so. That "Party of Five" show was extended because of fan protests.
Matthew Miller wrote:
The Show "Roswell" was continued because of fan protests.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:48:55 GMT, Pocketwatch wrote:
So was the original Star Trek.
--Larry
and Family Guy
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=v= Fox has fewer years of experience than many networks, and even those networks have made stupid mistakes. Like cancelling _Star_Trek_ and losing gazillions of dollars.
=v= The irony here is that _The_Simpsons_ saved Fox's butt and they still don't seem to realize it. <_Jym_>
On 13 Feb 2002 13:29:36 -0800, Jym Dyer wrote:
How about turning down Star Trek in the first place? The first network it was pitched to said no because they had SciFi covered with Lost in Space.
Or airing Manimal a man who could change into various animals.
Or the sit com featuring Merlin the magician alive and well in the 20th century and running a car repair shop.
Or 'After M*A*S*H', the continuing adventures of Col. Potter and Max Klinger stateside.
Or Hello Larry (my namesake).
Or Hot L Baltimore.
Or Lotsa Luck, Almost every scene was during a meal.
In Tucson AZ, the local NBC affiliate replaced Late Night with David Letterman with Thicke of the Night feature Alan Thicke.
And the list goes on and on. Hey, add your own.
--Larry
In article , [email] (Larry) wrote:
Ahem. As I remember reading how Gene Roddenberry remembered this, he pitched his original Star Trek idea, CBS politely declined, then re-worked his idea INTO Lost in Space. As networks are still doing (The Chair/The Chamber).
That was a great show, assuming you're nine... he also seemed to change into the *same* few animals every week. No budget for lions, tigers nor bears.
Awww. Remember the episode where the one dude was going to move to Hawaii and leave his best bud back in crummy Southern California? I cried for days.
Oh, every day I awaken and light a candle in sadness for...
Lottery! (ABC) (Of course a lottery rep will search out any late claims, and solve mysteries!)
Mr. Smith (NBC) (A talking, superintelligent chimp. No, I don't think we'll be watching *that*.)
Filthy Rich (CBS) (Rich backstabbing rednecks and early video wills RULE!)
Whiz Kids (CBS) ('Wargames' makes adolescent computer nerds popular, Wednesdays 7pm anyway)
It's Your Move (NBC) (Badass teen with cute clueless mom gets away with everything, including creating hit band THE DREGS OF HUMANITY!)
V (NBC) (It's good at being bad, and so is that nasty lizard Diana!)
David Z Houston TX
How could it get ratings on the east coast when it wasn't shone due to football running long. Doesn't make sense. Oh well...
Craig
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:09:50 +0100, "Michael Herzog" wrote:
Make certain to point out that you watched KOTH and the Simpsons (etc) only because you were tuning in for Futurama. If Futurama is canceled, you'll just watch something else on sunday nights.
--Larry
Tell them that they can shove their decision up their rectum if it wasn't filled with tiny people with cattle prods.
Michael Herzog wrote:
=v= Actually, if Fox execs had those parasites in their rectum, they'd be thinking clearly and _Futurama_ would be the #1 show they promote. <_Jym_>
Michael Herzog schrieb:
I just wrote something. If it helps to get more people to write, here it is:
To the Programming Department of FOX
With shock, I read today on the Internet that Futurama isn't going to be picked up for a fifth season. I ask you to reconsider: There are several reasons for the keeping of it.
1. It is one of the few series on Television that is funny in an intelligent way. I don't want to question your choices, but the likes of "The Chair" are really no more than lowest common denominator. Futurama, on the other hand, has a layers of humor, ranging from things like Fry sticking his head in a crater to jokes about Heisenberg's uncertainity principle. So, everybody finds a joke to his liking.
2. Futurama's potential on the American TV-Market has never been tapped. It ran for what, like two to three times in it's original timespot? Then it was moved to a timespot that is very hard to maintain, and on top of that, a timespot that is regularly pre-empted for Football. This has lead to the fact that in the current season, which to my knowledge officially began somewhere around September 2001, there have only been 4 episodes, 3 of which have a third-season-production code. Many people don't even know that Futurama is still on the air; if you would decide to move Futurama to another timeslot and to tell people about it, you could probably get ratings close to or even better than those of "The Simpsons".
3. In Addition to the TV-potential, there is also a lot of potential for Merchandising: Action Figures, Comics, Games etc. And let's not forget about the DVD's: In Germany, the First season was released last week, and already it is ranked as second-most selling DVD on http://www.amazon.de. This also leads to point
4. International appeal. There is not only a rabid fanbase in the US, who kept to the series no matter what football-games were pitted against them; There are fans all over the world, in Germany, the UK, France, Australia... A lot of people who would be willing to buy said merchandise.
I hope these points got you thinking. I ask you with all my heart to reconsider.
Respectfully,
Benjamin Gaede
Very well written. Make sure to send that via mail, and not by e-mail. It'll have WAY more of an effect if it's on paper.
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Doug Tabacco schrieb:
Already sent it per E-Mail (actually, three different E-Mails), tomorrow I'll sit down and write my first actual letter in years.
Heh... yeah, me too. E-mail has made my letter-writing skills all rusty.
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In alt.tv.futurama, on the "Re: What are the right words to tell Fox that we love the show and don't want them to cancel it?" thread, Benjamin Gaede wrote:
That's only partly true. The show aired two or three times on Sunday, but then was moved not to the 7:00pm "death slot," but to 8:30pm on Tuesday. It was part of a block of cartoons. I think it finished out the rest of the season there, and then migrated to the 7pm Sunday slot.
Fox did move it to another time slot, and they did tell people about it. The result was ratings that weren't much better than they are now. I think this may have sealed the show's fate as far as Fox is concerned.
In article , [email] (Benjamin Robinson) wrote:
I wonder what ratings "The Simpsons" would have garnered in 1990 at 7p Sundays. Anyone here honestly think it would have been renewed through the 13th season?
That's the ludicrously tragic part about it, inasfar as FOX goes. The network is pissing away their "Simpsons" for the 00's... and doesn't even know it!
David Z Houston TX