Renew V for a 3rd season.
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Did fan protests ever bring a show back?
Farscape fans protested, and we got a 4-hour miniseries to wrap up the show.
Firefly fans protested, and we got Serenity.
^I'm not sure one had much to do with the other in either case. Though I could be wrong, I'm fairly confident that the respective projects' DVD sales were the deciding factor.
Having said that, a fan write-in did managed to get one more season of the original Star Trek (and what a load of crap that was) and I think it was the fans that got Jericho it's brief stay of execution. But still, these are the exceptions and let's be honest, V really doesn't deserve it.
Having said that, a fan write-in did managed to get one more season of the original Star Trek (and what a load of crap that was) and I think it was the fans that got Jericho it's brief stay of execution. But still, these are the exceptions and let's be honest, V really doesn't deserve it.
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I think it's a well known fact by now that Gene Roddenberry had a hand in that.
What would have saved it, and any other cancelled show, is good writing & people watching it.
Outside of a couple examples, bitching about it after the fact isn't going to do anything.
Though, with cable & satellite, how do they see what we're watching? Or are those two mediums easier to monitor than TV in the olden days.
Outside of a couple examples, bitching about it after the fact isn't going to do anything.
Though, with cable & satellite, how do they see what we're watching? Or are those two mediums easier to monitor than TV in the olden days.
Still judged by Nielsens. Supposedly, some guy in Indiana who likes V means 10,000 people like V or something. 
It helped keep Sliders on the air at least once. At the end of season two, Sliders was on the bubble; and fan letters helped convince Fox to give Sliders a season three. Of course, the downside was that Fox only did so if they could exercise greater creative control, and that didn't turn out so well.
As for V, it already had two seasons to prove itself. I would rather see No Ordinary Family get a second shot.
Still judged by Nielsens. Supposedly, some guy in Indiana who likes V means 10,000 people like V or something.
It's called statistics. What seems like bullshit (actually, the more you know about statistics, the weirder and more arbitrary some of it seems), turns out to be fairly accurate (provided you know the limitations and what they mean). It is actually quite likely that there are 10,000 people like that guy in Indiana, while there is another 10,000 that are similar to another Nielsen owner.
That being said, I have heard of some flaws in their methodology that could skew their sampling, which makes it unfortunately a bit more complex.
Jericho.
If ABC has a slot for another show, they should pick up Locke & Key instead. I've heard a nasty rumor FOX is shopping it to the dreaded Syfy channel!!!
Stop being practical and facing reality!!!
Jericho.
If ABC has a slot for another show, they should pick up Locke & Key instead. I've heard a nasty rumor FOX is shopping it to the dreaded Syfy channel!!!
Stop being practical and facing reality!!!
[Tennant] I'm sorry. I'm soooo sorry [/Tennant]
It just seems like, if as many people who protest & sign petitions were watching a show, it would have better ratings.
DVD sales and an explosion of ratings when repeats aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
Why would anyone want this version of V to come back? It was one of the worst SFTV shows of the 2000s to date.
That's been greatly exaggerated. The letter-writing campaign was much smaller than Gene Roddenberry claimed (and much more orchestrated by GR himself). The fact was, despite GR's myth-building, the NBC executives loved having a show as classy as ST on their network, and their parent company RCA loved the profits they were making from color TV sales thanks to ST (since they owned the patent on color TV). It was that profit from TV sales to RCA that offset NBC's losses from the show and let them keep it on the air for a third season. Indeed, I gather there was never really any serious risk that the show would be cancelled after the second season.
As stated above, these days what's most likely to get a show back on the air is not mere letters, but DVD sales. If a network sees that they can make a profit from a show like, say, Futurama because it kills in reruns or DVD sales, that'll motivate them to bring it back far better than letters could. It was the DVD sales on Firefly that led to Serenity being made.
That's been greatly exaggerated. The letter-writing campaign was much smaller than Gene Roddenberry claimed (and much more orchestrated by GR himself). The fact was, despite GR's myth-building, the NBC executives loved having a show as classy as ST on their network, and their parent company RCA loved the profits they were making from color TV sales thanks to ST (since they owned the patent on color TV). It was that profit from TV sales to RCA that offset NBC's losses from the show and let them keep it on the air for a third season. Indeed, I gather there was never really any serious risk that the show would be cancelled after the second season.
As stated above, these days what's most likely to get a show back on the air is not mere letters, but DVD sales. If a network sees that they can make a profit from a show like, say, Futurama because it kills in reruns or DVD sales, that'll motivate them to bring it back far better than letters could. It was the DVD sales on Firefly that led to Serenity being made.
Jericho got a 7 more episodes and now a comic book line after their efforts.
Family Guy is the one that worked the best because it came back and has never looked back.
^But as stated above, it wasn't fan protests that brought Family Guy back, it was its success in reruns on Adult Swim. So it doesn't count as an answer to { Emilia }'s question.
If they want to See V back, instead of signing a petition, they should buy a DVD box of the new V.
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